Country Chic Cottage - Interior

The interior of the cottage was, I think going to be easier than the exterior! So much to make!

This is the interior so far, with the bathroom and attic (conservatory) still to be sorted

THE KITCHEN
Well, i started with the kitchen, I have just had a new kitchen put in my house (cottage) so took the idea from the real kitchen. The units are made of mat board and bench top from balsa wood. The cupboard doors are pinched from a cheap wooden cupboard and I have made them tongue and groove.

The butlers sink proved to be a problem of what it could be made from, air dried clay, maybe polymer clay, so experimented with both and polymer clay won. Had to make a mold and when I cooked the first one, it cracked, so made a second one, all good.

So with the kitchen starting to take shape, using second hand dolls house furniture, a fridge, sideboard, wall shelves, table and chair, all ready to be sanded and painted.

A look at how it might look finished!

From this to this

Wallpaper up, units painted and distressed, decorations about, chandelier up, curtains hung, flooring down.

THE LOUNGE ROOM

I had no idea what I was going to do here, had to make a lounge suite! Where to start...

So, have spent many an hour making the two lounge chairs and cushions, pretty happy with them.

Still to be completely finished, eg. the mantle and I'm not happy with the coffee table.

Had a great deal of fun making the decoration for this hutch unit, it's a wee  bit fairy, with a crystal ball, fairy dust and magic wand, a wee bit witchy with jars of potions and potion scrolls, a wee bit dolly with crystal bead bottles.

THE CHANDELIERS

You can't have a Country Chic Cottage without chandeliers, now can you. This is how I made them.

To make up cut 4 lengths of jewellery wire about 10 cm long each and make a circle to finish one end off.

Next, thread some beads onto all four wires

Gather them together and wind one of the wires around the others, as shown above. Cut wire off.

Twist the other 3 wires around each other and cut two off.

Thread a bead on the last remaining with and make a circle and twist wire to finish. Bend the 4 wires up to make the chandelier look right and there you have it!

THE FIRE PLACE

This is made of mat board and balsa wood with egg carton cut out and glued on.

THE BEDROOM

Here I have used second hand dolls house furniture again, sanded, painted and distressed

The bed head was made of an old plastic dolls swing, painted and attached to bed. The Chandelier has chain added to it. The wardrobe has small linens and lace cloths and two boxes, with a dress hanging on a coat hanger. The bedside table has a glass bead flower arrangement. Still needs some more furniture and maybe a mat.

THE BATHROOM

Under Construction

Flooring done and curtains made and up to go in front of the bath.

Flooring was made from tongue depressors, painted in squares

More to come ...

Luxury Red Fairy House

The Red Fairy House is an original, handmade, one of a kind, made with mostly natural materials like driftwood, shells, moss, flowers, sticks, bark, grasses, birds nest etc. Made with amazing detail and many little miniatures which take many months to make. 

Downstairs:

The table is adorned with a red flower petal table cloth, red bead bottles a flower stamen arrangement, shell plates, a crystal ball and a candle in an acorn holder. Two chairs adorned with moss and flowers.

The fire place mantle has a red flower arrangement, a poppy seed vase, a red crystal ball and a candle. Below there is a stone hearth with a kettle, a broom stands beside.

The Kitchen bench has a shell sink, a red fairy cake and acorns with beads in it, the shelf above has a bottle of red miniature beads, shell plates, a red bead bottle and tins of food.  Standing beside the bench is a bottle of Magical Fairy Dust with a crystal magic wand.

Upstairs

The bedroom has a bed covered with red satin and felt flowers with a headboard, a huge flower chandelier hangs from the ceiling. The dressing table has books, flowers, bead bottles, and a mirror. Comes with a stool. A red curtain and a dream catcher adorn the walls.

Outside, the roof is made with bark and moss with a red flower in front. There is a fairy swing, a bird cage with a bird, a door bell, a shell bath, and dried flowers and grasses. The walls are made of bark. A flower tree and a stone stack and a rock.

It stands approx. 65cm tall on a base of 70cm wide by 40cm deep.

Miniature Caravan

My miniature caravan was made for my fairies to go camping!!! 

Apart from my Fairy Houses, this is really my first attempt at going miniature, sort of half fairy and half miniature. . .

The campsite

Inside

A fairy ring around the campfire

Country Chic Cottage Miniature House

My Country Chic Cottage is my current 2015 winter project.

I have taken many photos of this project, just ask if you would like to see how to make anything you see.

I have built it from scratch, from drawing up plans, building it and making it all work. The house itself is made of 7mm plywood, screwed and glued together. The exterior cladding I made from ripped up and cut up egg cartons to look like stone, glued onto the ply. The roof tiles are made of heavy duty sandpaper, cut to look like roofing tiles and glued on. The front opens up with two doors using piano hinges, also the roof lifts up with a piano hinge.

Windows are made with different sized popsicle sticks, cut to size and glued together, very tricky job but have made 11 windows with a shutter on each side also made from popsicle sticks. My front door was eventually made from popsicle sticks as well. Dowel was used to hold up veranda.

The climbing rose took many hours to make, punching out leaves, twisting wires and then adding flowers and covering with florist tape, then gluing on the leaves... It looks as real as I can get it.

The topiary at the front door are green pom poms glued to a stick and planted in blind acorns, painted. Not sure if they look real enough, so will look further for some landscaping materials. The delphiniums and miniature artificial flowers in air dried clay pots.

The interior is under construction... but here are some photos so far.

The kitchen table, fridge and hutch unit are second hand and I have sanded, painted and distressed them. The floor board are also made from wide popsicle sticks and painted.

The Lounge room has a lot of work to do, it is still looking like a blank canvas, more colour I think

Pink Fairy House

The Pink Fairy House is an original, handmade, one of a kind, made with mostly natural materials like driftwood, shells, moss, flowers, sticks, bark, grasses, birds nest etc. Made with amazing detail and many little miniatures which take many months to make.
Downstairs:
The kitchen table and chairs have shell plates, a bead bottle, poppy seed wine glasses, a beautiful glass flower arrangement and a petal table cloth and some miniature spoons. Chairs adorned with dried flowers and moss.
A flower and crystal chandelier. A butterfly mat on the floor.
A kitchen unit, made of sticks, bark and adorned with flowers etc, holds shell plate, acorn plates, miniature tins of food a large bead bottle, poppy seed wine glasses and a sack of coffee.
The mantle over a fire place has a bottle of Amethyst, a candle holder, a bead bottle, etc the fire has a base of stones, a wood pile, a pot and herbs drying.
The kitchen sink is made of driftwood and shells and a tap.
Outside, a door bell, 2 flower pots, a letterbox etc.
Upstairs, the bedroom, a big round bed with lace and pillows, flowers, a book, a beautiful head board, The flower and crystal bedroom lamp stands beside. Pink curtains make up part of the walls. The dressing table has a mirror with a butterfly on it, beautiful bottles, a crystal necklace, a bottle of Fairy Dust and a lace covered stool. A pink dream catcher hanging from a branch. The fairy baby cradle is made with a paua shell with a flower over it.
The pink fairy house has a roof adorned with beautiful flowers, moss, a birds nest with eggs.
It stands 80cm tall, about the same size as a two storey dolls house, 50cm wide and 40cm deep

Fairy House

I made my first fairy house about 5 years ago. After travelling through Italy,  I saw lots of bird houses. When I came home I decided to make some bird houses of my own. With a little inspiration from google images and my thoughts, my bird houses expanded to Fairy Houses, this is my first rather large fairy house.