Building a pub interior by Jo from Oathsworn

The walls were next on my to-do list, I measured the sides and cut the foam to match. I’d been working on the assumption that the foam was 24” long but it’s actually measured in mm, it’s 600mm long which is slightly shorter than what I needed…so I had to glue on an extra little piece to make it long enough. I then marked with my pen where the floor level meets the wall and where I wanted the doors to go.

Sarissa make a pack of doors in various sizes for Burrows & Badgers which are great for this kind of project so I chose two of the larger doors (which also have a smaller door inset in them for the smaller animals). I glued these in place and then cut a load of lengths from 3mm foam about ¼” wide to use for the door-frames & beams. I played around with these and placed them in different positions to see where I thought they’d look best.

I then glued them in place and left them to dry…first wall done.

The second wall has a fireplace against it, so before I could attach the beams etc I needed to make a fireplace and mark its position so I’d then know where the beams could go. I used a mixture of the 10mm & 3mm foam and glued them all together to make a fireplace.

I placed the fireplace in position and lightly marked where it would be so I knew where the beams could go.

I then realised that the fireplace was too tall if it was going to match the beams going horizontally from the first wall. So I had to chop it a bit and glue & pin it back together. I then glued the long beams in place.