I can see you now, shaking your heads at me...

Yesterday was the annual "April Fool's Day Sale" at HBS/www.miniatures.com... this meant that they gave out a great discount of 40% off any one item in the store. 

I had been waiting in anticipated breath for this sale...then I found out that the item I wanted, (my milled plywood walls for my Woodstock), is considered a special order item and could not be included in the sale... (CAN YOU SEE THE TEARS?)...

I debated all day on what I wanted to do, order nothing, order a half scale house, or wait and get the Woodstock at another time.  I ultimately decided on none of the above. 

Say hello to my kit... 

A Real Good Toys Newport in Brick

I ended up ordering a Real Good Toys Newport kit with the pre-brick finish.  I had started off with a Newport as my(technical) first house, (if you don't count the one I did when I was a child) it was also MDF...ironic huh?

I thought I would go back to what I know, there are so many reasons for choosing this house, I love the fact that it's pre-finished on the exterior, even if the inside is MDF, (that's getting covered in wallpaper anyway), so there is no sanding of clapboards and painting and priming and painting, and sanding of clapboards!!!  I also love, love that it's a "layer-build", (meaning that it's built like a layer cake, the first floor is built, then the second and so forth), I'm looking forward to working with a house like that because that's the same way that my 1/2scale Bungalow was, (and it was a breeze to wallpaper!!!)...

I do have some ideas for change, first will be to replace the small circular window on the third-floor tower, expand the front porch to put my rocking chairs, (or my Raine Take A Seat chair).  I also want to put up an addition on the side of the house to add some more floor space...after doing the layout for this house I realized I need some more space.  However, like the plan with the Woodstock, I intend to just abut the addition to the side of the house, without permanently attaching it to the house, making it easier to move and manuever. 

There are a lot of ideas I have swimming in my head, many changes I want to make, some minor, some major.  I hope to build this house and keep it, I still have the dream of my Woodstock one day(it's not going anywhere just yet), but I'm looking very much forward to this new adventure and I hope you are too... :)