I did this Gingerbread house for the same Christmas buffet events as the Croquembouche. It was pretty much done to scale and I included an inset of the actual Chateau. I did get better as the years went on and added some wisps of cotton ball smoke from the chimneys, etc. They all had clear poured sugar windows and an interior string of white lights. (Like the Croq, this was ten years ago!)