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About HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER

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    Miniature Lover

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  • Gender
    Female
  • Location
    Oregon
  • Interests
    Miniature scales: 1:12, 1:24, 1:48, 1:120, 1:144, 1:240 and 1:288.

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  • Real Name
    Drea
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    United States

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  1. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
    Thank you, Holly! Will the test with the Creamy-yellow tell me if I will need to use Primer? I was also thinking that I could sand it off, somewhat. Maybe?
  2. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
    Here is the front: The tan shingles & the exterior of the roof: The interior: The inside foyer with broken and various pieces:
  3. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
    Colleen, thank you so much! Yesterday when I wasn't certain that I could go over to pick it up I was pacing back and forth from both stress and excitement. Now I'm calm knowing that it is going to come home with me and live here to be my new Dream Dollhouse. I've got such plans for this dollhouse, but I know exactly how I want to begin: (stripping it down and redoing some of the details first) and I'm both calm and a tiny bit antsy. This is the type of dollhouse that deserves to look it's Best and I cannot wait to make that happen! I can already tell what the Original Owners were tryi
  4. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
    Thank you, I absolutely adore it too! I think I'm partially In Shock with this Dollhouse find but very keen to begin. I've quite honestly been planning this house out in my head for years now, but since I thought it was just a Dream to even be able to buy the kit I think that it will actually be easier to redo than any of my other Projects.
  5. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
    Next week I'm hoping my Big (Someday Soonish) Beauty will be home, and into my Craft Room ready for me to begin. First it will be sanding down that blue paint, taking a good primer to recover it or possibly a nice textured spray paint with the trim tapped off with some nice blue painting tape to protect the areas that I want to (for now) keep white. Then those shingles need to come off. Human sized carpeting is the next to go. Then some sanding that yellow Conservatory. A whitewash to help, and later tall wainscotting. Choosing between dusky lavender and a dusky rose pink for
  6. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
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  7. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
    Thank you. It's the Foxhall Manor addition. I absolutely LOVE the original one here!
  8. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
    It's so terribly ugly at this point but I've wanted this dollhouse for years, just figured it was way out of My Budget, considering the finishing and decorating costs of such a large dollhouse and have it all planned out in my head.
  9. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
    Thank you! I'm sort of in shock at the moment that I'm getting this dollhouse. I've LOVED miniatures since I was a child, but never had anything other than a Lundby (with horse stall and lower living room). It never had any electric lights, but I'm already thinking about grand chandeliers for this house! These are the Before pictures:
  10. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
    While searching for dollhouse kits locally (which includes my entire state! Woah!) I found somebody selling this already built but (a little) damaged Foxhall Manor by Real Good Toys. The shingles are broken, but terrible so they are coming off. The conservatory was painted a bright yellow so I'm going to both tone It down with some white paint, and place a very high wainscotting trim on the room. On the room It looks like spilled white paint (or maybe? glue). There are broken stairs, rails in the Grand Hall. It looks like real sized carpet was used. All I can see however is T
  11. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
    Thank you so much! I'm excited to start, but not as nervous. I did find a full scale dollhouse that I want to ask the members about though that I'm THRILLED to have found.
  12. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
    I'm not certain which method (sewing or gluing) I'm going to choose, but I like the idea of both like you, Wycked! That way the clothing will deal and lay right because of the hours pieces, but also be realistic where it needs to be from the sewing. Dana Burton? I shall find her and see about learning from her. Thank you. I'm fact I want to thank everybody! I don't know where I would be without the people on this forum.
  13. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
    Oh, THANK YOU! I'm so relieved! It tends to bring out the roughness of the wood if sanded with sandpaper is what I've been reading. It does not have milled-in siding. Is that a positive in this case? I'm hoping that I just got rid of the rough bits and can now prime, and then take sand paper to the kit after the primer. Thank you Mid-life! I'm going to get a good primer, but I was unsure which one to go with. Thank you, Ken about the thin coats. I was wanting to go slow with the paint job on the kit to make everything ready for w
  14. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
    Thank you, I appreciate it.
  15. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
    Hello, I've been reading that a person should not sand before painting with at least a primer. But my half scale RGT Front-opening Country Victorian arrived so rough and I was getting splinters from handling it. Besides I heard that Brown paper can be used to sand a dollhouse and my kit arrived covered in the stuff. I thought it would be the best to kill two birds with one stone and I used the brown paper to sand it down. Some pieces are still a little tougher than I would have liked, but I just saw the recommendation that a person not sand until after painting a first coat.
  16. HalfScaleDollhouseLOVER
    Jungle Animal Rug (half scale)
    I ADORE everything about this: the GORGEOUS rug, the well made STUNNING nursery!
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