caitriona Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I know it's great to have a house tell you what it wants to be (my Arthur hasn't been to forthcoming at all so far so I'm hoping it has a huge fit of chattiness before I finish the paint, sand, paint, sand routine!), but my new Orchid is turning out to be a bit of a dictator. It hasn't even arrived yet and already it's decided that it's going to be a cutesy little village dollshouse shop, housing a collection of 1:144 scale houses and furniture downstairs, and with a workshop upstairs for those sensible customers who order their houses fully built. Unfortunately I previously had no intention of doing anything in a scale smaller than 1/12, but I'm utterly in love with the idea now, and can't resist the temptation! I hate bossy houses... <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minis On The Edge Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 They ALL are bossy and pushy and ready to be built YESTERDAY <_< Your Arthur will speak. It may be a shy house LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 My Arthur wasn't a bit shy abour its exterior; picky, picky, picky. The new owner is getting all sorts of messages about the interior! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doogster Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 My Garf has been sending messages telepathically I swear. As it slowly progresses, and it's more than happy to go that way, I seem to know what to do with the next stage. Heck, I even missed step 3 completely, and then find it's for the best, that part goes together better if it's done after step 6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nameless1 Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 We need to document Bossy House Syndrome. My Batrie cottage hid a piece of scrapbook paper today. I swear it! I had planned to paper all three walls of the living room in the same tan-and-red stripe. I was sure I had three pieces of paper. I cut and pasted the first wall, went to cut the second wall -- and discovered there was no third piece of paper. I went through every stack of paper in my work space. No third sheet. And I can't remember where I got it, but it was somewhere inconveniently out of town, so many months ago that there's no guarantee it's still made. So I gave up and did a completely different paper on the third wall, so that the paper simulates a hefty overmantle for the fireplace. This evening, I got home, and there was the third piece of paper in plain sight. We won't even discuss how it rejected four different kitchen papers so that I had to go to Flax Art and blow $25 on art paper. NOW it's cooperating just fine with my efforts to fit the bathroom wallpaper. Why? 'Cause it got what it wanted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 We need to document Bossy House Syndrome. If it's hiding the decor from you, that is one *seriously* bossy house! I was having arguments with the Coventry Cottage over the weekend. I had my plan for the exterior design all sketched out. Does the house agree? Oh noooooooooooooooo. When I started to work on the exterior, it got all stubborn and just stomped it's floorboards and refused to allow me to even put on even one piece. So we sat there and stared at each other for a few hours. I played it some Moody Blues thinking that would settle it's nerves. Lit some candles and incense. Tried some tibetian chants. Nope, not even a hint of mellow out of it. I finally went and printed out 6 pictures of japanese Edo era architecture. Then I actually showed each picture *to the house*, explaining each one and how it would look. I can't believe I was sitting there holding up pictures-------not along side the house so I could see them---------no, I was holding them up facing away from me for the house to see!! <sigh> We finally compromised. It agreed that my original plan of a combination of stucco, planking and framing is the traditional style we want to use, but the house changed the placement of each one to what *it* wants them to be. Wanna know the really sad part? I ended up apologizing to the house for wanting to do it any other way. Now it's being complacent and smug about winning the argument. Deb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 For whatever reason this little house is just rolling over and wriggling with delight no matter what I do to it, I'm dressing the front bay windows now & it seems very happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 We need to document Bossy House Syndrome. This evening, I got home, and there was the third piece of paper in plain sight. We won't even discuss how it rejected four different kitchen papers so that I had to go to Flax Art and blow $25 on art paper. NOW it's cooperating just fine with my efforts to fit the bathroom wallpaper. Why? 'Cause it got what it wanted! Turn off the power for a week. That'll learn it!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't give in. Remember - Tough Love!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daydream believer Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 My house is very happy with me, after being "exiled" to the garage (houses dont like this) for over a year, I have finally finished all windows today. Its feeling very warm and cozy this evening protected from the elements, and also from the chubby little fingers of the two year old boy child. I have another house which took its place on that shelf in the garage, who just the other day whispered to me as I was walking past, that it wished to a haunted house, and not the shabby chic,paris apartment,single girl hangout I had originally planned. This is why I have learned to never never decorate until the building is done, until the house has had a chance to put in its own 2 cents ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nameless1 Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 Turn off the power for a week. That'll learn it!!!!!!!!!!!!Alas, I don't electrify, so the threat is empty. The house obediently took all its wallpaper and most of its floors and ceilings today. It's still resisting on the LR ceiling and LR rug, so I may have to go to Pearl tomorrow. Or try threats, as I really want a green carpet in there. I have another house which took its place on that shelf in the garage, who just the other day whispered to me as I was walking past, that it wished to a haunted house, and not the shabby chic,paris apartment,single girl hangout I had originally planned. Yup, they do that. My Haunted House refused to be a haunted house. My half-scale lighthouse keeper's cottage agreed reluctantly to be a rehabbed earthquake cottage, then threw a tantrum and insisted on being rebuilt as a Frenchified tea shop. Maybe it should have a word with your house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 Turn off the power for a week. That'll learn it!!!!!!!!!!!! <doubtful look> Well, if you think it'll work, I'll give it a try, but honestly, I think I'll probably suffer more than the house will, what with bruised shins from bumping into things in the dark and the stuff in the fridge going over and it's gonna get cold without the heater running. Couldn't I just put the house in a dark closet for a week instead? <cackle> Deb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 My Haunted House refused to be a haunted house. That happened to me with mine, and then someone begged for it before I could take a "finished" picture of it (why there's none from me in the building team gallery). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heidiiiii Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 Your houses remind me of something. A four-yr old throwing a tantrum on the floor cause it doesnt want to wear it`s snow pants.LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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