The Queen Anne Rowhouse is almost finished, and as usual when I get *almost* finished with a dollhouse, my thoughts are straying ahead to the next one. In December I lucked out on an Elizabeth Anne kit on eBay. I’m itching to start on it but am making myself wait until I put the finishing touches on the Rosedale, which has been sitting patiently on a shelf for the last two years.

I started by adding basswood trim to the exposed plywood edges. I made this house by bashing two half scale Rosedale kits together and it’s experienced some settling. I hope the lady who lives here got a thorough inspection before she bought the place…

At the bottom, I didn’t have strip wood quite tall enough so I used used a piece of 1:12 baseboard.

Up on the third floor, I added a porch post as a support in the bedroom. Originally there was nothing here and it was holding up okay, but looked kind of funky.

Next I painted the roof trim and glued the pieces together.

Here they are sitting in place, not glued to the house yet.

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