Gingerbread Castle Dreamhouse
Christmas 2004

I have this obsessive compulsion to design totally unrealistic houses in as realistic a way as possible. That includes actually drawing out the blueprints of a building on drafting paper to scale. This year, I decided to make a gingerbread house based on my latest design for my Dream House. It's castle-inspired with a stone facade, two rounded stairway towers, and a huge dome ceiling light similar to the dome in the First Class section of Titanic (from the movie). This house is built to scale, 1/8" scale, to be specific. For those who don't know what that means, every 1/8 of an inch is equivilent to 1 foot in real life.

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The ingredients	I used a scale rule	to measure the pieces	and cut to size	One wall piece
Yes, that's a T-Square	Baking the wall pieces	laid out and labeled	Putting the walls together	The first corner seems to be holding
I needed extra hands	I used soda cans for support	And lots of icing	Another aerial view	More walls
Aerial view of all the walls	The backside	The backside	The front	Front staircase tower
Aerial view with the towers	A view of the backside with the back tower	From the front, where you can see both towers	Me building the porch and front box window	Front porch and box window
The front	The garage roof	The roof is open to make the top of the garage into a deck	One chimney	Both chimneys, porch, box window and garage
The backside with the chimney	Ready for the icing	The buttercream icing for the walls	Caught!	Mom jumped in to help ice the house
Being a castle, it needs grey stone walls	So I made stone in the grey icing	using a stone icing pattern	The beach chairs on the garage-deck	The garage with icing and beach chairs
The Castle with stone	Closeup of stone	The icing is dusted with black coloring to age the stone	Building the roof	out of graham crackers
Roof on the wings of the Castle	Roof on the main portion of the Castle	The finished roof	Closeup with the tower's "Witch's Peak" ice cream cone roof and chocolate dome celing light	Another view
The chimneys get red icing	and a brick pattern	A yellow food marker is used to mark where the windows will go	The scale rule is used to put the windows in their proper place	The windows are filled in with yellow icing
Painting the windows	A YouTube video of how I painted on the windows	More windows	The dome ceiling light gets frosted too	Blue trim around the window panes
The tower windows	Closeup of windows with blue trim and white-chocolate Nestle Crunch shutters	The backside with finished windows	The chimney with snow	Painting on the garage door
YouTube video of me painting on the blue garage door	The garage deck with snow	The backside with snow	Closeup: Side of the garage	Closeup: Front porch & box window
Closeup: Dome	View of tower & chimney	Closeup: Tower & Chimney	Closeup: Side Chimney with Cotton Candy Smoke	Closeup: Back Chimney with Cotton Candy Smoke
Sideview	Backside angle	Closeup of one wing	Backside with sliding door and woodpile	View of backside with wood pile
Closeup of pretzel woodpile with blue bubblegum tarp	Another view of back chimney	View of tower	Garage deck with snow	Garage doors & driveway
Garage doors & driveway	Candy cane-lined driveway	Front porch with snowman & chocolate sprinkle walkway	Closeup of snowman	The whole castle
Me with the finished Gingerbread Castle Dreamhouse	The finished house with fancy background

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