Each chapter covers a different fixture or fitting suited to a period home, followed by a photo gallery of ideas in chronological order. These will assist model makers both in selection and styling before embarking upon one of a selection of projects that also offer tips on decorative finishes.
Discusses the construction of doll house furniture and features detailed plans for such furnishings as a gate-leg table, Aga cooker, tapestry fire screen, and Windsor writing chair.
Devotees of miniature houses and small-scale furnishings will be thrilled with this superb collection of more than 90 dollhouse projects to craft at home. A comprehensive volume on small-scale interior design, it presents 15 authentic and carefully matched room settings, featuring a variety of decorative styles from Shaker to Victorian. Each period interior is faithfully recreated in 1/12th scale, down to the tiniest detail. Hundreds of tips ensure that crafts enthusiasts will create splendid miniature furniture, decorative elements, and accessories, just right for decorating the most stylish and historically accurate dollhouses.
A room-by-room guide to decorating, furnishing and accessorising your 1/12 scale dolls' house in a range of period styles, complete with advice on materials and tools, tips on authentic period detail, full-size plans and complete instructions.
Imagine looking inside a Victorian house bedroom, and on the vanity you see a comb and brush set, a nail buffer, and curling tongs, each so tiny you can barely make them out. How do you make such delicate pieces? With these imaginative techniques you use ordinary tools and items you find around the house, such as thin wood strips, fine-design fabrics, buttons, beads, and bric-a-brac, as well as earrings, feathers, flowers, shells, and even a sloughed-off snakeskin. Using the standard inch-to-a-foot scale, accessorize a dollhouse with dainty items you can sell today because their antique counterparts are all but nonexistent. Here are just a few of the 85 projects and over 200 pieces you can make by following the simple instructions: ladies' and gentlemen's accessories: silver pocket watch, brandy decanter and glass, silk shoes; Food: cakes on cake stands, strings of garlic; Bedroom: chamber pot, writing slate, wax doll; Sitting room: porcelain figures, gramophone. Bonus: How to make dollhouse Oriental objets d'art, below-stairs brooms and brushes, gas wall lamps, and much more.
As in all scale modelling, authenticity is all-important when constructing a doll's house. Here, the author shares his passion for the Tudor period, showing how to build the house and also construct all the interior fittings.
Pop out, fold and play! Discover this gorgeous paper doll house, just waiting for you to put together and fill with stylish furniture! My Designer Doll's House features six rooms, all with finished interiors. Each room features easy-to-fold funky furniture with simple instructions. There's no need for glue or scissors: just pop out a piece of paper furniture, fold it and it's ready to go! As you build the doll house, you can read about the dolls' adventures while they move into their very own home.
A collection of needlework projects in miniature, featuring patchwork, canvaswork, cross stitch, surface embroidery, simulated lacework, applique, and quilting, for doll house rooms in the style of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: early and late Victorian, Edwardian, Arts and Crafts, and Art Nouveau.
Demonstrating some of the many different miniature making techniques used by miniaturists in the creation of 1:12 scale historically accurate representations of furniture, interiors, and fantasy pieces. Drawing from the author's extensive experience, Making Miniature Period Furniture for Dolls' Houses aims to inspire miniaturists to create not just the projects in this book, but also their own stunning, historically accurate pieces, using influences from throughout history and their imaginations.