DOLLS HOUSE MINIATURES

Hello everyone. I’m so excited to bring you this new menu to my website. It’s something I’ve been planning for quite a while, and now it’s up and running. I wanted to build a 12th scale dolls house and design all of the decor and furniture etc to go inside of it. Well I’ve made a start downstairs and decorated the kitchen. I’ll show you how I painted the walls. Take a look at the next picture.

I wanted tiled walls for the kitchen. I cut down a sheet of cartridge paper and marked out the pattern in pencil. Then I used alcohol markers to paint the pattern. I did this for all three walls. – Now have a look at how each room in my dolls house starts out.

Each room in my dolls house starts as an empty cardboard box. I’ve added the light to make it easier to see, as it’s rather dark inside with no lighting. So far, I have six boxes, but I’m planning to buy another pack so that I can add two more rooms in the attic. I currently have the flaps off of one of the ends to make an open space at the front. – come and see the flooring.

Once the floor is added, it really starts to look like a room. I used white mount board for the floor and painted the pattern with alcohol markers, as I did for the walls. This took quite a long time, but it was very relaxing to do. Adding the window, window blind, door and serving hatch, and light fixture really made the room come to life.

The window is a piece of cartridge paper, and I painted the view with watercolour pencils. The window blind is a piece of patterned paper which I rolled up part of the way and added a small piece of twine with a white bead at the end for the pulley. The door is painted with alcohol markers and stuck onto a piece of white card to create the door frame. The light shade is made from the same patterned paper as the window blind, so that they coordinate. Finally I added a serving hatch to go through to the dining room. This is a piece of mount board covered with wood effect paper with squares of covered board for the doors. I drew on the handles with a black sharpie pen and added subtle shadows with a pencil. I’ve made another serving hatch exactly the same to go on the side of the dining room, once it’s made.

I’ve enjoyed the start of my new adventure and tomorrow, I’ll start to make the furniture and fixtures, once I have some of them in place, I’ll show you what they look like inside of my new dolls house kitchen.

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