nottasha Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Hi I just recently started building my Pierce dollhouse, I need to know where to get door hinges? I have been on Ebay but no one person has said yet where to get them. Thanks, Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bea Killion Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 HI. HOBBY LOBBY SELLS THEM AND ALSO MINIATURES .COM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Welcome to the forum, Chris, please drop by the Newcomers" subforum & introduce yourself! I personally have had nothing but grief from trying in vain to hang dh doors using those itsy bitsy #!%%*! hinges! I use strips of chamois or twill tape sandwished between the pieces of the door & the wall & the door trim, and in her Team Coventry Cottage blog Peggi describes how to hinge a door using pins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peggi Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Chris, i used hinges from Miniatures.com on my Lily and although they look very pretty in the future they will be for looks only. I like the hinge pin and holly's chamois hinges much better for real working doors. Both methods are fairly easy but the pin hinge does take a little more time to align correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nottasha Posted January 8, 2008 Author Share Posted January 8, 2008 thank you all for the info on hinges I appreciate it. I am not familiar with getting around in this community so any help will be accepted. thanks again chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Personally I dislike hinges very much for dollhouses......they are too bulky and ugly looking for my taste. I use sequin pins and pin hinge all my doors - or I use a strip of Tyvec which lasts forever for hinges. I much prefer the pin hinging method though. then I just make faux hinges with soft wire and glue them to where hinges would go... Wolfie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 My biggest problem with the little brass hinges are seating them so they don't bind with the brad heads, since just supergluing them they pop right off the first time the door is opened or closed. If the door is non-working I'm sure they'd look pretty, but you don't see much of even the barrell part, so why bother? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SallyG Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 I usually pin-hinge my doors. On my Madison cottage I did hinge the door since there was only one. I had to gently and carefully remove small sections of wood to sink the hinges flush so they would work correctly. Very tedious work. Getting the hinges in the door itself, glued and nailed in, was easy. However, setting it into the doorframe was a total nightmare. Even though I have small hands and a light touch, it took forever to get it done!! I'll stick with pin-hinges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nottasha Posted January 12, 2008 Author Share Posted January 12, 2008 hi there, may I ask what Tyvec is and where do u get it? I have been staining my staircase red mahogany and now it is time for polyurethyne, I have painted my front and side doors off the porch a maroon red and am polyurthyneing them as well, trying to keep the color good. I got wood flooring from manorhouse.com I believe it was. I can stain it and then cut it and lay it down. What did u use for the flooring? thank you Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 hi there, may I ask what Tyvec is and where do u get it? I have been staining my staircase red mahogany and now it is time for polyurethyne, I have painted my front and side doors off the porch a maroon red and am polyurthyneing them as well, trying to keep the color good. I got wood flooring from manorhouse.com I believe it was. I can stain it and then cut it and lay it down. What did u use for the flooring? thank you Chris Tyvec is what Wolfie uses to hinge her doors. I use strips of chamois or else twill tape; I sandwish half the width of the strips between the two pieces of the door along one edge and I sandwish the other half between the wall and the doorway trim. For flooring I have begun using the vinyl self-adhesive floorng from the Greenleaf store, but I have also split and used the siding strips and also I have scribed the "boards" directly into the plywood of the kit & stained it to achieve the effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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