Design Title: Queen Anne Victorian

Description:

- “Those other houses are nice, but they can’t compare to the Queen!”

Claim the crown in your neighborhood with this stunning Queen Anne-style Victorian mansion. Packed with details from ground floor to the weathervane on top of the towner, this delightful home is the perfect display piece and addition to any city layout!

The Model:

Model Main Features:

- Two and a half detailed floors of living space, bursting with furniture, hidden secrets, and more. Remove the roof to access the tower room, attic, second floor, and ground floor.

- An rounded octagonal tower, wrap-around front porch, multiple gables, and

asymmetrical facade accented with ornamental details, all characteristic of the Victorian

Queen Anne building style.

- The Ground Floor features a kitchen, dining room, living room, main staircase, secret coat closet under the staircase, and a spacious porch with a porch swing.

- The First Floor features a large landing graced with a sparkling crystal chandelier, two bedrooms, and the master bathroom. You can find cool period accents here, such as the crystal doorknobs and stained glass transom windows above the doors. Beautiful wisteria drapes the porch roof and attracts butterflies for The Professor to study!

- The Attic features a tower room as well as storage space with paint cans, a ladder, and other parts. A folding ladder allows access from the master bedroom.

- Six removable sections for ease of access and play!

- Nine Minifigures, including the two owners, two journalists doing a piece on the house’s features and history, a visiting grandmother, the postman, and two neighborhood children playing on roller skates! (Also included is a cute ginger cat!)

This design is very heavily based on a Queen Anne Victorian house located in Walla Walla, Washington:

- The Ritz Mansion, Walla Walla, WA (~1895) - Now a private residence, this was copied from a design the person for whom it was built admired, in Portland.

The limited palette is always a challenge with these entries. In the real life building that was my inspiration, the house is entirely white, even the window frames. However, I needed to break up the house visually, and between the various types of parts, none of the window frames all matched up to the same color, except for red. So I had to settle for the dual window frames as a color scheme. I kept the white walls of the house, as every color that was available for all the pieces caused me to need to find alternate colors for trim and windows, that were restricted (not all of the parts had the same color and the colors they did have looked outlandish). Similar to my other Victorian entry, the color scheme presented here is the best of what could be built with the limited palette and still look somewhat good. There are no alternative color schemes for this model in the BDP 10 palette that would look good.

One of the challenges for this build was the dome. I modified it from a design that I have built in real bricks at home, but changed it to look more put together and with less gaps, I’m very pleased with the result! I was trying to keep the part count as low as possible, but with the amount of bricks, features and furniture, I think it ended up the perfect size. With a fully enclosed back and multiple separating sections, this build would look perfect in any city/town layout!

* Any background images are my own design, and are not taken from copyrighted material*

Dimensions:

Total Pieces: 3,908

Length: 12.6 in (32 cm)
Width: 15.7 in (40 cm)
Height: 16.4 in (41.7 cm)