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I’m not active enough of an internet guy to remember to actually post stuff - so we’re going back 6 months…

I surprised my daughter (and the entire family) on Christmas morning when they found this waiting in the living room. I hadn’t told my partner I’d been working on anything, kept it quiet.

It’s all just pine, dressed all round. Had to go buy a cheap and nasty jigsaw to cut the doors and opening between floors since my coping saw broke whilst trying to work this (handle snapped clean off, thanks Stanley)

The roof- cut at an angle, turned one piece over and glued it. Then stood like a statue holding it for half an hour pressing it against the ground until it dried enough. Couldn’t think of any other way to hold it tight at that angle -_-

The floors and balcony are all slotted into through dados. Cut, chiseled and then cleaned up a bit with trim router. And I hate so much working pine with chisels! (I’ve since got a bigger router bit that would have made this much easier)

Finished with water based Jarrah stain, with water based acrylic paint on the roof and “bathroom”. Some of that finish is really sloppy, I was still out there late on Christmas Eve trying to get the last few coats on.

A leftover sheet of mdf (think about 5mm) just painted and nailed in as the back wall.

There’s a little set of stairs on the ground floor finished with dark carnauba wax. There’s also a little rope ladder going up to the top floor - was from our pet bird who had left us recently.

A whole mish mash of different ideas here, but I just wanted to make something fun and interesting for my daughter.

For what I wanted to do for her first big Christmas (just turned 3), this turned out better than I thought I could do.

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[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Very nice :)

This is the first time I've seen a doll house which is so super-shallow like that. I'm assuming that was decided based on where it was going to be placed, so it wouldn't intrude on where you walk. Super practical. All the play-fun of a deeper one, but a fraction of the space!

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes, her bed is a just over a metre from the wall, so need a space saver.

The idea came from a Noah’s Ark playset I had when I was a kid. The Ark folded out to become like a similarly shallow zoo.