SCOOBY DOO AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MESMERISING MANSION

I forgot to roll the dice after the last room, so a chucked one this morning and it was a number 2.  That is the living room, or the front room as it was always known when I was a youngster (regardless of where it was in the house).  I decided that this one needed to have wallpaper and a rug but as I’m trying to keep away from anything digital, apart from this blog thing, I couldn’t just simply print out some wall paper and a rug design, so I decided to keep it simple.  Of course I couldn’t keep everything simple so I decided on a patterned wooden floor.  Let’s look at the wallpaper first.

To make a simple striped wallpaper, simply took some lined paper and reinforced the lines with some felt tip, then cut the paper into strips which I attached to the foam walls with mod podge.

I also applied mod podge over the paper to add a bit more strength.

The wooden floor next.

For this I first used a stiff brush to apply a ‘wood’ texture on a diagonal and marked out a 1 inch grid on one face of a bock of XPS, using the knife and pen method.  I then marked out a series of ‘boards’ across the diagonal.

The next stage involved using the Proxxon to peel away a 3mm layer containing the textures. I had to cut the block into manageable sizes so it would fit under the cutting arm first but once the pattern was separated I cut out the individual squares to make a series of tiles.

These were then glued to the base, turning each tile through 90 degrees from the one before to form a series of concentric squares across each set of 4 tiles.  I made a slight error here in that I didn’t leave a small gap between each tile so the floor has ended up being a little short which means this room will be a few millimetres shorter than the others but I can live with this.  I then used a mixture of gloss mod podge and brown paint to try to give this floor a more ‘polished’ look.

For the rug, I simply cut a rectangle of felt and used white ink to paint a simple wavy line pattern onto it, simple but it gives the right impression.

I realised after painting the rug that this removed the grid so I added some cross lines to bring this back then glued it in place on the floor – yes I spent al that time making the tiles to cover most of them!

The wallpaper was given a coating of mod podge mixed with a transparent purple ink then the whole thing was glued together.  I will mod podge the outside when a bit more is built as time is getting short and I have been busy helping my son move into a new flat.