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
Thorne Room – Jacobean Reception Room – 1625-55, found at Art Institute Chicago
It seems that I have followed a Rule of Three in my decorating assignments:Minimalist, where a single piece of art over-powers everything else in the frame; Maximum, where a cluster of pictures give the impression of a single image filling the frame; and Moderate, which I was supposed to
Jacobean inspired drawing room box by Ron Hubble
If a room in your project needs a more open feeling, changes in the amount of light or the color of the wall can visually increase the size of the space.
A fundamental change would be the paint color. Evaluate the color tones used and see if they can be lightened without going to a stark white. Always keep in mind that the darker the color, the smaller an area will
Categories: accessorizing, space
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.
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?
Categories: curtains, room boxes, space, windows
Miniature Buckingham Palace Drawing Room – the most expensive exhibit at the Taiwan Museum, found on Rash & Mayur’s Shoebox on Flickr
Categories: room boxes, space
