Back in 2023, I bashed several Cassidy Creations kits into kitchen cabinets for the Mansard Victorian. The lowers and uppers are made from two kitchen cupboard kits, a changing table, and a wardrobe, with a sea captain’s chest for the hood. I have a Cassidy Creations sink in the bump-out. I’m getting ready to hook […]
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When I posted about the Mansard Victorian’s nursery, I left off wondering if the William Clinger rocking chair was a good fit for this room. I’ve had my eye on this comfy-looking JBM rocking chair, but it’s expensive. It seemed like it would go well with the nursery furniture, but I didn’t want to buy […]
My Mansard Victorian didn’t come with any door holes in the walls. Since it’s a front-opening house, I decided to add false walls with doors along the back wall, to give the illusion that there’s a hallway there. The false wall gives me an opportunity to add a built-in linen closet to the bathroom. I […]
Since my last post about the Mansard Victorian’s kitchen, I finished the second upper cabinet. Then I started thinking about how to make a hood. I was enjoying bashing Cassidy Creations kits into something completely different from their intended purpose, so I sat down with my box of kits and went through them looking for […]
When I left off with the uppers, I’d built the main part of the cabinet and was ready to add a row of smaller cabinets above. I assembled the “glass” doors so I could use them to determine how big to make the cabinets. I put these together with super glue, which more or less […]
Just as my idea to bash a changing table into kitchen base cabinets came from staring at the nursery furniture on the Mansard Victorian’s second floor, I got an idea for the uppers when I was staring at the bedroom. As a reminder, here’s how the cabinets look so far. I made these out of […]
Before I get back to the bashed cabinets, here are a few other pieces that will go in the Mansard Victorian’s kitchen. I bought this metal Cassidy Creations sink for a few dollars at a mini flea market. It had already been painted with glossy white paint. The sink has two legs in the front […]
When I started reading Nutshell News magazines in the 1990s, some of my favorite articles were the ones that showed how to bash furniture kits into something other than what they were supposed to be. In my quest to furnish the Mansard Victorian (almost) exclusively with Cassidy Creations and Bauder-Pine furniture, I’ll do the same […]
When I bought the Mansard Victorian, it didn’t have any interior door holes. The partitions weren’t glued in, so I could have cut holes in those, but I don’t like it when one room leads into another without a hallway in between. I have no problem building a house without a staircase or a bathroom, […]
Quick post today! I’ll have a bigger one soon about the trim I’ve been working on for weeks, but first I want to revisit the brackets and window pediments I left off with last time. In order to make this window pediment fit under the bracket, I initially tried cutting the corner off both parts […]
In November I saw a bashed version of American Craft’s 1:24 scale Queen Anne Rowhouse kit on eBay. I already have a finished Queen Anne Rowhouse, as well as a kit in the box, but this one intrigued me because of the modifications that had been made to it. I kept looking at it, but […]
The other day I used the word “bashed” in conversation and the person I was talking to didn’t know what I meant. In case you’re not familiar, “bash” is short for “kitbash,” which is a phrase I first read in Nutshell News back in the nineties, and I’m sure it was around before then. It […]
After putting all the furniture back in the Queen Anne Rowhouse, I decided to change some rooms. This is what I had planned for the upstairs bedroom. The hand-painted washstand and blanket chest are Bauder Pine. The rest of the furniture is a scratch built set that I bought off eBay, and not very nice. […]
The cupola on the Victorianna’s right-hand tower started out as a 1:48 scale gazebo. But because there’s no separation between the cupola and the tower room below, I wanted the cupola to be enclosed rather than “open air” like a gazebo. The bottom level of the towers has 1:12 corner blocks underneath the windows. They […]
I made this half scale house by bashing two of Greenleaf’s laser cut Rosedale kits together. Most of the work was done in 2011, and I did the finishing touches and landscaping in 2014. Read more about the Great Rosedale Bash on my blog.
Last year Greenleaf released a slew of half scale laser cut house kits. I’ve been dying to try them out, but none of the designs really appealed to me. I’m generally not a fan of frilly houses (the Fairfield excepted) so I was eyeing the Rosedale, but I didn’t like that it only had four […]
Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way has been on my shelf for about two decades, but I never read the whole book until recently. It’s sort of a twelve-step program for people who are creatively blocked. I was feeling that way after finishing a big writing project at the end of 2025 and decided to read […]
The last step for the kitbashed sink cabinet is to add the countertop. I started by cutting 3/16″ x 1″ strip wood to fit on the left and right of the sink. When I put these in the nook to see how they fit, the piece on the left skewed so the right corner is […]
Let’s get back to the sink cabinet bashed out of two Cassidy Creations washstands. Here’s where I left off: Normally, the sides of the washstand are made by attaching long skinny pieces to thin rectangles. I had planned to use the thin rectangles for the cabinet doors, but since they’re slightly too long, I decided […]
Fourteen months after I started the Mansard Victorian’s bathroom by kitbashing Cassidy Creations kits into a linen closet, I’ve finally hit the home stretch with this little room. Something that was holding me up was my indecision over whether I should finish the area behind the bathroom door. The door is set in a false […]
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