Building the Beachside Bungalow part 15

 

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The first thing to do this week is get any interior walls into the dollhouse. The kit comes with 3, I am only going to use 1. In my opinion this floor plan is just too small to divide into that many rooms. The bottom floor will be one open room containing a family room and open kitchen. Then upstairs there will be a bedroom and a bathroom.

My wall for upstairs was a bit too big to fit in, I'm not sure why, it could be a number of things. All it took was some sanding on the edges to get the fit just right. I allowed 6” for the bathroom at the end away from the stairs. The rest will be the bedroom. The stairs will come directly into the bedroom.

I do have some plans for under the stairs but that will come later. Since stairs are always one of the last things to be installed.

I like to run a line of tape-wire 1” above the floor all the way around the building in all rooms. To aid in drawing the placement line for this tape-wire line I made myself a little tool. It is a simple thing to make and will make drawing that line really easy. I have made similar tools in the past and I have also used a short piece of 1” wide wood for this too. This time I am going to put the tool I made directly into my box of wiring supplies so I don't have to make one next time I want to wire a dollhouse or roombox.

The other two placement lines I drew today were connecting the first floor tape-wire line to the one on the second floor and one next to the door for the front porch light.

The only ceiling light I am planning to install in the house will be in the kitchen area. I am really hoping I can place it underneath the bathroom. Since I am planning to cover the wood floor in the bathroom with something more fitting to a bathroom I will be able to hide the wire for that light under that floor.

The rest of the house will probably have a combination of table and floor lamps with a couple of wall mounted lights in the bathroom.

I was really hoping to start the wiring process this week but I ran into a bit of a glitch in that plan.

You see I knew I had everything I needed to wire the house. I had checked my wiring supplies box and in there I had a transformer, a lead-in wire, a junction splice, tape-wire, brads, grommets, and a test probe. I decided to test those and it is a really good thing I did. Something in that group isn't working. I know the tape-wire is fine but, either the transformer, lead-in wire, junction splice or test probe is not working. I really am not sure which of those it is. So I placed orders to get replacements along with a couple of other things I needed to get anyway. I had to place two orders since I couldn't get everything I needed in either of the places I was ordering from. I am hopeful that both orders will arrive in time to film for next week.

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