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 ...
The 13th part in the Coventry Cottage dollhouse project where I work on the front porch with the miniature stone tiles made earlier. I finally got to use those “flagstone” pieces that I made for the Coventry Cottage porch. I used spackle as the grout. It was pretty tough with spackle because it dries so quickly, which I expected. But I didn’t expect the difficulty of doing it in such a confined space. Its finally done and boy was...
Working on the interior trim for the coventry cottage dollhouse project. Painting it white to make a summery feel. Its been a while since I posted any updates on my Coventry Cottage project… over a whole month in fact! So here’s a pretty long post on what went on. Starting off, I made a junky paint box to aid in the painting. Its a horrible excuse for a paint box since its too small and there is too much overspi...
How to make Miniature "Stone" Tiles using clay. I knew I wanted to have my Coventry Cottage’s porch to have “flagstone” flooring and I didn’t want to buy those floor sheets, partially because I’m poor, but mostly because it doesn’t look real enough for me. The next best solution was to make the “stone” tiles and grout them on myself. This is a sh...
Showing off some origami paper imported from Japan for use in dollhouses and miniatures. My sister just gave me some Japanese paper that her boyfriend has been holding on to since he was gifted with it as a little kid. It is perfect dollhouse sized wall print, especially for an asian inspired room. Free paper, woooooo!
Another half scale fireplace project for the creatology dollhouse with veranda, but with some accidents along the way. Emboldened by my success from yesterday’s country fireplace, I decided to make another one (since I bought a second Creatology Dollhouse with Veranda). This time, I wanted to create a more modern one, since I’ll be decorating it contemporary-ish. This fireplace is actually based off the slate firepl...
Creating a half scale fireplace out of clay for the Creatology dollhouse with the veranda. Remember that Creatology Dollhouse with Veranda? Well, I’ve decided to make it into a country cottage of some sort. I also had a big chunk of Sculpey III sitting around and wanted to sculp something so why not start with something easy, like a earthy country fireplace! I used various tools to sculp ...
I applied varnish to my Coventry Cottage Dollhouse's roof and floors. My miniature dollhouse is looking great! So its time to finish off the floors and the roof. I knew from the beginning that I wanted to have a natural finish for my Coventry Cottage’s “hardwood” floors, as well as the roof , so I skipped the staining part and went strait to applying polyurethane to the floors and roof. You can see in the im...