I've been having "issues" with loading pictures...trying to figure out how to adjust the resolution on my camera to make them the proper size to post here.  So we'll see if this works:

The house has had as many cracks as I can reach -- filled in with wood putty.  Some of the rooms have been painted.  I'll be painting the rest in the next day or so. The hardest area to paint is the area along the staircase.  This should have been painted (or papered) before the house was built!  I didn't attempt to take all that apart.. it was pretty well-built, only one major seam along the staircase that needed putty.  But it also is a very cramped space, so it's going to be a challenge to paint. 

Then wallpaper.  I intend to wallpaper the upstairs and the smaller room downstairs, which will be a kitchen.  The Great Room will be painted white.  I think I'm going to make a stone fireplace there too, and cover up the original one, and perhaps do the same for the one upstairs....I may have to send my husband out for more pebbles!  (We live in sand country...sand, pebbles, rocks, boulders, are all around us!    )

Let's see if I can post these latest pictures..  Ah, that worked!    you'll also see the windows I made, using pieces of old "lumber" from previous houses,  scraps from the Greenleaf houses so they're the right dimensions, right thickness.  I'll paint them the same color brown as the outside of the house, and the beams in the ceilings on the first floor.