Day 19 - Staircases and exterior

The staircases were stained and painted. Railing a treads stained, risers painted white. The finishing touch will be to stain the tabs on the white risers, to match the rest  of the stained pieces.

First coat of exterior color. It is going to look great with the red and white accents.

DAY 14 - DIY Design

Gemma is the lead interior / exterior designer on this project, with some input from mom and dad.  Gemma was very clear about her color combinations. She chose a light teal for the exterior with a white for window frames and a very interesting red for certain design elements. I have to say i love her color choice since we own a 1955 Chevy Bel Air that is turquoise. I created a blog to follow its restoration click here 55belair.blogspot.com

I also picked up a finished piece of 3/4 plywood, 2 feet by 4 feet, to mount the dollhouse. This base will become the yard once we finish, a local sign shop routered the edges.  I also installed a lazy Susan under the base so Gemma can spin it around.

DAY 15 - Hardwood Floor

After the base was complete, it was time install hardwood floor.  Gemma decided on a light stain, so we ran with it.  It was a lot of measuring, remeasuring, and measuring again to make sure everything lined up 

DAY 2 - Getting started

Once we read the directions, which are very well done, and watched a few assembly videos (on the laserdollhousesdesigns website) we started our journey down this rabbit hole!

We decided to dedicate our formal living room as the assembly area. We landed on a two table method. one for the build and the other as a organized inventory table.

The instructions call to build the dollhouse dry, no gluing, making sure everything fits and all pieces were included. If that all pans out then you must take it all apart and build and finish one level at a time.  All the pieces are laser cut from thick quality wood. Letters and numbers engraved on each piece and the corresponding slot they go into.  Even with no glue, the structure is very stable.