{"id":11269,"date":"2017-04-01T22:03:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T05:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=11269"},"modified":"2017-04-01T22:10:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T05:10:50","slug":"victorianna-rough-chimney-and-skylights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=11269","title":{"rendered":"Victorianna – rough chimney and skylights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gorgeous weather today, and Rosy was very happy to lie in the dirt while I worked on the Victorianna. <\/p>\n

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Having assembled the towers<\/a>, I moved on to the small peaked roof. Normally the Victorianna’s top floor has two triangular sections, with the roof dipping down to floor level in between them. <\/p>\n

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I added a piece to fill in the valley between the two peaks, so my Victorianna’s roof slopes slightly and then flattens out. It’s barely a 4-inch (8-foot) ceiling height, but it makes the room more usable.<\/p>\n

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So I needed to create both the small sloped part of the roof and the flat part. The sloped part descends about 3″. I had a 3″ piece of basswood that I cut to the right width.<\/p>\n

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This needed to be notched to make room for the chimney.<\/p>\n

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I haven’t made the flat part yet, but here’s an idea of the roofline.<\/p>\n

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The notch was easy to cut out with a utility knife.<\/p>\n

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On this side I’ll add a wall so furniture can be placed here without a funny triangular gap behind it.<\/p>\n

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This is the “chimney front” out of one of the kits. It dips too deep into the room, so the bottom needs to be cut off.<\/p>\n

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After cutting off the bottom of the chimney pieces from the two kits, I used 1:12 channel molding and a scrap of strip wood to create a little box that can slip over the chimney piece that’s sticking up. (The scrap is actually a spacer that came in a furniture kit. Never throw anything away!)<\/p>\n

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I’ll wait until later to glue the chimney piece on, there’s more to do with the roof first. Also, the bottom of the roof hangs down a little too far. I need to get Geoff’s help cutting off about 1\/4″ with a power saw. The grain runs horizontally and I’m afraid if I do it with the utility knife I’ll end up with a wavy line. <\/p>\n

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To provide light and better be able to see the tower closet rooms and the areas next to them, I’ll add skylights to the sloped part of the roof. I stumbled across these 1:12 scale hinged windows<\/a> on Miniatures.com. (They’re made by Houseworks, but were special for a previous year’s Creatin’ Contest building so I don’t know if they’re available anywhere else.) I’ll put the “good” side on the inside, so the windows are hinged at the top and swing out.<\/p>\n

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To figure out where to position these, I drew lines to show where the chimney will be and also where the edge of the house is (the roof overhangs the edge of the house by about 3\/8″). I didn’t want a skylight sticking out beyond a wall of the house, even if that wall is invisible!<\/p>\n

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I found the center of the space to the left of the notch, and then centered a window between the eave line and the center line. (The line at the bottom is how much I think will need to be cut off.) I cut the hole with my utility knife. Unfortunately the wood split when I popped out the rectangle.<\/p>\n

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The same thing happened with the second window. I stopped at this point to glue the cracks before they get worse. I’ll cut the holes for the other two skylights tomorrow. <\/p>\n

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