Continuing with the checkerboard floor. I’m not sure what these white smudges are on a few of the tiles.

But they were easily covered up with black Sharpie.

Can’t even see the touch-ups!

I didn’t take a picture of this, but in covering up a white spot right on the edge of one black tile, I smudged Sharpie on the white tile next to it. Attempting to wipe it off didn’t work.

It was it the middle of other tiles that had already been glued down, so I couldn’t easily remove the it, but my weird vinyl tiles came to the rescue! I was able to peel up *just* the vinyl layer, and then glue down another vinyl piece on top of it. Crisis averted.

When I got to the transition to the bump-out addition, I needed to add a strip of cardboard to make the floor level.

Then I used a paper template to figure out where to cut the tile that goes around the corner.

Here’s how it looks.

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In my quest to furnish the Mansard Victorian (almost) entirely with Bauder-Pine and Cassidy Creations furniture, I plan to use these Cassidy Creations appliances in the kitchen.

When I first started thinking about this room — around a year ago, probably — I googled “1920s kitchen” and these pictures are the first two that turned up. (Photo source.) This is a modern kitchen renovated to look old, and it’s super cute.

In fact, I think I found these pictures around the same time I decided to match the light green paint of the Bauder-Pine furniture and use it for trim throughout the house.

So that’s what I want to emulate in the Mansard Victorian’s kitchen, starting with the floor. I could have looked for a checkerboard floor or printed something out, but where’s the fun in that?

In the Victorianna, I made a kitchen backsplash out of tiny squares of scrapbook paper cut with a paper punch. I applied Crystal Clear Gallery Glass paint to each tile to give it shine and texture. (Read about it here.)

I liked how that turned out — so much that I did it again in the bathroom — but when I tested it out with larger squares to make floor tiles, it didn’t work as well. So I went to Michaels a couple weekends ago hoping to find something that would look tile-like without the Gallery Glass.

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