finishing touches

Well the dollhouse is complete except for the shingles which I will adventually get around too. Some of my friends have asked what does the house look like with furniture in it, so I took the furniture that I made and some other random pieces just to show you what the house set up will look like.

this is the main room, that little round table with the lamp on it I want to replicate it with a table that will match the colour scheme.

Welcome to the tiny, tiny kitchen.

 

that bare space with be a fabric covered dressing screen.

here is the completed side of the dollhouse the front has the same roof trim which I painted the rest of the trim.

 

cottage trim and more kits

So today I painted the outside trim daffodil yellow and installed the front door and then I thought I would try putting together the other two chrysnbon kits that Trevor bought for me. I am really enjoying putting these kits together, they go together easily and are fun and easy to do. The two kits I put together were the old stove and the dry sink kit. I started playing with the furniture that will go into the cottage to see what works, and the more I try to figure out what kind of chair for the cottage I am really liking the looks of the 2 wooden chairs that came with the cottage kit. so I am thinking of covering them in a nice material and add some stuffing to the seats and chair backs they will be pretty comfy chairs.

 

I also dry fitted the roof, I need to paint the underside of the roof lilac for the bedroom.

 

 

 

 

 

dollhouse porch and a kit

So this morning I installed the porch railings and while they were drying I checked my facebook to see what video my friend Joanne had up this morning. To my surprise she is working on a furniture kit that Trevor and purchased for me to in Grandma's cottage.

The kit was called the Chrysnbon oak table with 2 chairs. The table is supposed to expand to be able to add 2 leafs in it, however both of us had a snag and for some reason the pieces in the kit were wrong. Joanne choose to redrill the holes. Mine I decided right from the beginning was not to have the expansion added since there is no space in my cottage for a table that big. I choose the kit for the cute round table. So since she was doing the kit as the weekly video I chose to build the kit. I love it.
I did not add the braces for the chair seat as I want to add cross stitch chair seat covers. I have a few patterns to choose from.

 

cottage life

The cottage is almost finished, the outside is painted in the two main colours, floors are finished and sealed, all that is left is to install the porch rails and the roof and trim.

For the porch floor I used a self stick tile sheet I picked up a the dollar store (3 for 1.25) The tile I chose looks like stone, all I had to do was cut it to fit.

so tomorrow I am going to install the porch railings and start working on the trim.

Here is what I have so far.

 

 

 

build day 3

Well today I added the rest of the wallpaper and the weird looking back walls of the house. I also installed the bay windows on the living room and kitchen. I know have 1/2 of the house finished. Tomorrow's big job will be the second floor hardwood flooring needs to be installed.

The wallpaper I choose for the second floor is actually a light mauve polka dot scrapbook paper I had in my stash. I really liked the colour and it still ties in with the colour scheme of the other two rooms.
As you can see from the photos that Ethan has decided his critters like the new cottage but I think Grandma might have something to say about that.

day 2 of the coventry cottage build

So like I mentioned yesterday, it is much easier to decorate as you go with this house. Yesterday I installed the wood floors on the main floor. I did this using wooden coffee stir sticks. I stained them using watered down Cinnamon brown paint. I like the look of them. I also started to add the wallpaper on the kitchen and living room walls. The kitchen has this cute blue strip paper with little china plates on it and the living room is a flowered wallpaper. The second floor is also installed so today will be finishing off the wallpaper on the first floor and doing the wooden floor on the second level of the house.

I also dry fitted the bay window, the inside I will paint. I also need to do the porch floor before the porch beams go in.  It will have a stone look to it.

Hopefully I will get lots done today on the build. stay tuned to see what tomorrow brings.
 

back to work

With my swap commitments finished and mailed off to their destinations I have decided it is me time. I have a bunch of mini projects that I want to start or want to finish. My husband for my birthday bought me the Greenleaf Coventry Cottage dollhouse kit, which seems to be a popular kit as a few people I know have built it or are currently building. He also bought me a bunch of other stuff too, mainly for the new house. So stay tuned for the exciting build of the new house.

With the toy store done (just need to make a few more toys) but the building itself is finished, I have started to build a pet shop. My most recent issue of Dollhouse miniatures magazine there is some good ideas for pet shops and minis for the pet shop. I am using the same building technique as the toy shop, with the exception that the pet shop will only have one floor. I have decided to name the pet shop Daisy's pet shop in memory of our dear sweet bunny who passed away just before Christmas.

So here is some of the pics of the goodies my hubby bought for me and part one of the Coventry cottage build. I have discovered while reading the instructions I am going to have to decorate as I go, since I am pretty sure once I place that second floor on, it might be nearly impossible to decorate.

 

 

So today I start with the hard wood floors which I will be making out of skinny sticks.