The porch foundation also went on quickly and easily. The lattice work is sandwiched behind the porch foundation which gives a three piece thickness and provides support for the porch floor. After the porch foundation was on, I spackled in the slots and painted the porch floor.
Now for the fun part. I'd been looking forward to bashing the porch roof into a balcony, but there was also some apprehension on my part because I'd never bashed anything quite that much before. I didn't wan
With all the walls up and the foundation firm, I was ready to move onto the interior finishing. Because I had cut the tabs off the interior walls, I wanted to give them just a bit more security than simply relying on the baseboards at the bottom, so I measured off some strips of crown moulding to fit vertically into the corners of each room and stained them to match the rest of the woodwork. With the baseboards in place and the moulding around the ceiling, this gave the rooms a "framing" that
Now for the fun part…………..turning a stack of pretty colored wood into a house. The Lily has a center partition that interlocks with all three floors and the front wall. I recommend not applying any glue during this process until you have all the pieces in place. The Lily is a tight fit and you'll find that you have to loosen a few pieces that are in place to get the inner partitions and the staircases in place.
The first step is to put the two main walls together with the first floor. By squa
My personal style is to wallpaper and paint during the "R&P" section of the building. Since this house wasn't going to have any wiring added to it, that building style worked out perfectly. Even if you are going to be adding wallpaper after the house is assembled, you will want to wallpaper the walls behind the stairs prior to assembly. There is no way of getting wallpaper behind them once they are set in place. The foyer is another room you will want to wallpaper prior to assembly beca
I started building the Lily in January and finished her yesterday. So instead of posting to the blog in a daily diary type of way, I'll just break up the posts into phases of construction and title each section according to the content.
A few months ago, I told my best friend that I would build a house for her and told her to pick the house she wanted most. She picked the Lily because she thought it would translate so well into a turn of the century French Quarter type of house. I was quite
Actually before I started decorating, I needed a visual on how the rooms were set up. Since I didn't know to do this in the dry fitting, I used a piece of paper to divide my rooms. I also remember getting a little confused about the wall that separates the living room and foyer, I kept looking at the schematics at where the slots were and couldn't decide which way the wall was suppose to go. So I played around a little B)
I mean what's the use of having a dollho
When I bought this house, I knew that I wanted it to have lights. My only experience was in rewiring a dollhouse that was given to me by a family member. The lights just added an extra AHH when looking at it and I wanted that for the Lily. I researched several sites, read the book that came with my wiring kit and thanks to Tom's Tips from Earth and Tree and Darrell's tutorial on this forum I was ready.
This one shows how I decided to start and place my junction splice, the tape on t
As a newbie to building a dollhouse to finally get to the stage of dryfitting the walls together was an exciting moment. It was the first time that all the prep work of sanding, priming, and fiddling with windows and trim that I felt this really was going to happen. I only dry fitted the outside walls and the flooring, never occurred to me then that if I had dry fitted interior walls, I may have learned a little more about how this house would fit together. But even just fitting these parts I le
I'd like to mention that this was my very first build of any kind and the kind people here at Greenleaf ask me to join this blog to help inspire other newbies and I think to let you know that with a lot of patience, and the help of the experienced members of the forum any one can build a beautiful and lasting dollhouse. It also helped me to have an understanding husband (who by the way knows something about tools) to help me decipher any instructions I read or received. LOL
After ge
I got off to a really good start on this house the parts just fell out of their sheets and that almost never happens. it was nice. the first thing I did was make sure all sheets were included in my kit...check
the next thing was to lable all the parts that fell out of the sheets and put smaller ones in baggie....check
I than proceeded to put the main parts of the house together for a dry fit.
Now this is the fun part because as in the Glencroft the Peices practicly have to lay
