Here you see the raised roof. As you can see, I did a little boo-boo. I was twisting this around accidentally hit the basketball hoop and broke the glue on the whole roof structure. The nails kept it in place, but I needed to hurry and build the railings to support the attic.
My goofy husband helping me illustrate the height of this massive dollhouse!
This is my tester railing. I wasn't sure on the design. In the end, I simply can't do better. I don't have the money (hence me making this all from scrap wood) so I had to do what I could do with my own skill, as low as they are. Anyway, my skills are minimal at best, so a boring simple plain railing was all I could make happen.
What a lucky find in my wood box. I had one single piece of trim left that was a nice full 8 feet long. It was already while too which is great since I will be painting a good part of the dollhouse white. :-) It was JUST long enough to wrap around the bottom of the dollhouse.
So, I know these pictures are out of order, but I just didn't have the energy to load them one by one. I got more of the railing done and decided to set some of the doll furniture into it just to see how it would look. Can you say CUTE!!!!! I am loving it. I MAY have to spend some time playing with the dollhouse once its built. I never had a dollhouse growing up.
The overall look of it before I lowered it to the ground. It was just getting too tall for me to work on while still on the table.
A close up picture of the furniture. Is this just the cutest patio ever!!! Okay, some day I need to build a life size room. I really do! Here you see another little boo-boo. Between the tester railing I used to show Robert what it would look like and the final sets of railing, I must have changed the width of my table saw and stop block. Oops. The new railing on the side and back are just a HAIR wider. Oh well, nobody said I was perfect.
I do love this patio!!!
2 comments:
This is gorgeous! Did you use glue and nails - I don't see any kreg holes. Also please tell me how you built those awesome stairs???? I want to build a superhero version for my son! thanks!
Yes, glue and nails. I had no plans so I literally took the piece of wood and just kept trying different heights and stair depths until they looked okay. Cut out the two sides from plywood then used 1/4 inch ply for the fronts of each stair. Then took scraps of 1 by 2s and cut small stair treads out. I used a super low grit sand paper to shape them as I wanted. It wasnt hard since I wasnt being perfect. This whole project was a scrap wood project to clean up the scrap pile. If only I had the kreg jig at this time I could have done a lot more. We live and learn and evolve as woodworkers. I would love to see pics of your version of this!
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