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WOW!!! Just wow!!! How did I miss this house? Just looked through all of the photos and it's really, really wonderful! You did a fabulous job on all of it! Would love to know how you did the exterior, because it looks spot on!

 

Love the exterior finishes. The mossy shingles are great, and I like how only a sliver is showing. What did you use as a roofing product?

Thank you so much! The exterior was a hodgepodge of techniques; I was experimenting. The siding is nothing but paint and stain; dark wood stain to make the wood look old and damp, and some leftover actual house paint and a small artist brush for the white. I made pencil lines 1/4 inch apart for clapboards and painted each one with a dry brush and a lot of splotches to get the peeling paint. The most helpful thing was to look at photos of old houses and try to make mine look the same. You really can't mess it up, because it's supposed to look messed up Then I randomly streaked on more dark stain to look like water damage. I lost the original roof shingles for this kit somewhere along the way, so I raided another kit that my daughter received as a child but never got built, a Willow (it's probably my next project; I'll have to do something else for the roof, lol). They were rectangular but too wide, from a photo of an old roof I liked, so I cut each one in half lengthwise. After they were glued on, I wet them repeatedly with dirty paint water, which made them darken and curl. Nothing like water to make realistic water damage! The moss is just green paint dabbed on with a very dry brush, trying to get more in places that would be damp. The chimney and foundation are egg carton bricks following several tutorials I found on this site and elsewhere - a magical technique! I looked at some old deteriorated brick to choose about 4 paint colors to dab on the bricks. (The actual colors were not at all the colors that you think brick is.) I used sanded grout for the mortar. Thank you for asking!

IT's SO POE! Love it.

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Nicely done!

Your use of color is fabulous!  You did an absolutely wonderful job on this house!