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I see the picture now! It's fun to see how you're interpreting the room in the inspiration photos. Good use of popsicle sticks! An inexpensive way to make plants is to buy fake flowers at the dollar store or Michaels, and cut off small pieces. You can stick them into a lump of air dry clay and then glue coffee grounds over the top surface of the clay lump. I started making minis as a teenager and I used to love the projects in Nutshell News and Dollhouse Miniature magazines. I learned so much from them. At the time I was able to check them out of the library. I doubt they're still available that way, but you can probably find tutorials on blogs or YouTube that would have the same effect. Here are a few sites to check out: https://1inchminisbykris.blogspot.com/ https://joannswansondiyminiatures.blogspot.com/ https://www.jessicacloe.com/tutorials https://www.mysmallobsession.com/free-miniature-projects.html https://www.emilymorganti.com/blog/?tag=tutorial -- this one is my blog, and I mostly do half scale (1:12), which is smaller than standard dollhouse scale, but it still might give you some ideas

Wow, that's a great offer! Hopefully one of our members will take it off your hands. :)

Jasmine has tried to add the picture of her project a couple times but it hasn't worked. We'll get it figured out!

If you continue to have trouble posting the image, send me a message and I'll help. You can message me here: https://forum.greenleafdollhouses.com/messenger/compose/?to=7

Sounds like shingle strips. Do they have vertical cuts dividing the wood up into shingle-sized pieces? Of course, you can use them for whatever you want...

Here's one of those Superlative dollhouses in Northern California: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/337490702225393/

That's really nice. Worth the asking price.

I have a bad habit of looking at Craigslist ads that are nowhere near me for mini stuff, and last week I stumbled across this one: https://boston.craigslist.org/bmw/art/d/weston-estate-of-dollhouse-miniatures/7685789280.html The seller is only interested in dealing locally, but lucky for me my parents live 15 minutes away. They're going over there tomorrow to buy one of the houses for me. I can tell several of the houses pictured are half scale. The yellow one is an Elizabeth Anne and the light blue with the dark blue fishscale shingles is a Jackie Deiber pull-apart house (the same one I blogged about here: https://www.emilymorganti.com/blog/?p=7602). I'm buying the pink house that's up on a shelf, which is also a Jackie Deiber pull-apart house. The estate sale is happening December 1-2, or you can make an appointment to meet with the seller sooner than that. Looks like lots of 1:12 as well. She's selling off the collection for someone else, so I don't think she knows what all of it is. If anyone here is in the Boston area, check it out!

This Fairfield is nicely done: https://www.ebay.com/itm/145427311670 Either the images are flipped, or they built it inside-out.

Hi Kristin, welcome to the forum. I'm not sure if Greenleaf will be able to help you since the house was purchased secondhand. The schematics are here, maybe this will help?

Nope, the stuff I gave her isn't in there (iirc it was just a few accessories). The electrical looks older and might have come with the house when she bought it. Some of the trims have price tags from our local store that shut down a few years ago.

Years ago, my (now deceased) dog's vet and I bonded over the fact that she'd bought a Visalian she was restoring. Over the years I would tell her about local shows, and a few times I gave her 1:12 things I ended up with that I didn't have a use for, but eventually she told me she'd stopped working on it. I suspect that's her house.

Have you considered adding texture and painting the walls instead of wallpapering? That might be easier with the trim already in. Here's a blog post that shows what I mean: https://www.emilymorganti.com/blog/?p=10264

Welcome to the forum. Those aren't part of the kit.

I have a view out the windows in my 1:12 Christmas breadbox. My parents took the picture out their window after a big snow. I didn't do anything to light them, but I made a false wall out of foam core with strip wood spacers against the back of the roombox, so there's a little bit of depth. And my 1:24 trunk roombox has a view out the window: This one does have a light shining on it. More details here: https://www.emilymorganti.com/blog/?p=15863

@Farm-n-mom I just emailed them to you.

Vicki, I think you're describing a mouse sander. It's great for sanding flat areas and it would work well on exterior corners. I don't know how well it would get into interior corners.

@Aann Massoth I just emailed them to the address on your profile. Let me know if you don't get it.

Those stairs look pretty blocky compare to the Houseworks stairs. If you want the staircases to match, I suggest replacing both of them. You should also double-check the width in case the Houseworks stairs are wider than the hole. That can be fixed by enlarging the hole or notching the top step to fit in the hole, but it's a consideration.

Welcome to the forum. Can you post a picture of the stairs? (You need five posts before you can start an album, but you should be able to attach a picture to your posts in the meantime.) There aren't a lot of options in half scale, so the standard staircase is this one: https://miniatures.com/1-24-scale-staircase-kit-by-houseworks/ It comes with spindles and a railing, but you can also buy these separately: https://miniatures.com/1-24-scale-staircase-spindle/ https://miniatures.com/1-24-scale-stair-and-landing-handrail/ (I don't know if miniatures.com is the best source for you in the UK, but these are also available in UK shops like Melody Jane.) You can reduce the height of this staircase by cutting off a step, or add a step (made from basswood) if you need to make it taller. I think the staircase is made for a 5" ceiling height, so it might work to replace your missing staircase if you just add a piece of 1/8" basswood to the bottom of the first step.

I've always thought that bored-looking kid on the Queen Anne box is funny. In my mind, the woman had to pose with her because she refused to do it by herself.

You don't *have* to use MDF for the replacement parts, if another material would be more convenient for you. Depending on what the pieces are, you could even use foamcore. For the siding, it's probably 1/2" lap or 3/8" lap. Miniatures.com sells both. Just measure one "stripe" of the existing siding and see how wide it is. I'm not good with power tools so I don't have advice for creating the grooves and the bevels. If I were doing it, I would probably look for ways to assemble that didn't require them, but I work in 1:24 scale with lighter materials.

Hi, welcome to the forum. Sorry for the delay - we had to turn on post moderation for new members because we were having so much trouble with spam. I deleted your other post in the My First Dollhouse subforum. Can't you just measure the windows in the house you have? Commercially available windows (like Houseworks) aren't likely to fit, but you can enlarge the holes if you want to use those. Otherwise I would just pop off the trim, replace the plastic (you can buy plastic sheets from hobby shops, no need to use the "real" ones that came with the kit) and then repaint the trim and put it back on. If the trim gets damaged or you want to upgrade, there are lots of options: https://miniatures.com/shop-by-product/building-materials/moulding-and-trim/

Glad you found them. Have fun!

Welcome the the forum, @Kilbride. The original post was made in 2012 so it's unlikely this house is still available.