I have the roof painted, and the three rooms that will have color painted as well. The green color of the roof will also be used for all of the exterior trim when I get to that point. As far as progress you can’t see goes, I have also been fitting and painting the crown molding for two of the rooms. Crown molding is kind of a pain in the butt and also expensive so it is only going in the first and second floor painted rooms to hide painting boo-boos. I’ve also slowly been attempting to cut and fit my flooring, and have also begun trimming out my “front door” which you can see in the picture below.
The window in the door will have a wooden sash, but I don’t plan on using any glass in any of my windows, fake or otherwise because I just don’t care for it. I’m using 1/2 inch plywood for the doors so they fit the walls perfectly and don’t have any weird insetting. For the trim, I am using the 1/16th basswood strips. I feel particularly crafty in regards to the doorknob though. All of the miniature doorknobs I’ve found have all been 1:12 scale and thusly I felt too small, so I had to come up with a way to fake a doorknob, and the result was using some mini wooden drawer pulls and basswood strips for a plate.
Now the drawer pulls have a little extra peg on the bottom which is problematic, but I figure out a way around it. I simply sawed off the peg using my exacto saw. It’s pretty easy when you use a pairt of jewelry pliers to hold the thing still while you saw. After sawing the pegs off I mounted them on their little plates. I plan on spray painting the doorknobs a silver color to make them look metallic in the end. I can’t wait to see what it looks like when I am done!
