Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Scratch build - day 6

I finally got my newel posts up.  I had bought some a while ago but they got lost in my craft mess, decided after three days of searching for them it actually would make more sense to just go buy new ones!

Tomorrow, with any luck, I will be able to install the railing and balusters.  some trim work on the side of the staircase (I haven't decided how to treat the sides yet) and I will start staining these bad boys.  It's such a relief to feel like I'm doing something on this house again.

Monday, February 6, 2012

Scratch build - day 5

I've actually lost count of the days because I've been picking at this house between other tasks / while procrastinating going in to the office.  I don't know if it's burn out from the christmas house in such a short time or if I'm actually stuck on what to do next, either way it's extremely slow going on this little house so far.

I have been working on the staircase in an attempt to get something which looks authentic and is "functional" (as functional as a 1:12 scale staircase can be anyway).  I have the risers in place and now i'm attempting to figure out where on earth I put my newel posts!  I have a vision of these stairs of flowing arches with Victorian opulence oozing off every tread, and I have a saw and glue, but I haven't the faintest idea how to achieve it!

My next small step will be cutting the second floor - once that is done I can make my lighting plan and start getting some wallpaper up - once I hit that point I think the process will resume it's normal faster than lightning pace.

This house is much, much larger than I had originally planned it to be, I think I may be getting overwhelmed!