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Check out Stewart Dollhouse Creations. I bought and put together the 1:24 Craft Bench Kit, the 1:24 Craft Bench Accessories Kit and the !24 Tools Accessories Kit. Went together very easily. I tried to post a link, but may not work: Stewart Dollhouse Creations. You can do a google search if link does not take you there. The kits are under club kits on her home page. I have not been on this forum for quite awhile and can't figure out how to get the link to work nor how to post a picture of what I put together. But it might be what you are looking for or may not be.

Not easy for me to get accurate measurement. The small squares in the picture are 1/4". Looks like the older lite brites are 1/4" diameter tapered cylinder that measures 1/2"L with little less than 3/8" tapered top. Looks like the newer lite brites are a 1/4" diameter straight cylinder about 1/2"L. The top does taper to a flat top and is about 3/8". I used colored ones for the picture -- so much easier to see the colored lite brites than the clear ones.

Thankyou Holly. I should have read her original post closer. Now I am thinking Little Bo Peep should have someone who understands dollhouse wiring look at the house to determine condition of existing wiring to be sure it is still in good and safe condition. Perhaps others can recommend Youtube videos, books, phamplets or other sources for a person to learn about wiring. We have used the Cir-Kit Concepts Round Wire Instruction Book and their parts. Others use different systems with great success. Some even use battery lights. But I would not attempt wiring or rewiring a dollhouse without first understanding electrical wiring.

It is not easy for me to advise anyone of electrical lighting of a dollhouse as my husband helps me with mine. We have used the terminal block(s) on a couple of our houses. The wires from the lights are attached to the terminal block and the transformer is also attached to the terminal block. BUT I have oversimplified it. How much do you understand about wiring a dollhouse? It is important to buy the correct size transformer. Remember to count bulbs (not lights or fixtures) to determine the size of transformer. Also, do you know the condition of the existing wires? I realize I have not helped you very much. My husband might be able to give you some advice here on the forum, but he is not available until Sunday.

I did an online internet image search and discovered a member of this forum has identified this house on her personal blog. Here is the link to her blog: The Dollhouse Whisperer: Hill's Dollhouse Workshop (rockawayrosedollhouse.blogspot.com) After reading her blog, I pulled out my copy of the sixth edition of the miniatures catalog (1983) and found it on page 35. It is identified as the New England Victorian by Hill's Dollhouse Workshop. The house was also available with a wrap-around porch, and with or without addition.

From a Google search looking for contestants of the show, I stumbled upon this newspaper article about their hometown participant in the show. Enjoyed the article very much so thought I would share the link to the newspaper article. I hope the link works: Going big time with her miniature skills | South Whidbey Record

Carolyn, Here is a link to download the Instructions and Assembly Guide for the Magnolia Dollhouse. http://www.mysmallobsession.com/dollhouse-assembly-instructions.html From my reading this guide there are 16 window sashes. There are two Sheet #8s with eight on each sheet. They are labeled Single, Double Wide and Kitchen Window on the schematic. I hope this helps.

Lee, so sorry about your wife having such an extensive break with complications. Glad that healing is taking place and that she has had you to help in her recovery. It has been a little over a year ago that I tripped on just a step up curb in airport parking lot and landed on cement floor suffering a displaced fracture of my right humerous. Fortunately, I am left handed and did not require any surgery. The doctors informed me at the very beginning that due to my age the recovery would be slow. Even after PT I never regained full range of motion, but fortunately regained strength with just minor discomfort from time to time. Reading about your wife's experience makes mine seem so trivial. Best wishes for your wife's continued recovery.

I found this blog very helpful when putting together my dormer windows: https://jennsminis.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/beacon-hill-dormer-windows/ My Beacon Hill kit was an older kit and had the same pieces as shown in the blog. I understand some newer Beacon Hill kits have a more flexible paper for the dormer roof (and mansard roof). Not sure which you have. Hope this helps.

My Beacon Hill second floor height measures about 9" and the top floor height measures about 8".

Thanks for posting the link to your new and improved blog. Thank you for taking the time to share your talent and experience with us. I have it bookmarked as one of my go to blogs.

The McKinley is one of my favorite builds. Love that it is a space saver. I do have it sitting on top of a bookshelf as I did not feel comfortable hanging it on wall, but I have seen others who do hang it on a wall. I do have pictures of it in an album in Members Gallery. My husband wired the house for me. We ran the wires to the outside back of the house. If you do a search on the McKinley here on the forum and even in Google you will see what I and others have done with the McKinley. That is how I got some ideas for mine: changing the roofline and also using darker colors on the back wall(s) to add the illusion of depth to the rooms. I found Gina's blog, More Minis Dollhouses, very helpful, especially, when it came time to do the tower roof. Because it is not a very deep house, the doorways are narrower than typical 1:12 scale doorways. Another reason I like this house so much is that it didn't require a lot of elegant furniture (unlike my Beacon Hill). The bedroom (even with the bump out of the stairway) still has room for the bed and dressers. I do like the idea of stairs in my dollhouses. Love the drawers as they make convenient place to store small seasonal items. The wood in my kit was in very good condition -- so the pieces fit together very well. As I built, I kept seeing Olive Oyl walking through those narrow doors -- so went on Ebay and bought her and now it is her house.

Lee -- I am also moving miniatures around today. My son-in-law recently started his new job and on Friday they moved into their own house (which is only about 20 minute drive from our house). Today they came back over to help me move heavy stuff back into my "dollhouse" room. About last August I had moved everything dollhouse related out of that room to make a bedroom for my two grandsons. We won't need it as a guest room any longer as I now intend to send any overnight guests over to my daughters much bigger house. I still have lots of little stuff to bring up from the basement before I can start working on projects again. I must admit working in the basement these last few months was better than I expected as we do have good lighting down there and there weren't too many spiders.

I don't even have the words to express how much I admire your back-to-back Victorianna bash. So beautiful and so well done. Thank you for sharing pics here on this forum as I don't always make the rounds to all the blogs on a regular basis.

Glad to be able to access the forum again. A big thankyou to Dean and the Greenleaf people for making this forum possible. My update: Did not go to the Seattle Miniature Show in early March even though it was not canceled as I am of the age that recommended not being in crowd of people. Of course since then we are under stay at home suggestion (orders). Have been spending way too much time on FB miniature pages, reading wonderful blogs (thankyou for those of you who do have blogs, I just don't know how to post comments on any of them). I finished the rehab of the Greenleaf Laurel and started a half scale build. My son-in-law and grandson have used the 3D printer to make me some half scale items as find it difficult to find half scale. My daughter, son-in-law and two grandsons are still living with us. Daughter and I take turns cooking dinners which is nice. Grandsons are taking online college classes as the physical building is closed at this time. Son-in-Law starts new job early in May (he retired from the Air Force in December). He will go in for orientation, etc. and then work from home due to virus. Can you imagine starting a new job during this time of safe distancing. They are also now looking for a home to buy in the local area. We found this funny. During the real life toilet paper shortage, I looked on a miniature website to buy toilet paper for my dollhouse and found it was out of stock at that time. I guess a lot of us miniaturists were also stocking up on toilet paper at that time. Have a good day and enjoy your minis.

Making progress on the rehab of the Laurel Dollhouse. This house has decided it will be decorated for autumn (and Halloween). I ran the electrical wiring, but husband did show our grandson how he does the connections. I still cannot solder a connection. My son-in-law is still looking for civilian employment (having recently retired from the Air Force). He is hoping to find employment in the local area to be close to family after so many years away. Our two grandsons are attending local community college and our daughter works from home (as she has done for years). It is working out well for them to be living with us for now. My daughter had fun decorating the McKinley Dollhouse for Christmas. She enjoyed it so much, she plans to attend the Seattle Miniature Show with me this March. After seeing how much she enjoyed the McKinley, I did an all nighter and dry fitted the half scale Fairfield (that I had in my stash) into a 9 room wall hanging/shelf house -- by using the pieces to make a straight house with plain back and higher attic instead of the usual deeper house. It will be easier to work on that house as I still have discomfort from the broken humerus. But it feels better than when I started working on the rehab of the Laurel. So for the past few days, I have been going back and forth working on both the Laurel and the start of the modified Fairfield.