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That awful front porch came off intact, hurrah. It will be a free-standing rear porch. Unattached bc the house is already too unwieldy. It serves an extra purpose to get rid of that big blank space above the back door.

I just looked back at the original pic on the dollhouse box,  Wow - where you are taking this is SO much better.  You definitely are making the lines of the house more elegant. 

I am so happy you think so! I originally took the house with hesitation, thinking it had potential but no idea how to fix what I thought was a rather ugly design. The front porch helps a lot. That went through several iterations of standard porch posts and spindly railings. Nothing worked until I gave it more "heft" with thicker columns, arches and balustrade-type railing, which work so much better with those big windows. Plus I like how the arches echo the arched upper sashes of the windows.

And oh, re: another comment, it will have a black roof whether I leave it pink or paint it all white. Unfortunately, I can't paint the window sashes, which would be a nice offset to all-white. All but a few are permanently stuck in their semi-open state. There's no way to get behind the front sashes which block the half-open sashes behind them, dangit!