So this house has ALOT of white trim... I have gone over much of it twice (though some is still in primer stage), will keep at it until it all looks the same bright white...
Trimming inside:
I am making a little firescreen out of scraps to put in that fireplace. Another coat of sealer all around (I know it looks shiny in the photos but it looks the way I want in normal view), and I'll be ready to lay the flooring.
Finally got aro
Haha-- the lights work!
As you can sort of see in the 2nd floor bedroom, I have installed the power strip there, and am working on a little closet that will go over it... I am working on the long back trim pieces so that I can position and hide the wires behind them.
Speaking of the 2nd floor bedroom, what would it look like as a dining room:
Hmmmmm...
I decided on a flooring treatment for the 3rd floor bedroo
I guess it's been a couple more weeks! Nasty colds and work... I got the towel rack installed in the bathroom:
Still thinking about how to treat the lower wall there. I did some flooring work for the bedroom; here it is in dry fit:
I decided to leave it as is instead of staining it so that it would not clash with the furniture. I brushed on a sealer and glued the floor in place; it is not as shiny and smooth as I would like so I am going to b
Well I haven't posted in a couple weeks, a bit of travel and alot of work, so picking away here and there at trim and getting down to some of the finer points. I did some panel work in the 2nd floor bedroom, with some Kate Greenaway storybook pictures that I found here:
I think I will add some trim to the ceiling, like lattice-work. That ceiling just sort of took on a meandering path of its own-- that is tulle or something that I attached to it... Some lattice will mak
I realized that I cannot start on trim work until I finish the floor, and I didn't have enough craft sticks stained up at the time, so I took a look at my leftover shingle collection and glued them onto a card template:
You can see that the card is a nice fluorescent yellow! (It is what I had, leftover from my ceiling rabbit trails, so I used it...) I then did several rounds of spraying with sealer and sanding, and sure enough the gaps got filled in, for the most part
Or drawing room... Not sure about the distinction, but the sitting room and the dining room furniture sets will both have to squeeze in here!
I glued up the panels, as well as bits of wallpaper up in the bays above the window trim (it does show if one looks from the outside, or peers up in it), and glued up the ceiling paper:
Then I dug up some of my leftover homemade modge podge (water + white school glue + Minwax gloss seal) and painted the ceiling with
So my order from RJ's Miniatures came in-- I am very tickled with the Turkish rugs!
You can see the beginnings of my panelling in the drawing room there... It will make more sense as I progress...!
Well all the trim is on (except for the long curls that go on the porch), and the shutters are painted and ready for a sealant, and the tower is affixed. At this point I am doing paint touchups, and there is quite a bit of that to do. The porch steps are assembled and ready go on. The two main things to do to the exterior are the chimney finish (I plan to use paperclay), and the finish on the base of the house (probably a paperclay brick finish also).
Wandering inside a bit-- I made
I spent some time on the tower:
Starting to look like a house, eh?
Punched out all the trim:
I took a different approach with the trim pieces. They are tough to sand individually and there are many pieces, so I just removed the roughest bits, and went ahead and glued up the pieces that get stacked together. Then I spackled those pieces after they were glued, sanded down a bit, and painted. Now I am gluing them into
So the Willow is on order from overstock.com, and I am thinking about it-- Stenty's Willow is a beautifully-done example of this house, and I'm sure I'll be referring to it quite a bit. I looked on a discussion of colonial-style houses at about.com, and an example of Georgian Colonial architecture is shown:
(This photo is from architecture.about.com, and is of a house in New Hampshire.) About.com lists characteristics of Georgian Colonial style: square, symmetrical sha
Here I am piddling away with bay windows, adding pieces bit by bit, spackling and painting all the way:
When these guys dry, I'll put the sashes in... I don't have a clean line between the shingles and the window parts, so I'll have to make some trim to cover that up-- the leftover mansard roof material might be good for that...
I have had the tower pieces sitting around in various stages of being primed, so I got down to putting them together. Firs
I got the kitchen light and ceiling ("tin") put up as well as the dutch door, and the foyer ceiling (maple-stained balsa) and light:
I also got some work done on the front and French doors and trim:
I am debating whether to hinge the French door, or make it a window. It would be nice to have it hinged-- I'll have to pair it down to fit...
I have been working on the bay windows:
The "L-shaped" pie
Well I have been picking away at this and that, here and there-- I didn't like how the interior door frames looked in the kit design, so I pre-assembled them to fit and added a line of trim. Here I have been working on the kitchen door, with a dutch door of my own design (I just cut the kit door into two, and trimmed it):
I have a wooden decoration for the foyer side, and I'll put a nail (cut-off sewing pin) on the kitchen side to hang an apron or something...
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Well I will be traveling and visiting with family over the next two weeks, so will not have much time to spend on the house... Here is the interior so far:
I am thinking that maybe I got a little happy with the kitchen flooring-- should've spaced out the paint a bit-- but maybe once I finish the white-boarding, it will provide enough buffer between the busy walls and equally busy floor. We'll see. Meanwhile the house will have to sit all by itself and wait for me to ge
I found some plastic sheet tiling on the last Hobby Lobby 50%-off sale (that was last year! hoping for another soon), so I decided to try it out in the kitchen and bathroom spaces-- it looked too plain in white, so I painted it up a bit:
I am piddling around with the interior; need to touch up the interior windows, and keep chugging with the panels... I am thinking that I will paint up a bunch of popcycle sticks and do boarding all around for the kitchen wainscoting, l
Well after much spackling, here I am with second (or third, or fourth, who knows) coat of paint on outside trim:
Maybe one or two more coats, just to be sure... Then sealer, to keep it from ruination...
Turning my attention to the inside, I finished up the wainscoting in the 1st and 2nd floor foyers:
It is very dry here, and I am thinking that I should seal this work soon-- I have some satin sealer that might work OK... Reminds m
The bay interiors look a bit worse for wear--
I decided to put knobs on all the parlor bay windows, since the kitchen bay has that shelf there and since the kitchen single window already had a handle...
I have been spackling the bay exteriors--
Those gaps between the bay walls need more reinforcement than spackle, though, so I will put some wood glue inside before I spackle there... Well, better than that, I'll put skewers or dow
But first, a Melissa and Doug bedroom furniture set that I found on amazon.com for half the price I usually see:
Looks good in that space, especially for the price! Well it will look better when I get around to finishing the room...
After much chugging along, I have finally finished the pieces for the bay windows, so here I am with the kitchen bay:
It needs much spackle, and some trim in the interior above the window casing. I'll
Made more progress with wallpaper and window installation--
It occurred to me after I papered the bathroom that I will need to accommodate for the wall-mounted light fixtures, so I figured out that I would make a tall medicine/towel cabinet or something to hide the wires...
I have six window handles left, so I am thinking about which bay windows to put them on... Maybe I will put some of the little "porcelain" knobs on the kitchen bay windows... Right now
Well I needed to wallpaper the bathroom so I can install those window pieces, and I didn't care for how ornate the blue was in that room after all... So I decided to put the "sanitary" Victorian wallpaper (from Jennifer's printables) into the bathroom, since I thought it was too dark a look for the kitchen:
I will look for something lighter for the kitchen, and I think I will move the blue up to the 3rd floor big room...
After sanding, painting, resanding, spackling, resanding, painting and sealing, here is what I came up with for single and double windows:
Pretty exciting, huh. But here are some pieces in place in the 2nd floor bedroom:
The purple paint tape left smudge marks on some pieces of wallpaper but not others... Hmmm... My plan is to put paneling up near the ceiling, so that should cover the smudges if I make it come down far enough... I will
The curved pieces for the mansard roof trim were tough! butterflyex recommends installing them before laying shingle templates because they are so tough to hold down, but I think they would've been tough either way because my roof pieces were not quite square-fit... I wanted to lay them after shingles for a neater look anyway...
At some point I gave up trying to get the edges to meet, and just strove to tack them to the roof; I have some big gaps to fill now:
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I'd been putting it off because shingling is not my favorite part, but I bit the bullet and went ahead and shingled the mansard roofing. I used the templates that I had traced the roofing on before I installed it, refit the templates, then glued on the shingles with Aileen's quick grab tacky. These shingles were a bit warped, more so than any others I have installed; I stained them weeks ago, so maybe that had something to do with it...
I let each shingled template sit
So here is the left bay after a couple rounds of spackle and sanding:
Not too bad-- I may have to sand down the little roof brackets when I get to that part since I have rounded the extension-trim interface so much...
I glued on the sandpaper to the bays, and I am pretty tickled with how it looks. I will need to put some trim around the edges at some point...
Trucking along with vertical trim-- I can't finish the vertical trim under the porch
Well I got the third coat of paint on and dried, and meanwhile I primed and sanded and painted up all the horizontal and vertical trim. I installed the horizontal trim with much clamping-- some of the pieces didn't quite square up, thicker at one end and so on... I started to go through the vertical trim and it started to dawn on me that I needed to finish the porch and kitchen bay roofs before I could finish the verticals...
I thought about this for a while and today
