miniaddicted Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 2 hours ago, Sable said: Where did you get the nice shiney hearth from? That is a piece of marble I snagged at the Chicago International Show, there is a woman from Europe who sells them, and I just can't resist buying them! I have one more, a little narrower, in the beiges, and I think I have a round one too. Linda - I took a peak at the House Formerly Known as The Yellow House....looking really great! I know its been lots of work, but it sure looks like that effort is paying off. As for the wood sheets being different colors, perhaps you might consider cutting them into squares, and doing a mixed parquet? Has anyone used this flooring and stained it? My main wood floors will be cherry stain, and for this study, if I keep this flooring, it might be better to tone it down, making the light squares more like the 'walnut' strips in a walnut stain...thoughts? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L Swearengin Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Well, the winter house is nearly done. It snowed in my craft room. It's going to take me a year to clean up that mess. LOL. Next time I'll wait until summer to try that again. I haven't been able to post pictures here for over a year. You can see them on pinterest. It's under "another house....orchid" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Have been under the weather with what I thought was just a bad could, showed itself to turn into a bit of pneuomina which I Now am on antibiotics for and slowly coughing less and breathing easier. Still get out of breathing talong the trash out so am staying indoors been Playing with small bits and pieces for the steampunk stove I starten a loooong time ago and I Think it is almost Done Now. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Anna, I love your stove! It looks like a scratch-build, too. I'm sorry to hear about the pneumonia; I had it three times when we lived in Jacksonville, FL; we had three different weather systems that converged there that my doctor thought contributed to it. Since leaving I haven't had any more, plus our new doctor in Tallahassee gave me the pneumonia vaccine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickyfingers Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Heidi- thanks so much! It's been a lot of work, but worth it. I think for that flooring I'll go back to the first plan, which is to just make it myself with veneer strips, and I'll save those sheets for another build. I was trying to lay out the sheets with the flooring template, and I think even if they matched, it would be a bit of a mess. Anna-wow! Very cool stove! Lawanda-why can't you upload pictures? That snowy roof looks amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathieB Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 2 hours ago, Anna said: Have been under the weather with what I thought was just a bad could, showed itself to turn into a bit of pneuomina which I Now am on antibiotics for and slowly coughing less and breathing easier. Still get out of breathing talong the trash out so am staying indoors been Playing with small bits and pieces for the steampunk stove I starten a loooong time ago and I Think it is almost Done Now. Anna, the stove is looking convincingly steampunkish. Sorry to hear you've been under the weather. Pneumonia is nothing to fool around with. 12 hours ago, miniaddicted said: Has anyone used this flooring and stained it? My main wood floors will be cherry stain, and for this study, if I keep this flooring, it might be better to tone it down, making the light squares more like the 'walnut' strips in a walnut stain...thoughts? Heidi, I'd try a bit of a light stain on this beautiful floor (maybe Provincial by Minwax?) that would tone down the lighter blocks but not deepen the darker strips too much. Do you have scraps to do a test? Or can you test in an area you know will be covered by a rug or furniture? 2 hours ago, Anna said: Oops. Don't know how this got here but I can't get rid of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbnmini Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Anna- I do hope that you will be feeling better very soon! (love the stove, BTW!) As for me- I am finishing up "Sarah's House"- a donation to my cousin's autistic daughter. The house is now sporting purple paint with pink shutters! Put up the crown mouldings and baseboards (just used flat strip wood since it is just a basic 'play house'). Last nite I began working on some bedding for the family. I am a terrible seamstress, but hopefully Sarah won't mind my feeble attempts at making cute pillows and blankets. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debsrand56 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Anna-- Can't believe I missed this stove when you posted it. It is superb! Love all the steampunk elements, including the coils. Hope you are feeling better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 1 hour ago, Debsrand56 said: Anna-- Can't believe I missed this stove when you posted it. It is superb! Love all the steampunk elements, including the coils. Hope you are feeling better. Thank you, been beating the body with un-necessarities, ie going to work for things that I am supposed to deliver and it sure prolongs recovery, but then again as a principal and we have an opening of New venues (ie a New house for the students) not being there giving a speech isn't ideal so Went there today, and am Now running a fever again so have atleast cncelled the rest of the weeks meetings and am going to stay home... as for the coils, I simply loooove doing them, I have the brass materials as well as the copper one and I am looking for more places to put coils in just for the fun of turning them weird? Yes, that is me... hugs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathieB Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Tonight I dug out the shingles for the Beacon Hill and, inspired by Matt's recent photo of the shingled gable, put a mix of 1:12 and 1:24 shingles on the hard-to-reach mansard bit that goes beside the tower. I've painted the mansard roof pieces black and will be painting the shingles black and gray. Not sure yet whether it will be a light strip of 1:24 shingles across the middle or if they will be dark. The problem now is that all of the other parts of the roof have window openings, so I need to dig out the window parts so as to be able to mark where the shingles should not go before I start gluing them on. It feels good to have glue on my fingers again. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheckMouse Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 I am happy to report that I have finally finished my granddaughter's little house - the Lisa's Country Cottage by Houseworks. There was lot of detail work, of course, but it is finished and shipped. Pictures are in my gallery. Since the latest upgrade I can't see how to insert pictures like you all are doing. I have opened GL in another window so I could find a picture and copy the link to it. Hope that works using the "insert other media" feature. Seems like a ridiculous amount of work just to show a picture. That didn't work, but the link button at the top let me insert this: http://www.greenleafdollhouses.com/forum/?app=gallery&module=gallery&controller=view&id=126667&browse=1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Claudia, when I want to insert one of my album pictures into a post I open it in another window, right click on the picture and click "copy" in the drop down menu, then I right click my post where I want the photo and click "paste" and there it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheckMouse Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Well! It worked, Holly! Thank you! Sure is big, though, but I don't see any way to shrink it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Oh, but it's a perfectly charming little house, and I bet your granddaughter loves it! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miniaddicted Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 I think if you select/highlight it and do Control + right click, it gives you the option to scale it down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 So please give some opinions regarding the possible roofing för My steampunk build. The roofing strips are only painted onceand Will probably get some patina added , just wanted some second opinions as me and My fever Voices are sort of talking to themselves 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathieB Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 38 minutes ago, Anna said: So please give some opinions regarding the possible roofing för My steampunk build. The roofing strips are only painted onceand Will probably get some patina added , just wanted some second opinions as me and My fever Voices are sort of talking to themselves I like the ripple effect and the variety of colors. Hope your fever doesn't last too long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 I love both the shapes & colors, but along with the door it's awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smjsome Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 That's a super cool roof! I like it a lot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Thank you everyone! The roof stays then, been gluing it down today as well as playing with an Idea för the chimney (cheap plastic funnel) that still needs some "bling". This is so much fun, especially whenoneis slightly "off" so to speak... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stickyfingers Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Anna, that roof is just so neat! Finally got all of the studio parts stained and sanded to suit me, so will distress the floor today and hopefully get it all glued together. I hope to find the time to start cutting out flooring for the yellow house. There will be three rooms with a custom (=long and difficult) floor, so I want to do the easy floors first to get motivated. I've read here that some people use Minwax stain to stain the Chrysnbon pieces. How? Just brush it on and wipe it off, then let it dry? It doesn't stay sticky? The plastic doesn't get weird? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 23 minutes ago, stickyfingers said: ...I've read here that some people use Minwax stain to stain the Chrysnbon pieces. How? Just brush it on and wipe it off, then let it dry? It doesn't stay sticky? The plastic doesn't get weird? I wipe it on with an old soft rag and let it dry; it takes a couple of days: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathieB Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 13 minutes ago, havanaholly said: I wipe it on with an old soft rag and let it dry; it takes a couple of days: 42 minutes ago, stickyfingers said: I've read here that some people use Minwax stain to stain the Chrysnbon pieces. How? Just brush it on and wipe it off, then let it dry? It doesn't stay sticky? The plastic doesn't get weird? Stain? It changes the color? Or is this a finish? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 I found that the stain brings out the "grain" in the Chrysnbon "wood" pieces. Next time y'all visit, take a look at the Hoosier cabinet in Maggie's kitchen, the sink in the White Orchid and the icebox in the pub. The first time I used stain on Chrysnbon (it wasn't Minwax) I was staining the Chrysnbon curved front dish cupboard to match the dining table & chairs I made up from HoM kits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathieB Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 24 minutes ago, havanaholly said: I found that the stain brings out the "grain" in the Chrysnbon "wood" pieces. Next time y'all visit, take a look at the Hoosier cabinet in Maggie's kitchen, the sink in the White Orchid and the icebox in the pub. The first time I used stain on Chrysnbon (it wasn't Minwax) I was staining the Chrysnbon curved front dish cupboard to match the dining table & chairs I made up from HoM kits. Slap me with a wet noodle. When I first read Linda's question, my addled brain read Mini-hold wax instead of Minwax stain. I'd rather chalk it up to a lack of caffeine than an indication of an impending trip to lala land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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