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<\/p>\nWhen I first started planning how to do the Victorianna’s roof, I made a chimney piece out of leftover kit parts. I cut the kit’s chimney piece flat where it will meet the flat roof.<\/p>\n
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I glued on a piece of 1:12 channel molding and a piece of scrap wood (a spacer from a furniture kit).<\/p>\n
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Then I glued on the other kit’s chimney piece. This little box fits over a protruding piece<\/a> that would have formed the back of the chimney, if I’d built the kit according to the directions. <\/p>\n With the flat<\/a> and sloped<\/a> roof pieces now attached, I need to finish and attach the chimney before I can shingle the sloped roof. On this side of the house, the angle of the chimney meets up perfectly with the roof.<\/p>\n But there’s a gap on this side because my house and roof aren’t square.<\/p>\n I filled this in with a skinny piece of strip wood.<\/p>\n I glued pieces of 1\/8″ x 1\/4″ strip wood around the top of the chimney to create ledges that make it more visually interesting. These are spaced 1\/8″ apart.<\/p>\n Here’s how the cobbled-together chimney looks from the top. It needs to be covered up.<\/p>\n I cut a piece of wood to fit inside the hole. I’ll paint this black and add chimney pots to it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’m using egg carton brick on the Victorianna’s foundation and decided the chimney should match. I actually started bricking the foundation back in 2015 (!), just a few months after I started building the house, but put off finishing it because it’s soooo tedious. I’ve also used egg carton brick in the Four Seasons Roombox<\/a>.<\/p>\n My half scale bricks are 1\/8″ tall by 3\/8″ long. I use an Xacto knife to cut 3\/8″ strips from the top of an egg carton, and then use scissors to cut these into 1\/8″ pieces. I find this much easier than cutting 1\/8″ strips. I also cut one strip of bricks that are 1\/4″ long and 1\/8″ tall; these are the ones that wrap around the corners.<\/p>\n I started bricking on the side of the chimney that’s visible when you view the house from the back. Since you’ll be able to see this side, I wanted the bricks to be symmetrical here.<\/p>\n From there I did one side of the chimney, then the other. <\/p>\n And finally I did the back. This edge will be hard to see since it’s up against the sloped roof, so it’s okay if the brick sizes are a little funky.<\/p>\n Around the ledge, I glued bricks to the bottom as well as to the side. It looks bulky. It would have been better to cut larger bricks (1\/4″ tall instead of 1\/8″ tall) and wrap them up around the corner. But I figured once these were painted they’d look okay.<\/p>\n I finished the ledge and then did the space between the two ledges, which is just large enough for one row of bricks.<\/p>\n Then I did the top edge of the ledge. It’s starting to get really bulky. Should I have left more space between the two ledges?<\/p>\n When it came time to glue bricks to the bottom of the top ledge I decided this wasn’t going to work. It just looks weird.<\/p>\n I pulled up the bricks on the top and bottom edges of the bottom ledge. By this time the glue had dried, and the egg carton material separated when I tried to pry them up. This was a happy accident, because this way the top and bottom edges still have the egg carton texture, without the bulk. Almost like I’d planned it!<\/p>\n The bottom edge of the top ledge does not have any texture, but once it’s painted and grouted you’re not going to notice.<\/p>\n I wrapped 1\/4″ bricks around the top edge.<\/p>\n All done!<\/p>\n I painted it with Craft Smart Brick Red paint.<\/p>\n When that dried, I added a brown wash.<\/p>\n And then a gray wash.<\/p>\n I coated the chimney with matte varnish. While that was drying, I painted the wood piece to cover up the hole, and glued it in.<\/p>\n![](\"\/dollhouse\/victorianna\/victorianna1643.jpg\")
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