I added the casing bottoms which are pictured below:
I then painted the wood above the windows because that part will show through when the Pediments are put into place:
I then added the Pediments and you can see that the lighter green shows through the darker green color of the pediment:
I then added the pediment caps to the windows which rests on top and centered on the pediment. I also added the corner blocks to the windows:
I then added a dirty wash of Green umber
After reading everyone elses blog & studying the instructions, I thought I should add the windows NOW because once some of the walls go up, I will not have access to some areas in the rooms. I started by painting the surrounds of the windows because I know a portion of them will show I then added the Sashes. On the outside of the house, they go on top. on the inside of the house, they go at the bottom:
This is the picture of the Windows Casings:
I Love the way these wind
Time to Wallpaper! I start out by putting the textured paper in for the ceilings. I use wallpaper paste for borders to install the wallpaper, and I put it both on the walls and the paper.
When wallpapering, I usually choose the first wall to begin at that's at the back of the room, and I usually wallpaper that wall first. However, the first room that I started in with this house was the area that I am considering the bathroom. This the second floor bay window area r
I gathered all of my punched out peices and those that were stained got installed
all of the windows! ....NOT
nooo I had all of them done but for the sills and the fancy stuff on top
sooo I had me a staining session.
and how I wish that this was all of it but Im afraid I missed some. but now I have all of the window trim and doorways and most of the stair rail...dont have it all installed but I did manage to finish the double windows and the doors
so thats where I
This house is made for a customer of mine and she did not want too many flowers up front but you know me, I gotta have flowers and trees and some form of life to the house. Also, because this house was being shipped very far away, I could not add a huge base to it so, I took some foam core (1/2" thick) and glued it to the bottom of this house. I then covered it with "Sheet Moss". I then added trees, moss and flowers to the the base to give this house the appearance that the yard is kinda unkept
Jimmy has gotten the shell together for me, except for the third floor, so I've put it into position to begin priming it for wallpaper. You knew I was going to turn it upside down, didn't you? How else am I gonna paint?
At this point, I start looking at all the rooms in this house, and I start doing some serious drooling! This is gonna take a lot of wallpaper! Cool! Ordinarily, I use two coats of semi-gloss paint on walls that I am going to wallpaper, but this time
The porch foundation also went on quickly and easily. The lattice work is sandwiched behind the porch foundation which gives a three piece thickness and provides support for the porch floor. After the porch foundation was on, I spackled in the slots and painted the porch floor.
Now for the fun part. I'd been looking forward to bashing the porch roof into a balcony, but there was also some apprehension on my part because I'd never bashed anything quite that much before. I didn't wan
after getting over my paint crisis my mother put me in another.
lol
I have decided to stain the outside trim and the sashes will be white.
I was Happy...but nooooo she's like it will be to much.....so I painted one double window trim grey.....NOOOO instantly. I painted all the out side window sashes will install the windows tomorrow.
while waiting for that to dy I put the roof on the porch. my side roof corner peice was shy of meeting the edge of the roof support....hopp
The mansard roof was the next process and I'll admit that the horror stories of getting a mansard roof to curve were intimidating to me. I was delighted and relieved that I didn't have any problem at all with getting the roof on and it only took a couple of hours to do once I got the warping completed.
To warp the curved pieces, I first used an xacto blade to score the lines just a little bit deeper than they were. Then I took all the pieces into the bathroom and soaked them in hot water and
I started building the Lily in January and finished her yesterday. So instead of posting to the blog in a daily diary type of way, I'll just break up the posts into phases of construction and title each section according to the content.
A few months ago, I told my best friend that I would build a house for her and told her to pick the house she wanted most. She picked the Lily because she thought it would translate so well into a turn of the century French Quarter type of house. I was quite
Structurally, the house was complete and ready for the finishing touches. I also gave the house a close inspection to see where spackling was needed to smooth up the corner joins on the trim pieces and anywhere else it might be needed and touched up all the paint.
Shingles:
A little basswood moulding around the exposed edges of the floors on the sides and back:
The Lily will be doing some traveling as she moves to her permanent home in Kansas, so I left the steps as rem
After a total of nine months, I finally declared the house finished. Overtime, I'm sure some of the interior settings may change (already planning on replacing my pool table with a grand piano). As a first house with the features the Lily has, i.e. wrap-around porch, mansard roof, and bay wall, I had made up my mind that it would probably take me a year. Therefore, I was very please that I finished ahead of my pre-set schedule. This was not nine months of constantly building, during this time a
My favorite part of the instructions are always the ones that say it's time to sit back and enjoy your creation. I always follow those instructions to the letter. It's very satisfying to spend some quiet time at the end of the build just admiring the results.
Here are the end results of the completed French Quarter Lily. (the garden on the side is the one I made in Tracy's wonderful online flower border class) There are more detailed pictures of the finished house (both exterior and int
I got off to a really good start on this house the parts just fell out of their sheets and that almost never happens. it was nice. the first thing I did was make sure all sheets were included in my kit...check
the next thing was to lable all the parts that fell out of the sheets and put smaller ones in baggie....check
I than proceeded to put the main parts of the house together for a dry fit.
Now this is the fun part because as in the Glencroft the Peices practicly have to lay
after months of doing other projects and getting them out of the way
I rolled miss Lily back into work room and started adding all the trim.
it is the trim of this house which gives it its special look and there is ALOT of it.
now once again I want to stress
LABLE lable LABLE
you think you will remember where you leave off but you wont.
as I am so close to being finished my plan is to go floor by floor and completeing the windows and the trim. as I go. the fir
Actually before I started decorating, I needed a visual on how the rooms were set up. Since I didn't know to do this in the dry fitting, I used a piece of paper to divide my rooms. I also remember getting a little confused about the wall that separates the living room and foyer, I kept looking at the schematics at where the slots were and couldn't decide which way the wall was suppose to go. So I played around a little B)
I mean what's the use of having a dollho
I really wanted a Pretty Victorian house but once I showed the kit picture of the lily to a customer of mine....Well, her wonderful ideas changed my first impression of this house.
I started construstion on this house and I must take my hats off to all of you who have built this house WITHOUT the use of pictures. I am a very visual person but I must say, because I have built so many houses of Greenleafs (Plus I read the instructions several times and I had friends pictures that I have seen ov
Lily arrived some time ago, and I've been working on it. Finally have a minute to sit down and blog it.
Started out first with pulling out my floor boards and sanding down the edges.
I like to use a foam brush to apply stain, and I first chose Minwax Aged Oak Gel Stain, and stained the top floor. I quickly decided that I didn't like gel stain at all. It's just too thick for my tastes, and I didn't like the way that it penetrated the flo
another break due to my gran getting sick!
and than when I got home I realised I had not marked anything I had punched out.
big mistake! another mistake is not highlighting thru each step when finished...this helps keep the build from getting to big and overwhelming....one step at a time.
the last I had done was the porch. when I got the house down to where I could work on the roof I saw that my wall had a big gape...so I got a little creative with the clamps to get it t
Well now it's time to glue the staircases in. If you want your foyer to look neat and decorated nicly, NOW is the time to do it (Before you add the kitchen wall and glue in the stairs). It will be VERY hard to reach these areas later on. Originally, I thought a partition went in a different place which means I messed up my flooring!
:o Please note WHERE these partitions go so you won't make the same mistakes :lol:
first I have to say that I am having problems with this kit....I am so visual that the lack of photos really has me frustrated to the point of wanting to skip stuff....DONT do that. this is such a gorgeous house!
although I didnt get much done tonight...mostly my own doings :lol:
I did realize that at this point I have to get the pices together to see what to paint what color and how it all goes together...I have had to repaint 3 different times. so now Im dry fitting and marking g
This house has been sitting in my garage since my last post because We were trying to sell our home. Well, we took it off the Market for now because this is my busy season and I HAVE to finish this house BEFORE I move cause I promised the buyer that I would!!
Well, I felt some of the trim is a bit plain so to add some detail I bought some wood strips from Hobby Lobby with a nice design on it. I then went through LOTS of it trying to miter the ends correctly :whistle:
I also changed the tr
This house is coming along WONDERFULLY!!! It has so many details that are missed from the 2 pictures shown on the box of this kit!! I am totally in LOVE with it's design. The bays went together easily and so did the back wall of this house. Here are pictures of where it goes and how:
I thought to myself the bay area looks unfinished. so I went looking at photos and found that I had missed a peice...this one
and here it is installed
staircase number 1 is in
bathroom wall in and this is what the back looks like now.
next I used the tissue/paint method on the outside to give it a plaster look and now I am ready for the porch!
I like
My personal style is to wallpaper and paint during the "R&P" section of the building. Since this house wasn't going to have any wiring added to it, that building style worked out perfectly. Even if you are going to be adding wallpaper after the house is assembled, you will want to wallpaper the walls behind the stairs prior to assembly. There is no way of getting wallpaper behind them once they are set in place. The foyer is another room you will want to wallpaper prior to assembly beca
