Finishing bits, and the Laurel like you've never seen it before.
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I made very careful cuts for the bed tutorial (http://1inchminisbykris.blogspot.com/search/label/How%20to%20make%20a%201%20inch%20scale%20shabby%20chic%20bed) and this one turned out better (more square) than the last bed build I made:
After the spray paint dries on the frame, I'll glue in the box spring. I'll leave the mattress loose on it though.
The finished table, from Kris' dining table tut http://1inchminisbykris.blogspot.com/search/label/Dining%20table:
I used matboard instead of basswood for the table tops, so they're not as flat as the wood would've been, but they're OK. My matboard kitchen shelves:
The sink unit was from Kris' tut also, but I left off fiddly elements like the door handles and faucet since this house will go to young children. I know that is a break from what I've done in the past, but I'm trying to be more mindful of the context! 
You might notice that the top hinge on the left front door looks a little weird; that's because when I was affixing doorknobs to the doors (which I should have done before I installed them 
), the top hinge broke-- the metal of the hinge actually fractured into a clean break. 
Well so I glued in a strip of a tight-weave upholstery cloth to act as a hinge. I think that I will glue a tiny piece of gold paper on top the hinge on the inside, and call it good before something else breaks!
And now for something completely different: my mother had the idea for me to make a house for a family member, based on a house from my mother's childhood; the only photograph that we could find was taken several years ago:
Mom has plenty of memories about this house, which I hope to capture some sense of as well.
From what I can make out from the photo, it is a bit reminiscent of some of the Sears kit homes like the Delmar http://www.arts-crafts.com/archive/sears/page100.html, except that the Delmar has a hipped porch roof, and the family house has porch posts that remind one of a Craftsman bungalow. The house has side gables, and a large central dormer with more than one window (Mom remembers three), and a multi-pitched roof line, and a deep porch. The house is bigger and deeper than a bungalow, methinks.
For a starting point, I chose the Laurel since it's simple and has a front porch. I marked off the side walls for a 45 degree roof line, eliminating the attic.
I also cut off the side porch floor, and cut down the front wall.
I did an initial dry fit, with windows and doors mocked up, and decided that the porch needed another two "feet" in depth:
I will have to think about the interior carefully; I don't know how much of the original divider wall I will end up using.
Here we are with a deeper porch, and the front dormer mocked up in foamboard:
At this point, I sent everything I had so far to Mom for discussion. She said that she didn't remember the dormer being so prominent, so I cut it down in size a bit:
Looking at the photos, I think I might take the dormer's height down by a "foot" also.
I am going to raise the house by a little over a "foot" so that I can put a nice porch lattice.
I am pretty satisfied with the window and door locations, so I will cut out those. I will use alot of foamboard to keep the weight down; it will be easy to finish over though.
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