Foyer
When I first started this project I sat down at an old dining room table and tried to figure out the hallway and stairs. I wanted it to be glam but also not huge and take up too much room in the house. I can’t tell you how many times I made and remade the stairs and floor before settling on something that worked for me.
To be absolutely honest the stairs are weird – I wanted a curve and just wasn’t sure what I was doing. Eventually I decided good enough and moved on but of course later when I wanted to put iron railings it came back to bite me in the butt. The incline is really impossible and the curve is too tight *sigh….
Well, lesson learned on that front, however I was very happy with the tile which is just card stock and paint. And what was even more fun was using resin in silicone cake molds for all the fancy wall detail. I also experimented with card stock and toothpicks (didn’t care for the toothpicks so didn’t use them on any other wall) Then a coat of paint
I made a chandelier with beads, wire and fairy LED lights added a couple frames on the wall and a statue I bought on Etsy and called it done.
It is the worst made room in the house LOL lots of lessons learned but this was the first room I constructed so it really was learning on the job. What worked, I took with me to the next room – what didn’t, was left behind as a failed experiment.
Remember my decision to rush past the stair issue? This is when I learnt that lesson LOL
First of all I didn’t want to spring for expensive custom laser cut bannisters, especially since my stairs were so janky to being with. I thought my wire wrapping for jewelry expertise would help me craft my own fabulous bannisters – which If were more patient it would have but it was too time-consuming and repetitive so I saved those pieces for the second floor hallway and came up with a substitute using resin scrolls and thin dowels.
Didn’t love it, but I was forced to compromise because I didn’t take the time to do the stairs right at the beginning – so my own fault entirely. I aways tell people in my day job that “there is never enough time or money to do it right, but somehow we always seem to find the time and money to do it over”
I normally like it when I am right, wish I had taken my own advice this time. Ah well we live and learn.
At the same time I was busy making a chandelier with my helpful coke can holder, I was so happy with it! But it was too big… LOL – Damn striking out all over on this one!
Not to worry this one went in the dining room and I made a much smaller one for the foyer.
Onwards and upwards. Literally time to move to the second floor 🙂
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