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Dollhouse Rehab, Day 2

The above pic is what one of the window cuts looked like before I reframed it. I think the before and after shots I will show you will convince you to properly frame out your custom windows and doors! Anyway as you can see, the cut is not straight, and there are a couple chips out of the wood on the side.

And here is an exterior shot of the same window all nicely framed out. It is now a beautiful, clean square! Hehe….anyhow I spent today reframing all of the windows like this and then I started spackling and sanding the outside of the house to prep it for paint. I want to make sure everything is as baby bottom smooth as possible so painting will be a breeze, and also so it looks good. I am hoping that I will be able to finish all of the exterior spackling and sanding tommorrow so I can begin laying down a coat of fresh new beige paint. Then I will be able to focus more on the inside and start papering/painting the interior rooms and eventually add some nice interior window trim.

Oh, and I almost forgot, I have a more in depth sorta tutorial on framing out your windows from when I made the 1:6 scale house. You can find it in the dollhouses category. 😉

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New Doll on the Way!

So, I finally made my decision and I went for a Milk Brownie Haha. I really liked her serenely smiling face, and I think she will make an excellent resident for the 1/12th dollhouse I am rehabbing, whose design I find to be a little idyllic….or at least it’s definitely got a very “mori girl” vibe to it. Anyhow I ordered her from Junkyspot, and apparently she’s already packed up and ready to go! I knew Junkyspot was fast, but I wasn’t expecting to hear any news about shipping until tommorrow, er…..well I guess it’s already tommorrow based upon the time I am posting this.

On the one hand, I’m really glad I don’t have a long wait, but on the other hand, the dollhouse has been completely torn apart, and it is going to take at least all week I think to make enough reasonable headway so it will be clean enough for her to be anywhere near it. I’m not sure what to expect though in terms of the random eyes and wig that she will be coming with, so maybe I can entertain myself with acquiring wigs and eyes for her while she waits for her house.

A snowstorm will be coming in late tomorrow, and will probably be the biggest one we have had this season, so I know I will be snowed in for a couple days. I’ll make plans to get supplies to work my butt off on the house in the meantime so maybe I can at least have one room finished by the time she arrives. Hmmm, come to think of it, I hope the snowstorm doesn’t cause problems for her delivery. Well, I’m rambling, so it’s off to bed for me!