Wicked Queen's Retirement Cottage

So I just spent some time I shouldn't have playing with paint and the front elevation of the 2018 Creatin' Contest kit.

And I've drawn out something that will give you an idea of what I want the kit to look like in the end.

Because I'm awful at renderings unless I'm using my Dungeon Designer program I'll translate for you.

I want to raise the roof (whoot whoot) and add three or four inches to the walls, and extend them about an inch outward in all directions, like this.

I don't want it this tall, because that's an invitation for things to fall over.

But I don't want the porch, so going to pull that front wall out just a half inch further than the one with the window and build a gable above it, with a Tudor style door and possibly a little window above it.  I haven't seen any period Tudor house with a porch yet otherwise I'd be tempted to keep it.

I'd love to make something like this door.

I figure on adding a dormer where the skylight is and with that I'll have a nicer second floor.  Maybe with enough room for a Tudor style fireplace.

The stairs is where the whole thing gets fun.

I want to add a tower to the back corner of the house, with stairs leading up to the second floor and then to a third floor tower room, maybe with a telescope and orrey.  I don't want it to be a whole lot higher than the roof peak so the drawing is a bit off.

My idea for the history of the cottage is that it started out as a simple stone cottage and was added onto when the Queen retired so the first floor will be stone, the upper will be the typical Tudor style beams and plaster/lime covering the weave in between.  I read that when people wanted to rob someone they'd just saw through the walls rather than try to break down the door, which is why you saw a lot of stone for the first floors.  Brick was for the rich or later in the period when it became cheaper to make.

And all the windows would be leaded glass casement type windows.  So those will be interesting to make or bash.

The tower would be the add on, rather than using a ladder to get upstairs, so it will be in the brick wealthier people tended to use.

Inside I want a mix of practical and impractical.  Things she works with and some luxuries she's brought with her.  I'll probably end up making a table and bench seat and I've really got to research how sinks looked back then.  I also want a little chest.

I saw a picture of a tub, half a barrel with a cloth liner which is just fascinating so maybe I could do something like that.  And a tapestry for the wall.  Stone floors on the ground floor and plank for the second.

This could be lots of fun.

What do all of you think?