Cupcake's cottage

[Cupcake]

Hello!
I have postponed this for too long, but I finally had some time on my hands and decided to post pictures from Cupcake's house project.
It was long, but it was fun to do and of course my boyfriend helped a lot(he's just gifted when it comes to building and planning...unlike me )

So here goes!!!

This was the plan. We drew the front of the house, with the two sides. The back panel is identical except for the door and window.


My boyfriend hurried to surprise me and glue the house together so I didn't get to take pictures of the house apart.This is the house during the gluing process. He used the clamps to hold the house together and make sure it will glue properly as non-toxic pet friendly glues don't have all those chemicals that make the glue dry in 2 minutes. Drying took about 6-7 hours.


After the glue dried, we removed the clamps and used sand paper to remove any remaining glue.


These are the sticks we used for the roof. Basically I had 4 long sticks that I cut into smaller equal(more or less) pieces. We then made grooves in the sticks so that they would not roll off the house while the glue is drying.


This is the house with the roof on. We placed some tape over the roof so it would hold in place and glue properly. The grooves were only made the ease their placing on the house but we still have to secure the roof until the glue dried.


Anndddddd TA-DAAAA!!! This is the final result.
I still need to paint it, but will do so only later today as I have a doctor appointment and I still need to sand the remaining glue and also sand so the paint adheres to the wood.

[StarlightSerenity]

OMG I want one! Looks fantastic Wish I had the skills to do this sort of stuff

[kyrilliondaemon]

That looks great! I hope she likes it

[Cupcake]

Thanks guys!
SS if I ever go into production I will let you know! haha

Sam: thank you! she liked it without the roof (had a little test to make sure she has enough space(it came out quite big) so I hope she'll like it with the roof as well!

[Hammymad]

Awww wow,that looks ace xx

[fluffymunchkins]

Love it Wish i could do this!

[Shell]

Wow! That's lovely!

[sully]

Thats really good!

[Lynternette]

Really nice house. I find most houses too small for Dusty. Making your own you can scale them up to fit your hammy.

[Cupcake]

Originally Posted by Lynternette

Really nice house. I find most houses too small for Dusty. Making your own you can scale them up to fit your hammy.

That's exactly why I wanted to do my own. My ham had one of those plastic houses that come with ferplast cages and while she still fits in it, I find it's ridiculously small. This house is about 3 times her size, I'm expecting to find loads of food in it after Cupcake gets installed