Last-Working on the Bay

The color is lighter in person.  The trim is wonderful.
Tomorrow or Friday I will touch up the bay and then Saturday glue it to the front.  Thursday and Friday hubby and I are putting on the front doors and roof.  I have to add doomers-not sure when.  And I have to put on the roof shingles.  Daughter, Michelle is coming to help Saturday.
BUSY BUSY

Working on the Bay

There is a better picture of the bay further down.  The bay originally had windows in the middle-TOO MANY WINDOWS.  So I asked RGT to send me the cut outs and I glued them back in.  I am glueing clapboard on the bay.  WORD OF ADVICE:  glue the clapboard over part of the window and saw the window space out (((((((((GENTLY))))))))))).  I am always learning.  I use Loctite wood glue.  Great stuff.

These are the pieces of molding I used to cover over the space where the clapboard meets.  It is hard to tell, but I used two chair rails and a quarter round on top.  Looks great.  OH LOOK, THERE IS THE GLUE.  I glued the chair rails first and taped, when dry then lifted the tape and glued the quarter round, then retaped.

This shows the other joint covered in tape while the glue drys.  It is hard to see the molding.  If you look bottom left it shows up pretty good.

Note:  
Itsy Bitsy Mini has moved to:
6024 Tarry Town Rd
Salisbury, MD 21801
Phone:347 524 9569
Fax: 775 206 0604

They will take orders till July 26th.  After that they will reopen Sept. 1.  LOVE THE WALLPAPER!!

Have a great weekend,
Kate >^..^<

Inside Roof Amost Finished

I almost finished papering the inside of the dollhouse roof.  I have one 4 in. wide strip to finish tomorrow.  Then I cut and glue back the openings for the dormers.  I can't believe things are moving along so quickly.
Here are todays photos.  I have so much problem with the Blogger's photo program-maybe it is me????

 

 

My hubby is taking most of the photos-he is doing a very good job!  The above pic is the inside of the roof.  There is only a strip at the top to finish.

Kate >^..^<

Dollhouse Roof Interior

There are a lot of pieces to the roof.  There is the main roof (which I did not work on tonight), 3 pieces to each dormer (and there are two dormers).  All the out side of the roof is shingled.  The inside I decided to wall paper with Itsy Bitsy wallpaper-plaster and lathe.  It is sooooo coooool.  But I have to stop and think before I cut the excess edges, if indeed they need to be cut.  The exposed edges on the under side that show are painted black, but one place the wallpaper needs to be pulled through the front opening and the shingles will cover the excess-I think that is the very front.  Well here are all the pictures.

Thanks,

 

Kate >^..^<

Priming the Dollhouse Front

There is not much to say about priming.  I also put clapboard on the front of the dormer-I had no idea the dormer was so BIG.  While I was priming the front, I also primes the next two rooms.  I still have to get the sponge brush and prime the corners.  I also had to sponge brush the clapboard on the dormers-the roller left too many bubble marks.

Thanks for stopping by,

Kate

 

 

 

 

I can not get these pictures to line up correctly.

Attic Stair Openning

I decided to put an opening for a stair from the third floor to the attic.  To make sure the stair opening was exactly over the floor opening below, I made a template of the third floor (the wall is not up on the third floor) and transposed it to the attic floor.  I will attempt to put up the third floor wall by the stairs tomorrow and I will know if this is all correct.  RGT were great about sending me another stair and railing-it did not cost too much.  I am waiting for a roof piece from RGT in VT. to get the front finished-then I can put the house in a permanent place, hook up the transformers, install lights and molding-----then, ta da, put in the furniture.

To cut the hole I used this tool from Harbor Freight.  It is a oscillating thing that has 5 blades-it was about $30.  The noise was terrible-I had to get ear plugs.  I have seen this tool other places for $100+++.  It is good for dollhouse use.
Kate

Junk, Junk and More Junk

 These are photos of the dollhouse Chateau Chanticlier construction area.  The top photo is a photo of the stuff  on the side front, the middle photo is the front view of all the stuff and the bottom photo is the dollhouse itself.  All this STUFF goes into the doll house-hard to believe.  Hopefully after about two weeks, I will begin furnishing, decorating and putting up the lighting and all the STUFF will be GONE.

Kate