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The first furniture casualties (and I scratch build a bar)

The good thing about getting my two Butterwick houses together and getting their floors done is that I could begin to test the furniture a little bit better. I'd made sizers out of cardstock based on the measurements of the buildings, but it turns out those were a bit too large. I didn't account for the width of the walls! What this means is that my lovely pub bar that I'd gotten for the taproom was a smidge too wide for the building, and the even lovelier settle (both from Petworth Miniatures ) was a bit too wide for where I wanted to put it. I ordered a new settle that should be narrower, and this one might still find life elsewhere in the project. Although as I also realized that splitting the floor above the pub into a formal dining room and a billiard room was not going to work, and this Petworth billiard table was also a casualty... ...I think I might just save them all and do a nice (somewhat more modern) country pub after this project! This meant I st...