This is the first of two posts showing our fun with the McKinley.As we posted elsewhere we WISH we had added tape wiring to the inside back of the house before assembling the shell but we didn't. And upon getting the shell pretty much together there were a few things we wanted to change.First of all we didn't like the location of the kitchen doorway, so we sealed that one off. In anticipation of needing to get electricity to the kitchen we left a teeny gap on the bottom of our new wall so we could run the tape under it. Baseboard will cover the gap on the living room side and probably cabinets on the kitchen side. We had planned to add a door more toward the outside but forgot to cut it out. So there will be no door. One thing I think dollhouse planners could take into consideration better is that kitchens pretty much NEED two decent sized long walls meeting in a corner. That design would make decorating the ktchen a lot less of a challenge.During assembly and test fitting we noticed we were about to seal up the tiny little faux hallway on the second floor. Thinking it would be really hard to wallpaper it once the attic floor went on, we stopped assembly long enough to pick out a wallpaper and paper that little nook.The house is really a very nice size even though it's not deep and it's designed to hang on a wall. It still is sized almost like a full sized dollhouse. In assembling the roof standing up on a chair was necessary to make sure all the seams were put together well.It was once the shell was assembled and we began trying to figure out how to run the wiring the point that there were no windows in the non open side of this house. We often use windows and doors as paths for tape wire. Due to the wall hangin design this house has a limited number of usable access holes. (The windows that ARE in the house are very well suited and the house doesn't have the "appearance" of lacking windows because of that) So we finally decided we'd have to add a few holes, and planned on locations for them that would not show once the house is finished. In the other post we drew out a diagram of how one could avoid all of this by tape wiring the back wall before assembly, and it's something I'll do whenever we build another one. The hole for the power entry is behind the staircase on the first floor. Another hole was added in the bathroom behind the location for the built in "shelf" unit which we may or may not change. Haven't decided yet. And lastly there's a hole in the attic wall which may be covered with only wallpaper, (don't know yet) so it's behind the area where the valley of the roof comes down, where the back wall is LEAST visible.And here finally is a picture of the fireplace assembly (in process). The "bricks" are painted and scored sandpaper.Darrell and MelissaCompliments of DarrellandMelissa