The baseboard tops needed restoring. I scraped paint from the baseboards from the bedroom, steel wooled with mineral spirits. I needed also to use a drill with an attached tool to remove years of dirt engrained in the grooves.
Put trim boards on 3 sides of the upper window. The lower board needs to wait until after the upper cabinets are installed. The lower window has the two side trim boa.
I added drywall and muddled the jam of the doorway. Steven later added more mud to even it out.
We installed the south kitchen windows to have passive solar heat. We have discovered though that the summer sun is heating up the kitchen too much so I found some red resin paper to keep it out.
My daughter and son-in-law came over and helped us lift the granite on top of the desk cabinet. I was then able to trim the face of the window. We laid the granite backsplash on its side under the window. We will have a great pass through for food.
I woke one morning with the idea to use the medallions that Steven had. We decided to use the larger one for the upper window and the smaller ones for the lower window..
I decided to limit the wallpaper to 3 walls with the fourth wall gold paint. Steven asked me to paper the area above the Murphy bed.
I got 4 double rolls of wallpaper from a thrift store. I decided to use it in the downstairs bedroom. First I mixed 2-3 different paints to achieve a gold paint. I painted the alcove behind the Murphy bed and the window alcove. After I wallpapered on each side of the Murphy bed alcove, Steven asked me to also paper the alcove above the Murphy bed. Three walls will be papered. The closet wall wIll be painted gold.
I had planned to stencil both the bottom and toons of the living room walls. An idea I got from the living room walls on Miss Fischer Murder Mysteries. After painting two stencils, I decided to only paint stencils on the lower portion. I will wait to paint the rest after we have installed the 10” baseboard trim and the chair rail.
Installed the inner window trim
