I finally have a measurable amount of work done on the Beacon hill kit that arrived a few weeks back. I can tell already this is a very persnickity build. The two sub-assemblies went together rather easily, the stairs are complicated but all in all I can't say they were terribly difficult. However getting the stairs into the sub-assemblies.. well that's a different story!As I'm not one to build and then decorate, most of the work has been determining where lighting will go, how I will conceal it, and then figuring out the priority in which to get the paper on the wall and the paint on the ceiling!
I went with a floral fabric for the hall/dining room paper. It's bold, but I am still reasonably convinced I can pull this off. It lends an over the top victorian aspect to the staircase, and I'm sure that once the room is filled with dark furnishings it will be toned down considerably.
For some reason the photos always make the paper more yellow than it actually is, the background on this fabric is cream, not yellow - but you get the idea :)As far as the exterior goes, I've been waffling between two styles of masonry, but I think I have finally decided to go with the red brick. Every BH I've seen (with the exception of one) has had siding, so I want to avoid that at all costs. So here is my inspiration photo, lol and I'm about to learn a lot about bricking in minature!
Oh my! That's an awesome inspiration picture. Any idea yet what bricking method you're leaning toward yet?
ReplyDeleteI think I will go with the egg carton bricks, I've seen some pretty amazing results with that. My other option is sculpting them into paper clay, which just seems excessively tedious! The white masonry I will do with paper clay however, I have to shape the kit window frames into the arches and I can't see a way to make that happen with wood.
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