Quarter Scale Coaching Inn

 I've been scarce again because while I've been making progress, nothing has been tangibly done...until TODAY. Landscaping for this project first involved prepping the base. I first looked into gluing a bunch of traditional quarter scale lighting drawers together, but it was going to be super expensive to buy that many of them. So I ended up buying two custom monitor risers from The Paper Skiff on Etsy.  These I glued together and then glued the whole unit on top of a dollhouse turntable (I got mine from Manhattan Dollhouse ). It became apparent pretty quickly that I was going to need touchup paint as I made a bit of a mess on the risers while working above them, but the seller from Etsy let me know the paint color so I could buy some for touchups. Once everything was together it was time to drill the holes for wiring. Lacking any better tools I also used the drill to make the channels for the bulk of the wires to fit into. Because of the way I kitbashed the houses, I knew I ...

So as I mentioned in my last post, I went on a huge offensive over the weekend to try to finish up the four upstairs bedrooms in Butterwick, and I succeeded! The first thing to mention about the bedrooms is that I split the top of my Butterwicks by adding dividers, which made for four cozy bedrooms up top rather than two giant ones. This felt more right for an inn where people would often just be staying overnight. All of the rooms are fairly masculine -- it wouldn't be as common for women to be traveling by themselves, and I thought these rooms would be more often occupied by men. The first room is meant to be one that might be preferred by someone in trade. Although the rooms are mostly geared for a one-night stopover, this one might be used for longer by someone who had business in the area. It's got a table, bed, chair, writing slope and desk from Petworth Miniatures . The picture frames for all of the rooms are also from Petworth, while all of the fir...

I went on a big push this long weekend to try to get this house semi-finished (right now in the project I want to get them each to the point where their furniture can be stored within) and I succeeded. I posted about the Georgian Kitchen and the shop and modiste/milliner upstairs , but it was time to buckle down and do the wallpaper for the bedroom. I'd been procrastinating it both because it was to be my first time with wallpaper and also because it was a super-tricky first time with wallpaper. What I hadn't realized is that the arched fireplace I'd ordered for the bedroom had a really deep back. That wasn't necessarily bad as this one is above the kitchen stove which shows a pretty huge fireplace stack, but it necessitated a much bigger chimney breast than I'd used for the dog grates in Traveller's Rest . So I built one, but then that meant I had to either cut the wallpaper to fit its angles, or bend it in. I opted to bend it in, which mostly work...

The first building to be approaching anything close to completion in my project is the Traveller's Rest building. In addition to the coachway that will lead to the yard and other buildings, it has four other rooms: a waiting room, a booking office, a private parlour, and a bedroom. I built the building pretty substantially out of order, in so that I could do the panelling in the easiest manner, and also to wire it for lighted fireplaces from  Herdwick Landscapes . Because of course my first project wasn't ambitious enough, so I needed to do some electrical with it! It's only been in the last couple of weeks that the actual structure has come together. I did the wood floors upstairs relatively early, using hardwood strips from  S. H. Goode , but I needed to get the panelling and fireplace in on the ground floor to understand its footprint in order to do the floor. This I did with  Stacey's Miniature Masonry  flagstones - all of the ground floor rooms in the pro...