Large Scale Cookie House

Here's the gingerbread fan at the top of my 1890's victorian house. It's been rebuilt and primed and is ready for paint. What a huge project.





It took my husband all last summer and most of this summer to get the major repairs done. He replaced rotten siding, rebuilt the victorian trimwork that adorns 3 gable ends. He made siding and gingerbread for the back of the house which was a 2 story blank wall. He's jacked up the house to get rooms level, dug out a pile of rubble to find there was a floor in the cellar. I can't list it all here because It's a book!


It took a year to pick colors. We painted big patches on the house and left them for months. There is a high level of detail on this little old victorian house!! We looked at so many houses that we liked. The final result is 6 colors of paint.

In order to come up with the colors for the gingerbread on the gable, I painted a dozen or more samples with the actual house paints.





I climbed up the scaffold with my little bag of paints. I felt shakey at first but you get used to it after a few minutes.

Six colors!!!