Hi All,
Firstly I'd like to thank everybody for being so nice and welcoming on my first ever post (Wartime Mountfield)! You're all so nice
Now I'm hoping you'll be able to help... the help I need is really more like reassurance because if I've made a mistake, I've already made it and there's nothing I can really do about it now! But I'm hoping all is not lost.
Basically, as per my Mountfield post, I have pre-decorated my dolls house before putting it together. The reason I did this was because I did a lot of research before starting, and this seemed to be what I was being advised to do. I know I was pretty sure of this when I began, because I *so* wanted to do it the other way around, and build it first! There's no way I would have resisted that urge if I wasn't totally sure that I was supposed to be doing the 'boring' decorating first, because I remember I really wanted to feel like I had a 'house'. Flat, decorated boards don't really give you that buzz! However, now I'm wondering if I've misunderstood the advice - perhaps they meant to only decorate outside - because suddenly everybody seems to be telling me the opposite, that I should have built it first, and then decorated.
As I've said, it's almost all decorated now (barring the flooring, as I know that needs to go in after the lighting - which incidentally, I'm terrified of!
), so there's no going back. I'm hoping to get it put together in the next week or two.
What I'm wanting to know is - firstly, how bad is my mistake?!
Have I really messed up, here, or is it more a matter of personal preference? It was certainly *easier* to decorate a flat wall than I imagine it would have been to decorate in 3D.
Secondly, what challenges can I expect, now that I've done this? I know that there may be an issue in the corners of my rooms - they may look a bit less 'neat' because you'll still be able to see the joins. Hopefully it won't look too bad, though. I'm also becoming aware of the fact that when I put the house together, I wind up with ripped bits at the tops and bottoms of the walls, where the
MDF slots into the grooves. I should be able to cover this up with skirting boards and cornices etc, so I'm hoping that won't be too much of a problem, but we'll see!
Is there anything else that could go wrong, or that I need to be aware of now that I've done this? I'm a bit stressed out about it, because while I definitely think that the dolls house was worth the money, I've also spent rather a lot on decorating it, and if I've really messed it up I will feel like I have thrown ££ down the drain!
Bit of a long post, but I'm just trying to get my worries out 'on paper'! Any help, advice or comfort you can offer would be much appreciated! Thanks guys