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Well, I am having the darndest time with uploading and editing this gallery!  Anyway...

I started this house while waiting to hear if I had gotten a job that was going to move me from Chicago to Colorado Springs.  This is the state it moved in (yay for the sturdiness of 3/8” plywood!) and then sat for 3+ years. 

The wood floors are iron-on wood veneer strips I got at the hardware store.  They aren’t exactly to scale, but they are super easy to apply and don’t add bulk.  For a more realistic look, I would just cut the width down, cut them into random lengths, and add some nail holes with pencil before staining, but for this project I am happy with the results.  They will probably be almost completely covered in rugs and furniture anyway. 

Overall I am going for a colonial look and will be furnishing it with my House of Miniatures furniture collection.  Given that this will be hung on a wall and I have a cat that likes to eat wires, I’m unsure as to whether I will be lighting this yet.  It is shallow, so it really doesn’t need it, but there is nothing like a lit up house at night, am I right?  It would be all sconces, candles, and fireplace fires anyway….we’ll see.  There’s still time to decide since I would run all wiring on the back and sides.

The overall floorplan for the house is two bedrooms in the attic, a third bedroom on the middle floor on the right (green), dining room middle floor left (blue), and then kitchen and parlor/greeting room downstairs.  Probably cram a desk in one of the hallways, definitely a tall case clock.  I left out the doors because I thought they would just be cumbersome and make it dimmer inside.

Nope, it just sits open like it is. A hinged set of walls would be really cool, though. Like a cabinet house. Would help keep the cat from trying to jump in it, too.  Hmmm, now you have me thinking, Mike!