Congratulations to Jackie K. Of Angola for winning the Pierce Dollhouse! Drawing was done by Betty of the Grape Festival headquarters at 3pm on Sunday, September 18th.
WINDOW TRIM Trim is the finishing up, tying off, and making complete the final product. The instructions and many experienced dollhouse builders suggest putting the trim on last. But like anything concerning building dollhouses, you can pretty much do what you want how you want. Bay window and circular window trim. I did not follow the instructions and general rule of thumb for putting on trim last. I guess you can judge the wisdom of that move by looking at the end result and considering my reasoning for doing my own thing. This dollhouse's exterior trim has 4 pieces: sill, sides, a top curved piece, and a cap. The round windows have a keystone piece on top of that. I chose to put the exterior trim on last because of my brickwork and the method I chose to apply it. The stencil would not allow me to place brick right up to the trim. When applying the brick work, I taped off where the trim would be glued and placed the brick even over the tape. Once it dried, I carefully