Last week I saw a Putz log cabin online that I liked a lot. I thought I had saved it to Pinterest, but can’t find it now. I wish I could share the picture with you. I did decide to make a pattern from it and spent several days, off and on, working out the design.
I usually leave the bottom off the houses, but when there is a bumpout as there is on this house, I leave the bottom to act as support for the walls. It helps keep the right-angled corners straight. I cut the middle of the bottom out so I could get inside in case there was any fiddling I needed to do later.
Chimney cap…
It was a harder pattern to draw than I have done in the past. When I make a new pattern, I assemble it in paper before using poster board to be sure the pattern works correctly. After two paper houses and an initial poster board one, I made another one in poster board that worked. I had planned to use corrugated cardboard with the paper removed on one side as the “logs,” but when I had the house assembled, it didn’t look like a log cabin to me, so I didn’t add any corrugated cardboard to the house.
It’s always fun to decide which colors to use on a new Putz house.
Door and window frames and a porch post.
Painting is done.
I kept the embellishments pretty simple. A large bottle brush tree with snow and a deer in the yard.
It is now listed in my Etsy shop.
~Rhonda