Molly Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Good evening. I am a new member; new to dollhouses, new to this type of forum. I've started building the Pierce and love it. It is a tad overwhelming with all the choices. Any clues on applying wallpaper/paper? Anyone tried using stained glass for windows rather than the plastic? LOVE IT already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
queenannediva Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 :yikes: Welcome, Deb! Glad you are here. The Pierce is a wonderful house. Valerie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJEP Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Hi and :yikes: ! The Pierce is a great house. There are many postings on how to do fake stain glass but don't know of anyone who has used real glass. Enjoy your house!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newt Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 hello, glad you found the forums! the house is wonderful, and i think you're right. a stained glass look will suit it nicely! looking forward hearing more from you. :yikes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalygirl Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Hello and Welcome! :yikes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shy Spirit Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Welcome! I love stained glass - good luck, and please share pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Good evening. I am a new member; new to dollhouses, new to this type of forum. I've started building the Pierce and love it. It is a tad overwhelming with all the choices. Any clues on applying wallpaper/paper? Anyone tried using stained glass for windows rather than the plastic? LOVE IT already. :yikes: to the forum, and our "little" internet family, Deb. There are nearly as many suggestions for applying wallpaper as there are members, so I'll give you mine & I'm sure others will share theirs, and then you can pick & choose. I buy premixed wallpaper paste in the tub at the hardware store and apply it with a 1" paintbrush and smooth it with my fingers and a damp rag. I also have a small wooden brayer (made for applying wallpaper border strips) to get the bubbles out. My very first building team house was the Arthur, and for whatever reason one of the plastic window inserts was missing, so I found a piece of flat acetate from some packaging and I drew around the window opening onto a piece of paper, drew a simple "cartoon" of the design I wanted in the window and taped the acetate over the drawing. I use acrylic paint straiht from the tube to paint my various minis and I used the black without diluting it at all to make my leadlines. I used extender to thin the colors to the consistency of watercolors without losing color vibrance to fill the spaces. You can see the results in havanaholly's last Arthur blog entry. A lot of folks start out building the Pierce, Garfield or Beacon Hill (I began with an all-wood San Fanciscan by Dura-Craft). Enjoy, have fun and ask questions. My primary suggestion is that any technique you want to try, experiment first on scraps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamie Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Hi and welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilovecats Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Hello and welcome! The Pierce is a lovely home, i hope to get one soon. Take lots of pictures to share with us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokkie Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Hi Molly, first of all welcome here. Secondly I strongly recommend walpapering before putting your Pierce together, I myself did it the other way round and it was very difficult then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peggi Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Welcome to the forum. The Pierce is a beautiful house. Have fun and enjoy the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueUni47 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Hello and welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annette Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Hello and welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peachie Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Hi and welcome to the forum...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmatson Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Glad to have you Deb!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tams Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Welcome! It's great to have you here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justmesue Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 welcome, sorry I've been tardy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Hello and a belated to the forum Deb! I know you will have a lot of fun building the Pierce and that you will get a lot of help from the ones who has allready built it! Mini-hugs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shakyshaky Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Hi and welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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