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This is a blog about my passion: dollhouses and miniatures. This particular blog was started to follow my miniature dream: to create a Victorian Mansion. But work on my Mansion is slow. Very slow. Sloth slow. Ice Age glacier movement slow. Why? Because I am easily distracted by other personal miniature projects (I have 50+ roomboxes and 15 dollhouses in various stages of incompletion) and because I work for a miniature shop and am often up to my elbows in miniature projects that aren't mine! So, I thought, some artists work in a particular medium (woods, watercolors, clay, oils, etc.), I work in progress . . . .

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Another Farmhouse

We've worked on this style house a few times before (Other Farmhouses) so we knew exactly what needed to be done this week with this poor beaten up little house...
Needed TLC
A sassy cat had decided a long time ago that the porch was it's bed.  So all the railings were destroyed.  And at some point in time the roof and third floor had fallen off.
Customer still had roof pieces
Second level porch was cracked and almost broken off.  First level porch was warped (from kitty's fluffy rear end, no doubt) and would need extra support.
Top porch floor is cracked and almost broken off

Lower porch floor is warped and needs support
After new railings were cut for it, supports were put under the porches, an interior wall was added to help support the upper floors, and third floor and roofs were glued back on, the house is ready for the customer's daughter to play with it!
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And another farmhouse gets another chance at life/play!

I still haven't forgotten my promise of showing the popsicle stick flooring for the Little Lost Cause house...it's getting grout this weekend so next week will be the blog update on that house.

2 comments:

  1. Wow! That is awesome transformation!

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  2. Hello lori,
    Great work! The house looks like new!
    Big hug
    Giac

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