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 ...

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 next-farthest-along in my project is the Tanglewood Hall kit from Petite Properties. Rather than using it as a house, it will be part of the inn frontage. In my mind, the inn started smaller, and then took over the space next door. Coaching inns tend to have two types of frontage on a high street: either the inn's rooms run along the high street, or there is passageway back to the inn yard, where the majority of the rooms are. This allows the space around the passageway to be utilised for shops. I decided to make my inn a bit of a hybrid. So there will be a shop and a dressmaker/milliner's office on one side of the building, with a loft above them that's additional sleeping space for the inn. As part of growing and taking over some of this space, the inn added a second, main kitchen (more on the first one much later), and a bedroom upstairs. The kitchen needs to work double-duty, as I learned that lower-class passengers on the stagecoaches would have eaten in...