Wiring Over Wallpaper: I cannot see a single reason why tape wiring over one wallpaper and then adding wallpaper over it should be a problem. If your first wallpaper does not stick well, that's a problem, but other than that I can see no reason not to do what you want to do. Just be sure to test the wiring as you go along through the rooms, don't wait until the very end.

Barb Jones

For those of you considering recovering wallpaper, think again because results are uncertain. It can be done, though; I used Kilz (a great primer. Use in an open area) to keep the pattern from showing through. But scratch is best. Just soak off the paper and scrape. If you are going to do it anyway, just be sure there are no wire thingees under the old paper if you are going to also rewire. You may be causing short circuits and dangerous conditions that could start a fire. That means staples, nails or any other metallic piece.

Deanna from beautiful downtown Thiensville

Das Clay: I wanted to clad the walls of my Tudor cottage, but could not find paper clay - so I experimented with DAS. The white clay can be used instead of paperclay on walls etc. Use white glue first and then apply in little balls. Smooth with fingers until the clay is as thick or thin as you desire. Dry overnight. The clay sets rock hard and paints up nicely - I was pretty impressed.

Lesley

Roofing  destruction: When reading your roofing destruction adventures I thought that I would mention using an airbrush for your roof. For one of my projects at art school we had to make a miniature scene using an airbrush....ripping the pattern from thick paper or cereal cardboard instead of cutting the fishscale strip gives it a nice worn look. You then airbrush over the edge of paper pattern and it leaves a neat fishscale pattern that looks quite realistic when all the layers are completed. Micro Mark carries spray cans you attach paint to if you don't want to invest in an airbrush system. I've also sprayed bricks made from spackle and with the splatter effect it makes nice bricks too.

Joanne, Calgary mini club

Location of flashing: Flashing, visible or not, is installed in so-called real life wherever something interrupts the plane of a roof (chimneys, vents, dormers, parapets, intersecting roofs of different heights or pitches, etc.etc.) or an exterior wall (windows, doors, et al.). Or it is stupidly not installed, as where my mudroom roof intersects my main house roof and sheets of water come down inside whenever there is too much snow, and then the front door swells and I am stuck either inside or outside, depending. But that is a different issue, since dollhouses are blessedly free of leaks. If you are installing a shingle roof on your dollhouse, you can choose to have exposed flashing OR you can claim it is installed under the shingles/siding, out of sight, and no one will sue.

Melissa

How to cover small areas of roof in copper: Make a paper pattern for the roof surface that you want covered. Use this pattern to cut the copper from copper sheeting. Make sure you leave enough on the pattern to fold over and under the roof edge. Glue to roof area. I used a combination of wood glue and quick-grab. Clip corners, and roll over roof area with hard rubber roller to get good adhesion. For the trim pieces, I covered strip wood (1/8 inch square pieces cut to fit) with copper tapewire on three sides. This is the single "run" of tapewire that comes in a roll with an adhesive paper back. The fourth side of the wood strips were left uncovered so they could be glued to the roof. I put the strips at 2 foot (2")centers, and also trimmed the area where the copper roof met the exterior walls. This copper tapewire was left over from my "tapewire" period. I only use round wire now. I have left the copper to darken naturally and plan to add a little "verdigis" with paint in the future.

Sharon Blake, Wasilla, Alaska

Chimney pots...we made them for the Rik Pierce thatched cottage class. Some students made them from paperclay. I have a collection of flower pots (well, you never know just which style you might need...) and selected one that seemed appropriate to me. It was terracotta but not the standard flowerpot shape. I painted it to blend with the chimney. Nobody has ever questioned it, but several have pointed that out as a cute feature of the house. After looking through some picture books at the library, I decided that chimney pots are just flower pots that came up in the world.

Bar Turner in La Honda, CA

Burgundy Color Combo: My deco house is finished in a raspberry fake stucco (fleckstone) with blueberry door, burgundy shutters, white trim, and green ivy rub-on paint designs on the flowerboxes. I like the color combination a lot. Still appealing after a couple of years.

Loretta.Sniarowski

Wonderunder-foamcore: I have not used WonderUnder on foam core, but I have used a product called "Heat and Bond". I attended an event that we build a box that looked like a present - but one side dropped down to use as a floor for a room. I built the structure and glued it together and then ironed on fabric with Heat & Bond. I assume that I did not have any warpage because the structure was already built and it adhered to the foam core quite easily without the iron being on it for very long. The product is used for appliqués on fabric. It's can be bought by the yard at fabric stores, Wal-Mart-- or also purchased in 5 Yard packages. It comes in regular and "lite" - I used regular, but I'm sure lite would work just as well. You just iron it on to the under side of the fabric, remove the paper and iron the fabric on the foam core.

Patty Johnson-- From beautiful Campbell's

Wonderunder-foamcore: I've done it to "brick" a building with an iron (a Sweetheart kit bashed with foamcore addition). Worked fine, but I do recommend that you follow the directions exactly for temperature and pressure, and practice on some foamcore scraps first to get the technique down. That's about as explicit as I can be; it's been a few years since I did it. Subsequently I've mostly done "stucco" houses with fleckstone because it's even quicker and very pretty.

Loretta.Sniarowski