The Queen Anne Cottage |
This is pic of the real house I found in a book years ago and had saved. |
The dollhouse is happily living now in the corner of my dining room. We put casters on the bottom of the cabinet, so it can turn around easily to access the back for decorating. |
The real house has a wrap around porch on both sides and I really love that but it just made the footprint of the house to big. As you can see I originally kept one porch on the right side .
However I ended up cutting that porch off after I even had done the foundation. It was just going to be to wide for the space I had to display it in the dining room.
The finished house is now 39 in wide On the display board.
The foundation of this house is much higher than I normally do. The real house has a high foundation so I went with it. The wood is 2 1/2 inches high. This meant that I was going to need a ton of bricks made to do the entire foundation.
I cut all the egg carton lids I had saved. They were not enough, so I ended up buying egg cartons on eBay.
I had them painted and drying all over my bed. I actually only have a small sandwich bag of them left from all of this .
Now for the laser !
Trays and trays and trays, three coats of paint and sanding in between. At least the wall pieces only needed painted on one side.
The tower! The tower was quite a challenge. I did use a few pieces from the original kit but the kit tower was not tall enough, and did not get smaller as it went up like the real house tower. I also wanted to add a spiral staircase to it.
I made red geraniums for two days for these planters. I got the idea for having the planters from the Fockers movie.
The very top roof piece ended up being from a small wood bird house I got at a craft store.
Let’s take a look inside
This floor is actually a piece of cork that I brushed with paint. It was from an older wallpaper border.
This floor is a print of an authentic Cuban tile.
Back out front for a few more details
So hope you enjoy seeing this house. I can’t wait to start decorating !