
The house next door is one-story and will butt right up to this one - so, no windows on the first floor this side.
I’ve had to use light bluish gray bricks in the door until I can get some more sand blue. The steps are only half done as well, also waiting on parts. There’s enough done to see what the color scheme is, though, and get an idea of how it’s going to look.
I still need some parts in order to finish this, but it’s close enough to tell what it’s going to look like. Left to do is the rest of the roof line, the decorations to flank the top windows, probably something different for the centerpiece section on the second story, and probably some sort of corner post or something on the left side of the second story “base.” And, of course, putting in the correct color parts for the few “filler” pieces that I’ve used.
I’ve included pictures of a couple of different ideas I had on the roof line. It started out looking a lot like Victorian I, with those corner pieces giving a heavy, notched look to the edge and concealing the color of the roof slopes. The “dotted line” just under the eaves was also notched. I tried a couple of ideas on that and ended up with a smooth angle by mounting the clips on a plate and mounting the plate with technic bricks and pins. All very smooth now
There are “filler” pieces in here of the wrong color at this point, while I wait for the actual ones to arrive. Like one of the corner inverted pieces which will be tan like the others but is dark red for now. Also, if I go with the center decoration more or less as is, I intend for the top arches to be tan as well. Those are on order too. I *may* come back and do something much different, though, in this area. More like the band of patterns just above. I like the way those turned out and may be able to do something like that for the centerpiece.
These shots were taken in the morning and I have already got most of the top section done now (evening), but it will be waiting for pieces too. I have run out of 1×2 reddish brown bricks!
I may add a fifth house on the left side, rather different from the other four, with a fenced side yard. There’s something like that in the inspiration photo, and I haven’t tired of trying new color combinations yet on these
Also, I like the yellow/white house, but the light yellow bricks that
I really like don’t really stand out much. I tried, on the second
story, using *just* the light yellow bricks, but it looked too
plain next to the other houses. One other thing I could do
is use yellow bricks instead of white, or the yellow bricks
with grill. I tried a small section like that and it looked
pretty good, but I haven’t decided whether or not I want to change it over to that.
On the first one, the bottom window has been moved to the left one stud, to better balance the space around the added door light. The rain pipe is almost complete now, but one piece is still light gray while the rest are light bluish gray.
You can see pretty much what the second one will look like, even though it’s waiting on the rest of the yellow shutters and yellow pieces for the cornice. The white and tan ones are just there as placeholders.
By evening there are three, and changes have been made on number two. The owl is gone. It didn’t really work, and the windows can go closer together without it. The lamp has been added as well. One more shutter arrived, but I’m still waiting on four more plus the missing pieces for the cornice. The third one has no shutters. Instead, a grillwork protects the ground floor window. The second story windows will be plain, and I *might* put a tan lion’s head there, like the light bluish gray one on the first house. Also, if I get enough yellow rain pipe pieces, I might put a yellow one on house two and move its white one to this third house.