Styles & Era > Modern

Now that the coventry cottage dollhouse is done, it's time to have some fun setting up some miniature scenes for a photo shoot! I just posted the Coventry for sale on Craigslist and Etsy. Hopefully I'll get a buyer so I can get myself that Ball Jointed Doll. ;) If I don't sell it by Dec 25th, its going to be raffled off at my dad's church's xmas party. Either way, its going somewhere. While I still have it, I'm going to have...

Trying to figure out a proper placement for the front door of the Nyne House, an original dollhouse designed by Amazing Miniatures. This is just a quick post.. Remember the post where I was mulling over where to put the main entrance for the Nyne? Well, its been decided after the Reac chairs came in the mail! I set up where I planned to place the chairs and it does indeed allow ample space for the main entrance to be on the \rig...

Offering a free Free 1:12 Scale Noguchi Table Scroll Saw Pattern for other miniaturists and collectors who would like to make their own. Back in college, I spied the Noguchi table in one of those trendy furniture design stores in Miami. It was front and center in the window and it stopped me in my tracks. My broke college self could not afford the $1k+ price tag (I still can’t!), so I moved on, but I never forgot that table. Whenever...

Part 4 of the Nyne Dollhouse building series where the main first floor is worked on with the Band-it iron on wood product. This is going to be a long post with lots of pictures. While it is still work on the Nyne, this is largely an experiment/how-to-guide using Band-It wood veneer strips, wood filler, and wood stain. When conceptualizing the Nyne, my initial idea was to have the floors be removable. To plan for that, I...

Part 3 in the Nyne House building series where I deliberate Material and Furniture Placement Planning. Its Monday and Thanksgiving is in just a few days.. scary how time flies! This will also probably be the last post until after Thanksgiving since I have gobs of work to do, gobs of family events to go to, and gobs of turkey to eat! This is a rather simple post anyway. Its all about planning! Picture...

The 2nd part of the Nyne House series where I start to build the first floor walls of the dollhouse. These pictures have been sitting in my hard drive for a few days, but I only got around to editing and posting them until now. Its not much, its just putting up the first floor, load bearing walls for the Nyne. I used polyurethane Gorilla Glue and “nailed” in toothpicks (pictured above) to join the ...

Reminder! Mini Modern Bookcase Giveaway Ends on the 19th! Just a friendly reminder to anyone who wants a chance to win a FREE 1:12 scale modern bookcase, pictured above! Here are the rules again: To be eligible for the giveaway, #1) you have to “Like” the AmazingMiniature’s Facebook page. Heck, you can “Like” it from the Facebook panel on the right of this...

Minimodernistas' Web Shop! It was recently announced that Minimodernistas aka Doris Nathanson just opened her very own shop! She is someone I greatly admire and is one of my inspirations in the modern mini-world. Heck, just look at the picture above.. her work is amazing! So you should really check out her web shop at Minimod...

I am now trying to create the modern dollhouse bookcase using resin plastic casting. So the scene above looks vaguely familiar, but can you spot the big difference? I know, I know, the picture color is a bit washed out (sloppy editing), its missing the shelf items, and there’s the Tulip chair, but…. the big difference is that the shelf is actually a plastic reproduction! It first st...

The modern dollhouse bookcase project is now complete and set up in a scene with Japanese Re-ment accessories. The bookcases are done! I just finished finishing the bookcases I am super pleased with how they turned out. With that, I decided to give it a whirl with some Re-ment goodies that I had laying around. This picture makes me look like I have giant man hands, but I don’t! It’s just to give you an idea ...