The Maryetta, an Art Deco Dollhouse: Real Good Toys, CC3, 333 Franklin Street. Part 2 - Interior Walls

Continuing the Bash! 

The original RGT Children's Choice (CC) Franklin build has three small panels that serve as partitions to make each floor into two rooms, a "six room" dollhouse is how it is advertised (the other Children's Choice dollhouse builds have two partitions, that make each of them into "five room" dollhouses). With my other CC builds I left these partitions out which made for three large rooms instead of a cut up five, and used the provided partitions for testing stain and paint techniques as they are made of the same plywood as the floors.

However, with the Maryetta (Franklin), since I planned for a three story stairwell, it's rooms would be about the size that the original Franklin build. Oh well! The newly created partition panel is three stories high and, as described in the Maryetta's first post, the kit's provided floors have been cut to accommodate the stairway's cutouts and wall grooves:

Left: original floors, showing cuts to be made. Right: modified floors, cut for the stairwell.

Just as with my other three CC builds, I used the provided small partition panels to test stain and painting techniques. And boy, did I try a lot of ideas!

NOPE!!!!!! Not these ones!!!

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Interior Wall Prep and Decoration

By now it was March 2017. Things were going slowwwww.

Here are the panel interiors, including the three story partition panel in the center, prepped for wallpapering and painting. 

The side panel on the right had to have part of it's grooves filled in. The cut, modified floor tabs will fit right in the remaining groove areas and that whole panel will be papered with a silver and white, Art Deco style, handmade paper.

The diagonal lines are where the stairs will be glued. The rectangular cutouts are for decorative "glass" that I have cut from vintage plastic snack trays.

 

Well, you know me! If I can find a paper that will satisfy, I will use it, but most often I use fabric. So much more variety! Sourcing for all the three floors took a bit of time, but I finally got what I think works well. 

Here I am getting ready to glue the fabric on the three rooms' walls. The silver Deco paper is already glued down to the back panel, where the stairwell will be.

Left panel: partition wall. Center panel: the back.

I found some vintage, mid century plastic snack trays and cut them down for windows. I decided on interior windows too, adding, I hope, more interest to the stairwell and rooms.

Here's the partition wall, fabric glued and trimmed up, and the plastic window panels from the snack trays inserted to check on the effect:

I like it!!

I hoped the seams of the stairwell silver Deco paper wouldn't show much when the inside is put together. But all in all, I'm was happy with the wall panels as they stood and feet anxious to put them together with the floors. But the ceilings had to be done first. And that's Part 3. Sigh!