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When we moved to Washington, we crated up Elmwood Manor, a Lawbre Bungalow 1:12 scale "dollhouse". It sat in the garage, in its crate (on a rolling cabinet), until I had the room where it was going set up sufficiently (and Rich really wanted the space in the garage). 

Then, (8 months since we unpacked it from a POD into the garage), Rich attached "handles" (long 2×4 poles) to the rolling base under the crate and said he thought the two of us could maybe move it, just us.

We shifted the concrete blocks in front of the porch to make a platform. Then we rolled the crate to there, I lifted my end, Rich pushed, Rich lifted, and we got the crate onto the platform, then onto the porch.

Then we had the fun of getting it into the house, which was not easy because we had trouble getting the second door open! That took pliers and WD-40 and hammers and kicking. But we prevailed, and the crate was in the front room. …

… where it sat until the end of October, when we started putting together the table it would sit on after it was uncrated.

Rich painted the edges of the baseplates for the tables (one side was already painted black). After that dried, we brought the panels into the house where he attached them to the legs.

How special… The locking casters have a different-sized plate for the screws to go through vs the non-locking casters. That was "fun". Also, the bolts were too long, so Richcut them down. 

There are no 10-minute jobs.

A few days intervened. Rich cut a board for a "shelf" for the center of the new table. I put together the folding screen I ordered to keep the cats away. And, finally, we uncrated Elmwood Manor, removed it from the old rolling base, added a pair of 2x4s underneath to strengthen the yard (and for gripping), and set it on its new rolling table!

Ta Da!

(Cat for scale. The new screens went up shortly after this photo was taken.)