Brick dollhouse exterior

Willow Cottage dollhouse

A modern dollhouse and miniatures blog by Kristine Hanna

Sold: October 2007 To: Catherine Russell, CA

Brick dollhouse with gorgeous columns and bay windows

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In this post I will make a start in showing how I decorated the outer wall of Miniature House. In reality the bricks are pieces of sanding paper, coloured with acrylic colours for artists. It is an inexpensive way of decorating the outside of your house, but on the other hand it takes a lot of your time and patience too...... I made use of a technique that is shown in a book written by Beryl Armstrong: In her book Beryl shows a way of cutting paper with a self-made device to 1:12 brick-size…

I used the Tudor brick stencils on the Mounfield but to make covering the bakery easier, I ordered the extra large stretcher bond brick stencil. I used sanded grout because they are reformulating the brick compound designed to be used with the stencil. I used sanded grout close to the color of the bricks I wanted, you just add water to mix. I painted the MDF walls with latex paint in white the color I wanted the grout to be. The artist palette knife that I used was too small for the extra…

I'm excited to share with you my "I have no clue what I'm doing" bricks today! I started this house with the intention to have fun and make a modern style farmhouse. I love this look (as do most people I think!) and when I found this kit I knew it would be the perfect house for my plans. I had originally planned to do a wood porch, but with all the wood accents I already added, it was just too much boring brown. So I set out to find some bricks that would fit the bill. I scoured Pinterest…