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Happy Thursday! Yesterday ended up being a much more productive day than I had previously anticipated. I picked up a couple sheets of foam board and traced and cut out all my sub-walls! Since I thought this would take much longer, I ended up having time to finally start gluing the house together! I ended up gluing almost the entire front facade. The fireplace wall and staircase will be glued in later after I pre-finish the staircase pieces. (Once glued down, this part will be super hard to reach comfortably) The pictures I attached below were all taken this morning and show the glued together rooms with the sub-walls in place to make sure they fit correctly and look right. You can also see the larger living room and dining room widows. This evening, I plan on starting the paneling in the stairwell area so I can get that segment glued in. Im also expecting my Heidi Ott wall sconces to arrive today as well as a pack of 1/16 basswood to start my paneling. (CANT WAIT!) I'll update with more photos tomorrow! Cheers! Chris

So I finally received my kit and couldnt have been more excited. A few hours, and about 2000 splinters later... I had all my pieces out and labeled. I also received the fireplace mantle that I was going to jimmy into the livingroom wall. The first thing I wanted to focus on was the initial kit-bashing. Since I had all the pieced loose and easy to work with, I marked off all my lines and made all the cuts and I can already envision all the finishes! The major Kit Changes I made were: Livingroom: • Inset a new stone-look fireplace and center on the wall of the living room. (PICTURED) You can still see the opening of the old fireplace...This will be covered with paneling. • Open up a large centered passage between the livingroom and now dining room (Previously kitchen) (PICTURED) • Bring front window/bay window down to the ground and make window bigger. • Make both windows on the stairway 2 inches taller. (Plan on putting stained glass in these) Dining Room: • Cut doorway into future kitchen addition. (PICTURED) • Make old kitchen window (now dining) taller and wider. (More appropriate for a formal dining space I think.) Upstairs: • Make the bathroom door square (It was a pointed tudor/gothic shape before) • Make bedroom widow thinner and taller. • Cover upstairs fireplace and book case....I just glued in the pieces. (Since this area is partially obstructed by the stair banister, I plan on putting a built in linen-closet here) • Making right-side bathroom window smaller. I think this covers my Day-One progress. I think most of my kit bashing is complete at this point. Now Im just dreading all the new custom window and door frames Im going to have to make from scratch.

Intro of my project HERE DINING ROOM The current kit doesnt have a designated dining room so I got the idea to add a room to the left of the house for the kitchen and turn the existing kitchen into the dining room. Photo 1: My first step when beginning my build will be to redo the wall between the living room and dining. As of now there is a small door on the right half of the wall and I plan on centering the door and creating a wide tudor styled archway as the one pictured above (Sans the pocket doors) and putting two sconces on either side of the wall. Parallel to this archway will be the new doorway into the kitchen. Possibly a swinging door. Photo 2 & 3: I plan on continuing the paneling from the living room into the dining except in the dining, I only plan on taking it about 3/4 up the wall as pictured. I also plan on continuing the same crossed beam detail from the living room ceiling in here. Since I won't start this room until the living room is done, I hope to be pretty handy with the paneling at this point. (I hope) KITCHEN The kitchen as I mentioned will be a while new add on. Im going to make my like easy and keep the finishes here simple. Photo 1: I love this old sink and stove. Im still debating if I want to do a checkered floor as pictured or a large slate slab floor which seems more true to the Tudor-ness of the house. What do you think? Photo 2: Same Idea as the first photo. Stay Tuned for my next post: Exterior

Good Morning! So Im very excited that all my kit-bashed pieces that I set overnight came out great! The new front facade fits perfect together. You can see in the picture below that the bottom window no longer overhangs but goes down to the ground now. I did this because I will eventually be covering that part of the facade in stone and thought it would look better, plus, it gave me more room to make the window slighly taller from the top and bottom. The livingroom is going to be a jugsaw puzzle of dark stained paneling so I want this room to receive as much natural light as possible. You can also see the upstairs window was moved up about a half inch as well as made taller and more slim. Today I plan on picking up a stack of foam board and tracing/cutingout subwalls for the entire house so I can do the finishing details on those as well as give the walls a more realstic depth. Just ordered some veneer on ebay (Thanks for the tip @soapz), so I'll be sharing that with you all very soon! Have a great wednesday everyone! Chris

INTRO: Hello Everyone! I recently purchased my first dollhouse kit in almost 20 years. Im a early 30s guy living in Los Angeles and my obsession with miniatures began at a really young age. My father was in construction and as a kid, I was always fascinated with every aspect of his job. Im not really sure exactly how I stumbled upon the world of 1:12 minis at such a young age, but I know that when I did, I was hooked. The details, the freedom to construct such beautiful structures in your home, the lighting, the furniture.... I loved it all. By age 10, I had completed two dollhouses by a company that doesn't even exist anymore. It was a log cabin and a large victorian farm house. By age 12 we moved to a new city and the stigmas of being a 12-13 y/o boy began taking over and the dollhouse miniature world I loved so much was put on the back-burner indefinitely. Fast forward a little almost two decades... and here we are. I recently was in a small mountain town outside greater los angeles where I used to go with my parents as a kid and I stopped by this store that I used to get miniatures at. Sure enough, after so many years, the same display cases full of miniatures still stood. The cases looked way smaller than I remember and I could actually reach the top shelves this time. It brought back a lot of nostalgia and it was at that moment I vowed to get back into the hobby. I chose the Glencroft as because I always loved the tudor style and as my first dollhouse in so long, I felt like it would help get those creative juices flowing. Plus, Ive seen so many Glencroft houses on here that have been so beautifully personalized, I was even more inspired. Of course, a simple kit wasn't going to be good enough for me... So I decided to use the shell of my Glencroft and create a completely personalized (As true to scale as possible) Mini-Home. THE FUN BEGINS The first thing was to do as much research as possible. I looked up about 200 different Glencroft Build Blogs and completely became familiar with the steps and processes. I then decided what it was I wanted to change on the overall house and made a list. 1. Bring main entry forward to create a portico style porch. 2. Cover first floor front facade in stone 3. Ad a Kitchen wing to right side of house and turn current kitchen into dining. 4. Open up the wall between the Living and Dining to a more grand Tudor style arch. 5. Cover entire living room in Tudor style wall paneling. 6. Rebuild staircase from scratch 7. Create custom wood detailing on front facade using 1/16 x 1/4 basswood rather than the punch and glue pre-designed wood provided. 8. Create new more detailed doors for the whole interior. These are only the bigger points on a very long list but I provided a quick moc-up of the house as I want it to look. (Dont judge me, I made it really fast) For the record, as Im posting this.... I still have not received my Glencroft. I should get it Monday.... But I wanted to make sure to have as much planned as possible before even opening the box. BUYING SUPPLIES This has been by far the most stressful part so far. (Financially Speaking) Since I haven't built any miniatures in almost 20 years, my supply list has been pretty bleak. Aside from the average set of home tools, there wasn't much else to work with. SO, I bit the bullet and put my Amazon Prime account to work! I stocked up on everything I can think of.... fine tooth saws, coping saws, x-acto sets, various grades of sand paper, like 20 bottles of stainable wood glue etc. Next was to start buying some of the first finishes I would need. I knew that finishing the living room was going to be my first official task, so yesterday, I purchased all the wood I think I would need for the floor to ceiling tudor paneling, including a micro-sized table saw with a 4 inch blade that I CANNOT WAIT to use. Next was lighting since I had to wire all the walls before I finished them. For the living room I found 4 Heidi Ott sconces on Ebay that were PERFECT! (Pictured below). I wanted the fireplace to really pop on that wall so after doing A LOT of research on Tudor fireplaces, I settled on doing a stone carved arched fireplace, inset to the paneled walls. I loved the look of THIS fireplace but since I don't want to spend almost $200 on a fireplace mantle smaller than my hand, I found a cheaper alternative at Miniatures.com which I was going to repaint to look like my inspo photo. (Pictured Below) SO here we are. My Glencroft officially arrives tomorrow so I can finally begin to post about my process and steps. I would love to hear what you guys think and if anyone has any tips, I would really appreciate it! (ALSO, I wasn't sure what topic to post this under so if anyone has any suggestions for that as well, I'de greatly appreciate it. So until my next post, Have a great week everyone! - Chris

Intro of my project HERE LIVING ROOM I always loved Tudor architecture. I live here in Los Angeles and there is A LOT of 1920s built Tudor homes that have always caught my eye. Living in a 1920s building myself, I always loved the finished and details that you just don't see in modern day constructions. Thus, leading me to focus my finishes and details around the 1920s. Photo 1: For the living room, I decided nothing would look richer than to do dark stained floor to ceiling paneling. I think to achieve this I plan on creating secondary walls traced from the kit walls out of the same kit style wood. Doing all the finishes and wiring and then gluing the wall into place directly over a kit wall. This is still a theory so stay tuned to see the work in progress. Photo 2: I thought a carved stone fireplace would look great with the wall paneling. Luckily, I found THIS ONE which will be really easy to paint and inset into the existing fireplace cavity. Photo 3: The provided staircase with the kit is cute and all, but not good enough for this project. My goal is to make this as to-scale as possible with as much detail as possible so I plan on making the stairs a bit more grand and intricate. I love the look of the heavy balusters and the square newel posts. I think it will be easy to achieve using pre made staircase pieces and just hand making the newel posts out of square dowels and some baseboard moulding trimmed down. Like I said above.... we'll see how this theory plays out. Photo 4: Lastly is the ceiling. The first picture has a hint of this finish but the last picture shows what I want in a bit more detail. White plaster ceiling with heavy crossed beams, trimmed with a small crown moulding. I have a feeling that this is going to be a pain. If anyone has any suggestions on how to do a detailed ceiling like that please share! Stay Tuned for my next post: Dining Room Inspiration

Hi! My name is Wiske and I'm just starting on my first dollhouse, the Glencroft. In this thread I'll be posting my progress, so everyone can join in on the fun! (I hope I posted this in the right forum, if I didn't please move my thread!) I'm new at building dollhouses and still a bit clueless about what I'm doing, so I'm figuring things out as I go. I can use any help so if you have any advice to offer I'd really appreciate it! Here's the first step! The first wall is up and so is the back part with the little staircase. I decided to prime the bits and pieces of the outer walls before they get dry assembled but will leave details such as stairs blank for now because I might want to stain them. I also already glued the first few pieces since it seems to me it will be more stable that way, but I'll dry assemble the rest.

After a ton of soul searching, I've come to the realization that I just won't be able to build the Glencroft kit I have. I'm offering it for an really, really, low price plus shipping. PM me if you are interested

I am debating a purchase between the Brimbles Mercantile and Glencroft. I read in one of the blogs that the Brimbles Mercantile is a difficult build. I am not sure about the Glencroft. I would love your opinions so please weigh in. I'm a new builder. My thoughts for the Brimbles is turning it from a store into a condo/loft. Our small town has done that with some of the old historic department store buildings.