BriJohn

My vote goes to an aged cranberry color since you don't like green.

This is without a doubt one of the best mini bathrooms I have ever seen. I am so impressed I can't stand it. I love it. You have done an incredible job and thank you so much for taking the time to provide us with a tutorial. I am going to try this out. Wonderful!

Ack, I meant to write tacky glue!

Yeah I used white glue like the manufacturer said to with my MDF house and it was so strong I would've had to break it to get it to come apart.

Holly had a great idea. I too agree about having a sink under the window, that's my fave too. Fridge really looks best on the full wall.

I cut a ton in my RGT house but since it was MDF, it was pretty easy. I cut an oval window once in a RGT plywood kit and it was a doozie. I got it done, but it was hard. I used big drill bits and drilled a few holes around the oval I had drawn. Then I used my wood cutting attachment on my dremel (which is round so not a perfect thing, but all I had) to knock out the wood between the drilled holes. Once I get the big chunks out, then I went back with the dremel sanding drums to smooth the edges. Not pretty process, but got the job done and it was nice and smooth in the end.

Kinko's (if you have one in your area) prints on sheets the same size, quality, sheen and everything as Itsy Bitsy. I know this from printing my own and owning many from Itsy Bitsy too. If you like her quality, go to Kinko's to reproduce.

Casey's curtains made from antique hankies are my all time favorite.

LOL, yes, please take pics and share with us! I'd love to see anything.

My favorite is the second but knowing you are getting both, I would pick the one I think would be easier to work on right now. Not sure which that would be, but that's the one, lol. They are gorgeous.

Wow, did you make out well! What a deal on the saw.

I also love how it looks. I agreed with you about having windows all the way around, basically, I love doing that too. That's how it is in real life. And then I got to thinking, you have the bonus of closing it all off and then when the lights are on, it really does look like a house and you are peeking in the windows. Another bonus - keeps dust out better when not being enjoyed (even though it is always enjoyed, even closed, does that make sense?)

Oh that Diana is sure cute. I love all the trim and the heart shape, how perfect would that be.

Like with this one, you can really see the spokes. The maker bent them in their design.

Here's a link with a simpler version of chandelier using a "spoke" (like a wheel spoke) finding. This one has flowers on it but i have some in my stash that are simple spokes I bought for this reason. I can't remember where I bought them but I think it was a UK company. They sell them with 2, 3, 4, 5 spokes, maybe more - you could always double a 4 spoke to make an 8 arm I suppose? I too, spent hours and hours trying to find good tutorials on it, and I decided they don't exist. This one that I linked it pretty good - then you take it as fancy as you can manage. I happened to get obsessed with a brass rod chandelier I saw from a member here in the gallery so I wanted to conquer the rods first. I think the spokes would be easier plus it looks fantastic. PS - I recommend crystals 2 to 2.5MM for the most part. Like the one you see above, the swag work in the middle, I'm pretty sure that's no bigger than 2 to 2.5MM. At first I had some 4MM mixed into mine in the chandelier photo I made that I shared back up the thread (for the record, that was not finished, had to do decorative work at the top to hide the mess with fancy brass beads and more crystals) - the 4MM you can see on the bottom. I decided that was a little too big for me. Changed that out. Just a preference but it's tricky to know what size to buy at first. I bought mine at Fire Mountain Gems. 4MM can have their place as accents, I think, but the tiniest size you see is 2mm on these fancy chandeliers.

So you know a lot of those very nice fancy chandeliers don't use brass tubes, right? There are many other there that use the "spokes" jewelry findings and run their wires down the spokes and up the decorative beaded central column. You then paint the wires gold. Once you have it all do dadded up, you don't notice the wires. This one is a good example, they don't use brass rods, I think they used the spoke finding.

I have always planned to mix a few of this style with the bent brass arms style we are talking about: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6QHlDITDHfk these really are pretty and not as complicated. I planned to use this kind in smaller areas.