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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Desert Town


Built:  March 2012

Having 1 or 2 of these one each recent trip to the Dollar Store over the years, I figured I better start this project, before I ended up with an entire bin of wooden boxes!



I later learned, that these boxes are the cheapest source of Hinges for doors !  2 hinges and a wooden building for $1.25 !






A little Creativity, and a model saw, and presto, a town was born.
The box with one mesh side, became a garage type thing, with large double doubles.
Using the rounded ends of pop sickle sticks in the corners of the rooves, these became the support tabs for keeping the roof on the building.




Dollar Store bird feeder.  These were hard to take apart, had to hammer it some, and cut it some.  They use good glue wherever these are made.  However the wood is soft, so its easy to cut.
Added a disc under the roof, for support to keep it on the side walls, and cut out a door.
I think these make better storage huts, then living spaces - esp with the lack of windows.

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