Still Carried Away

 Once thinking about creating the appearance of furniture and shapes kicked in, I had a hard time drawing the line. It was a ton of fun, though. Older daughter had found and made a grandfather clock kit (SDK Miniatures, again!) and since her house will have one, I went ahead and constructed one for each of the other houses using odds and ends in my stash and the general outline of Susan's as a guide. As it's the shape that matters, I didn't worry about a clock face; our printer here isn't good enough to do really fine work anyway, so there wasn't much point in the aspiration. I'm pretty much giving up on rugs for the same reason, though if I come up with a better  plan than printies, maybe the next two houses can have some.

The gold paint on the couch and chairs doesn't show up too well here; my thinking was that it might reflect the light a bit. We'll see how that turns out. As the next set of furniture comes together, I'll try to get better pictures.

None of that holds a candle to the Rube Goldberg mechanism that became the staircase. If I'd planned ahead better, there could have been a real unit here, instead of the organic-and-messy version I created. It wouldn't have been as fun, though. 

I used porch railings (cut by SDK) and strips of siding (window cutouts) for the stairs, though the main part of the illusion will come from the angle. The siding isn't the right scale or number for the steps, and it shouldn't show anyway. It looked better while I was working on it, though.  

Just before placing it, it became clear that the closet window would look through to daylight without something to create a landing (above the window) and a closet door (directly in front of it). Using bits of wood leftover from the furniture kits from last year (1/64"), both came together.  Not realizing how blurry the photos were (terrible), there isn't one that shows the staircase and walls in place.  This means waiting for the next one to document it better.





Next up, loveseats for the room across from the dining room and then closing up the east and west sides of the house. The final, south, wall plane must wait for sunroom construction, as that must be in place before the south wall slides into the attic plane and gets attached.