{"id":8514,"date":"2005-07-20T16:54:29","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T23:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=8514"},"modified":"2015-05-15T20:26:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T03:26:17","slug":"westville-almost-instant-gratification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=8514","title":{"rendered":"Westville – (almost) instant gratification"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 2015: I started the Westville as part of a Greenleaf community build in 2005, and at the time we blogged our progress on the Greenleaf forum. After a few site upgrades the old community blog has become hard to link to and I\u2019m redoing my website anyway, so I decided to move those posts over here and backdate them. Sorry for any weirdness that results!<\/em><\/p>\n

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I’m too sleepy to load up pictures right now, but I’m happy to report that I got through all of Step A tonight. Which means, essentially, that I have a house! Instant gratification. <\/p>\n

First, I enlarged the kitchen window hole to make it wide enough for the casement window I bought, and filled in the gaps at the top and bottom. (The original hole is a vertical rectangle, and the casement window is horizontal.) I also enlarged the stair hole for the Houseworks stairs I’m going to use (just took a little bit of sanding) and chopped the bit of railing that protrudes into the kitchen off the center partition wall. Then I went through Step A, following the directions (rare for me!) and used a combination of wood glue and white glue to glue the pieces on. The shell is drying right now.<\/p>\n

As I was going through Step A, I applied a piece of tapewire across the first floor and up the right wall. I don’t know yet where I’m going to put lights, but this gives me some flexibility. I did this before putting in the second floor because once that’s in, it’s harder to get the wire from the first floor to the second floor.<\/p>\n

Step B is building the staircase, which I’m going to skip because I’m using pre-fab stairs. I went to the dollhouse shop this weekend but they didn’t have the set I want, so I am going to have to order them. I have a 20% coupon for HBS for the beginning of August, so I’m going to order the stairs then, along with the disappearing attic stairs and the closet door. That means I can move right to Step C, which involves putting together the rest of the shell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 2015: I started the Westville as part of a Greenleaf community build in 2005, and at the time we blogged our progress on the Greenleaf forum. After a few site upgrades the old community blog has become hard to link to and I\u2019m redoing my website anyway, so I decided to move those posts […]<\/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":[23],"class_list":["post-8514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","tag-greenleaf-westville","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514","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=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8591,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions\/8591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}