Addition Edition

The addition to the dollhouse is two story, two room.  The bottom room is going to be a rooster themed kitchen and the up stairs is a bathroom.  The board to the left is a floor.  The pencil line is where the edge of the board fits into the wall.  The drilled holes are so the Dremel saw blade can turn and cut a straight line.  All of this is to make a space to slide the electric tape up the wall through the floor.

 The next two pictures are of the floors finished being cut out.  Next I have to Kiltz the Addition pieces.  Too many steps-my head hurts.  Hope to post again soon.

Kate >^..^<

Dining Room Ceiling Molding

 I base coated the flowered resin molding with flat paint--should have used two coats--oh well !!

Now I am painting each little flower, pink and blue.  The vines and leaves are a pale green.  It matches the wallpaper perfectly.

This is the finished piece.  I got the glue and could not get the top off (unhappy face).  So I am blogging.  I guess I will work on the wizard room--Yea!!!

Thanks for looking,

Kate >^..^<

Transformers are Attached

 It has taken forever to get to this place.  I have attached three huge transformers to the dollhouse with heavy duty Velcro.  And the icing on the cake is that ALL of the transformers are working.

I have been a little down prior to the attaching of the transformers--it has been so tedious.  Now I am going to finish the rooms and the addition.  I am taking pictures of everything for insurance purposes.

I was going to put a conservatory on the right side of the dh---then I wasn't---now maybe I will.  I am NOT in the mood for building a conservatory, and it is listed on EBAY.  If it sells--no conservatory.  If it

does not sell, I guess it will be a conservatory. 
Kate >^..^<

Almost Finished Putting the Front Together

 This shows the wall paper at the two dormers pulled to the front to help it glue along the opening edges.











This shows the wallpaper flaps cut off.  Where the green tap is, is where the wallpaper came unstuck.  I glued it to the dormers with Grrrip-love it.

 The three pictures to left are pictures of the big walk-out dormer glued to the roof.  After it dried I was not sure it was going to stay--though it did not budge.  So I took 2" bias seam tape and glued it with wood glue (the thin Elmers wood glue) to the valleys of the dormer.  There are pictures of this............I really made a super dumb mistake-I used the really good wood glue (which I only have a little of and they are not making it any more) and glued the bottom of the dormer front (blue) to the base of the walk-out.  When I realized what I had done, I pryed the pieces apart and put release foil between the two piece.  Now I just sand the pieces every chance I get to smooth the edges. Egads!!







See the foil!!

 The next two pictures are the two dormers being glued with my favorite wood glue that is never-more.

This is the picture of the bias tape glued down.  The dormer is going NO WHERE NOW!!

 This is the right dormer-before bias tape.  And the picture below is of both dormers with bias tape and ready for the valley shingles.  The pencil lines are where the shingle tops are suppose to be glued.


To mark the valley shingles I put the shingle in the miter box diagonally and made a saw mark, then cut in the saw mark with an Exacto knife.  You know how many to cut because you put shingle lines in pencil and can count the spaces.

Here the valley shingles are in place and match up with the shingle lines.  I have a few rows of shingles on between the two dormers and it looks pretty good-forgot to take a picture.  I don't think I will get the roof finished by Thanksgiving.  I wanted to put the Thanksgiving dinner out I had made by Mo Tipton by Thanksgiving---now I guess it will be Christmas.  I won't post again till Chateau Chanticleer is back on it's stand.
Happy Holidays to Everyone,
Kate >^..^<

The Front is All Together---Yea!!!

This is the finishing of the bay.  I put the base or floor on the  bottom of the bay and mark where the exposed area is so I will know where to put the black paint.

I also marked the top or the ceiling of the bay.

This is the top and bottom on the bay-not painted or glued yet.

The base came in three pieces and this is them being glued together and clamped.

I only primed the areas that were not being glued.

Painting black only where I primed.  I buy the best paint on the market and it still take eternity to dry.

 This is the bay and it's top and bottom all glued in place-HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!!!












This is the roof screwed in place.  My hubby put a dab of glue on the screw before he screwed it in.  The white triangles are the back of the brick/plaster wallpaper I got from itsy bitsy-they have COOL wallpaper.  I am going to bring the dollhouse (after the glue drys two days) into my library to trim up the wallpaper and put on the shingles.  I am hoping my daughter, Michelle, can come over after the shingles are on and help hook up the transformers (2).  Then the house goes in place permanently and the rooms get their lights and furniture.  Yea-can't wait!
Thanks for reading my blog.
Kate >^..^<

The Doors Are On

RGT gave excellent instruction on how to  attach the two front doors to the hinges.  I have discovered that to build a no tab dh kit, you reall need some experience in construction.  First you put wide tape under the hinge.

More, under the hinge.













This is the completed "tape-under-the-hinge" step.  Then I put the two doors on top of the dh and reached my hand inside to push the tape, with the hinge sanwiched between the tape and the door, on to the door on each side.  Then we drilled holes and screwed in the screws.  Thank goodness we only put on screw on the top left and two screws on the bottom left, cause the fronts parted at the bottom.




     

I marked the drill bid with the depth of the front door.

                  This shows the 1/8" separation at the bottom of the left front door.  Hubby took the bottom two left screws out, put a piece of wood glued toothpick in the screw holes, waited 30 mins for the glue to set up -then redrilled and rescrewed the screw.  Then, the top was too tight-I have figured how to fix that. 

Ta Da-the front is on.  It only took three of us.  Now we have to put the roof on and the dormers and the shingles.  Hubby and I are going to bring the dh into the library  to work on the dormers and the shingles.  There is no other empty spaces in our house. Oh, I forgot the bay that covers the big hole in the left front door-that project is next-sorry for the memory lapse-then it is off to the library.  I can not wait to start putting the furniture in the dh and getting my family room clean.

Thanks for reading my blog.  Kate

                                                                                      

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