SkilCraft Victorian Manor with Coach House

They wanted to make sure you were really into it before surprising you? Beautiful house; someone on here was looking for one of these a few months ago, and I can see why:)

Really? I didn't know anyone had ever heard of it... though I suppose, Sears, so they must have made more than one, ha ha!

I agree, it's beautiful when done well—but I'm an ebay lurker and there's a nasty green one on there for the last few months that's like a train wreck. o.O

My parents... I think they thought it wouldn't be good enough or something, you know, childhood things, some people don't want to revisit them. Then they saw a rehab I did of someone else's childhood dh and they got over that hangup. To be honest I took this house darned seriously when I was a kid, research and everything—Victorian design isn't my thing anymore, but other than the damage I wasn't too disappointed about it. Certainly not an embarrassment like some of my other art of the period undoubtedly is!

In fact the exterior is actually the same color scheme as I did back then. Simple, simple—a solid white and a slightly-grey black. It still looks like it could sit on Anystreet USA, and I like houses to look... like real houses.