Every piece finally had its first coat of paint and had been sanded, so nothing was stopping me from building the house today.

This was the first stage of construction. It was quite tricky to get it exact. Every bit notches into another bit, but the paint had made some of the grooves fit a little differently, plus I was trying to keep glue from dripping down and drying.

The instructions were very clear and fairly easy to follow.

The next step was the roof, plus some little extra support strips here and there. So this is what it currently looks like below. The bits of paper floating around are printouts of flooring - tiles and boards that I'm trying out. More about that later. Suffice to say there is a whole world out there of printable miniature things...