I learned this technique about 4 years ago in my first class with Rik Pierce and Sometimes I use it when I am completely out of miniature flooring (like I am now). 1st you take a Vinyl floor tile and cut it to fit the room you wish to install the finished floor in.
Then you check to be sure it fits good BEFORE you start the next step. Once you are sure it will fit, take the peice out and take your pencil and start drawing where you would want your grout lines to be at. You can also purchase
Well I have completed this house. It is raining so I have not had the chance to take pictures out side but to see the ones I took so far you can look in my Coventry Cottage gallery too. I will add better pictures when I can get outdoors and do that.
This house was very fun to build and decorate. I want you all to leave knowing you should NOT feel afraid to alter your houses!! Each kit can turn into a unique item. Just think outside of the picture on the box! So many people miss out on these w
Although, I really wanted to be able to do my dance floor by just scribing and staining the foam core, I just never could in all my practices (and believe me there was several) I just could not for the life of me get the depth of the score just right. I was either to deep and the underlying foam would stain (which would not work for the ceiling portion) or it was to shallow and the lines wouldn't show up. I am also hampered by the inability to draw a straight line even using a metal ruler. So I
Other than a few minor details, like putting flowers in and glueing on the flower box, my studio is now a reality.
Mirrored Walls
I used acrylic mirrors that I was very fortunate to buy off a really nice guy on ebay. It is better and cheaper than the mirror sheet I bought to start with. You can cut and drill into it. I dryfitted the roof and marked where the inner half wall came to. Then holding my breathe and praying that it would still fit, I glued the front roof together and mea
Here's the finished product! There are more detailed pictures in my gallery.
The front of the house:
Entry way:
The back of the house and garden:
Right side of house and garden:
Left side of the house:
And the interior:
I've had so much fun with the Coventry Cottage. It's a delightful design and goes together so easily that it's a pure joy to build. It also has more potential for individual interpretation than any other house I've encountere
I may have mentioned that Riley is a truck driver, although he is home every night, he leaves very early and usually has to be in bed by 7:00 or 7:30. I mention this because you will understand that sometimes to get him to do things for me he only gets to work on my projects if he happens to get home by 3 in the afternoon and is not to tired. Well, I've been depending (and waiting) for him to hang my interior door, in order for me to move on and get the floor/ceiling glued in and to glue my roof
Here is what I have made or am making for this house:
a Belfast sink
a refrigerator, kitchen shelves (kit scraps, craft sticks and toothpicks)
bedside table (kit scraps)
the Chrysnbon bathroom kit (what didn't fit in the bathroom went in the bedroom)
window treatments
footstool (Reggie's trying it out, he likes it fine; I did not make Reggie & Annie, they are jointed porcelain Mr &
it is true I have finally finished.
actually this kit did not take as much time to build as it seems
I had surgery and did not work on it for almost 2 MONTHS!
wow that was a long dollhouse break.
last we were here I had paperclayed the roof and it was drying for paint.
oooooooo I wish I could say how wonderful it looked....but I cannot. I did not take photos of all the cracks and shrank out of place shingles. I started painting with a dirty wash. "bleech" looked hor
Before I start this weeks blog, please notice several thank yous to different members for their most welcome tips and tutorials. Without the help and teachings of members like you, I would be totally lost. There is mentioned two things that Riley and I made during this week that I hope will help some one to--the desk and my bay seat.
During the week, I mentioned to Riley that I would like a "customer service" type desk for my reception area. One that is a little taller and the fr
Over the weekend we were looking at house by the lake. Of course I did not have my camera but I saw a house very similar to the Coventry (Maybe I saw it before which is why the both look so similar now). I have decided to add a roof to the added room that I made where the porch is originally.
I am not sure if this is what I will keep which why I only used foam board for now. If I keep this one I will make the roof parts out of wood and cover the enitire house with clay. Please tell
I've decided to try a new technique with the roof. I have no idea if it will work ...
I took skewer sticks and placed them on the roof, and then put glue in between the sticks. I then take 1/2 inch strips of paperclay and roll it around the sticks, pressing them down in the center to adhere them to the roof.
This is what I'm coming up with. What do you all think?
Compliments of LPCullen
I have done more painting but I am still not finished. I had expected to finish this house last night but this was as far as I got. I still have to add 2 more colors on all bricks and stone and 1 more color to the roof to give it the proper aged look.
I know I will finish by next week for sure!
Enjoy the pictures!
This one is of the side with opening:
This is the front view
The Coventry is now finished, doors are in, etc. Tell me what you think!
THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE, INCLUDING PORCH AND ROOF
SIDE OF HOUSE
BACKSIDE AND UPPER ROOM
SMALLER ROOM DOWNSTAIRS, KITCHEN?
BACK SIDE OF HOUSE, OTHER SIDE
UPPER ROOM ON OTHER BACK SIDE
LARGE ROOM ON BOTTOM
Compliments of LPCullen
The final decision about the landscaping was not to change a thing. LOL I mentioned to Bruce that I was thinking about changing it and he said he liked it just the way it is. Since this is primarily his house, I left things as they were and just got a better picture. Close up pictures of the landscaping are in my gallery.
Deb
Well, I finally finished all of the stone sculpting outside if this house. This house is really a fast & Quick build. So far, I have only spent 5.5 hours on it. I added a fireplace in the Living room so I felt I had to have a Chimney. This is something I noticed that I have started to add to all of my houses and if one is missing, the house just does not look complete to me . This is the picture of what it looks like before the stones and bricks are added.
I also decided to add som
I've finished gluing some pieces together, and I've finished some of my staining. I know I've been silent about what I'm attempting to do with this house--partly because I'm scared I won't get it right, and partly because I want it to be a surprise!
I've begun paperclaying some of the exterior. I've also learned another lesson with paperclay--and that is to either take your diamond ring OFF your finger before beginning, or turn it around so that the diamond doesn't jab into the pap
No matter how many times I have worked with Paper clay, it always amazes me to see the house "Spring to Life" when you add just a little bit of color to it. I dirty washed the entire house and have onely added one color so far to the bricks and the Shingles. Yes there are more colors to add to them to make them look more realistic and I have not started the stones (other than the dirty wash) but I am very pleased with how it is turning out.
It is beginning to look like I imagined it to look
I finished the roof and took the house outside to photograph it. Please do not look at the dandelion bed it is sitting on.
I will be building the furniture for use in an Arthur I started 2 days ago. It will be a simple quick build, sparcely decorated as it is a gift to a friend.
Melissa
Ever do something on a house and when you're finished, you just sit and giggle and play with it for half an hour? That's kind of the way it went when I finished the sliding rice paper doors for the inside of the house.
I used basswood strips and stained them to match the interior woodwork, then laid them out in a grid. I was planning on making the smaller panels on the doors, but in this scale, it looked too fussy and busy in a small space. So I reminded myself that japanese design is
Before adding the woodwork, I applied the stucco to the exterior walls. That was so much fun! I'd never used stucco before, but I'm a firm believer in it now. It's such a nice treatment and it really helps cover the seams where the walls were bashed.
I stained skinny sticks and used them for the planks on the porch. There will be lattice work added around the edges of the porch to create an entry way so I left off the end stick till I decided how I'll want to mount the enclosure.
I finally repaired all of my paint damage. Since I'm not going to electrify this house, I thought I would wallpaper before assembly. Last year while working on the Lily, I was fortunate enough to go into a local paint store and picked up for free several sample wallpaper books (about 10). So I spent time going through the various books to figure out what was small enough in scale to use.
I still hope to make this a dance studio, so the long first floor room will ser
I put in a floor with siding stained it and added a curtain and baseboards to the main shop area. Crown moulding will have to wait until I get some.
The dressing room has a few things in it now, Curtains, baseboard, crown moulding, curtains on the window and dressing room. A few dresses hanging in bags waiting for the cutsomers to pick up their orders. This room seems too dark. Darrell is going to build me a battery light box, so I can put a lamp in there to brighten
Last weekend, about the only thing accomplished was Riley got the foam board floor cut and cut the wall so that it will fit. I got a little sanding done with some help from 6 yr. old Rebecca. She wanted to help, so I handed her an emory board and let her work on some tabs. She loved it.
At one time she did have the sanding block, and did a fair job of following the grain except when she decided another spot needed sanding and zip across the grain she went--luckily
I was a little nervous about putting on the roof after I'd bashed it so much and created a couple of new pieces for the roof top. I think I dry fit it at least a dozen times before I got the courage to actually glue it.
I put the sides/corners on the back of the house first since back of the roof connects to them. Once they were in place, I was ready to add the roof pieces in stages. I put the large pieces on the front of the roof first:
Then the pieces on the sides:
