Hello there!!

[kimbo_2020]

Hi there,

I'm new to the forum so i thought i would stop by and say hi! My name is Kim and im 25 yrs old. I planned and built my first handmade dolls house from scratch when i was 17 and unfortunately had to get rid of it when we moved house.

Ive recently started looking into the hobby again and become addicted yet again and this time am thinking of creating a tudor house. Im going to be a bit ambitious though and am planning on making the house and all the furnature!! Just need to get all the stuff together plus my thoughts and away i go!!

Love the forum, i wish this function was available when i built my last one!!
kim xx

[Winston's Mum]

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn242/chrisseysmi/hello.gif warm welcome to the forum, hope you will enjoy it as much as we all do. Your plans sound exciting how big is your new house going to be, your very brave to attemp it, it is hard, as my hubby is going to make me a house with in the year, i still have a few on the go at moment so dont need it until then X

[kimbo_2020]

I have also attached some pics of my previous attempt :D

[WhatNow]

Hi Kimbo, and welcome to the forum :)

I love your first attempt - really good for a first time I reckon. :D

[kimbo_2020]

The last few. It was a basic one and i made a few mistakes which i will definately learn from!!

[Winston's Mum]

wow it was a lovely house, was you sad when you had to leave it, did you get some one else to have it X

[katie]

Hello from a fellow newbie :D Your house is lovely.

[wombat]

hi kimbo ad welcome, you forst house looks great i bet you were gutted to see it go. i just finished my first house at the beginning of the month and it went off to live with my step gdaghter, i was gutted to see it go but pleased too as i knew the next house i got will be mine all mine!!!lol

[kimbo_2020]

Hi again, thanks for all the welcomes!!

Well luckily i kept all the furnature and accessories and have them all packed up in a box in the attic ready for an even better house when i get a place of my own and the time and space!! But yes i did give the old house away to a friend in work who had room for it and they have started collecting to fill the many rooms!!

I'm still in the planning stages of the new one at the moment. I want to research it so its historically correct in style and layout etc and then get started with some plans. Will take forever but its going to be an ongoing project. Ive also just discovered the wonderful world of Fimo! its amazing! have ordered Angie Scarr's book and will be getting into making some readyfor my tudor feasts! the tables will be heaving by the looks of it!! :-)

[Winston's Mum]

that book you just ordered is the best one i adore it too, you will enjoy it/

[Dizzydora]

Pictures look great- good luck with the next one

[Irene's sister]

Hullo Kimbo,

your house looks lovely. How nice that someone else is putting it all together again.

Wombat's just made some lovely food for her son's fish restaurant. (The lobster looked very tasty). Good luck with your Fimo cooking.

[jans280]

Warm welcome to you, love your 1st attempt...... good luck with your 2nd project:)

[davidsmum]

Hi Kimbo

Welcome to the forum and thanks for the pics. They're great and I especially like your ceilings!

[Amanda]

Hi Kimbo

http://th277.photobucket.com/albums/kk68/erozy_2008/th_welcome.gif (http://media.photobucket.com/image/welcome/erozy_2008/welcome.gif?o=1) to the forum, I am sure you will find lots of fun and laughter as well as some good advise although having had a look at what you call your first attempt I wish my first attempt had looked half as good, it is a beautiful house, look forward to seeing your new house

[coodencat]

Hi Kimbo warm welcome .The house is lovely you furnished/decorated it beautifully
tc carol
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[kimbo_2020]

Hi Kimbo

Welcome to the forum and thanks for the pics. They're great and I especially like your ceilings!


Yeah i liked the ceilings, i discovered the joys of embossed paper but tried to find one that looked like a ceiling pattern and not just a random one. All the wall papers in the house were life sized ones i found in Hypervalue! No real dolls house papers in sight im afraid!! :)

[davidsmum]

Hi Kimbo

You certainly chose your papers well - I would never have guessed they were life size.

[lisa gooch-knowles]

hi ya , your house is wonderful, i loved the chimmney breasts in the rooms, cant believe it was your first house lol!! you are a natural xx

[St.Vale]

Welcome Kimbo, what a lovely house, good luck with your next one!

[DeeGee]

Love your ceilings and the fireplaces with the brick effect... how did you make them?

[kimbo_2020]

Love your ceilings and the fireplaces with the brick effect... how did you make them?

hi there, The ceilings were just covered with embossed paper but i tried to choose the pattern so it was similar to a real ceiling. The brick effect on the chimney breat as just literally a thin layer of polyfiller scored with a knife to give the brick effect. I also did this on the front doors. :D

Thank you all for the welcomes and glad you liked the house!

[Winston's Mum]

Hi Kimbo, can you show us the doors please, i am about to start on a new house soon and looking at optins for front, i want the stone effect thank you hope i am not being to much of a pain lol thankyou!!!!

[kimbo_2020]

Yep no worries!! It was my first attemt with it but i quite liked the affect, would prob do again but take a bit more care, think i rushed it last time! I only have pics of the front before the glazing went in....as you can see the house was stupidly big! ;)

[Winston's Mum]

Hi Kimbo thankyou, might do it that way, but i want the stones so will be bigger than bricks, must find out what they are called, what they have at bottom part of old georgian buildings?

[Winston's Mum]

sorry meant to also say yes it is a big house. lol

[St.Vale]

Hiya Kimbo

Stupidly big..........................mmmmm interesting, I like stupidly big giggle

[DeeGee]

Ooo right... will definately be doing that then, I've just used filler to do my pavement... so I have to admit I was wondering whether you'd used filler.... looks good.:)

[wombat]

Hullo Kimbo,

your house looks lovely. How nice that someone else is putting it all together again.

Wombat's just made some lovely food for her son's fish restaurant. (The lobster looked very tasty). Good luck with your Fimo cooking.

thank you IS!!


i also have that bok on order kimbo (as well as a few others, this fimo lark is great fun)!!!