I started building the back wall by making a wooden frame clad with mount card, with holes cut out for the windows, for the upper part of the house, then making a frame for the french door/windows assembly and the back door and window.

Next I put mount card walls under the dining room windows, around the kitchen door and window, and round the larder.

Then I constructed the french doors and the windows on either side,

followed by the back door and kitchen window.  I added the outlet pipe from the sink to a drain, as well as the downpipe which took the water from the bath and wash basin via a hopper head.  I also made the windows for the upstairs rooms.

Finally, I put the roof over the dining room windows and the larder, with a glazed section over the back door, and added the stack pipe (a piece of half inch dowell painted with gloss black enamel), the guttering and downpipes.  I put lead flashing round the chimney, and where the lower roof joins the wall, as well as where the top of the stack pipe appears to come out of the roof.

Building this house has been an amazing experience.  Not only have I used all the skills I've learned over

years, such as lace making, cross stitch, sewing, etc., but I've also improved my wood working and other techniques.  I can see that the walls and furniture upstairs are better than down, and the back wall of the house is better than the front.  Its taken me a long time to make, but now it gives me a great deal of pleasure to look at all the rooms and remember the happy childhood I had living there, even though the first six years were spent in wartime, with frequent bombing raids.  But that's another story.

I hope you have enjoyed sharing it with me.