I keep adding doodads and curlicues to the front of the Queen Anne Rowhouse. It’s like an obsession. After I added the panels and resin trim to the bay window, the house felt kind of unbalanced, with too many dark green stripes at the bottom and none at the top. I rectified this by adding a small piece of cove trim to the bottom of the vine trim.

After cutting the pieces to size, I painted them with Mossy Green and glued them in.

Next I wanted to add some dark green to the top portion of the house. I thought about doing panels similar to the ones on the bay, but didn’t really trust myself to cut trim pieces that would make neat triangles, so I looked around for triangular trim pieces that I could paint and glue on.

I found a great eBay shop, Victorian Doll House Wood Works, that sells all sorts of laser cut trim in 1:12 and 1:24 scale. (They also have a website.) I ordered a set of corner brackets to go on either side of the upper window. I got two sets, one for the front of the house and one for the back.

These are supposed to be 1:12 scale, but they work well to fill up the blank space on either side of the window. The “apex trim” at the top is 1:12 porch trim from LaserTech, which I bought at the dollhouse store before I discovered the eBay seller. In retrospect I might have preferred something frillier, like this, but it seems silly to spend the extra money when the ones I already bought work fine. (Especially considering that I’ve probably spent $200+ on the front of this house already…)

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When we last saw the Queen Anne Rowhouse, she was wearing a big green stripe that wasn’t exactly flattering. (You know what they say about horizontal stripes…) Today I turned this into three self-contained panels. This was a simple matter of cutting a few more vertical trim pieces, and cutting the corners of the horizontal pieces into 45-degree angles.

I painted the new pieces and glued them all on.

Chair rail might not have been the best choice for these, because the rounded trim didn’t meet nicely at the corners. I masked off the pieces and used wood filler to fill in the cracks at the corners, and where the panels met each other.

Then painted the filled parts, being careful not to get paint where it didn’t belong…

And voila, three panels! I like it!

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