The two small kitchens post

Firstly I have now started on my Grimmauld Place kitchen. It took a couple of hours to strip out the old tiled floorpaper and the tiled/blue wall paper using a wet cloth.  Once that was completed I began painting the walls. It took me a while to decide on the colour(s), but eventually I settled on top half white, bottom half green. I have seen some examples both real size and miniature of Victorian/ early 1900s kitchens (As I feel this is the appropriate style from the book descriptions) using these colours and I felt the green would fit with the rest of the house. I then used tea and coffee to stain the walls.

 I plan on building an enclosed cupboard under the stairs that houses the boiler (and where Kreacher lives). Also I am going to enclose the cooking range at the end of the room, in line with the chimney. The room at the end will be the pantry with some scullery usage. I know this isn't how it would have been done, but I am short of space and any issues with water getting into food storage is solved with the fact that washing chores are controlled by magic ;-). 

 I have a more up to date entrance hall picture. Not complete yet as the top half of the stairs need spindles and rail, a door is required to the dinning room, there are missing house elf heads and other details. I plan to sand and re-stain the grandfather clock and add curtains to the painting of Mrs. Black.

 

Kreacher Lerking on the stairs

The drawing room has also been papered, but paneling, flooring and ceiling are still to come. 

I also have been working on my Fairbanks dollshouse. I have done a few small jobs on the kitchen and have a few more accessories. There are still a few minor things to do.

Front of house

Newly painted doors

 I have also been working on the outside doing brick work using brick slips.It takes a lot of time to individually stick each brick to such a large house! I am not going to put them on the whole house, but on areas I feel they look best such as the front and the chimney.

I will continue working on both projects and hopefully have an update soon.