The Fairfield dollhouse - Days 25 and 26

Hi!

I decided to work on the inner wall in the third floor and the roof, instead of the staircases...
I bleed and cried but the roof is going good...
I cut the original Main Gable/Left so I could have opening for the tower space. I added some scrap wood so the height was the same with the Left Gables:

I made a inner wall so I could have a private room in the third floor:

View from the back:

View from above. Not too shabby!:

That's all for now. I'm going to spray paint/primer all tomorrow so I can glue the Front of the Left Gable in place. And the tower roof is going to be a pain to bash...

Later, Cheers!

The Fairfield dollhouse - Days 21 to 24

Hello hello!

The last four days were very productive indeed!!!
All inner walls, the fireplace, the bay windows external walls and the third floor were glued in place. Now I'm going to let the Fairfield rest till Saturday when I'm will spray paint/prime it.

I only have the roof and the staircases to glued in place... And choose the colors. Mom wants red but I don't know... I'm thinking blues or greens.. or grays..ARGH! CHOICES!!!!
Now it's pictures funtimes!

Bathroom wall in place:

Back inner wall second floor:

Tower wall extended:

Back view:

Inner walls and fireplace column in place - second floor:

Bay windows:

 

Front view:

Third floor in place:

Back view - with third floor in place:

Side view with third floor in place:

The second staircase head gap:

The hearths (?) in place:

Third floor inner walls addition:

Third floor inner wall, maybe a second bathroom?. As you can see the tower wall is extended this side too:

That's all for now! Staircases and CHOICES are next!
Later!

The Fairfield dollhouse - Days 16 to 20

Hi!

The fireplace column is a nightmare to put together...
I broke a fingernail got dozens of splinters and cut a finger... Let's not forget: Sanding sucks!

The Left wall in its place.

Front view, for now:

Dry fitting the fireplace from hell:

The attic fireplace is not level with the floor, but I was told that this is normal in real life, so...:

I'm making the final adjustments for the extension of the tower walls so I can glue it in place. And I still have to cut the gap into the attic floor for the staircase.
I think I'll be gluing the bay windows walls today. But that will happen after lunch, I'm hungry!
Later!

The Fairfield dollhouse - Days 13 to 15

Hello my lovelies!

The last three days were Very productive days!
This is the staircase 'prototype'... just so I could see where to cut into the second floor:

The entrance doorway turned into a window:

Tower walls in place:

Then I glued the Left/Front Wall and the Left side of the Second Floor in place:

A closer look, this will be the living room:

Porch area:

The staircase 'head gap':

Now the Left Wall is drying in place. And I started gluing the first staircase (first to second floor). I'm going to add a second staircase (second to third floor) somewhere... Still planing what to do...

By the way, I CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE FREAKING FIREPLACE/CHIMNEY THING! How to put that thing together!?!?! ARGH!
And the Greenleaf Forum is offline for Maintenance! NOOOOOO!

Later!

The Fairfield dollhouse - Days 09 to 12

Helloooo, good people!

Not much was done in the last four days since the weather (THANK YOU THOR!!!) got wet and cold..ish... and the wood glue took forEVER to dry.

Central Partition and Front Wall in place:

 The tower side in the Central Partition wall cut off:

 The Right side of the Second Floor and the Back Wall were glued in place.

With that done, I'm taking my time and making some plans and adjustments for the new staircase on the Tower space.
As you can see the tower space is more open since I cut off some of the Left Front Wall. The front doorway in the Tower Front Wall will be closed ( maybe it'll be turned into a window?) Theses walls are not glued in place yet since I still have to cut the 'head gap' for the staircase on the Left Side of the Second Floor.

The original floorplan put the kitchen in the left side with the dining and living rooms in the back (dinning in the back wall side, living in the front wall side). I'm going to turn all that around. The living room will be in the left side with a entrance doorway. Then the kitchen in the back wall side and the dinning room in the front wall side. With the chimney gone in the first floor, it will give me a 'open concept' kitchen/dinning area... ;D
Like this:

Now I'm going to work on the staircase prototypes, later!....
Cheers!

The Fairfield dollhouse - Days 05 to 08

Hi, *coff coff*

Sorry about the dust... Sanding times, no fun... AT ALL!

But I'm happy to say that I'm almost finished sanding the larger parts.... I will not be sanding trimmings.. I'll make new ones with popsicle sticks. Take that, you evil sanding overlord!

The Central Wall is in its place and I'm clamping one of the sides walls right now...

Perfectly done! haHA!
As you can see, I cut off the tower side that this piece had. My tower will be accessible without moving the roof.
That's all for now... Later!

The Fairfield dollhouse - Days 01 to 04

Hello!!!!!!!!!!

I'm ALIIIIVE!!!

The last post was over 3 months ago... Times flieees!

I took a month of vacation to visit my sister in Mississauga and OF COURSE I had to buy more dollhouses. The Diana and the General Store half-scale laser-cut are miiine!

I'm going to have to send some old plushies and toys away to open space for the pretties dollhouses.

This Sunday I started the Fairfield. Beautiful Fairfield... Too bad is a die-cut. A laser-cut would be awesome, IMAGINE the DETAILS we could have!!

Die-cut means sanding, losts of sanding and with sanding comes splinters, LOSTS of splinters....

I can honestly say I gave blood for this dollhouse. hehehehe

My plans for the Fairfield includes (of course) some bashing. I'm still planning what exactly to do, but the original staircase is gone! My staircase is moving to the tower space. I'm adding some doors in the second floor so I can make the porch roof into a porch balcony. I'm going to try some semi-open concept in the first floor so the fireplace and central wall/column are gone there. In principle, they still exist in the second and third floors. for now.... ;D

But everything begins with the foundation...

I sanded, and sanded and sanded then glued the foundation together. After that I added some more wood glue in the joints so it does not comes apart when I'm moving things around.

Next up, the outer and central walls...and more sanding... ARGH!!!

Later!