it is beautiful to see these stairs in progress!) 30+ years after graduation from school, and still no official conversion in America. (I would like for you to add the photo above to a stair topic within the forum. All of my rulers, except the architectural kind, seem to have inches on one side and mm, on the other. I remember as a child in school that they required us to do lessons in metric measurements and indicated that America would convert to metric while measurements are given in food products that we purchase at the grocery store most building materials still use the imperial system.although it seems to me that plywood is commonly listed on websites in mm and inches. Yes?įrancisco, yes, thinking about metric measurements yes, of course it does make mathematical sense to be 1/10th. The ceiling height will be a big decision, too., and I think your dutch house is made from plywood. I will visit your web postings and see your build(s) the plywood is only the beginning of the cost but I have a planer and lots of saws, I can build the structure from scale miniaturized 2x4 construction and rip wood to the appropriate size if I decide to do a 2x4 build - and what do we call this in miniature, 'stick' construction?Įlga, most definitely I will do a draft of the structure and let it sit for a while, so it can be edited.

Those mm are tricky for me, I'll get my online converter out, my brain thinks in inches, and needs a calculator for mm this early in the day.

It would be a blessing to see the house and much easier to duplicate it if it were real, and I could measure it on the other side of that conversation is - not having a real house to measure, allows me to lay it out as my imagination allows, and not have reality dictate the results. I'm not sure if it is a blessing or not, to not know if the house exists in real life it could have been painted from a photograph, and been torn down, who knows! Perhaps I will write the artist and ask her. Artists are subject to painting from their imagination and so I do not know if the house is real or not, but I am determined to make the house and stay as true as possible to façade that was illustrated. The 5'x5' birch that is at my local woodworkers store has been stored standing up and its is warped, and that warped plywood, would also make me grumpy to have warped walls.įranciso, unfortunately, I do not have a real structure if I knew the house actually existed, I would try to go and visit it, if it were in the US but I have only fell in love with it in its form as an art-print that I found online. Since it's real existence is unknown, I can only guess about the depth of the walls. I am tempted to pick it up myself, when I'm in Chicago in April, so I can see the quality, no one stocks 4x8 sheets locally, and I really don't want to purchase $200+ worth of plywood, sight unseen and be unhappy. I do understand cabinet grade and sanded on both sides, but since I've never scratch built a structure on my own, I would welcome your input. I haven't found any lumberyards who are willing to send me 3' square sample of the stuff, so I'm ordering 'blindly'. What is the preferred plywood for scratch building structures? I'm searching for 3/8' plywood, and I've foundĥ'x5' Russian Birch slightly less then marine gradeĤ'x8 marine grade about 2x as much as underlayment I'm dreaming of a scratch build based upon an art print that I found on line, unfortunately I haven't found floor plans for a similar structure in my research so I only have the front to feed my imagination. (I've only half built 1 RGT kit in the past : - ) So should I use 3/8' plywood for the walls, or would you use miniature 2x4s and build it like a real home? I could use task board for the walls, or miniature plywood, or crescent board, but that is likely pretty expensive, vs.

I've never done a one of a kind structure / scratch build before. I'm reviewing floor plans from my library of structures and floor plans in books, and am wondering if members of the forum would post their opinions.

Taskboard dollhouse