Part 4 of the progress report on my Coventry Cottage dollhouse project. While its not 100% dry, the glue is doing a pretty good job of holding up the Coventry Cottage frame. A close up image above. I also pieced together the front porch just to get ready. I plan on painting the house first before actually installing the frame. That way, there won’t be too much touch up ...
Part 3 of my Coventry Cottage project update. The frame the dollhouse is finally going up and getting glued together. As the title of this post suggests, the framework for my Coventry Cottage is finally placed together and glued! Of course, there is liberal use of duct tape to make sure the pieces stick together while the glue dries. The image above has a nice view of the interior. And of course, I have to show off...
In part 2 of my Coventry Cottage progress update, I am finally able to start piecing together the frame of my dollhouse. With Christmas fast approaching, it was really tough for me during the past few days to find the time to work on the Coventry Cottage kit. I had hoped to have it finished by Christmas, but its looking very unlikely at this time. Regardless, I did get a chance to work on it a bit last night and was f...
Part 1 of a series of posts documenting my first dollhouse project, building the Greenleaf Coventry Cottage. So today is day 1 on the project. Time to read the instructions. Since this is my first kit ever, it was quite a lot to digest! I did sort of prepare though. Notice the pen and pencil ready so I can mark those soon-to-be punched out pieces along with some sandwich bags to hold the loose parts pictur...
My Greenleaf Coventry Cottage arrives in the mailbox today. I am excited to get started on building my very first dollhouse. My Greenleaf Coventry Cottage arrived today. Hip hip hooray! This kit was chosen as my very first dollhouse to build because it’s small, relatively inexpensive, it includes furniture, shingles, and is just an overall great starter build. I will be working on a few of these smaller kits to get a bit ...