Inventive Minuscule Accessories: Modeling Clues
Adding Little Touches to your Kit
The real fun with a kit or hobby of this sort is reveling in the small details. From living room lamps to kitchen coffee mugs, these are the small details found in the accessories category. Adding these into your kit will spruce it up, add a fun touch, and cause visitors to sit and stare. In addition to design, it adds a realistic feel that says people actually live here. In reality sky is the limit in dollhouse accessories; you can even start making your own!
Designing the Outside of Your Dollhouse Kit
When you have completed your dollhouse you will want people to admire the outside of your dollhouse just as much as they do the inside. The first thing that everybody looks at is the paint and the shingles. To have a quality paint job on your house apply at least three coats of recommended paint. Make sure that you draw lines prior to applying shingles to preserve a straight look, most instruction booklets will provide the required measurements. Bird houses, dog houses, gazebos, and more are other ways to spruce up your exterior. You can even have some small flower pots to place in the window seals. Lighting is another addition that will really help the look of the outside features. Put some porch lights on, and if you have lit the inside it will make the glow through the windows appealing on the outside as well.
Design Tricks: Apply a Great Wallpaper Pattern Yourself
Wallpaper is the worlds best invention, right up there with glue and nails. It really does save a lot of time to put wallpaper up especially if you have done it before. As far as the where and what kind of wallpaper options are out there you should start with a hobby website or store. If you are looking to save even more time there are wallpaper sheet specifically for dollhouses that are made in small cuts for easy installation. Don't forget, because you are looking for such a small portion you can even print your own wallpaper design. Simply open a word document and create a pattern that will look great for your dollhouse and presto, homemade wallpaper!Scrap booker's will have all the necessary materials for you as well, so if you know anyone or if you are a scrap booker yourself look at your collection of paper and I am sure that something will work. Remember, you learn by doing, so start with something simple and create something amazing.
How Many? The reality of that question applied to Miniatures
One of the miniature furniture decisions that you will have to make is answering this question: How many pieces of dollhouse furniture should I put in my room?The answer depends on the theme or message that you are trying to send, and also on the size of the room. First, the rule of thumb is not trying to cram too much furniture, yes I know that it is fun, but everything has its limits. But secondly if you cram the room with furniture you are missing out on some simple space designing techniques. You must realize that space itself can have its own designing capabilities. Empty space when it is balanced relays a message of relaxation, cleanliness, and appeal. On the other hand if you have too much space then you simply ask: Is that it?At the end of the day you will have to come to that balance on your own.
The real fun with a kit or hobby of this sort is reveling in the small details. From living room lamps to kitchen coffee mugs, these are the small details found in the accessories category. Adding these into your kit will spruce it up, add a fun touch, and cause visitors to sit and stare. In addition to design, it adds a realistic feel that says people actually live here. In reality sky is the limit in dollhouse accessories; you can even start making your own!
Designing the Outside of Your Dollhouse Kit
When you have completed your dollhouse you will want people to admire the outside of your dollhouse just as much as they do the inside. The first thing that everybody looks at is the paint and the shingles. To have a quality paint job on your house apply at least three coats of recommended paint. Make sure that you draw lines prior to applying shingles to preserve a straight look, most instruction booklets will provide the required measurements. Bird houses, dog houses, gazebos, and more are other ways to spruce up your exterior. You can even have some small flower pots to place in the window seals. Lighting is another addition that will really help the look of the outside features. Put some porch lights on, and if you have lit the inside it will make the glow through the windows appealing on the outside as well.
Design Tricks: Apply a Great Wallpaper Pattern Yourself
Wallpaper is the worlds best invention, right up there with glue and nails. It really does save a lot of time to put wallpaper up especially if you have done it before. As far as the where and what kind of wallpaper options are out there you should start with a hobby website or store. If you are looking to save even more time there are wallpaper sheet specifically for dollhouses that are made in small cuts for easy installation. Don't forget, because you are looking for such a small portion you can even print your own wallpaper design. Simply open a word document and create a pattern that will look great for your dollhouse and presto, homemade wallpaper!Scrap booker's will have all the necessary materials for you as well, so if you know anyone or if you are a scrap booker yourself look at your collection of paper and I am sure that something will work. Remember, you learn by doing, so start with something simple and create something amazing.
How Many? The reality of that question applied to Miniatures
One of the miniature furniture decisions that you will have to make is answering this question: How many pieces of dollhouse furniture should I put in my room?The answer depends on the theme or message that you are trying to send, and also on the size of the room. First, the rule of thumb is not trying to cram too much furniture, yes I know that it is fun, but everything has its limits. But secondly if you cram the room with furniture you are missing out on some simple space designing techniques. You must realize that space itself can have its own designing capabilities. Empty space when it is balanced relays a message of relaxation, cleanliness, and appeal. On the other hand if you have too much space then you simply ask: Is that it?At the end of the day you will have to come to that balance on your own.
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