Assembly at last (part 1) and staircase

Whew, second post today.  After blogging the bay window this morning, I settled down to some serious assembly at last, after all this prep work.

Having realised that I needed to construct the house in two halves, in order to be able to fill the tab/slots on the central wall before I could finish wallpapering the living room, I started out by gluing in the central wall, then adding the front and rear walls.  The second floor is sandwiched in between, and the attic floor sits on top.

Like many people, I use masking tape as a temporary clamp for well-fitting glued joins.  Good quality tape is surprisingly strong, and I went through rolls of the stuff when I was building my Willowcrest.  The tins on top are weighting down the attic floor so that the slots fit well into the tabs at the top of the central wall.
For joins that need a bit more power, I use clamps.

Once the glue had dried (including the glue that I tried very hard not to get on the wallpaper but did anyway), I was able to fill the join where the second floor tab meets the central wall.

Then I could wallpaper the central wall of the living room.  The wallpaper doesn't cover the whole wall because the front and back portions of the wall are actually external wall.  I took the wallpaper inside the door frames, but it doesn't look particularly neat so I may need to revisit.

Then I glued in the staircase and the staircase wall (but not the panel closing in the back of the staircase).   

Once the glue had dried, I cut my  last piece of mural wallpaper (I had two sheets, and this was the last large fragment).  I wanted a neat finish where the stair back met the door, so I began by wrapping the edge of the wallpaper around the back piece and gluing it down along the edge that will meet the wall.  Then, without doing anything further to the loose flap of wallpaper, I glued the back piece onto the staircase.  Once that had dried, I applied wallpaper paste as usual and wrapped the paper around the staircase.  This resulted in a few wrinkles at the bend but they aren't too noticeable.

When all that had dried, I glued in the false wall in the kitchen, which I had already wallpapered.

I finished off the banister with a simple coffee-stirrer railing, a wood scrap post at the bottom, and covered up the raw edge of the stair wall with another scrap.