I remember entering the store for the very first time. I felt a little uncomfortable because I was not sure it was a guy thing to do, but the storeowner made me feel very comfortable very quickly. I went back to the store many times to get answers to all my questions, and received far more information than I was ever expecting. The owners proved to be very helpful and extremely indispensable in helping me solve the many problems that suddenly popped up with the many new things I was discovering.

After about a month I finally sat down to take into serious consideration the floor plan I would use for my project. I had decided to create something small for the first time. But, as was expected of myself it soon turned into a large project. I wanted to be sure that I had plenty of room to experiment with the many things I wanted to create.

I had decided from the start that the house I would build would be a Georgian house and that it would have a mixture of both the best of the European and American designs (at least the things I like the best). I wanted a mixture of large and small rooms, and I wanted my staircase to be a little more elaborate than the average dollhouse. I decided that the stairwell would be in the hallway, which would be located in the centre of the house (see layout).

Finally after six months of changing my mind, I finally came up with the perfect design. It would be a rectangle in shape with three rooms per floor. The attic would have two rooms. The original exterior details were far more elaborate than the actual finished project, which had columns running on the front and backside of the house. The columns had all been prepared and made ready for application; than it hit me, the house looked far better without the columns covering up much of the brick work.

A solarium was a much later addition to the house and does not appear on any of my designs. I just thought it would be nice to have a sitting area full of flowers. The original ceiling was made up of three-barrel vaults covered in clouds. The new ceiling will be made of stained glass (a new hobby of mine), which I hope will be just as beautiful as the original. Beneath the solarium is the covered terrace with a stone barbecue.