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I have had a life-long love affair with dollhouse miniatures, and careers in art education and interior design. I hope to combine these life experiences to help other miniature enthusiasts get more out of this wonderful hobby we enjoy, a hobby that often reaches the level of an art form. Susan Downing

Posted on 12 November, 2015

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Classy New Yorker Shopping Bags

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Bloomy Brown Bags

Famous Name Shopping Bags

The holiday shopping season is upon us and the Lady of your 1:12 scale dollhouse talking about a trip to New York to pick up a few gifts. Make sure she goes to the “right” Fifth Avenue stores.    

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Gucci Miniature Shopping Bag

All shopping bags have handles and removable tissue paper peeking out the top. Most measure 1” x 1.25.” Some, like the Tiffany bag, are slightly smaller in keeping with sizes in the real world. You can buy individually, mix and match in any quantity and any famous-name store you like.

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Christian Louboutin Miniature Shopping Bag

If you don’t see your favorite trendy boutique, say in Soho or the Village, I’ll custom make a shopping bag for you at no additional cost, if I can find the logo,.

Follow this link to my Etsy shop “shopping bag” page for famous-shopping bags I have in stock.

Susan

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Categories: accessorizing, shopping bags


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Posted on 10 November, 2015

Puddle Curtains – Origin of the Term

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Found on Chantiki a real Victorian bedroom in the Doge’s Palace – Venice, Italy

Puddling refers to an amount of extra drapery length that is spilled or “puddled” onto the floor. In the days when fabrics were rare and expensive, only the wealthy could afford them and only the wealthiest could afford extra material to just lay on the floor! Puddling added opulence and style to their drapes.

Not all draperies are found in window treatments, as evidenced by the beautiful image of a turquoise Edwardian era canopy bed. Notice how it puddles on the blue carpet with the gold-legged table with a greenish glass top set at the foot of the bed. A perfect color scheme, perfect placement of the objects in the photograph. This real Victorian bedroom is so formal I wonder if I could relax in it, much less sleep.

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Posted on 03 November, 2015

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“Offline Hideaway” by Dominic Wilcox, one of nineteen fantasy room boxes by London designers.

Tiny Fantasy Room Boxes are featured at The Victoria &Albert Museum of Childhood in east London. Twenty designers were commissioned to create their “dream room” inside a 30-centimetre (11-13/16 inches) wooden box.

Combined in one installation, the room boxes is form the finale for the exhibition “Small Stories: At Home in a Dolls’ House,” which showcases dolls’ houses dating from 1712 to 2001.

“It could be fantastical, whimsical, aspirational or technological, it just had to be small,” curator Alice Sage told Dezeen Magazine.

 

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Categories: room boxes


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Posted on 02 November, 2015

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Optimizing Space in a Contemporary Miniature – Marshall Erb’s Designs Portfolio

Optimizing Space for an interior designer specializing in small-space living is a constant challenge. I continually research how other designers handle it. Marshall Erb in Chicago has a wonderful way of using space, which is so important when optimizing miniature space.

Look at all the elements in the photograph of a dining room table set in an alcove. Picture how you could utilize this idea in a miniature. It’s a clean way of using more elements without the room looking cluttered, which is so important for modern miniatures.

Go through Marshall’s Portfolio which offers so many ideas for modern dollhouse decorating.
Susan Downing

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Categories: modern dollhouses, space, wall art


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