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
now Im not one to go round spread gossip!
but my roof turned into a nightmare for me that my poor DH had to help me out of.
I have put mansard roofs together before....Linda and Tracy both tell of how theirs just snapped into place.
well not mine. I wet the roof peices and scored them a little deeper than they were...this helped for the Glencroft roofline. and than I snapped them into their place under the notch...easy enough....
but it wasnt curved
it is finished and waiting for my Aunt to come pick up sometime in March.
she wanted to do some of the finishing touches so I am doing nothing else decorating wise.
the steps are built but not attached so she can transport it better.
my thoughts ...The house when done is fantastic. the rooms are not bad size and the layout is different from other houses making it a unique addition to any dollhouse collection. Due to all the little extra trims this house does take
I decided to show a little bit how I electrify the houses. I find it hard to explaine in words but pictures talk in words that I may not express well so here you go.
I am just adding the extra outlets that my customer wants in this house right now so that is what the pictures will show. I started out with an electrical outlet with a plug at the end pictured below. The end plug will fit into the electrical strip later on.
Now, drill a hole in the floor where you would like to add the o
At first I looked at the dormer sides and thought I must have been crazy cause I could not figure out how they went
Well after looking at the INSTRUCTIONS which I had put aside cause I had decided I did not need them anymore ( :whistle: That's what I get Huuh, I still need them ) , I figured it out and Ohh How I love the dormers and trime and all. This house has a lot of charecter!!
The Curved part sits right on the roof
Then you add the front part
I also added my own
well I have been feeling guilty! to wrapped up in anticipation for our trip I cant decide on anything.
but tonight I was like well I can texture the ceilings and while I was doing that I remembered that wall treatments are big as a tuscan feel so I als textured the foyer. Im hoping to sponge paint itand maybe than I will be happy.
because I cannot decide how the foyer should be decorated I cannot put the stairs in or add the wall.
so I am STUCK!
but like I said I think Im
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
I pulled out all the shell pieces, and sanded them a bit, including the window openings.
Jimmy then began putting the shell together (and got mad at me because all the clamps were at the other house too--oops). You have to slide the walls over the floors, and he discovered that sometimes it was easiest to hold the house upright to do that, and sometimes it was easiest to lay the wall almost flat against the floor to get them to slide together.
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
Need to get some of my windows cut out [cut the wallpaper away from the windows] so I can see what I'm doing. Since these windows have some of the "bars" going across the windows which will separate the window panes, I have to cut all around the window frame itself. Believe it or not, I actually like to start on the outside of the window, take my razor blade and using the tip of the razor blade, I cut around the windows where the bars are.
Then I take my flashlight a
I have just added more colors to the outside of the house. It is really beginning to have it's own personality and I NEED my houses to talk back to me :whistle:
Here are the pictures:
The new colors add more warmth and life to the house.
I dry fitted the porch parts onto the house:
I will apint them and add them tomorrow
Well I have started painting the outside of the Lily and it's beginning to look like an old dreary home, which is the effect my customer wants.
I have added the extra sculpted elements at the bottom of the house around the base. I will add the doors and then porch rails will be added. The pictures show only the first color added to the house. More pictures to come soon!!
These pictures almost make the house looks like the stones are gray but they are actually a dark brown color.
T
I did not realize that I have not added more pictures of the rest of the clay work I have done to this house. It is a LARGE house to add clay too which means I am using a lot more clay than I thought I would. It is looking wonderful though.
The outside is all done.When my husband comes home with my camera I will post more pictures:
Roof finished pictures:
I finished painting and adding the dormers to the roof. After that, I decided to start painting the base coat on the trim thatI added to the house (It will get about 4 washes to make it look like stone). I then started ading the clay to the foundation. I also made little clay embellishments that I want to add to the porch to give the effect and mood that my customer wants for this house.
After I finished that, I painted the porch a very dark brown. Then I started adding clay to bottom of th
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
here we have it as it looks tonight. all of the windows have their sills and are installed.
I also managed to get the porch peices punched out and painted a couple of coats of white and installed
all I have left are the dormers and the steps and the finishing touches.
I called my aunt and she is very excited about coming to pick up her house...she told me she has a sofatable to set it and her other things on it...I said oh you have other things? she's like
a word of advice to all dollhouse builders.
make sure you mark all of your bits as they come out of the kit...never assume you will "remember"
I have taken a long break from this house...first from surgery and recovery
and when I got ready to restart the house my grandmother got ill and I had to go spend 8 days in hospital with her and bring her home with me. and here she still is.
so after finishing up some other projects to move stuff out my way I have now restarted the
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
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
There were actually some more pictures showing progress of wallpapering, but Zack decided to use my camera to take pictures of his truck [while I wasn't home]. When he loaded the pix of his truck onto his computer, he decided that I was done with the pictures that were on the camera of this house, so he erased them for me. GGRRRRRR.
Anyway, I'm done with wallpapering the first two floors. I'll start in the foyer, move through the kitchen, into the dining room, and back around to th
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
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
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
I'd like to mention that this was my very first build of any kind and the kind people here at Greenleaf ask me to join this blog to help inspire other newbies and I think to let you know that with a lot of patience, and the help of the experienced members of the forum any one can build a beautiful and lasting dollhouse. It also helped me to have an understanding husband (who by the way knows something about tools) to help me decipher any instructions I read or received. LOL
After ge
Now this part got to obe a little tricky for me because I do not plan to use the lattice trim on my porch. My foundation will be all clay sculpted with stones in them.
Be sure to follow the instructions and ;ay the house on it's back while you assemble the foundation part. It is VERY important to posistion porch foundation piece # 1 into foundation slot # in order as noted on the drawing or else it will NOT fit right (I bet you know how I know that one :lol: )
I also had issues fi
