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How to wire a closed house!!!
Have done loads of dollhouses, wired them myself. Now I am sitting with
a new Lawbre Painted Lady which is a closed house, and don't know where to start. I'm used to having the connection for the AC at the back of the house, where it's open, but there is no back in terms of overall appearance and I don't know if I want to mount the connection along with part of the tape on the outside of a finished outside wall of the house. Can anyone tell me how to do this without it looking "tacky"??? Leslie |
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Leslie Weinberg wrote:
Have done loads of dollhouses, wired them myself. Now I am sitting with a new Lawbre Painted Lady which is a closed house, and don't know where to start. I'm used to having the connection for the AC at the back of the house, where it's open, but there is no back in terms of overall appearance and I don't know if I want to mount the connection along with part of the tape on the outside of a finished outside wall of the house. Can anyone tell me how to do this without it looking "tacky"??? Leslie Some thoughts: Make a base and put all the connections underneath. (Most of the Lawbre's seem to have an adequate base already.) If you don't want ANY connection apparant on the outside, including its brick or lattice base, make a hole in the table it's going to be on. Put up some exterior telephone poles and string wire realistically. If rain gutters and downspouts are appropriate for the house, add them and run wiring inside them. Don't use AC power at all; run it on batteries; the house can be completely self-contained with no external connections at all. Enjoy the house - they're all beautiful! - Herb |
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:39:44 GMT, Leslie Weinberg
wrote: Have done loads of dollhouses, wired them myself. Now I am sitting with a new Lawbre Painted Lady which is a closed house, and don't know where to start. I'm used to having the connection for the AC at the back of the house, where it's open, but there is no back in terms of overall appearance and I don't know if I want to mount the connection along with part of the tape on the outside of a finished outside wall of the house. Can anyone tell me how to do this without it looking "tacky"??? Leslie I like to use a plug on the wire from the transformer to mate with a socket concealed somewhere in the base of the house. The small co-axial plugs provide good contact with little chance of short circuits. Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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