My orders from Dollshouse.com and HBS arrived. I ordered some furniture, as well as the lights. So, the time had come to tackle the electricity. I’m glad Geoff was there… he knew exactly what he was doing!
Looks simple, huh? Near the stair hole, it’s attached to the piece of tapewire that’s running under the wallpaper.
It’s definitely not the most stable system. We stuck down the tapewire that was running up the wall, and overlapped it with the piece running across the floor. I’m using an AC converter so the pink and blue wires don’t need to line up. We used metal brads to connect the two pieces of tapewire. Geoff did all the work to connect the transformer to the wire at the bottom of the house (under the first floor). Then we cut the outlets off the lights, spliced and stripped the ends of the wires, and wrapped the wires around brads. These got pushed into the tapewire to make a connection. Geoff did the first light, and I did the rest.
Let there be light! Geoff drilled a tiny hole in the ceiling behind this lamp. The wire runs through that hole and to the tapewire on the second floor. Note the shadow of the window on the opposite wall… just like a real house!
Emily is a freelance writer, miniaturist, and adventure game enthusiast.
