Making peasant houses

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 Here are a few little peasant houses that I've made using only cheap household materials such as:  

- empty tea boxes

- mask tape

- coffee stirrers

- acrilic paint

I started by covering the tea boxes with mask tape, because I thought the paint would stick better to the tape than to the box .

Then, for the first house I applied  a base coat of white primer. 

After the primer was dry, I applied the paint of the collors I wanted.

When the paint dried, I cutted and painted the coffee stirrers to emulate those wooden beams that one can always see on the walls of the typical German / Bavarian house (such houses always gave me that "peasant" feeling - rural life, working all day on the fields under the Sun, celebrating harvest festivals, etc.)

- From thicker cardboard paper (e.g. from a chocolate box) I cutted small bricks, doors and windows and glued them to the walls of the houses.

I still have to make triangular frames to fill the voids between the walls and he roofs on the sides. They will be made with cardboard and wooden coffee stirrers too.

For the second house onwards I tried painting directly on the boxes instead of using mask tape and primer and it worked out just fine.

Since these houses were made with tea boxes, it means that they are foldable and thus may be stored in small spaces!

And, of course, they're quite inexpensive. I prefer to prioritize spending money on miniatures over scenery sets (and such sets are usually more expensive), not to mention the joy of making things by hand.