{"id":17116,"date":"2021-06-06T23:42:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T06:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=17116"},"modified":"2021-09-16T23:09:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T06:09:24","slug":"turret-house-front-facade-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=17116","title":{"rendered":"Turret House front facade (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The front of the Turret House has a patch of fishscale shingles that I wasn’t sure what to do with. They’re neatly applied, but the sides need some sort of trim. I’m sure whoever put this house together had a vision for how to finish this area but without knowing what they intended, I had to improvise.<\/p>\n

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I thought about adding porch posts, but the one on the right interferes with the window.<\/p>\n

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A Tiny Turnings stick worked a little better, but I didn’t really like the look of this (and it still bumped into the window).<\/p>\n

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The space on the right is only 3\/16″ wide — not a standard trim size. I looked through my stash to see what I had that I could use, and found this running trim<\/a> that I’d bought for the Victorianna and ended up not using. With the points cut off, it’s 3\/16″. <\/p>\n

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And it’s thin enough that the window doesn’t bump it.<\/p>\n

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Here’s what I came up with.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, the paint is a bit rough at the bottom where I couldn’t get the paintbrush completely under the shingles.<\/p>\n

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I decided to cover the bottom edge with quarter round.<\/p>\n

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The cutouts on the modified roof trim gave me an opportunity to add more gold accents, so I painted the areas behind that trim gold before gluing it on.<\/p>\n

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A few weeks ago I’d painted these pieces — the red is quarter round to clean up the seams in the bay window, and the gold is for the front edge of the porch roof.<\/p>\n

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Here’s how the gold trim looks. <\/p>\n

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I added 1:12 crown molding to the peak above the door. The decorative piece is a 1:12 center bracket<\/a> (intended to go upside-down on a porch spandrel). <\/p>\n

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I’ve been holding on to these gold brackets<\/a> for a while. Miniatures.com sells them as bookends, but at 1\/2″ tall, they’re a good size for 1:24 corbels. <\/p>\n

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I glued them in above the fishscale shingles. I can’t decide if they’re too overwhelming.<\/p>\n

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Next I glued in the quarter round pieces between the bay window panels, and around the bottom edge of the bay window and fishscale shingles.<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure what else I could have done with the shingled area, but it turns something into a focal point that maybe shouldn’t be a focal point…? I don’t know if I like it, but it’s hard to see the big picture right now. More trim is coming, so I’ll reserve judgment.<\/p>\n

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The front of the Turret House has a patch of fishscale shingles that I wasn’t sure what to do with. They’re neatly applied, but the sides need some sort of trim. I’m sure whoever put this house together had a vision for how to finish this area but without knowing what they intended, I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,98],"class_list":["post-17116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","tag-half-scale","tag-turret-house","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17116"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17322,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17116\/revisions\/17322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}