#miniature projects

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Remember when I said my craftroom was over capacity for dollhouses? Guess what, it wasn't. How do I know this, because now there's a third.

And the award for definitely biting off more than I can chew goes unanimously to this kid.

This beauty is rough but I love the potential. The story is that someone found it in an abandoned house so it's one of a kind and old. My plan is to rehab it and re-sell it. I've already removed the old wiring that looked like it was from the seventies.

My first big project is fixing the front steps.

They're leaning, they're crumbling, they're jank. I'm gonna replace the poles but I'm trying to maintain as much of the original wood as possible.

This is my first time "flipping" a dollhouse and I'm pumped. I'm still painting away on the other house, and doing a couple touch ups with the prime dollhouse.

And my cat has completed his inspection, a necessary step in all projects.

[mainichihacchama]

また久しぶり!

最近、マスターは私のためにこの小さいな本屋を組み立てります。

まあ、まだ終わりんこですよ。

でも何か可愛い家だと思います。。。

[It's been a while!

Recently, Master is building this little bookstore for me.

Well, it's not finished yet.

But I think it's a cute house.]

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I've taken on a new project. Have I finished my own dollhouse? Absolutely not. Is my craft room over capacity for dollhouses? You bet your sweet buttcheeks it is.

And yet, I carry on. I'm re-finishing a secondhand dollhouse for my niece. The first step is the cracked shingles.

Unacceptable. 

Could this be ignored and called character? Absolutely, but I have a miter saw, spare wood and clearly too much time so I set out to replace it.

I also secretly love to destroy, I should be more honest.

But it looks so much nicer now! Next, I wanted to shingle a small section of roof that had not previously been disturbed.

Why didn't the previous owner shingle it? Only the miniature Gods know but I thought it would look nicer shingled.

And I was right.

Color is next once I figure out how to sneakily get my almost 4 year old niece to pick house colors without revealing what I'm up to.

Thanks for reading, your reward is a picture of the house using my cat to show scale.

But my cat is very large, so this method will surely remain a subpar measuring tool.

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Fun fact: My house is old and doesn't have air conditioning.

Less fun fact: My craft room is small with a little window and no ventilation so it makes crafting in the summer taxing and slightly dangerous.

Is this just an excuse for my lack of productivity? Absolutely!

But I digress, I finally got some actual work done so I thought I'd gush to the internet strangers.

Behold, the wonky stairs...

REBORN!

Aw yes, less jank and so pretty. They will look so fancy when they get a fresh coat of paint. 

Speaking of paint, I also got a chance to get a little more painting done on the niece's dollhouse.

The blue really grows on me the more I add. It's all the peace and beauty I wish I had in my full-size house.

Also, I scored some baller wallpaper for the inside while on vacation but they deserve their own post. They're glorious and they were on sale.

Obligatory cat pic.

Later miniature peeps

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I said I wanted to share projects, implying multiple, so here's one I recently put the finishing touches on.

Behold, my tiny kitchen counter. The story is, I have a very narrow galley kitchen in my prime dollhouse. You met my second dollhouse project, my prime is mine for keeps and it is still in process. I’ve been trying to finalize the kitchen for like...a year and one of my biggest headaches was this space I wanted to have a counter. I could not find a pre-made counter to fit the space. 

Cue miter saw and a variety of wood from my local model train store where the owner thinks me building tiny furniture is hilarious. 

And I think it turned out great. It works in the space and I’m like, totally almost done with the kitchen. Really. I mean it. I’ll definitely be done...soon. This year. Definitely this year. Probably. Maybe. Mumble mumble. I’m gonna go paint something. 

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The end of one project, can it be? My plans to completely finish my niece's dollhouse were scrapped when I got pregnant and tired. Thanks to baby sleeping through the night and free babysitting I just finished the outside in time for her birthday.

She pretty.

That brings my craft room capacity back to two dollhouses, and now that I have a little potato, I have a plan for the third dollhouse. Let the games begin.

🙃