{"id":3398,"date":"2011-03-15T19:05:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T02:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2011-03-19T16:38:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T23:38:49","slug":"rosedale-assembly-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=3398","title":{"rendered":"Rosedale assembly, third floor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I’m adding a third story that wasn’t in the original design, the slanted roof pieces needed to be cut to meet the third floor walls at a right angle.<\/p>\n

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I also needed to create side walls. Since the right wall hadn’t been used yet from either kit, I modified these by cutting off the bottoms, then cutting openings to create access between the small roofed-in areas and the large room. The pencil marks below show which portions were cut.<\/p>\n

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The larger opening will lead to an extension of the room, maybe to be used as a closet area.<\/p>\n

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The smaller opening is a doorway into the bathroom. There needs to be more wall on this side since it’s where the stairs come up. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to extend the opening all the way to the back, but in retrospect I should have left a small piece to create a proper doorway. Once this portion is glued together, I’ll fix it with a piece of strip wood.<\/p>\n

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I decided to assemble the third floor room as its own unit, rather than to continue building from the ground up. First I prepped the third floor ceiling, which is a mishmash of parts from the two kits:<\/p>\n


Earlier, this piece was cut into two parts<\/a>, with the smaller part forming the third floor for the new wing. The remaining piece forms the third story ceiling, but the trim doesn’t go all the way around.<\/p>\n


A piece of trim was left over<\/a> when I prepped the third story floor from Kit A.
I glued a portion of this into the empty space.<\/p>\n


This was tough to glue since the edges where I’d cut the pieces weren’t exactly straight.
I smeared wood glue over the seams so it could soak in.<\/p>\n

While that was drying, I noticed one of the bays was loose. Nothing a mess of glue and a C-clamp won’t fix!<\/p>\n

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(Meanwhile, Rosy was enjoying a lazy afternoon of sunbathing…)<\/p>\n

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Once the glued-on trim was dry, I glued the room together. The tops of the pieces retained some of their tabs and slots so the assembly is fairly sturdy.<\/p>\n

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Here’s how it looks on the house. I haven’t glued it on yet, since there’s still some fiddly work to be done with the stairs and I need to be able to get my hands in.<\/p>\n

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Finally, I modified the top roof pieces from both kits to create the new roof. The picture below shows where to cut; since there’s some extra, I just did a sloppy cut in the Xed area and sanded both pieces down to the right size using the disc sander.<\/p>\n

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Getting close! The roof pieces are not glued yet, but here’s a first view of the house with all of the structural pieces in place.<\/p>\n

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And here’s a peek at the third floor suite and attic from the inside (with a piece of strip wood propped up in the bathroom doorway as described above). Even though it doesn’t have windows, the attic is large enough that I think I’ll use it as a kid’s bedroom.<\/p>\n

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Since I’m adding a third story that wasn’t in the original design, the slanted roof pieces needed to be cut to meet the third floor walls at a right angle. I also needed to create side walls. Since the right wall hadn’t been used yet from either kit, I modified these by cutting off the […]<\/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":[29,19],"class_list":["post-3398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","tag-greenleaf-rosedale","tag-half-scale","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398","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=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3458,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions\/3458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}