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Posted on 05 February, 2016

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Ron Hubble’s English style miniature ballroom in the Miniature Museum of Taiwan

Ron Hubble, Artisan

A World of Beauty

Ron Hubble is known in the miniature world for his attention to detail and his ability to make the period in which he works come to life. One source of inspiration has been the stately homes of England, especially as designed by Robert Adams. This eighteenth-century architect created many such manor houses. One manor house is of special interest to Ron – Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, in the English Midlands.

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Posted by Patrick Owens

Categories: Neo Classical, room boxes


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Posted on 03 February, 2016

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Helena Rubinstein Dining Room found in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

 

Accessorizing Kitchen, Lounge & Dining Room

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The following article by Julia Morrison is an excellent guide for the basic items you will need to accessorize a dollhouse Kitchen, Lounge & Dining Room. Of course, you have decisions to make before making it a shopping list. In what era does your project take place? (I chose Edwardian images for this post). Who lives in your dollhouse, aristocrats or commoners? Is it a dollhouse? A room box might give you more space in which to work. Are you recreating a memory, copying a the room from a painting or photograph? What’s your budget?

Also, be sure to use appropriate room names. For instance, the Edwardians did not have a lounge. “Parlor” could be used as a family room or maybe it’s a “ladies sitting room.” Men hang out in a “Study.”

Here’s Julie Morrison’s article

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Posted by Susan Downing

Categories: accessorizing, dollhouses, Edwardian, room boxes


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Posted on 01 February, 2016

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Brooke Tucker Window Treatment

As an interior designer, I constantly manipulate objects to deceive the eye and give the impression that a room is larger than a tape measure indicates. Curtains offer great opportunities to do this. In dollhouses too.

There is no law saying you have to keep curtains adjacent to the window, as Brooke Tucker did in the Sitting Room miniature box below. It is simply a custom. Extending the fabric vertically and horizontally is fine. Just make sure the proportions of fabric within the “frame” made by ceiling, walls, and floor looks right to your eye.

Below are three window treatment tricks decorators love to use.

Hang Above the Window Frame

To create the illusion of a taller window, mount the rod above the window frame, about halfway between the frame and the ceiling molding. A track mounted on the ceiling also lengthens windows. Be sure to account for the extra fabric when measuring. Ms. Tucker might have done something of the sort in the vertical picture below. Who knows if the top of the valance is inline with the top of the window or not?

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Posted by Patrick Owens

Categories: curtains, room boxes, space, windows


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Posted on 23 January, 2016

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Miniature Room No. 5, the Montmorenci Stair Hall, in an Ileana Ottini video

Henry Kupjack Miniaturist Dead at 67

The son of famed miniaturist Eugene Kupjack, Henry Kupjack died of a suspected heart attack Monday, February 18th at his home in Chicago.  Henry was a master artisan in his own right, creating over 600 miniature rooms, either by himself or in collaboration with his father. Eugene Kupjack was the principal artisans on The Thorne Rooms – one of the most popular attractions at the Art Institute of Chicago. Henry’s work can also be seen in museums and private collections worldwide.

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Posted by Susan Downing

Categories: room boxes


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