{"id":15617,"date":"2020-05-14T22:34:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T05:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=15617"},"modified":"2020-05-14T23:13:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T06:13:16","slug":"victorianna-final-trim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=15617","title":{"rendered":"Victorianna – final trim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Approximately 1,931 days after I started working on it and a good fifteen years after I started thinking about it, I can officially report that the back-to-back Victorianna bash<\/a> is done!<\/p>\n

Okay, not 100% done. I don’t have furniture for all of the rooms yet, but the house itself is finished, and it’s a good thing, because I’m moving to a new 1:1 house and I did not want to move this dollhouse-in-progress again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After finishing the shingles<\/a> and foundation<\/a>, the last thing to do was to cover the exposed plywood edges with trim. This gives the house a clean, finished look.<\/p>\n

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One last room needed crown molding and baseboard — the room off the living room that I’m not sure what to do with. (Office? Music room? Craft room?)<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure if I ever posted a picture of the back door — this is a Houseworks Traditional 4-Panel Exterior Door<\/a>. I have a love\/hate relationship with this style of door — I love the transom at the top, but I hate the door itself, which has four raised panels on the front and is completely flat on the back. I added strip wood to the flat side to dress it up.<\/p>\n

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This is the same Craftsman style as the fake closet<\/a> under the stairs, which is barely visible. I really like how this looks, and it’s easy to do with scrap wood. In my next house I might scratch build doors that look like this… I’m kind of over the standard Houseworks doors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A while ago I set aside my last piece of baseboard (which is 1:12 chair rail that’s discontinued and impossible to find), but when it came time to finish this room I couldn’t find it anywhere. I dug through my scrap drawer and found a partial piece that had been stained, but it wasn’t big enough to do the whole room. <\/p>\n

I went down a rabbit hole of making built-in cabinets<\/a> along the back wall so I wouldn’t need to use baseboard there, but thankfully found the piece of baseboard before I glued anything in. Here’s the last room, finished!<\/p>\n

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Since I’m in the process of packing, I didn’t want to order anything new, so I dug through my strip wood stash and got creative with what I had. I used 3\/16″ basswood (same thickness as the kit wood) on the walls and floors. For the roof I wanted the trim to also cover up the edge of the shingles, so I used 1\/4″ there. I had *just* enough of the 1\/4″ wood for the shingled parts of the roof, but not the flat part.<\/p>\n

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Instead I used 3\/16″ angle trim on the flat part of the roof. <\/p>\n

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Where the 1\/4″ wood meets the angle trim, I held the 1\/4″ piece up against the sloped roof and then marked the points where it overlaps the flat roof.<\/p>\n

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Then I cut the trim with scissors. This wood is only 1\/32″ thick, so it’s easy to cut.<\/p>\n

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The angle trim has a mitered corner.<\/p>\n

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Here’s something you’ll never see unless you get under the house and look up, but I couldn’t leave it like that.<\/p>\n

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Here it is with a piece of strip wood added. It doesn’t cover the tabs up completely, but it’s much better.<\/p>\n

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And…. it’s done! The Victorianna is finally done!<\/p>\n


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Oh, I also added the mullions that I forgot to do when I finished the bay window<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the finished house enjoying a sunny afternoon in San Francisco…<\/p>\n

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It might take some time to get my new workshop unpacked and functional, but now that the Victorianna is finished (yay!) I hope to set it up with furniture sooner rather than later. In the meantime, I’m planning to post a gallery (I took a bunch of pictures before packing up the furniture), as well as a recap that links to the key posts I made while building the Victorianna, so stay tuned for those.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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