Ridgemom Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 Hi Everyone! I’m so happy to have found this site. I’m new at building dollhouses. I’m currently building the Dura craft farmhouse 505. I’m hoping to get some help. I’m having trouble figuring out the corner posts to the wall base. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 Welcome to the little family, Deana. The corner posts are usually two pieces of grooved wood (the sides of the exterior walls slide into the grooves) that are at forty-five degree angles along the side opposite the groove. When the two pieces are glued together along their angled sides the grooves should be perpendicular to one another. They should then slide onto the foundation at the bottom and the walls will slide down the grooves and fit flush (probably not quite) along the edge of the foundation. I have built the San Franciscan and the Cambridge, and I feel your pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgemom Posted February 17, 2022 Author Share Posted February 17, 2022 13 minutes ago, havanaholly said: Welcome to the little family, Deana. The corner posts are usually two pieces of grooved wood (the sides of the exterior walls slide into the grooves) that are at forty-five degree angles along the side opposite the groove. When the two pieces are glued together along their angled sides the grooves should be perpendicular to one another. They should then slide onto the foundation at the bottom and the walls will slide down the grooves and fit flush (probably not quite) along the edge of the foundation. I have built the San Franciscan and the Cambridge, and I feel your pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgemom Posted February 17, 2022 Author Share Posted February 17, 2022 (edited) I don’t have any way of sliding them on. Should I cut a little notch? I attached a photo Edited February 17, 2022 by Ridgemom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted February 17, 2022 Share Posted February 17, 2022 Oh, that's 'way different from what I have dealt with. The Dura-Craft kits I've built I had to build the exterior walls from tongue & groove pieces of wood with siding milled into them; your photo looks like plain plywood walls, like the tab & slot Greenleaf kits, and I'm not familiar with those posts! Hopefully a member who has built this kit will see your posts and give you some real assistance. Here is a link which will include some of the builders of this kit; I suggest you message one of them with your question. The underlined words are a hyperlink you can click on to take you to the page. To send a message, hover your cursor over the avatar or member name and the bottom of the drop down box will have "message" on the leftmost side; click on that and you'll get a box to type & send your message. When you have a reply the little envelope icon at the top right side of the page beside your avatar & username will let you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgemom Posted February 17, 2022 Author Share Posted February 17, 2022 Thank you so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlc487 Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 Long shot... I have this dollhouse. I bought it 30 years ago, and I never put it together. Would you be willing to share the instructions with me??? Thanks in advance! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgemom Posted September 11, 2022 Author Share Posted September 11, 2022 I can mail you a copy of the instructions give me you’re address Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 Hover your cursor over Deana's username to get the dropp down box with the envelope icon at the bottom; click on that to message her your email address. NEVER post personal contact information on an open website like this, where spammers and scammers and all sorts of nasties are going to harvest your personal information (can you say "identity theft"?) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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