The Interior of Lavender Cottage.I wallpapered the the the front door to match with the roomsIf you are wondering, the loo is out back.

I looked at it a long time before I decided there were too many staircases and there was no way I could furnish the upper left room as it was. The house is all screwed together, no glue, so it was easy to remove the dividing wall and turn it round.

It has taken me longer to do the exterior than it did to do the whole inside.

First I removed the porch and dormer windows and stripped off the roof tiles.

Then I blocked out the middle window and enlarged the the remaining four windows.

I used the window frames from the original front of my first house and set them into the spaces rather than fixing them to the outside.

To make the stone effect I first coated the front with a thin layer of plaster. Next the entire front was painted gray, when the paint was dry I scratched in the stone shapes.

My chimmney pots are small cotton reels painted. I made the fence and porch with bamboo chopsticks and lolly sticks.

This is a closeup of my entrance, the door is an offcut of balsa wood with lolly stick trim.

I made the path from some rolled out bread dough and got quite worried when it kept shrinking and cracking as it dried however in the end it looked quite authentic, it's edged with real gravel stones.

I made the house name plaque with shrink paper, a new product for me. I got it from www.craftycomputerpaper.co.uk

The thatch is the end result of several different attempts. I ended up making it from large sheets of polystyrene (styrofoam) coated in plaster.

To get the texture I combed the damp plaster, this looks more effective than can be seen in the photo. When it was dry I painted it and then covered it with plastic netting. The netting I used came from the £1.00 shop it is intended to be put over gutters/eavestrough to keep out leaves.

The path is balast from my husbands model railway.