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I finished the shoji window in the second floor landing, and the tokonoma in the dragon room.

It was a little easier to install the tokonoma in this room than the last one. The little cabinet with the sliding door was easier as well, because it was a lot larger than the tiny one in the other room. I used the same chiyogami paper on the sliding doors to the cabinet as I did on the fusuma.

I wish I was brave enough to have made the posts in the tokonomas in both rooms from actual sticks, rather than the supplied dowels, but it's difficult enough to get the ready made ones to fit. I'll just have to figure out how to incorporate some natural things later.

I attached the left hand tatami room to the landing last night. Now I am ready to attach the dragon room to it.

The next step will be to start making the porches that swing out from the building when it is open. Each porch covers one tatami room and half of the center room.

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kathi17

Thank you Linda. In real life, it's quite heavy, and very "pulpy". We used to be able to get lots of nice papers at an art store about an hour from here. Unfortunately the owners had to sell the store when he became terminally ill. The woman who bought it, just kept selling stuff without ordering more. The store is almost empty now. It really stinks, because it was a very nice store for many years, and there is nowhere else that sells the stuff they used to carry.

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Thanks Mike. :-) It;s so much fun picking out the paper! Plus, I had some paper I didn't want to use unless it was for something very special, so this gave me a chance to use some of the paper I was hoarding!

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