tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64158820450965444692024-03-12T21:17:53.315-07:00Genevieve's DollhouseA record of the creation and construction of Genevieve's dollhouse.gazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06281476849307521832noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415882045096544469.post-91988791006798874742014-06-09T23:31:00.004-07:002014-06-09T23:31:50.220-07:00More bricks, lead roofing, the street, and the garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Max posing since he is a cat and that is what he does best. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Genevieve admiring the cat weather vein.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genevieve rolling film to bake beads</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The whole focus for the last few weeks (and many more to come) has been the application of the bricks. Given the size of the house and the scale of the bricks, I will have to apply approximately 12,000 bricks to complete the main house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I realized as I applied the bricks to the side gable that the top quoins should have been larger so I left a gap in the brickwork so I can go back and add them in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the polychromatic brickwork on the gable, leaving the other levels all one color seemed rather plain so I decided to add black diamonds inline with the quoins on the left and right. As the quoins are not exactly three bricks high, I made maker lines across the sides so each three course of bricks where held to the quoin spacing. At least these slightly larger spacing lets the gray paint underneath show through as mortar. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I put the chimneys in place to support the front half of the roof when open, but I can see it is going to be rather fun trying to glue the bricks around the base of the chimney, and then I will have to add the flashing. The chimney pots themselves need some coloring to weather them before they are glued in place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> As the front gable was smaller, I only added the diamond at the apex without the zed pattern on each side. Once the gutter is in place much of the front exe pattern will be obscured but at least there won't be any bare gray patches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once all the brinks were applied, I could install the roof trim. I glued blocks to the back of the trim so I could glue it flush to the face of the roof edge. I will most likely add a coat of paint to help fill the gap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always seem to start on the left, but here is a view of the right side of the house. Of course I have to keep looking back at the left side to make sure they match.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided on a more open diamond pattern below the windows on the front of the house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genevieve wait patiently as always. She has been collecting many items for the inside of the house and the future garden so soon it will be time to post some pictures of the inside.</span>gazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06281476849307521832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415882045096544469.post-58898106042720180292013-09-15T23:18:00.001-07:002013-09-16T23:10:47.847-07:00Doors, Rooms and Bricks<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decorated the inside of the front panel to match the rooms so the rooms would still look complete with the doors open and so the curtains will match the door finishes. The base board is just a pice of veneer that is used for the floors. The thinness of the veneer will allow the doors to close while still matching the trim in the rooms. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to cut the chair rails on the front short so they would not interfere with the rails in the main portion of the room that I wanted flush with the the wall faces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genevieve has been reading lots of books to earn furniture pieces and so with her in charge of the interior decorating it is finally time to move on to completing the exterior of the house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bricks...I estimate that I will need to apply about 10,000 bricks to complete the exterior.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A victorian house would have been built in bricks using a flemish bond pattern. Unfortunately, I could not find any pre-made paper or product that used flemish bond, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so I decided to make my own bricks</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Also, I wanted to add some polychromatic brickwork inspired by various english buildings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To make the red bricks, I first painted fine sandpaper (220 grit) with slightly different shades of terracotta paint and then speckled some sheets with black and white highlights to create some variation typical of older bricks. For the cobalt bricks, I used a blue-black paint and then added slight highlights of black and purple. Once I had the sheets of sand paper, I then had to cut them in to bricks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Standard english bricks were 9" x 4 1/2" x 3" which at 1:12 scale </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is 3/4" x 3/8" x 1/4". Luckily I had a shredder that cut 1/4" strips, so I ran the sheets through the shredder and ended up with a pile of noodles. These then had to be cut in to 3/4" and 3/8" lengths as the stretchers and headers. For this I placed blue masking tape on my cutting board so I could cut 12 strips at a time. </span><br />
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The wax modeling tool is great for pushing the bricks in to place and the corks are used to press the bricks firmly against the wall as the glue dries. Unfortunately, the cats love to play with the corks so unless I pack them away in one of the tubs, I have to open another bottle of wine to continue.</div>
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I laid out the brickwork pattern using brick pattern template created using a spread sheet. This allowed me to check that the pattern would be reasonably symmetrical within the limits of the brick size and building dimensions.</div>
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Here is the first section of the bricks applied to the gable end. I expect that some slight brick adjustments will be needed to match the pattern as the two sides join over the window but so far it is working out. Where the gray walls show through, the gaps are the mortar joints.</div>
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Having started the brickwork I now see that I will need to fill in the quoins under the eaves, oops!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genevieve waiting patiently for the dollhouse </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with some of her best friends</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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gazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06281476849307521832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415882045096544469.post-39841646310237519962013-09-07T16:02:00.001-07:002013-09-07T16:02:54.061-07:00Rooms with the back wall completed<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Pictures of the rooms with the back panel installed. I managed to match up most of the patterns on the wall papers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to miter the chair rail so the back panel would fit. Once I added the front doors I realized I needed to miter the chair rail at the front as well</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Here you can see the front door hinges</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I blacked out the back of the fire places with pastels to give the fireplaces the look of having been used. I need to add a video so you can see the flickering embers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A picture of the conservatory. I had to cut the exterior molding so that the conservatory will fit flush to the exterior wall.</span><div>
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gazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06281476849307521832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415882045096544469.post-44681827885725760432013-09-07T15:37:00.000-07:002013-09-15T23:21:07.154-07:00Rooms before back panel installed<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pictures of the rooms before the back goes on. I papered the side walls first so that i could match the pattern on the back wall. The back wall is not glued on, only screwed so if I ever need to remove the back of the house, I can. Well, that is the idea. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beam ceiling in library</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kitchen with wainscot partially installed</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Utility room.French doors exit to future conservatory</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Children's bedroom</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upper portion of stairwell</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stair landing looking down to front door</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tape on the floor of the children's bedroom is holding the wires for the ceiling lights for the rooms below out of the way.</span>gazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06281476849307521832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415882045096544469.post-13936639441310938502012-06-05T22:31:00.003-07:002013-09-15T23:22:38.116-07:00Window assembly<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this post I will cover the fabrication of the exterior window frames and then back to the stairwell as the wallpaper is applied.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A quick check to make sure the front door fits in the entryway. The gray ares will be brickwork and the plain wood will be painted white.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Staring with the sash window kits, I removed the stock sill to leave the basic frame. For the ground floor I used 3/8" MDF that will be painted with a buff sandstone finish. the first and second floor windows use mo;ding that will be painted white. Here is one side of the window casing built up with strips of trim. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first piece of trime was planed flush with the corned of the bay window and then the second piece was added. I filed the edge to create a mitered corner. The window header was installed in the same way. Blue painters tape has been indispensable in holding pieces together as the glue dries.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made the corbels at the base of the arches from a strip of based board. I filed the edges to get a mitered joint and then used wood filler to fill in where the fit was less than perfect.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope to have the interior finished by Genevieve's birthday which is rapidly approaching. Here are pictures of the stairwell with the wallpaper installed. The baseboard still needs to be glued on to finish the landings. Wall sconces on each of the landings will illuminate the stairs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genevieve has been practicing her archery when not helping with sanding, polishing and providing creative input. She now knows how to make her point.</span><br />
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gazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06281476849307521832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415882045096544469.post-17805917922493214462012-04-22T23:43:00.002-07:002013-09-15T23:21:59.619-07:00Floors, lighting and fireplaces<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the basement lights installed, it was time to move on to the first floor. This will be the main entry. The hallway flooring is marble paper which is why I put the wire for the basement hallway in a conduit and smoothed over with plastic wood filler.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to use walnut veneer for the floor in most of the upper floor rooms. I bought a 250' roll of edge veneer with heat sensitive glue. The roll was 3/4" wide, so to make planks, I cut the roll in to 12" long strips and then cut the strips in half lenghtwise so the strips would scale as 4 1/2" wide. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used a 12" length as the rooms are 15" deep, so as I laid the strips, I would get a 3" stagger between adjacent joints. Once all the "planks" were glued down using an iron, I trimmed the edges flush with the subfloor and sanded the entire floor. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used furniture wax polish to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> finish the floors. The first coat of wax was applied very generously and rubbed in. To speed the absorption, Andrea had the idea to melt the wax in using a hairdryer. This greatly helped the wax penetrate in to the floor. A second coat of wax was applied and again melted in with the hairdryer. Then a final coat of wax was applied and the floor was allowed to cool overnight before polishing with a soft cloth the next day. The three layers of wax and the heat treatment gave a deep, shinny finish that can be repolished as needed.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genevieve choose a blue and gold peacock pattern wallpaper for the living room. To match the paper, I painted both the ceiling coving and rose in blue and gold over a white base. The picture rail will be gold. A five-arm chandelier is attached to the ceiling rose.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The floor for the dining room was finished with walnut veneer planks. Genevieve selected a green damask paper for the dining room so the coving and ceiling rose are painted green. I used two shades of green for the ceiling rose, matched to the green shades of the paper</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second floor hallway has walnut veneer planks and the same three-arm chandelier as the main hallway. I installed the flooring before the doors so I didn't have to cut the flooring around the door frames.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The library is on the second floor. Here are the walnut planks before sanding and waxing. I kept the wires for the light covered with tape until the planks were up to the channel cut in the floor. I then removed the tape and laid a veneer strip over the wire in the channel. The veneer is stiff enough so after sanding and waxing, you can't see any dip in the floor.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used gold trim as a unifying theme for the ceiling roses in the library and main bedroom. The library will have a walnut wainscot and beamed ceiling.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used a slightly different pattern for the gold detail on the ceiling rose in the main bedroom. The blue tabs were markers to center the rose on the ceiling.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The main bedroom also has gold details on the ceiling coving and maybe the picture rail.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bathroom floor is an embossed plastic sheet with a white and black tile pattern. As the sheet was slightly translucent, I covered the wire channel in the floor with a strip of white pvc tape before gluing the flooring down.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trying to install the top hallway flooring around the railing resulted in a few hits that knocked the railing loose so I removed it. As suggested by experienced dollhouse builders, next time I would install the stair railing after the finishing floors and stair runners.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once all the floors were finished, I moved on to the fireplaces. I glued brick paper in the backs and used marble paper for the hearths. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are the four panels that will make up the front of the house. Making the lap joints to fit the mullions in to the windows frames for the center bay window over the doors needed some care. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The window kits came with only plain wood trim for the interior window sills. I decided to build custom window sills to look more like real windows, but also to create a continuous sill to unify the three window frames in to a single unit.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little plastic wood was needed at the window sill joints to fill in small gaps. Once sanded and painted, the bay windows should look like a combined unit. To be able to ands into the corners I need to buy some riffler files. Once they arrive, I will post some more pictures as I finish the interior of the window and more on to the exterior.</span><br />
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<br />gazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06281476849307521832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6415882045096544469.post-39206739768928525862012-02-25T23:24:00.000-08:002013-09-15T23:23:29.335-07:00February 24, 2012 Basement floor lighting<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally a chance to add the newest photographs with the lights installed in the ground floor rooms.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the ground floor hallway with the back of the house in place. The back is loose as I will need to remove it to drill holes for the stairwell lights on each landing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As there floor in the first floor hallway will be marble paper, I needed to fill in the groove for the ceiling light below so it won't show. In case I need to remove the light, I put the wire in an aluminum conduit and then filled the groove with plastic wood. The other rooms will have strip walnut veneer flooring and I don't expect the wire groove will show through the wood veneer.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the utility room. I decided to position the lights so you can see the complete fixture from the front, even though the room is deeper than it is wide.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a picture of the dollhouse with the back in place. I will alternate the installation of flooring and lights so I cover the wire groove from the floor below but without needing to avoid the light in the current room. When the lights are on chains, I could move them out of the way or tape them to the ceiling while decorating the room.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have started to install the bay windows in the front panels of the house. All the windows have working sashes. I waxed the frames to easy moving the sashes up and down.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spent the week in Tahoe enjoying the limited amount of snow so not much progress on the house this week. Genevieve, the eventual owner of this house, is closest to the camera.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, after Genevieve fell in love with an incredible dollhouse on display in Harrods, several months of planning and several weekends, I finally had the shell in pieces. To check the fit, I taped them all together and to my great relief, they all fit together. To give an idea of size, the house is 36" wide, 40" tall and 15" deep.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just to give Genevieve an idea of what it would look like I fitted some of the windows and doors while it was taped together. Next was to add the floor extensions for the bay windows and start gluing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To keep everything square when gluing the walls, floors and partitions, I screwed the back panel in place. Once everything was dry, I removed the back so I would access the install the 180 degree stairs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The stairs were made from a stair kit. To make the landing I had to cut the stairs in half and then make a landing using the middle step.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted the stairs to wrap around the back of the hallway to leave space for the door to the rooms. To make the newel posts work with the landings, I had to extend each one so the banisters would line up when using the spindles that came with the stair kit.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the top floor (attic) I created a landing to provide some space. I offset the newel post from the wall so I could fit wall paper behind later without having to try a trim the paper to match the shape of the post.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once the stairs and railings where in, it was time to install the stair runners and rods. To fit the carpet around the landings, I glued the carpet down and then cut at 45 degrees so the boarder would be continuous. The installation of the stair rods was a little fiddly so if I did this again, I would install the stair carpet and rods before the banisters. To fit the rods, I predrilled holes for the rod holders using a mini drill, using a guide to keep the spacing constant.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the stairs mostly done, I decided to move on to the ground level. Along with the lower entrance, the ground floor has the kitchen and utility room. The utility room has french doors that will ultimately lead to a conservatory and then out into the garden.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To match the staircase, I decided to stain all the time in the hallways a medium walnut, with the trim in the rooms painted white. (Yes , I did have to remove the trim in the picture below with the correct white trim). The tile floors a embossed PVC sheet tiles using black and white tiles in the hall way and terracotta tiles in the kitchen and dining room. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once the floors were in I could start with the baseboard. Again, walnut in the hallway to match the stairs and white in the rooms. When installing the stairs, I added a 1/8" shim to offset the treads from the wall so I would have the space to install the baseboard behind the treads in a strain run.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the first and second floors, I am using a lager base board to go with the taller ceiling height, 10" compared to 9" on the ground floor.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once I install the ceiling lights in the ground floor rooms, I can move to the first floor. The hallway will have a marble pattern and the adjoining parlor and dining rooms will have walnut strip floors. I bought a 250' roll of iron-on walnut veneer edge trim to do all the floors. Once I cut the 3/4" strip in half, I will have 4 1/2" planks at 1:12 scale. All the stained wood is waxed for protection and to give it a slight sheen. Genevieve has been a great help when it comes to waxing all the small parts.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To give Andrea credit, here she is painting all the window trim pieces that will be used to make up the bay windows.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once the winnows are ready, it will be time to put the front of the house together, so here is a preview of the doors.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More after next weekend, assuming it doesn't snow.</span><br />
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