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).