because I'm largely obsessed with the Old Hickory / Knox
house in Coudersport, Pennsylvania and the Fairfield would make a great start for a old junky imitation. I'm so excited about it.
But anyway, back to the Newberg. I've been working on brick work for the foundation.
And I moved the staircase landing because a staircase in what is obviously a kitchen is unacceptable. Now we'll switch temporarily to the captions being under the photos to explain how I moved it.
As the kit is designed, the stairs would be in the kitchen going from the back of the house to the front.
I marked off the dividing wall with a light score with a craft knife.
Positing the punch out from the stair case where I'd like them to be, and trace around it, making it fully square because I don't have to account for the notch for the support wall below.
Put the punch out back in it's original place, flip the board over so it's bottoms up, and add a line of wood glue around the punch out lines.
When it's almost dry, add a couple strips of masking tape just for extra security and flip it right side up.
Add wood glue into the lines on the front, and the number inside the punch out that marked the sheet number.
Handy tip: if you sand while your wood glue is still wet, it makes excellent wood filler and takes care of the gaps while you work.
The new lay out as I chose it to be. The stairs will come down in front of the door so someone coming in will either go straight upstairs or to a room on the main floor. It's more realistic and my tiny kid will still be able to reach in and maneuver her dolls around.
In addition to that, this morning I started cutting porch planks and numbering them on the back so that after I finish painting and grouting the foundation, I can go straight to laying the porch planks with only a few small modifications needed to fit them around the door jamb and porch rails.
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