Finished at Last Janet's Giant Pink House

Post by **Tom Hull** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:42 pm

This is about Janet’s giant pink house that I just got finished. Finally got the correct sized silver on blue windows and door in thanks to Brian Bloodgood. This house needed complete reworking on a lot of issues. Including a fence (on the left). And re-building the base and painting it and using some of Pete’s coconut on it including some purple on bare spots on the roof. There are 5 count ‘em FIVE 9L windows in this house which Brian made up and I helped some on. Also the “Windoor” is new which is something like a rounded top French Door and which were commonly used in a lot of the old houses. The 9L windows were used in Giants but also in the Mickey Mouse houses (which are a bit larger) and in addition some smaller sized houses as well of which I will be illustrating shortly.
On this house the cute little frowning top hatted snowman is porcelain and may have originally been on a hacienda styled house as few of the coconuts originally had porcelain figures. Whatever the case it is cute and he told me he wants to stay right there!
Janet asked me what I was doing to the loofha trees and so will share this with you all. I use acrylic green craft paint from Wally World. I first get it good and wet (after trimming it to the size I want) and in fact this operation is best carried out at the sink. I then squirt 2 different shades of green ,one is darker and one brighter. After squishing it around thoroughly if necessary I may rinse some of the paint off - the point being to make it look a bit older. This is something you have to play with to get a feel for it. Here are the pictures. Notice the size of the orange and blue house with blue and gold mullion windows AND it has a 9L as well as a Windoor. Both need to be replaced at some point. The little Kitty is porcelain and is likely NOT original but I like it just like it is! Enjoy

Post by **Tom Hull** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:46 pm

And just a few more pictures. Isn't the kitty cute! TKH

Post by **BrianB** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:04 am

Tom, Thanks so much for sharing pics that is an EXCELLENT restoration!!! I think restoring is almost harder then building new most of the time. So glad the windows worked well! Couldn't have made them without you!!
Pete has a fresh supply of the 9L's now in all the color combos and he is getting ready to sell them, so everybody will have access soon.

Tom, would you mind sharing the dimensions of the bigger house, that thing looks monsterous next to the other little house. I notice that the smaller house is part of a box set currently for sell on ebay, the seller wants $350...very nice set!
Also was wondering if the base was all yellow coco, it almost looks like a mix of stucco and coconut in the pic.

Post by **Tom Hull** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 3:24 pm

The base coconut is supposed to be a sort of Yellow green and no stucco at all - just paint.
Janet will have to give us the dimensions as she has it back now in her collection and I didn't measure it. It IS huge though. And another that shrinks it up a bit. This shot I was trying to show how the 9Ls are the same size in both houses - none too successfully I think.

Post by **Howard** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 4:15 pm

Tom...did I miss a post from you about the little house next to the house you restored?...

I like the "windsor" also...

Howard

Post by **Tom Hull** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:29 pm

No Howard I never posted this house publicly. So here it is. I actually had this house with this color BUT not with the Blue & Gold windows nor the little cat. And indeed it IS a cat and it is very unhappy that people suggest it is a pig as you can tell by the expression on his face.