Floors

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Nyne House Front Door Placement

December 4, 2010

This is just a quick post.. Remember the post where I was mulling over where to put the main entrance for the Nyne? Well, its been decided after the Reac chairs came in the mail! I set up where I planned to place the chairs and it does indeed allow ample space for the main [...]

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Building the Nyne House Part 4: Main Room Flooring

December 1, 2010

This is going to be a long post with lots of pictures. While it is still work on the Nyne, this is largely an experiment/how-to-guide using Band-It wood veneer strips, wood filler, and wood stain. When conceptualizing the Nyne, my initial idea was to have the floors be removable. To plan for that, I cut [...]

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Building the Nyne House Part 3: Material and Furniture Placement Planning

November 22, 2010

Its Monday and Thanksgiving is in just a few days.. scary how time flies! This will also probably be the last post until after Thanksgiving since I have gobs of work to do, gobs of family events to go to, and gobs of turkey to eat! This is a rather simple post anyway. Its all [...]

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Making Miniature “Stone” Tiles

August 2, 2010

I knew I wanted to have my Coventry Cottage’s porch to have “flagstone” flooring and I didn’t want to buy those floor sheets, partially because I’m poor, but mostly because it doesn’t look real enough for me. The next best solution was to make the “stone” tiles and grout them on myself. This is a short [...]

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Coventry Cottage Project Part 11: Finishing the Hardwood & Roof

June 10, 2010

So its time to finish off the floors and the roof. I knew from the beginning that I wanted to have a natural finish for my Coventry Cottage’s “hardwood” floors, as well as the roof , so I skipped the staining part and went strait to applying polyurethane to the floors and roof. You can see in [...]

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Coventry Cottage Project Part 9: Floors and Carpeting

May 31, 2010

Happy Memorial Day! A few days ago, I finally had the chance to work on the flooring for the Coventry Cottage dollhouse. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it at first, but after browsing around the local craft shop and finding skinny craft sticks, I decided that they would make perfect [...]

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