Front door and windows being made and fitted 3

 May 2026

I have been able to do a lot since the last posting.  I finished the second coat after sanding, and finished this with 'sanding' with brown paper (the finest of all sandpapers!) to give the white paint a bit of a polish and a shine.

For the windows I have bought very thin polycarbonate which I can easily cut with the scroll saw or the table saw.

The windows and doors are not mass produced, so there is always a slight difference in measurements, meaning that I have to measure every single window frame.  Save for the smaller bits above the door and the living room window, which are an exact fit, all the 'glass' inserts are 1mm less than the frame, so I have 1/2mm spare on all sides, which gives a great fit.

I am using Glue 'n' Glaze to glue the windows in place.  Kevin has a lot of metal bits in his shed that I could use to weigh each 'glass' plate down till the glue had set.

I started cutting everything on the scroll saw, but it was very difficult to hold a large and flexible sheet of polycarbonate straight, so I had to sand each bit on the disk sander.  This is not great, because the edged tended to melt a bit and set as a hardened thicker edge, which gave me a lot more work to sand that off as well.

Eventually I moved to the table saw to do the cutting of the bigger windows and used the scroll saw for the half circle barn window.

During the brreaks I have been browsing through my dollshouse magazines to find inspiration and ideas (hoping for plans as well) for a 30s - 40s house.  

I am not good at planning, but I am forcing myself to have a fair idea, because I need to know what lights I am going to use and where.

The living room will have just about room for one easy chair (not unusual in those early years), a sideboard, dining table and chairs, and probably a small cabinet or something else to fill the corner next to the coal fire. I also want a floor lamp, so that may have to go into that corner.  I will need to make a plan of the floor and see what I can fit in.  I used to do the same when I moved house years ago, so I knew exactly where all the furniture had to go when I moved in. 

And next I will have to start sealing the walls to prepare them to be papered...