Undersized Urbanite House- Exterior!

For the last two weeks, I have been piddling around with the outside....cutting, gluing, drying, waiting and painting all the siding and trim for the house.  All the siding is cut from rustic siding strips from HBS.

For some sections, I made templates, and for others I just glued straight to the house. I chose to paint all the siding Softest Juniper by Glidden.

The vertical trim has been replaced by trim wood from HBS and the window frames were all built from scratch using trim wood from HBS.

The vertical trim was painted Snow White by Americana.

The window trim and doors were painted a custom mix of Coral and Apricot White, both by Glidden.

The shingles were repainted with a few washes of Bittersweet Chocolate by Americana.

There was an amazing change and feel of the house when I darkened the shingles.

The wider white horizontal strips got covered in a egg carton stone facade.

For the railing on the second story, I used pre-assembled railings that Brae had sent me, and the discarded newel posts from the staircase.  They are still unpainted, but will end up being snow white with some color details.

The bottom railings will use the same preassembled railings and Lilliput porch posts.

I have yet to put doorknobs on everything, but I promise, they will be there in the final shots.

James helped me lift up the house to tear off the rather wobbly foundation (don't know why I didn't do that first....) and then the house was set down into it's base of foam core.  Landscaping will be underway shortly!

This will most likely be the last post until the deadline.  I have the biggest little's birthday party this weekend and need to direct my efforts that way for a bit.  :D

Just as a reminder, here is where the house started out and here is where it is currently, and it still has quite a bit to go!