I’m actually building this as a project on another board, but thought I’d share it here, too. Kim went looking for a box to ship the second Lindsey wagon to it’s new home, and found these inside it. She’d bought them back in November intending to give me them for Christmas… and forgot they were there! Being in a hurry to get to the Post Office I looked at them and said something non-committal and probably ungracious and inane as well. (Kim often buys stuff that just doesn’t quite work with my “vision”… sometimes it takes me a while to see it her way…) And started to toss them in a drawer ------ then I realised they shared a common theme. (Okay, I can occasionally take a hint – especially when it smacks me upside the head!)
I also remembered that I had a Korber “Aunt Bertha’s House” kit that I’d bought last April but never gotten around to assembling.
So, what IS the difference between a small cottage, and a tiny business (besides higher property taxes!)? Big windows! And I had a couple sets of Simpson windows left over from my machine shop project. before:
after:
Wainscot, courtesy of a cut up B’mann coach
A waterproof subfloor, cut from a discarded restaurant serving tray (fibreglas)
Inexpensive shelf contact paper from the kitchen store, an idea borrowed from my ex-wife’s dollhouse hobby. I think this pattern looks a lot like late 50’s era linoleum! (still needs final trimming)
That’s two evening’s work. More to come… eventually
