Yesterday I did a dry fit of the shell to check out any warping issues, and get a feel for the rooms.  Don’t I sound all experienced?  The mini blogs…I read them.

Things I’ve learned from the dry fit:

  • I have some serious warping issues with the 2nd floor.  It doesn’t want to fit together properly and is causing problems with other pieces, so I need to try and straighten it out.
  • At the very least I have to decorate the front hall before I put it together.  There is no way I’m going to be able to get my hands in there once it’s all glued together.  It probably wouldn’t hurt to do the majority of it, but we’ll see how my decision making process goes.
  • Because I’m planning on changing out the bay windows that are standard to the house to curved bay windows I have a few extra of the standard, and I think I’m going to add one to the front hall (and get rid of the 2nd door on the porch; it just seems unnecessary) as well as the back wall (furthest wall on the right in the first pic).
  • My porch plans may change.  Instead of doing a full wrap-around I may just do this bit that’s already there (and is supposed to be the roof of the 1st flr porch).  In studying the inspiration picture there are some structural changes made that I’m not sure I’m up to doing.

So yeah, dry fit is good.  Now my warped pieces are under heavy things hopefully straightening out.  It’s time to find/make some wallpaper.

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