back to the Dollhouse Workshop
  • Masking tape protects the floor. I also put thin strips of masking tape centered between the Bathroom tracing lines
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  • First coat: I'm using primer but regular latex would work too... Primer is just a little easier to sand
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  • The paint is dry. I am getting ready to spackle the taperuns. "Lite Spackle" and my plastic library card
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  • Thick coats won't go on smooth. You can do many thin coats or a thick coat, lightly scraped when it's dry, then one or two skim coats.
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  • Diagonal strokes in each direction over each junction
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  • After it's dry (a few hours), a light sanding with 320 grit. Don't take off too much... then another thin skim-coat.
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  • A second coat, this time latex paint
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  • I can see it will need at least one more coat of paint... light sanding between coats
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  • I can't easily notice the ceiling run, even with the direct horizontal light in this shot - but I can easily see the wall runs. This photo is of one skim-coat of spackle and two top-coats of paint.
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  • I am assured that, in a dollhouse loaded with miniatures, the taperuns are un-noticeable and this level of visibility makes finding them easy when you need to.
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  • I'll re-do the wall with more spackle - a thick coat of spackle on the whole wall this time... then a smoothing skim-coat. Meanwhile, I'll do another room using liner paper to smooth the walls instead of spackle
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  • Here's what we're covering - the same wire-runs as the 'spackle' room... at the end, we'll compare how long it took and how well it covers.
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