With the Gull Bay’s exterior finished, all that remains is interior trim. Since this house will be displayed fully closed up, the only view in is through the windows, so you really only get a glimpse. Because of this I considered not bothering with molding and baseboards but the house felt unfinished to me without them. Onward and upward!
I started with crown molding in the downstairs rooms. This is a bit larger than I’d normally use — a small 1:12 molding from Classics — but it doesn’t look out of place, especially with the 1:12 lights. Since this piece will slide around when I need to open the house, I wanted something with enough bulk to withstand a little jostling (and I also had just enough of it lying around).
Here’s the dining room with all the trim in. The baseboards are made from Midwest #3109 trim, it’s supposed to be 1:12 chair rail. Flipped upside down, I really like how this looks as half scale baseboard.
While working on the dining room, my hand bumped the light and the lightbulb broke. That was the first annoyance of the day. But it wasn’t until I moved on to the kitchen that the dominoes really started to fall.
Before I could cut the trim for the doorway leading into the kitchen, I had to add a transition piece between the hardwood and the tile. This is a floorboard cut from the leftovers of the flooring sheet I used in the living room. Because of the lump caused by the wire underneath (attached to the kitchen light), the tile sheet wasn’t firmly glued down near the doorway. When I glued in the transition piece, I also slid some more glue under the tile sheet and taped everything down to dry.
When I pulled up the masking tape, the wood in the doorway stayed down but the tile floor came right back up with it. First I tried tacky glue, and then wallpaper mucilage and finally Super Glue.
Through all of this, I’d been facing in from the living room side of the house, with my hands through the doorway. When I finally got the floor glued down I peeked in from the kitchen, and this is what I saw:
Emily is a freelance writer, miniaturist, and adventure game enthusiast.
