{"id":397,"date":"2009-09-12T19:45:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T02:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2015-11-27T17:14:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T01:14:15","slug":"puzzle-house-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle house, day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m loving how easy this house is to put together!<\/p>\n

This morning I poked around at Michael’s and Dollhouses, Trains, and More<\/a>, looking for scrapbook paper or wallpaper for the inside of the cottage. Nothing caught my eye and I decided to move forward with assembly and worry about the inside later. I have some ideas for furnishings already but it’s not stuff I already own, so there’s no rush.<\/p>\n

At Michael’s I picked up a bottle of Gesso. I haven’t used it before but people on the Greenleaf forum<\/a> recommended priming my windows and door with it so the paint will look the same on both (my windows are plastic and the door is wood, and I worried that the two different finishes would cause problems come painting time). While I was there I peeked in the craft department, as usual, and saw a ton of Creatology puzzles but no houses. Are wooden replicas of dinosaurs, skeletons, helicopters, and the Eifel Tower really popular enough to keep stocking them, but not the houses? I don’t get it.<\/p>\n

I wanted some 7\/16″ basswood for the base of the house, but the closest I could find was 3\/8″. I also picked up some 1\/4″ square basswood to use as porch posts, and half scale porch spindles. I’m pretty sure I already have railings tucked away somewhere.<\/p>\n

Since the 3\/8″ basswood was a little too short to fill the gap under the porch the way I wanted, I improvised by first gluing some (slightly thicker than 1\/16″) trim from the kit that I’m not planning to use to the bottom of the porch and at the back of the floor.<\/p>\n


This is the trim marked “A” and “C” in the kit, if you thinking of trying this yourself.<\/p>\n

While that was drying, I cut the basswood to size, then glued that on over the trim.<\/p>\n


The basswood I used is 3\/8″ square, which makes for a nice sturdy base. I didn’t go all the way around with it – just used it in places where you could see a gap.<\/p>\n

The basswood plus trim was a bit taller than what I needed, leaving a slight gap where the sides were no longer sitting flush on the table, but I used the mouse sander and some plain old sandpaper to even it out. (Alternatively I could have used siding to cover up the slight gap at the bottom sides but since I already cut my siding last night, that wasn’t an option.) I still need to apply some wood filler, to even out the seams where the different pieces of wood meet, but I think it’ll look real nice when it’s done… much classier than the original design that had an open space under the porch and the floor.<\/p>\n

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When that was done, I cut the rest of the siding for the front of the house and did a bit of sanding around the window holes to make sure everything will fit well. Then I glued in the divider between the two first floor rooms, and the second floor. The house is currently being squashed under paint cans, much like last night…<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I should be able to get the rest of the assembly finished, glue on my siding, and maybe even start painting. I repeat, I love this easy little house!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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