Living room floorboards finished.  I am well pleased with the result. As I got to the middle, I realised it was not going to be straight at the finnish line and had to make some adjustments. Fortunately, it does not show. On the picture you get a glimpse of the screen door that will separate the living room from the hallway. Still to be finished with a screen. This was an old chinese calendar my mum got in a chinese restaurant decades ago. I removed the calendar and still have to decide what to replace it with. It so happens it's the exact size for the house.
The skirting boards and pictures rails will be added soon (varnish currently drying).

and kitchen decoration complete (well almost.....).I changed my mind eventually about the kitchen floor tiles. This one is more 30s-like. Pure black and white would have been too sharp, I settled for cream and black checkered tiles paper. I may put real tiles one day.
The skirting boards and door frame were varnished in dark wood tone.
Next time, you will see the kitchen with furniture. Check out the kitchen boiler I made under "some items home made" tab.

Ground floor wallpaper is complete, now working on the floorboard.

Since the house arrived, I have painted some of the window frames, put up the wallpaper in the kitchen, hallway and living room. On the inside, the woodden parts are stained and varnished.

For the kitchen walls, I used scrapbooking paper. For the kitchen floor, I am in two minds about keeping the paper tiles as shown, or go for something else.

The hallway paper is embossed carstock. The motif is Art Deco although it does not show very well on this picture. To the left is the living room....

For the living room, I found a fabric at Maison du Monde (actually a huge tablecloth) that had exactly the pattern I wanted. I glued the fabric onto cardstock, cut the edges and then glued that to the walls.
If you want to know more about wallpapering options, click on the "wallparing" section (coming soon). The chimney is covered with the same embossed cardstock as the hallway.

I also started the floorboard for the living room. As the Malibu Beach house will be all glued together, changing the wallpaper or floor covering will be extremely difficult. So you need to find ways to be able to change it later, working through the windows. That's why the floorboard will be in 2 pieces. That's also why I glued the facric for the walls onto carstock so it can be easily removed and replaced using the existing cardstock as template. Below is the left-hand side section.

Some tips of making your own floorboards on this page (coming soon).