With my doors and windows picked out and my egg carton stoops and paths finished, the next step on the four seasons roombox was… well, everything. The four scenes are the same, so I set up all four of them at once.
I recently got a really good deal on some old Houseworks siding — $5 each for two packages of 24″ long sheets — but I didn’t realize until I opened one that it’s noticeably lower quality than new Houseworks siding. I’m not sure if that’s due to years of poor storage or Houseworks using lower quality wood in the past (maybe both). This stuff is a lot rougher than the newer siding and it cracks and splits very easily.
To minimize splitting problems, I created the door and window openings by cutting smaller pieces of siding to go around the openings, rather than cutting a hole in a large piece.
The plywood pieces weren’t glued together yet. I cut and attached all the siding, painted it, and then slid the pieces together inside the box. As I added siding to each section, it became harder to slide the plywood pieces into the box due to the added thickness at the edges. On the last few sections, I had to stop the siding about 1/16″ away from the edge so the fit wouldn’t be as tight.
With the siding painted, I glued the walls into the box. I cut pieces of strip wood to cover up the exposed plywood edge at the top.
Next I added ground cover. For spring, I used a piece of Noch grass. I love this stuff — it’s lush and realistic (unlike the Lemax grass I got at Michaels a few years ago, which sheds all over the place).
To my surprise I found very few standalone afghan patterns (what’s the point of Anne Cloth without patterns to stitch on it?), but I fell in love with Dimensions’ 
Emily is a freelance writer, miniaturist, and adventure game enthusiast.
