The bathroom furniture I purchased arrived in the mail, but it was not exactly what I was expecting...
Fortunately, once I was able to purchase the right type of glue, the pieces went together nicely. I was able to use pain included in the kit to color the "wood" pieces brown. I also used a silver Sharpie to give my tub silver claw feet, and I also silver coated the radiator.
The next item of business was to paint the ceilings. I just used a plain white, and a sponging technique to give it just a touch of texture. You will notice the big hole in the ceiling on the left. That is for the stair case, but since I wanted a fireplace in the living area, we eliminated the stair cases, so at some point I will need to find a way to cover or patch that hole. Besides, they are wizards, they don't need stairs, right? They can just apparate.
After the ceilings were painted, I experimented with installing the lighting in the attic. I attached the ceiling fixture with it's little foam sticky and ran the wire into the corner where I taped it into place. I will cover it with wall paper later. I was really uncertain on how to go aboaut doing this, and searched the interwebs for instructional videos etc. but didn't really find much helpful information. I just had to make it work the best I could.
I drilled a small hole in the floor of the attic/ceiling of the bedroom below and ran the fixture wire along the wall, taping it into place, and eventually to the outside of the house, where it plugs into the "fuse box".
When I turned it on, it worked!!!!!
It seemed to be doing fine, so I covered the walls with the remaining wall paper.
Then I prepared to light the next floor down. Using a small round file, I sanded holes for the wires into the room divider boards.
I drilled another hole for the wire to go to the outside of the house
I attached the front porch light by drilling a hole through the front, and running the wire into the living room, and up around the ceiling.
It comes out of a hole on the side of the house, and into the fuse box.
FABULOUS!
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