Excellent Tiny Doll Furniture: Organizational Suggestions
Sizing to Your Advantage
There are three major sizing elements that you will need to deal with in interior layout with a dolls room. Here are the sizing elements, there are three: Miniature scales, size of room dimensions, and comparative size. First is the scale of furniture, make sure that your furniture is the right scale for your dollhouse. Meaning that if you have a half inch dollhouse that you need to purchase half inch dollhouse furniture. The second is room size: or simply not cramming furniture into the room that will not fit. Take out a ruler and measure the square inches of the room and compare it to your incoming furniture dimensions. The last point is relative size; this means that within a room you can coordinate the pieces. This means that each set has its own symmetry of size, larger, medium, and smaller pieces should coordinate together in a pattern that makes sense.
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. You can also print off your own wallpaper. If you have a computer and a semi decent printer simply make a style that you are comfortable and print out a couple sheets. If you are in to scrap booking you should have all the materials that you need. So go ahead, create unique, personalized wallpaper that matches your design, furniture, and dollhouse kit
Designing by Mood
The mood of the room should be a designers motivation and no other, it is the mood that dictates color and furniture, and not the other way around. Each room has a mood, meaning that there are some underlying purposes for which you would have that room. A great example is a play room where the sole purpose of the room is to have fun and enjoy oneself. Another example would be a bedroom, which is more personal, intimate, and is directly affected by the personality of the resident. Great dollhouses are no different. Visualize what mood you would like to portray in your rooms, for what purposes would they have that room and what particular mood would they set. When you tap into the mood you will know it, and the design of the room will just fall in place as if it was meant to be there all along.
Floor Trim for your Dollhouse
Everyone likes to tweak there dollhouses from time to time. There are some great things that you can add to your house, and I just simply came across one that helped out a lot. This big discovery was floor trim. The discovery is not entirely new, or my own, there are many places to get doll trim, but I found the cheapest is a very thin flat balsa wood. Simply paint it the color of your dollhouse and attach it to the foot of your walls. I was most impressed to not see any more tiny cracks between the wall and the flooring due to the trim covering it up. Another great thing about the trim is that it covers the edges of the wallpaper and prevents fraying. I realize that this little invention, though not my own, really made my flooring look flush and neat against the wall.
There are three major sizing elements that you will need to deal with in interior layout with a dolls room. Here are the sizing elements, there are three: Miniature scales, size of room dimensions, and comparative size. First is the scale of furniture, make sure that your furniture is the right scale for your dollhouse. Meaning that if you have a half inch dollhouse that you need to purchase half inch dollhouse furniture. The second is room size: or simply not cramming furniture into the room that will not fit. Take out a ruler and measure the square inches of the room and compare it to your incoming furniture dimensions. The last point is relative size; this means that within a room you can coordinate the pieces. This means that each set has its own symmetry of size, larger, medium, and smaller pieces should coordinate together in a pattern that makes sense.
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. You can also print off your own wallpaper. If you have a computer and a semi decent printer simply make a style that you are comfortable and print out a couple sheets. If you are in to scrap booking you should have all the materials that you need. So go ahead, create unique, personalized wallpaper that matches your design, furniture, and dollhouse kit
Designing by Mood
The mood of the room should be a designers motivation and no other, it is the mood that dictates color and furniture, and not the other way around. Each room has a mood, meaning that there are some underlying purposes for which you would have that room. A great example is a play room where the sole purpose of the room is to have fun and enjoy oneself. Another example would be a bedroom, which is more personal, intimate, and is directly affected by the personality of the resident. Great dollhouses are no different. Visualize what mood you would like to portray in your rooms, for what purposes would they have that room and what particular mood would they set. When you tap into the mood you will know it, and the design of the room will just fall in place as if it was meant to be there all along.
Floor Trim for your Dollhouse
Everyone likes to tweak there dollhouses from time to time. There are some great things that you can add to your house, and I just simply came across one that helped out a lot. This big discovery was floor trim. The discovery is not entirely new, or my own, there are many places to get doll trim, but I found the cheapest is a very thin flat balsa wood. Simply paint it the color of your dollhouse and attach it to the foot of your walls. I was most impressed to not see any more tiny cracks between the wall and the flooring due to the trim covering it up. Another great thing about the trim is that it covers the edges of the wallpaper and prevents fraying. I realize that this little invention, though not my own, really made my flooring look flush and neat against the wall.