Lulu's Maison Day 2

I plastered the downstairs of Lulu's dollhouse yesterday. Remember I also put in my wire tape for electricity before I plastered.  The plaster is finally completely dry.  At this time, if I was just going to paint my walls I would sand the plaster smooth. But I'll be wallpapering so I can skip this step.  My wallpapering job will be very easy in this house. But if you are using complicated paper with places that need to match up you probably want to make templates of the walls with the window cutouts at this time.

I am framing my windows on the interior.  I always put my "glass" on the exterior.  To frame the 3 downstairs windows I used bits of wood I have left over. You can get thin veneer from Hobby Lobby and cut it into strips if you don't have thousands of strips of wood lying around like I do.  : )

I glued the strips around the windows using a strong white glue.  Next, you'll need to paint over all the plaster walls and ceilings to seal the plaster. I'm also painting over the framing of the windows. 

I'm wallpapering the front wall first. I printed this paper off the internet. It's an actual wallpaper for real houses. I print the image off 1/2 size. This paper is a collage of book pages in all muted cream colors.

By the way!  I use to water down my white glue to make my wallpaper paste until I found this glue. It's already pretty runny. I don't have to do anything to it. I just smear it around with a paintbrush. It cost $1.99 for a large bottle.  I bought it at Hobby Lobby. 

The other wallpapers are from the scrapbook section.  I have white ridged paper that looks like wainscoting, a white paper that looks like a tin ceiling and a faux crackle in creams.

I applied all the papers to the dollhouse.

I cut slits into the ceiling paper so I can easily find my wire tape when it's time to put in my chandelier. 
Till tomorrow!
Happy building!