Sunday 8 January 2017

Tudor House

My much-put-upon husband, who loves me but thinks I'm nuts, kindly built me some shelves in our bedroom for me to display my mini creations. Secretly, I think he was just relieved that I wasn't going to buy another 1/12th Scale house for him to stub his toes on in the night! I could see the cogs going round in his head when he regarded the shelves thinking 'Well, it will take her a while to fill those up'.  by my estimation I will be able to fit 12 houses on those shelves before he needs to build me some more, challenge accepted 😉.

My third purchase from Petite Propertie's Kit and Book series was Toadstool Hall. This kit expanded my clay work skills as the scribing was irregular stone but to be honest, it was easier than the brick. Freehand cutting the card for the exterior and ceiling beams was also easier than the precision cutting needed for Emelia's. In fact, this was a relatively easy build and went together a treat.

The finished pieces ready to glue together.



Exterior Finish.

Petite properties do a great range of Quarter (1:48th) Scale Tudor furniture kits so I bought the lot. I glued them together and painted them a dark brown finishing them off with a coat of gloss varnish. I dressed the miniature bed using some foam board for the mattress and fabrics from Little Trimmings. I accessorised my little Tudor cupboard with fabric rolled around small pieces of card.

The furniture I made for the bedroom

I bought a gorgeous little Tudor bed from SimplySweetandSmall and a little icon and table from Morticia. I also tried my hand at making a Medieval chair our of Bea Broadwoods Furniture Book. I was pleased with the results.



This was actually the first house I'd completed that included a kitchen and dining room and this presented me with a new opportunity...food. I discovered a wonderful miniaturist called Signe. Her food was so delicate and beautiful. I immediately contacted her and asked her to make some Tudor foods for me..the results were incredible.

Signe's wonderful food

Inspired, I decided to have a go at a few polymer clay accessories myself.  I thought fruit would be a good place to start as they were just little balls really. I made apples by rolling tiny amounts of clay into balls and putting a small whole in the top with a fine point scribe. Pewter plates were just bigger balls that I then squished them flat with a pen lid to and used a fine scribe to add a little shape.





 made a few more plates for my Tudor hutch and a tiny Tudor tapestry and the dining room was looking great.




Next, I made more plates a bowl and a cup to fill my little kitchen shelves. I have used one of Petite Properties ceramic fireplaces in the kitchen - a little artistic license was used here as the chimney is on the front of the house- and the shelves were made out of off cuts from Petite Property kits. A few beads added to the shelves completed the look and finished off my little Tudor kitchen.




That  was it, another house was finished. On the 3rd December 2016, I was lucky enough to go to the Kensington Dolls House Festival. If you haven't been I would highly recommend it. Whilst there I met the lovely Sally Reader and bought two of her Tudor dolls for my house.



I decided that I needed a bit of a challenge after this so I set myself the target that everything in my next house I would make all the furniture from scratch...no kits, and no cheating by buying things on etsy...gulp 😳

Next time..Bluebell Cottage












2 comments:

  1. Oh well done indeed! What a lovely house you've created! Do please post photos of your finished houses on the Beehive and inspire others. Post a link to your blog so that people can also follow along as you go. Love the food - is there a link to Signe's site if she had one please? I love the dolls too, and the details you've added like the tapestry bring the rooms to life. Congratulations on another lovely project.

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  2. Lovely job! You are certainly inspiring to newcomers to quarter scale and I will pass on your blog
    Cheers
    Gayle
    www.petworthminiatures.com

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