No, wait. Stucco. Yeah that. Not stuck at all, in fact I've made a lot of progress.
Dollhouse got a makeover! Check out this beauty:
Okay picture quality may not be the best. And don't zoom in too much, I still have a ton of touch-ups to do. And I still need to do some landscaping and put flowers in the window boxes. But... well.... look at it!
It all started with an attempt at homemade stucco:
See, there's a funny story. I could buy dollhouse stucco. It would have cost me about $40 to buy enough for my entire house. Or, I could buy $6 worth of white paint, $1.99 in fine decorator sand, and use the Celluclay we already had for the train layout. Look at me being all economical! In fact I could have used paint I had around the house too, but my only white paint was semi-gloss and I wanted flat. Anyway, it only took about 300 attempts to get something that actually resembled stucco (instead of resembling random bits of sand stuck to a plain flat wall) Thankfully I had the brains to test on a spare scrap of wood instead of the house itself. In any case, once I was happy with the spare wood, I tested again on the doghouse. (the white on the dollhouse in the background of the above pic is just a base coat of plain white paint)
Once I got all the walls stuccoed, then I painted the timbers brown. Here are a few more pics:
*Still haven't done anything about the chimney issue. I've had a change of heart from the original plan. Wait, did I already say this? Crud, I can't remember anything. Well, the plan now is to stick the original chimney back on there where it was, and put either a wood stove in the music room or a small fireplace in the parents' bedroom or both. And then build a new chimney for the other side of the house to go with the fireplace I put in the living room. Well, I will be putting it in the living room. The house is completely gutted right now.
Now that I'm done with painting, I hope Dan will have time in the near future to build a new table for the house. It's been sitting on that crappy ancient card table forever, and the table's getting a little swaybacked. Which means the turntable doesn't always spin so well. The turntable is fine, but the edges of the card table get in the way. And Dan's really good at making sturdy tables, he made a bunch for our train and for my dad's. I think he comes by the woodworking naturally, his dad is really good at it too! Dan's is a bit more industrial, his dad makes furniture and decoration and stuff. Check out the new nightstands he just made me! (warning: non-dollhouse picture)
I'm such a spoiled daughter-in-law!
But I digress. Coming soon to a dollhouse website near you:
No, not quite. Close, but still missing something.
That's it! There's a welcoming light on the front porch! Before anyone gets too excited though...
Yep, that's me all hunched up behind the dollhouse making a rather redneck connection... the light is wired through the walls, but the tapewire isn't in the house yet. I'm holding the cables from the transformer up against the lamp's dangling wires on the backside of the wall.
But I did successfully install the wiring for that lamp! I know how to create light. Next up: actually putting the tapewire in the house.
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