Exterior Finishing
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As I mentioned earlier, I use bamboo skewers to cover the joins of the bays. Here’s what they look like before they’re painted.
And after a coat of paint. I really like the way the skewers give such a nice finish to the bays.
For the modern look of this house, I wanted to use asphalt shingles, but I didn’t really want to go to all the expense of the pre-made asphalt. So I used square birch shingles instead and applied them with rough edges and just a bit of gap between each one.
Shingles are the only thing that I use a hot glue gun for during building, but it does shorten the time spent on shingling considerably.
After the shingles were on, I “bug wrapped” the house in plastic. I don’t think that’s a proper term for it, but to me, it looked like the house had been tented by exterminators. But for the next step, it was very, very important that everything on the house be sealed off except for the roof.
With the house all sealed off, I used Fleckstone spray paint in a shade of greenish grey with white and black flecks on the roof. Voila! Instant asphalt shingles.
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