The Lily Day 22

After massive amounts of touch ups just about everywhere, it was time to move on to the inside once again.

The attic is the place that needs the most attention. Remember that gap in the ceiling that showed all of the shingles? Well, I covered it up. I didn’t buy the wood trim or the fabric to do it, I just simply made my own trim out of cardboard. I used the box the house came in, cut four pieces to size and painted them with the same paint I used to make the stain. They blend in perfectly and people wont even know they are cardboard.

I trimmed all of the ceilings with skewers and finished off the baseboards in the attic with skinny sticks. I glued on some wooden caps to the staircase rails.

Outside, again, I used some stainable wood filler to touch up around the dormer sides.















Now lets go back on this build so I can show you what little faux pas I hid.

First the porch. When I put on the porch railing I saw that one of the posts was horribly misaligned. No matter which way you turned the house, you just saw a leaning post so there was no way I was able to glue it to the back of the verge board.

What was causing this misalignment is unknown. Its just one of those things about dollhouse building that sometimes happens.

In order for me to keep the post straight, I had to hold it back but if I held it back it was too far from the verge board for me to glue it so I took some very small pieces of skinny sticks and laminated them together to make the thickness needed between the post and the verge board. I glued it between the post and verge board and that made the post straight. When I glued the post trim over this post, it makes my repair virtually invisible. You have to point it to someone for them to even notice.



On the back porch steps, I totally lost the risers. I just don’t know where I put them and I searched everywhere so I took some cardboard, measured out the risers I needed and made them out of that. They are identical to the wood ones of the front. Someone would have to really look extremely hard at that area for a long time to realize the risers are not wood.



My piece of widows walks finally came in for the back side of the house so I put it on. The pattern kind of breaks of there but what can you do? Its not very noticeable because its in the back side.

This house is finally done and I’m glad it is. Not because it wasn’t fun but because it was so tedious and it took such a long time. This is an extremely hard build, in fact the hardest I’ve done so far. The out come though makes it all worth it. This house is truly beautiful once done.





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