Adobe Mexican Restaurant

 Hi Everyone, I hope you all are having a great March.  I just recently finished my first adobe house I have ever tried to create.  It started out in my mind that it would be a house, but then turned into a Mexican Restaurant.  I was inspired by a friends miniature adobe room box she had on display in her house and thought " I so wanna try to build that"  Well I guess most adobe houses are made out of the white Styrofoam boards about 1/2 in thick, but I so do not like all the little white particles that it creates and static cling effect they cause.  So I went to Home Depot and in their insulation section, I found the purple insulation foam board.  I quickly realized that Hot  Glue will melt the foam.  So trying to find something to glue the insulation foam together was a learning process.  I ended up using bathroom caulking, and screws just for security of making sure the house would not come apart.  Plus a Huge learning process of how much work it is to Plaster the walls and to be able to get them smooth.  I quickly found out that the perfect little adobe house that I was inspired by that my friend Kit made was not going to happen for me.  But I do like my old dilapidated looking building so that's how my little adobe style Mexican Restaurant turned out. I think my favorite thing I did on this building was spending a day creating all the little plants and palm trees!   I hope you all enjoy.  Have a wonderful April everyone!  Stan

I spent one day alone just create the miniature Mexican style tiles, then one long evening gluing each tile down. My tiles are not completely straight by any means.  I was watching a couple of movies while tiling and was a little distracted, plus the tiles themselves were not all perfect for a perfect fit.  But I so wanted to create my own floors and not buy them. 

The little attic bedroom above the restaurant.

I almost stopped working on this project at this point, since the plaster I laid all over the building took me so many many hours to sand as smooth as I could get. 

Old Country Church

 I got really bored the past couple of weeks and decided to try to build a church with some scrap shingles and scrap wood.  I ended up having to hand make the pews and podium inside the church since there really isn't anything out there for sale for the inside of churches and that would also fit inside the space.  I did have a ton of fun making all the mini bibles and hymn books, which is very relaxing for me when I am making them. 

 I was inspired to make the church when I found a large cross at a thrift store, which when looking at it I was inspired to create a church around the cross.  I hope you all enjoy the pictures and have a Fantastic February.  Stan

 

I spent so many hours adding different layers of paint and crackle finish paint to give the old weathered paint look.  I really like the look of the cracks in the paint.  

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
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