Just One More....

Not Even On the List.....!

Well, Dear Readers, I went shopping for RL necessary items, and Somehow I came home with This! I had seen one mentioned on several of the mini blogs and I was in That department store, and There it was! It wasn't expensive. It isn't very big. It is ready made and usable as is...(if you want to overlook the obvious lack of bathing facilities....!) and heaven knows all my little people are needing houses! But it wasn't on my List! (That huge List of all the houses I plan to build someday!) Modern Style settings have never been my "Thing"! Yet, it took me longer to un-package the not to scale kitchen pieces it came with than it did to find and place the furniture you see!

I set the whole "house" on a scrap of plywood left over from the RL building project.... and it is a Perfect size with an area outside the door for an entry courtyard! The "Tree" is a piece of greenery that I picked up at Michaels and stuffed into the ceramic planter (a RL Bonsai pot), and the shrubs are unused pieces left over from construction of The Park.... It could not have been simpler!

The loft has room for a small bed and a few other pieces of furniture....

Obviously, whoever is living here has kept some of the "Old Family pieces"!

The stairs go up to a roof meant to be a garden.... 

rain will pour in until we get the Windows replaced!!!

Hmmmmm, did I just say we were going to DO anything to this "house"?

It was supposed to be "ready-made"..... and it wasn't even On My List!!!

And Another thing that wasn't even On my List, Dear Readers,

 was the piece of scrapbook paper that came home from Michaels with me....

Because it so nearly resembled the old fashioned pressed tin ceilings 

they used in old Victorian buildings......

Which would be prefect for the Kitchen ceiling in Hardwick Hall!

Here you can see me testing it for fit.....

And then I had to "age" it a little bit....

It is a lovely silver color, and I needed to add water stains and rust 

where the bay window sticks out and surely over the years 

the ice has dammed up and leaked into the ceiling below....!

Not to mention soot over the cooking hearth area....

And then I glued it in place!

Which just made me want to see the crown moulding in place....

Which meant I needed to glue that side bay window wall in place....

and before I could do that I needed to attach the curtain rod....

Even though I am not at all certain I will have curtains on this window!

It would be just too difficult to install it later. 

And because there is no room to slide the rods out of the eye screws, 

I decided to make them both into hooks 

so the rod could be lifted out after the wall was glued in place.

Yes, I know it is really difficult to see... 

but the "eye" has been bent open to form a "hook" instead.

And this wall has been glued in place!

And here you can also see the first pieces of the crown moulding cut and glued in place....

I cannot cut the next pieces until I build the hearth wall 

which will cover over all the wires as they run down to the foundation....

where they will attach to the plug strip and transformer.

 

I still have to figure out how all those wire attachments and plugs 

will be accessible once the house is finished. 

They will need to exit the "cellar" and be hidden 

in some part of the exterior landscaping. 

 

And as for the New Loft, Dear Readers, 

It was only supposed to be 

One More Little House...

But somehow it seems to be taking on a life of its own...

Who knows what Stories it will have to tell....

And it Wasn't even On my List!!!