Friday, May 30, 2025

Model Dollhouse

 At the beginning of this month I purchased a Heritage Model Dollhouse, vintage 1991 never been opened, that I found on KSL.com classifieds. I've been thinkin about building a dollhouse to display some of the amazing miniatures I've collected over the years and feel like God helped me find this one! I set up shop in our third car garage and have been dedicating as much spare time as I can to it's construction. This is a minimum 150 hour project, that may take longer because there were some missing pieces I had to make myself, and I only have a few hours to spare each week. I'm 30 hours into it (trying not to be obsessed, but really wish I could work on this full time every day), every step I had to fight to make it happen. This is the progress so far:

  1. Buying and inventorying all supplies
  2. cleaning garage and setting up tools
  3. gluing the siding of exterior walls
  4. making foundation
  5. contact cement hardwood floor and stain
  6. brick work around foundation
  7. cutting support posts and carefully popping templates out of old wood panels
  8. painting painting painting
  9. actually getting some bay walls up!
  10. running into snags as some pieces have been missing, I did my best to recreate them

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