Grain Elevator House Restoration and Repro Jan 2004 HOM

Post by **paulrace** » Tue Dec 31, 2013 10:51 am

LOOKS Great. I agree about the silver coconut.

Here's a musing - there are so many houses that look like they have black coconut - do you suppose it started out silver and tarnished or corroded?

Post by **BrianB** » Wed Jan 01, 2014 12:12 pm

Thanks so much Paul!
Not sure about the black, the only original black coco houses I have are ones that have it mixed in with the white, for the Salt and Pepper look. I think that was probably intentional.

Happy New Year!!!

Post by **Lynn** » Wed Jan 01, 2014 7:36 pm

Brian, you did a wonderful job, I love it!!

Post by **BrianB** » Thu Jan 02, 2014 1:21 pm

Lynn, Thank You so much!! I can't wait to see yours when it's all done!

I've got the pattern and tutorial for the potted plant finished. I've only done a couple tutorials, so I probably added extra steps that are common sense, but I tried to be thorough. It's about 5mb and the limit for uploading is 3mb, so Im sending it to Paul right now in .pdf format and hopefully he'll be able post it for everybody.

Thanks
-Brian

Post by **paulrace** » Sun Jan 05, 2014 10:00 am

The Potted Plant tutorial is here:

http://www.cardboardchristmas.com/forum ... f=10&t=538

Thanks, Brian!

Post by **Lynn** » Sun Jan 05, 2014 6:51 pm

Great job, this is going to be very helpful when I make mine!! Thanks for taking the time!

Post by **BrianB** » Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:45 am

Thanks Lynn, Glad to help!!

Post by **BrianB** » Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:40 pm

Good evening everyone!

I just got lucky with a new find. I stumbled onto an original Grain Elevator House for $14 a couple weeks ago....couldn't believe it!! I'm excited to share it with everyone since they are kind of rare. This one is missing it's steeple and the top of the potted tree, as well as a fence post. This is my second original I've come across, you can see the first one which was missing its base all together in the beginning of this post.
I'm actually going to put the steeple from my other original on the new one I just got to have a more complete original house. Then I'm going to build a new steeple for the other house. I'll post a pic here when it's all restored next to my other original I made the base for when I'm all done.

My favorite thing about this house is the potted plant and you can see where the tree broke off the Japanese used some printed paper rolled up to make the stem of the plant. I wish I could unroll it to see what was printed on the paper so bad!

Guess it will always be a mystery!

-Brian

Post by **les** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:04 am

Hi Brian, I have unrolled some fence posts and found them printed with Japanese characters. Since my Japanese is nonexistent, haven't a clue what is says. The paper quality is very thin so I don't think it was newspaper. Looking forward to seeing your restoration of this gem!!!