Heartlake Food market Modular Rebuild 41108

[jlassen]

One of the first Friends buildings I bought for/with my daughter was the Heartlake Food Market, and when she lost interest in it, I started working on a Modular rebuild. I'd seen several 3 story versions that looked kind of generic, but I wanted something that incorporated the "attic loft" feel of the original model, maybe with some dormer windows in the roof line.

Switching the entry to 2nd story studio to the back was critical, and I kind of like how that back stairwell/landing turned out, though I still need a couple of finishing details. I also wanted to elevate the height of the store, so adding a line of windows above the canopy, while keeping some of the purple stripe color detail from the original was a goal.

I had it sitting around, mostly unfinished because I didn't have the right color bricks, but I finally just demo-ed a finish, mostly in white and whatever I had sitting around. 

I'm going back and forth on some of the window treatments, and I got rid of the brick top along the top of the second story after originally keeping it.  I've got a lot more detailed work to do inside, and I'm not entirely happy with the columns on the back... need some pink trim, so they match the columns on the front balcony maybe, and maybe the shutters AND columns are too much on back,  but the attic loft has room for small bedroom, and bathroom, separated by a full sized door/door frame.  And I'm not entirely sold on some of the front trim details I've used though i do like my tile and cone railings on the balcony.  Any thoughts or ideas for future versions/final colors are welcome.

Here's a bunch of shots I couldn't upload.

https://goo.gl/photos/ASQy6Dz3LPxhzdPT8

Kind of a mess/work in progress. but its MY mess!

 

[Bricknblue]

I like it, I like it a lot. I love the use of color. It always drives me nuts when people say Friends colors don't fit into City. I always wonder what depressing, non fun, non LEGO city do they live in.

I am curious, did you run out of black roof slopes? That one lavender loots out of place. More out of place than Master Chief. 

[jlassen]

4 hours ago, Bricknblue said:

I like it, I like it a lot. I love the use of color. It always drives me nuts when people say Friends colors don't fit into City. I always wonder what depressing, non fun, non LEGO city do they live in.

I am curious, did you run out of black roof slopes? That one lavender loots out of place. More out of place than Master Chief. 

Thanks for the feedback and kind words. Yeah... I didn't mean to have a black roof in the first place...the blacks were part of my "placeholder build." But I did indeed run out of black, or I just wanted to use every damn Lavender slope I had.  dark Pink and white rooftop is also just placeholder, at this point.

I'll probably buy enough lavender to have a completely lavender roof, and then work on different window/roof trim possibilities based on how the vast expanse of lavender looks.

The Master Chief keeps showing up in my various Heartlake city builds... I got a white elephant gift of him in a "grenade case" last Christmas, and now he just sort of.... turns up.

The Friends colors seem to be a natural for me a lot of building and architecture stuff... but I'm in San Francisco so the "Painted Lady" Victorian Gingerbread styles are literally everywhere here.  Happy to have bins full of these friends colors. Though my daughter has skewed a bit towards the "Elves" of late... so I've got a dragon crouched on top of Emma's house. Heartlake city is getting dangerous, I guess.

I'm still kicking around the idea of converting   "Emma's house" to a  "Mid century Modern" modular with a front yard... Rooftop balcony on one side and dormer windowed bedroom on the other would give it an interesting line...  But gotta finish up my Pet shop before I start futzing around with that... :)