Front porch mockup

February 1, 2014
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You know it's a good project when you keep other people up thinking about solutions. Many people had good input on the entryway issues, but I believe April gets the gold star. She made a mockup of the entryway in the The Sims 3. She suggested I go with the first option of adding a small porch, pushing the stairs forward. After sleeping on it, I had come to the same conclusion (great minds thinking alike!).

I started by dry fitting the portico roof. There's some interesting construction going on here, and I'm figuring this was to keep the kit costs down. I cut the holes in the foam core board facade for the upper window, front door and garage door. I wanted to see the recessed door in relation to the new porch. The blue taped piece is to be cut out according to the kit instructions to open the doorway, but I am leaving all grid pieces intact until I'm ready to work on them.

I've had the hydrangeas for awhile, but the calla lily is from miniatures.com. I borrowed the laser cut doormat from The Haunted Heritage. I have another of these for the Brownstone, and it looks like it will be a perfect fit. It's from The Dolls House Mall and started out as brass.

Now, I'll be using 1/8" thick plywood for the facade base and the foam core board is 3/16" thick, but none of this will matter in the end. I'll be modifying the opening for the working door frame and can alter the way this portion is constructed to get it all to work.