Progress but not nearly finished.

Front Elevation

With the doors open from the front

closeup of roof

Closeup of Porch - I got my own goat!

Entry Way/Formal Parlor

Kitchen

Dining Room

Family Parlor/Lounging Room

Bathroom

Bedroom - working on linens

Music Room in progress

Maid's Room - She needs a bed!

Work Room/Laundry/Sewing/Ironing

New Goodies

New Porch Furniture

My Birthday Present from Jeff - New parlor stove!!

Things are shaping up!!

Latest exterior work. I need to decide on trim and I'm waiting for my roofing material to come in
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Inside the large doors...

Loving those shingles on the front peak. What color to paint them? Undecided yet...

The "Music Room"

The "Help"'s room...Need to get that piano out of there...

Attic storage room....that accounts for the bare bulb...

Building a Porch...

So many tiny steps...

I'm still working on my Katherine Project. I just had a birthday, so my "present" preference was yet another trip to the dollhouse store. I needed some more hardwood and tile flooring, some additional wallpaper, a dining room set, etc.  It takes so much to build a house! I was pleasantly surprised when asking the shop owner if she had a "Bodo Hennig" parlor stove in stock, that she handed me a bag. My son had called earlier and purchased the stove for me! Of course, there was confusion and she had sold him the cook stove instead of the parlor stove, but I should have the correct one within 2 weeks.
The "I Need" list is never ending. What I NEED to do is catalogue everything I have bought thus far.... maybe tomorrow...
Anyway, the ground floor and second floor now have wallpaper on 3 sides, ceilings, floors, electricity, and trim. I'll have to do the same to the interior side of the front doors as well. I have attached the front doors to the building proper...twice....and added electricity for the porch lights....and now, the electrical works perfectly until I close the front doors....which coincidentally is the only time you will see the porch lights. Heavy sigh...........
I still have two windows to "trim out" on the inside second floor, but I couldn't stand it any longer. I put all of my furniture in the house just to see how it looks. It is a lot more inspiring than looking at an empty room too long. I also noticed that some of my items may not fit in the floor spaces that I have. Of course, I will have the 3rd floor to work with later when I finish it....

So, this project is a lesson in building, decorating, planning, budgeting, and patience.

Some pictures of my progress, or lack thereof, depending on how you see it...

Formal Parlor view

Bedroom with hand painted ceiling sans light fixture...and window trim... and door...

Beginnings of bathroom

Working on the bathroom floor

Kitchen bare....

Windows...

Electrifying!

Wiring anything can be daunting if you're not an electrician, which I am not.  As usual, I search and research until I find a suitable article to help me understand.  There is an excellent "how to" on the net including greenleafminiatures.com site and cirkitconcepts.com.
I decided to use "hybrid" wiring for my house.  It combines the "round wire" and the "flat wire" with connections secured by brass brads that are the size of mosquitos (well, little mosquitos).   The goal is to have plenty of light in your house without showing the wires.
I started by round wiring under the house (entering from the plug through the foundation) and coming into the house at the back wall and connecting to flat wire that spreads in both directions.  I also came up through the floor with round wire by the stairway .so I can run a flat wire around the bottom of the interior wall.  I plan to add an electrical outlet on that wall for a lamp later on. All of the first floor ceiling lights will be run under the second story floors but they are tied into the main electric at the back wall. This will necessitate installing the floors upstairs with a subfloor, but it will be worth it if I need to work on or change those lights out later.The chimney breast and fireplace will cover all the connections and if I work it right, I'll be able to open the chimney breast like a door should I need to repair any electrical connections later on. The rest of the flat wire will be covered with wallpaper.

Electrifying