Weybourne is the house where I was born on 7th January, 1939, and lived until I married in March 1961.  When I decided to set a house on Coronation Day, 2nd June 1953, I wanted to make it as close as I could to how I remembered my parents' house.  I first looked at available kits, but then, finding that none of them was what I wanted, thought about building my own from scratch.  I also want to build as much of the furniture and fittings as I can too.

I knew that I had neither the strength, tools nor workspace to handle big sheets of MDF, and so started thinking of other ways of doing it.  Eventually, I settled on building a framework from wood, and cladding it with mountcard.  Just to be different, I decided to build it from the inside out.

Weybourne

64 New Road

Seven Kings

Ilford

Essex

Photo taken in February 2005

Click the photographs to see how each part was made, or follow the Next button below.

The next step, of course, was to work out the floor layouts, and here I called on my sister to help me.  Gradually, we calculated, often by remembering where the furniture was placed, the dimensions of the various rooms, and at last I was ready to start drawing up detailed plans. 

I want to record how I built the house, but rather than fill this page with step by step photographs I'll just put the latest photograph of each room, and if you are interested you can click on the photographs below to see how I progressed to that stage, or use the NEXT buttons, which will take you through each room in turn.

The house was in the middle of a terrace, on two floors, and I eventually decided that it should be 22 inches wide, by 31.5 inches deep.  As I wanted there to be front rooms and back rooms, it would necessarily have to have opening panels at both ends, which meant putting it onto a turntable.  I had an old television table on casters, and a friend fixed a big sheet of MDF to this for me.

The foundations were laid on 27th February 2005, and looked like this:

And let there be lights!

At the right, a closeup of the "fly catcher" light fitting, which I bought from K T Miniatures

The front of the house, as at 7th October 2007:

The back of the house, as at 7th October 2007: