I had some more things to do before I glued the walls together; I added mullions (inside and out) to the half-windows as well:

I also made up my cardstock flooring templates for the 1st floor (I copied them for the 1st level ceilings, and the 2nd floor is different and doesn't have the bays). In the past I have gotten impatient and glued walls together before making flooring templates, and this makes life difficult afterwards, especially for floors with bays.

Now I was ready to glue walls to floors. I followed all the steps up to and including the left wall installation, because I felt that this wall would help keep everything square and I didn't want to leave things drying to where they wouldn't end up square. I was using wood glue for all these joints, which dries yellow and leaves awful-looking and very robust yellow globs, so I was very careful to tape/tighten then wipe excess glue inbetween each addition. You can also see on the underside where I have glued in scrap blocks to ensure that pieces will end up where they are supposed to be instead of slipping.

After all this was dry, I installed the bay pieces. The front bay involves installation of the lattice and some porch pieces also. I taped and wiped and clamped very carefully with each new addition to make sure nothing was going off-square.

Side (kitchen) bay inside:

Front (parlor) bay inside:

In order to finish the flooring templates, I needed to see how the staircase sat, so I dry-fit the main shell pieces and slid them in for a fit. This has got to be the easiest staircase install ever; usually I end up throwing a back muscle trying to finangle a staircase into place...!

In the first photo above, you can see the "closet door" leaning against the staircase. Well this is not a closet, it's a faux closet, and I really wanted a closet, so more on that below. But first, you can also see that I installed the 2nd-story walls above the bays; I started with some of the electrical installation, and wired it to the underside of the house. I also mapped out the future wire paths and drilled some holes in the underside so that I won't have problems getting everything collected down there. (I have learned alot from near-sightedness in my past builds...!)

Here I was doubting myself as to the kitchen floor treatment and had to lay it out and think about it for a while... I had originally thought to use my scrapbook paper that I found (labeled "ambrosia/fresh-squeezed/ amb-1420" by pattern paper) but I started to get cold feet so I had to see what plain ol' tile would do for me. That is a little old plastic dining set that somebody gave me; it's probably 1:16 scale but I'll have white furniture in here so it does the job for staging that. I finally decided to take the plunge and go orange already. I also laid out the kitchen ceiling with my embossed paper ("Pressed Tiles - Brown" by the Paper Studio), inspired by Brae (otterine) as she did here:

http://www.otterine.com/blog/blog1.php/kitchen-ceiling-finishing

I painted it with latex (my interior semi-gloss "Mother-of-Pearl") and it bubbled up quite a bit but I left it under a book (not too heavy) for a week and it seems better. I have lightly brushed a bit more paint on it since this house is for a little girl and I don't want it to be too shabby-chic! I am thinking that I want some orange reference on it also, since the floor is so commanding, so I may put a wee bit of accent paint on it.

Now I am working on the staircase; I hacked that back-piece to leave a good open doorway. I made a door-frame out of square dowel scraps and installed the door (scrap kit leftover) into it because it is alot easier to install the hinge nails that way! I went ahead and papered the inside before attaching the door-frame, as well as installing a hanging bulb with a "pull-chain" (bit of jewelry chain glued on) and a hanging-peg board. Finally I primed and sanded the assembled staircase, and only after all that did I attach the door frame.

I have my last scrap bit of tiny-tile paper under it since I think that I will use that; I know it makes it darker in there, but I just really like that paper so I think it's OK. I will have to think about the posts and railings, since this is kind of an open staircase and I don't want to rail every single edge of it. I am thinking that I will frame something on those open spaces on the sides of the staircase, like I did for the Pierce staircase here:

http://www.greenleafdollhouses.com/forum/index.php?app=gallery&image=12440

As for the treads, I have just about decided that instead of a runner, I will try some little step pads for each step, like I did in my last Spring Fling here:

http://www.greenleafdollhouses.com/forum/index.php?app=gallery&image=68655

Now I will set on the flooring for the parlor; I was thinking about it and all of a sudden it just became very clear to me that it absolutely must be wooden plank, and that it must be stained entirely in golden pecan! So I have replenished my basswood stock and that's what I will do.