Yeah, totally doing this in the wrong order...

After gluing the main bits of the house together, I put down the final coats (yeah, plural... multiple) of paint on the house. I tried to make it as even as possible, but the house is ravenous and just kept eating it. It's okay though, as long as the light isn't juuust right, then you won't really notice.

While I waited for the house to dry, I painted the porch bits and the pillars. That part was messy.

But, I realized that I'm totally doing this whole entire house in the wrong order. Like, it hit me like a big bag o' bricks. I had to put the foundation and the porch on, which would have been fine if I had done them AT THE SAME TIME.

Nope.

I decided to put the foundation on first, which was fine.

Then I put the porch on. Which again, was fine, but completing the porch was the... not... fine part.

I completely ignored the directions like you're supposed to and just began gluing things on. This caused issues with the pillars not lining up correctly and have slight little gaps, which then made them even more difficult to glue in. Luckily for me I still had my Mary Poppins roll of tape, and I just taped those suckers down.

So once I had THOSE support beams in place I was able to put in the railings... which, again, decided to not fit the way they were supposed to because I was dumb and things in the COMPLETELY WRONG ORDER OMG I'M SO DONE.

Anyway.

So I get those damn railings in place, glue the front trim on and call it a night.

Taking the tape off and not having anything move was super rewarding and just reinforced my thoughts that if it isn't right just glue it down.

(That isn't really what I think but whatever).