The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours . CHAPTER VI ANOTHER DOLL-HOUSE ANDSTABLE. Photographs of another style of doll-house are shownin Figs. 96 and 97. This house was built by the authorfor a little relative some ten years ago, and is still inperfect condition, as the photographs show. Packing-cases were used for its construction, withcut-up cigar-boxes for window-casings, door-jambs, fin-ished floors, etc., and small mouldings for the outsidetrimmings. The inside arrangement and the general constructionof the house is so nearly like the design in the prec
The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours . CHAPTER VI ANOTHER DOLL-HOUSE ANDSTABLE. Photographs of another style of doll-house are shownin Figs. 96 and 97. This house was built by the authorfor a little relative some ten years ago, and is still inperfect condition, as the photographs show. Packing-cases were used for its construction, withcut-up cigar-boxes for window-casings, door-jambs, fin-ished floors, etc., and small mouldings for the outsidetrimmings. The inside arrangement and the general constructionof the house is so nearly like the design in the preced-ing chapter, that most of the details and the mode ofconstruction may be followed in building it. If boxesare used, the dimensions will have to be figured out tosuit, unless the boxes are pulled apart and the boardscut to the sizes shown in the illustrations of this chapter. The Floor Plans, which will be found in Figs. 98, 99,and 100, give the sizes of the rooms, and the patternsfor the making of The Partitions are shown in Figs. 101 and 102. Incutting out the second-floor partitions (Fig. 102), mitre 91 92
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