First complication in turning my childhood dollhouse (First post about Rutherford) into a witch's house was my teenage self apparently superglued the upper cabinets to the kitchen walls.
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| Gotta saw the cabinets off the walls |
Once that was taken care of, it was time to strip the wallpapers. I knew this task would take hours, if not days, because my younger self didn't know what she was doing. Walls were not primed, Elmer's glue was used instead of wallpaper paste, and papers were wrapped into nooks and crannies where now my slightly arthritic 50-year old fingers struggle to reach.
Closing my online shop, winter illnesses, my eldest's college graduation and wedding, and then my youngest's high school graduation caused a long delay in getting back to this project. But I jumped in whole heartedly and stripped the papers all out in one day:
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| Some rooms had been primed, others were not |
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| Did not strip the papers out of the top right room cuz that wall is going to be removed |
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| A blank slate... |
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| Some rooms are still a little rough thanks to the Elmer's glue |
Then it was time to start cutting into walls. I removed a section of the wall to merge the 2 rooms up top into a larger room for the witch's bedroom. I still need to cut a doorway out to the conservatory (have to construct that first) and I need a section of the wall to be removeable to better see into the lower right side for a seance room (but I'm not cutting that until I hear back from the Etsy lady who makes the windows I want to buy for this house).
So until I hear about the windows, I am focusing on the conservatory construction. Which will also impact the front yard: I want a graveyard in front of the conservatory. Do I add an entire front yard or just the conservatory and graveyard on the side?
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| House with rough draft conservatory and front yard board in place |
I am also filling in the stairs to make the lower right room better suited for a kitchen/seance room combo.
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| Open room with staircase |
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| Adding a wall to the steps for a kitchen sink/fridge (oven/stove will go on opposite wall) |
Entire house needs to be primed black and then painted (plum and dark green). But for now I have gotten a little distracted by the front yard (full graveyard? spooky tree? pumpkin patch?) and creating stain glass for the conservatory...blog about the stain glass coming soon!
