MiniSmidgeon

The filler mixture on my "test" piece dried up nicely, I think: I went ahead and made flooring templates for all the rooms out of the cardstock I’ll paste the strips onto. This second time around though, I proceeded by marking and cutting out a piece of the flooring to the size I want to use, but pasted it to a separate sample piece of the earlier thick hardwood plank so that when turned upside down and butted up against the new plank, it gives me a more accurate strip when cutting: Also, I've decided not to use such a random pattern. It leaves too much room for error and let's face it, frustration! This time, I marked and cut  with the grain! I mean, there's an arrow, folks! How did I miss that the first go around? This method has been simpler so far. Once they were cut and laid out, I made certain they fit snuggly inside the room I was working on, in this example case, what will be the laundry, and then  I glued the planks to the cardstock: ...

I’ve decided to order a crafters pin vise hand drill with super tiny drill bits as well as a small vise clamp in the hope of being able to more precisely drill holes into both the sides of the doors and trim pieces to fit the hinge nails into rather than knocking them in with a hammer. With any luck, doing this will prevent the exterior wood veneer panels from splitting when I try to mount them to the trim and doors themselves. With the latest plan to mount the interior doors and trim directly onto the walls rather than inside the actual door wells, I carefully painted the wells with white acrylic paint since they’ll be visible upon the completion of the dollhouse and so at this point I can finally move forward with wallpapering the interior since there will be definite trim in place around the wells once installed and no further worry of needing to do any cutting inside the actual house. Wallpaper! The bit that’s most frightened me about this process. It’s here. Now, let me say qu...