When I first began planning the Magnolia, I had a vision of it as a Civil War era theater. I think the balconies and wide bay areas were what put that idea into my head and I was pretty certain that was going to be my plan.
Oh, how these houses change our minds for us! Once the Magnolia arrived and I started putting it into dry fit, it took on a whole new concept. I played with the idea of it being an Aspen-type ski lodge and to be honest, if I build another one, that's probably the
This house is lareg enough for the child collector to get a lot of play out of and yet detailed enough for the adult collector to enjoy having in there collection. I called my Magnolia "the Maggie" for the little girl I built it for in December. I built this house, painted, electrified, wallpapered and added a base to it all in 11 days.
This is a fun house that you can enjoy to. Have fun watching my journey in building this delightful house!! I started building this house on the 5th of Decemb
As usual, I've started off with staining my floors.
Then I begin putting the shell together, and this house has some pieces which slide together over one another. This one has to be built in stages, because some of the stages are dependent upon the other, so I have to put walls in and floors in at the same time.
Then I begin putting in some bays.
This one piece wants to be difficult and not lay down, so I've glued it and used some "spe
first you must dry fit the roof!
it is always the best idea to dry fit before gluing. many "duh" moments can be avoided with a dry fit. take the time to look at each room critically if you have not already decorated or will be doing lighting.
this is when you find out what steps will be next for you!
here are the stairs in for a dry run....nice thing about this staircase ...it is easily removed until I glue it. very nice for decorating. not all but a huge portion of the trim
for this build I decided to do things a bit differently.
sometimes I forget to take photos but I put the shell together all in one sitting and took photos of each step.
the prep work that I did was to stain and polyurethane the floors. I did not prime the inside of the house. perhaps I will regret that later down the build but at this point its all good!
it took about 2 hours to get this much of the shell together give or take
when you get to th