tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74130350072787556152024-03-19T03:32:12.255+00:00Dalton HouseWelcome to 38 Queens Square, Cambridge - a large Georgian house. The date is 10 April 2016.burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.comBlogger334125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-50773790476700382032021-07-24T16:59:00.001+01:002021-07-24T17:00:01.334+01:00Farewell Dalton House<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">I have finally found the point where i can let go of this project and move on to something else.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Thank you to all who have commented or contacted in other ways. I love the support and knowing some things have helped some people and would love to have you take the next journey with me:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Just click on the link below</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://mini-epilogue.blogspot.com/">Mini Epilogue</a></span></p>burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-25189434964771601362020-04-04T18:50:00.000+01:002020-04-20T11:37:44.280+01:00Just some purchases<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you know this is to document every tiddly bit of my project for me to warm my toes by in future years, so I do also note any purchases I make....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last week I got some lovely fabrics from my absolutely favourite fabric lady, <a href="https://www.mariasfabrics.com/">Maria's Fabrics</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I may have, at last solved the drapery issue!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the start of this week I received delivery of a fabulous work light. The lighting in this room is poor - north facing in the daylight and a poor ceiling light behind me casting shadows over anything I am working on in the evening. This lamp has varying temperatures of light and various levels of brightness and it is well articulated to move in all sorts of directions, even the head swivels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tao Tronics dimmable eye protection LED lamp - huge range of prices if you go look for one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yesterday and today I received a long awaited order from <a href="http://www.delphminiatures.co.uk/">Delph</a> in two parts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eight of these for the library. I so want to punch little holes in little paper and fasten them in the rings inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two phones - one for the Hive (basement workroom) and one for the library - my student lodger uses her mobile phone of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just a thought on this pandemic. I was unpacking eighty (!!!) items of grocery today which had been delivered to me safely by Tesco </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(I have used the service for years) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and was bemoaning the two 'swaps' and three 'not gots'. I suddenly thought about my mother and realised how she would have thought all her Christmases had arrived together if she had been looking at what I had spread out before me. At the beginning of the war in 1939 she was 23 years old with a new baby and her husband away, three years later mom lost her baby when she was just six weeks old. She was bombed out three times losing her home each time. By 1945 she had a new baby to take care of too. During all this time and for even more years after the war she lived with rationing and had to figure out how to keep her family fed.</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5625rem;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Cheese</span> 2 oz</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5625rem;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Margarine </span>4 oz</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5625rem;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Cooking fat</span> 4 oz</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5625rem;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Sugar</span> 8 oz</span></li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5625rem;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Tea</span> 2 oz</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #232323;">I was peeved I didn't have the exact rice I wanted. </span><span style="color: #232323;">Really !!!! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> We are just asked to stay in our (for most of us) nice comfy homes for a while and have stuff brought to our door, how dare we even whisper a complaint.</span></div>
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<br />burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-85846085097292028532020-03-22T16:04:00.001+00:002020-03-22T16:12:40.848+00:00Pictures two: or How Framing is not for me and other miscellaneous stuff<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Being a nit picker for scale I often find some things hard to find which satisfy me and my budget. I have had an eye out for picture frames for a long while and have bought this and that with varying success. Eventually I decided how hard could it be to make a picture frame in scale and to the size I wanted. I bought some mouldings from <a href="https://www.jennifersofwalsall.co.uk/">Jennifers of Walsall</a> at a show a couple of years ago and they have lurked in the stash since then. Time to dust them off</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I bought two different styles. The first is a plain/modern shape just 3/16ths inch wide</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The other is a more traditional one..... 1/4 inch wide</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.......with a complex profile which turned out to be even more of a pig to mitre</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The reverse sides of these was pretty much the same in that they had been routed for you to put in the picture or maybe mirror and be left with a nice flush back - just as in real life. A lot of frames you buy don't do this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am quite proud of my mitring skills so off I trotted, full of confidence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My first problem was what to cut it with. I only have pretty basic equipment. It was far too tiny and fiddly to use the saw and mitre block (I did try) so without that guide I already had a problem of getting the forty five degree cuts any way accurate. It didn't take kindly to a knife and even the finest of scissor blades squished the material as it cut. As you can see here the cuts were pretty dreadful and nowhere near a nice neat 45 degrees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I cut the template in hopes of getting the lengths right and the angles right. I didn't manage either. Even after attempting some adjustments here and there it was pretty much awful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sorry the focus is poor on this photo. I glued the corners together best I could and stuck it on masking tape to stop it jiggling around (and coming unstuck) to paint it. You can see my right side is longer than the left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As for any gaps in the corners I used my usual method of mixing a little sawdust with paint and shoving that in and then sanding smooth when its dry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So the finished object is not a thing of beauty and is a mirror, not a picture as my post heading would suggest. 😉 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It actually looks OK in situ but I have two more back-up mirrors on their way so I will decide then which to use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Worth noting before I leave that if you ever want any kind of wood pieces or trim for something you are doing this place has more than you could ever dream of: <a href="https://wood-supplies.com/miniature.php">Wood Supplies</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We live in strange times..... I currently have a painful unrelenting dry cough with no other cold symptoms or even a high temperature. Day three, yesterday, because I am 74 and have a rubbish immune system I was checked at a local community hospital - BP, oxygen levels, listened to lower chest, looked down throat and told I may or may not have the virus. There is no way of knowing as tests will only be done if you are admitted to a hospital as an emergency. Apparently that point comes when you are finding it hard to breath when resting!! </span></div>
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burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-4446117197729404302020-03-14T00:30:00.000+00:002020-03-14T14:21:38.454+00:00Pictures one<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I decided to have a nice week working my way methodically through the house finding pictures for each room. I began with the apartment sitting room. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I decided it needed a large slim landscape picture above the sideboard. The left wall is too busy to need pictures. The right hand wall could have a group of pictures or a long slim landscape mirror above the sofa. I think lots of pictures in a small room is a bit overpowering and you feel as if you are in a gallery so I settled on a mirror for this space...... a future make.</span><br />
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‘Fair dealing’ is a legal term used to establish whether a use of copyright material is lawful or whether it infringes copyright. There is no statutory definition of fair dealing - it will always be a matter of fact, degree and impression in each case. The question to be asked is: how would a fair-minded and honest person have dealt with the work?</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is UK copyright law. I have no idea how 'international' it is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back to the picture. I pretty much knew that the least interesting one, number 2, was going to be the one as its proportions were correct - shame; however I decided to print and try all the others in situ just in case they looked OK and then discovered I was actually left with a choice of two; neither of which was number 2. Much fiddling about with numbers five and six ensued to find the optimum size. The final (well for now) choice was made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next, the choices for hanging it were an Ikea click frame, an Ikea white wood frame or made to look like those stretched mounted canvas prints you can buy. As it would be three feet by three feet in real world the answer was obvious.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was printed on some good quality copy paper and cut out with a generous allowance for wrapping over the wooden frame. I cut and glued the wooden frame the same size as the print. This was made from the wretched window frame wood that I am struggling with - you nearly escaped a mention of the windows this week. 😁</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had experimented on a practice piece by coating it with </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">some matt Mod Podge to give it some sort of 'surface' glaze and texture, but it muddied the colours a little and took the sharpness out of the detail. Being a fusspot I decided to leave it unglazed (for now).</span><br />
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burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-37614577648433855062020-03-07T15:49:00.000+00:002020-03-07T15:49:13.318+00:00How to hang Pictures<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have decided to sort out the pictures needed for each room. This will be a combination of waiting for two frames to arrive from a vendor, making some frames and printing and mounting some pictures in various formats.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whilst spending a happy time in my reference photos for this project I did come across this on my trawl. It is a real life guide that I refer to now and then in big world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apologies if I have shared this before but it is a bit of a crusade. 😄 I hate seeing pictures and mirrors hung badly. Apologies too for not being able to acknowledge its source. I have had it many years and have long since forgotten where it came from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As for how to actually hang your pictures in your project will depend on many things - primarily the historical period of your room. Often large ornate paintings are hung on visible chains - either to a large hook on the wall or even suspended from a brass rod running around the edge of the ceiling or coving. Miniaturising this offers a few challenges. I just prefer to imagine they are invisibly hung/fastened to the wall behind the picture whatever their size, weight, historical period and so all I need to do is just add a few tiny bits of museum wax.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe not as daft as it sounds. I talk back and forth with a couple of mini folk who are just setting out on the journey and I wondered if reading blogs is always helpful or comforting if you are feeling swamped by what's ahead. Quite rightly we all tend to share our successes and in some people's cases absolutely <b>amazing</b> work and that's just as it should be. I suspect though if you read too many of those posts, it is easy to think I can't do that and give up there and then. I do hope not, those posts are there to inspire and help you forward, not to make a barrier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So....... this post is to share just how much I am failing right now after six years of doing this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Probably the biggest issue right now is that I invented a stupid idea (and yes, it was a stupid idea) of trying to improve the look of the plain windows and make them look as though they are Georgian sash windows. This entails adding two (rather than the required one) pieces of laminate for the glass windows and then laboriously sticking eighteen fiddly pieces of wood on the acetate to make (additional) window frames. This is after painting strips of wood and then accurately cutting out and shaping these eighteen pieces. The wood has proven to be as hard to cut as concrete. You also have to be extra careful when messing with glazing as you don't want any glue to show.Take this and multiply it by the sixteen windows I have to do and I already have a task on hand. Go no further than this to see this was a stupid idea but of course I did just the one window first to see if I liked the effect and thought - 'brilliant, I'll do that!' and then I couldn't go back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This then leads to the windows inside the house floating in space and needing a sill to sit on so, further down the line, I will need to paint and cut and shape and stick in place window sills. Next piece of bad judgement I spent money on buying a lot of door frame/window frame trims to put round the windows to help the reality kick in some more; requiring a ton more painting and cutting and gluing. Luckily I have realised these will be covered completely by the curtains which I now have to make for the fourth wall to keep going with this idiotic idea, so I can ditch that performance and just weep over a mass of very nice trims I don't need.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With all that in the 'bad girl' pot you would think I could just crack on and get it done but, no, gentle reader I am suffering from winter blues and am too fed up to even try very much. Sitting on the sofa and reading a book seems like a challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this state I decided to give myself a break and get out a furniture kit to make a matching Duncan Phyfe seat for the music room - I liked doing that I remember. I got as far as undoing the box.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, yippee, a curtain fabric sample has arrived to cheer me up - I was planning on a bit of an overspend on some silk taffeta because I have been on a very, very looooooong search for just the right fabric for the music room (silk, fine grey and white stripes) and I thought I had finally found it. The sample is here and it is perfect. C</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">heered by this, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">off I went to my computer to order 0.3 metre only to discover at checkout they want £17.50 for postage - whaaaaat???? When I have recovered sufficiently, in a couple of days, I will go back and maybe email them and see what we can do - I suspect they are used to shipping thirty metres at a time to folks doing real things with their silk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For lack of better things to do I decided to try it in the pretty pleater I bought - 'it does what it says on the tin' - it pleats beautifully and I can see all sorts of uses for it, but not what I want which is softly falling silk drapes. Back to the drawing board again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then remembered getting a good result by just just pinning fabric when I did some previous stuff so I thought I would remind myself and see if I still liked them now I am further down the line and a lot more picky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have spent a good chunk of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">today going through previous builds trying to find pictures of fabric stuff I remember</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> doing, especially curtains. Like Pam Ayres </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6g1I37_r1E" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth'</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I wish I had given more thought to how I might find things from my blogs easily. I am now dreaming of having a big sort out and maybe starting a new blog just called 'How-to' where I could gather such things together and then preach on about how great I was at making a fireplace or roof or whatever. If I do manage this, I suspect</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> soft furnishings won't make it to the lectures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, here I sit with my work area littered with bits of window wood and accoutrements, an open furniture kit, bits of fabric, a pretty pleater and..... a birthday card .....something else I should be doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Newbies: Take heart it is not all hunky-dory and perfection out there and many of us get our unproductive stretches BUT this is not a chore like cleaning the bathroom, this is a hobby and will give us much joy when we let it.</span>burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-54372632554761908972020-02-25T18:25:00.000+00:002020-02-25T18:25:38.915+00:00Clare Bell light<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not sure if this is a show-and-tell or I am still just looking for absolution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not even starting with forgive me, I have sinned.... not with this one. When I very first began with minis we used to snow-bird in Naples Florida and it had the most glorious mini shop called Nancy's. (Sadly no more) One of the very first things in that shop that I ever fell in love with was a collection of Clare Bell lights and the one I loved most was a five candle Georgian candelabra. It was beyond my budget and, anyway, my project was a modern house so of no use whatsoever. That did not stop me from visiting Nancy's over the years to drool over it. I have even checked it out now and then, online, in the years since then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So on my recent spree I thought I would leave it in the lap of the gods and see if I could find one - they are almost as rare as hens' teeth. If I could, I would have it..... and the gods were smiling and here it is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It came from the USA. It was pricey, plus huge postage, plus the risk of paying customs duty on it over here. Luckily all that worked out OK once I had stopped blubbing about the hole in my bank.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then...... dramatic drum roll....... this is what I unwrapped. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Four very winky-wonky candles and the fifth had no bulb</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, with just a bit of fiddling around with the two-wire-plug-in nightmare bulb and we were good to go. Ahhh, woops, still a bit of a problem as my music room hadn't been expecting a floor standing Georgian candelabra and it would make even less sense in the other two traditional rooms. I decided it could go in the precarious corner sort of behind the door. The (invisible) doorstop prevents it being knocked and it would be brought into the centre of the room any time the quartet sets up to play. I would tell myself any story to validate this piece. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">😊</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For a few years I was lucky enough to get to six or more shows a year, in the UK and the States. Admittedly I did not spend lots of money each time, being on a somewhat restricted budget. The shows in themselves were much of the pleasure and we always turned the trips into little mini breaks of a couple of days or so. I can't get to shows any more so it seems OK to spend what I would have done there ..... plus a bit more as we aren't spending anything on travel, accommodation, meals etc; so my initial order with <b><a href="https://www.mastersminiatures.com/">Masters Miniatures</a></b> became two. I only owned one of their pieces which I bought as a bit of a treat some years ago. The haul that follows is quite a bit beyond naughty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That said, I think their prices are excellent for those of us who can't afford Beith, Escutcheon,Tarbena et al, all of whom are the stuff that dreams are made of. Masters Miniatures make many fine pieces and it is lovely to have something which is that bit above the ordinary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The box came this morning and I was truly like a kid with a new toy (or toys). I promise you my photographs <b>do not</b> do them justice. I have made them look a bit clunky and they are certainly not that. They are dainty and their finish is excellent. I am thrilled.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have a nice House of Miniatures kit for a music stand which almost cost me what this cost but their finish is much nicer than I can achieve. This one also has little three little brass bars in the centre, so sweet.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-19758751674560485222020-02-09T17:12:00.002+00:002020-02-10T15:20:40.206+00:00How to..... make up HOM kits<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This post is a bit of a shoo-in following some conversations on a Facebook Group I like for House of Miniatures furniture, so it won't be of general interest but it is part of my 'diary' for this build. So apologies for folk who want to see how the actual Dalton project is progressing but I hope it helps a couple of people I have been talking to about making up HOM kits. (Facebook link: Chippendale Miniatures/House of Miniatures)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As always let's begin with the caveat - this is not an absolue <b>how</b> to make up HOM kits so much as how <b>I</b> make up HOM kits. There must be as many methods out there as there are folks doing it, <u>BUT</u>, for newbies, this might give them a place to start until they find <i>their very own </i>method.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is also intended as a general guide so nothing is specific to the piece I am making. (My second huntboard)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First..... what equipment will you need to make up the kit?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you use any pva white glue you will have problems if any gets on to your furniture where you don't want it - you can not stain over it. Some people stain their pieces first and then glue - I have done this but I know the joints are not rock solid. That's probably OK if stuff isn't going to be moved around much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This glue is fabulous. It gives you time to fiddle about before it sets, if any goes where it shouldn't it dries dark brown so it doesn't show and it fixes rock hard. I always apply with a cocktail stick. I use a glass tile but anything you like will do to put the glue on. A tile or an old plate though is an excellent tool to have on your desk for glue and paint and all sorts and it will clean up like new. Mine has had six years hard wear. Give it a bit of a soak in some a warm soapy water and a scrub or a scrape clean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So you have your glue and you have checked you have all your pieces before starting. If you buy unsealed boxes it is hugely exasperating to find something missing half way through a build.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Skip read through the instructions to give you a feel of what you are about to do but don't get bogged down or panicked by detail - all will become clear as you do the job. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You might prefer to do things the right way and sand your pieces before assembly, I am all for shortcuts so I don't do mine until I am ready to stain. Also I would argue these are very fine pieces and some have even finer detail and they won't take kindly to endless sanding without losing their lines. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Carefully and slowly follow the instructions and do the assembly. Try to line things up perfectly. There are some strange angles on some pieces like splat backs on chairs for example and there is so much you won't be able to correct once your glue sets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A right angled jig can help a lot when making mini furniture. I invested in a small magnetic one right at the beginning of my sojourn into this game and have never regretted it one iota. You can make a pretty decent one out of Lego and or just build one from wood - all of these will help you square stuff up nicely, but a magnetic one is the bees knees. This little gem will keep things square and will also push and hold things in place while the glue sets up. A quick Google search and I am seeing them for about £30 in the UK and $30 in the States (I got mine a bit cheaper than that at a show but it was six years ago!) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't panic at the sight of this lot - there is no way you need all of them but I am showing you the sort of stuff than might be useful and you could select from this depending on what you can </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">find</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">easily </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are two buffers/files used in manicures - white top left and blue and green on the right. The beige sandpaper at the bottom is 400 grade so it is very fine. The two grey pieces on the top labelled FINE and SUPER FINE can be found in the decorating section of the hardware store as they are used by painters and are brilliant for our work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I am doing these HOM kits I have out a piece of 80 grade sandpaper for large scale sanding; to make drawers fit for example, a piece of 400 grade sandpaper for general rubbing down before staining along with my most used sanding tool - the white sponge nail file/buffer. Brilliant tool and cheap as chips. Mine came from Dollar store but again if you Google them they are easily available even if you can't get out to a shop. I commend them to you before all else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are some more alternatives in case you already have these - all good and useful mini sanding bits and bobs. The Norton stuff also known as Abracast (I think) is good because it is washable and never wears out unlike sandpaper. Another nail kit piece in pink, basically anything fine and on foam. The sanding sticks I have only seen once at a show and they are sometimes handy for getting into nooks and crannies but I wouldn't really say seek them out. Similarly with the assorted shaped files - I just got them because they were silly price at Aldi or somewhere. I do use one or two of them now and then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So...... you have now glued and assembled your piece of furniture and you have carefully sanded everywhere with the nail buffer to get the best possible surface for the stain and finish to go on. Only tip I can think of here is to knock off the edges a little to make it more realistic. If you look at your own furniture you won't see an absolute ninety degree right angle sharp edge - they are all very slightly rounded off. Don't over do this - just a couple of passes at about forty five degrees and with a curving motion and the sharpness will disappear. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Use a large soft brush and lint free cloth to ensure you have been meticulous about removing the sanding dust - no good preparing a lovely silky surface for the stain only to lock in heaps of very fine sawdust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have gone through too many kinds of stains to even begin to remember them .... from Minwax pens to tins of spirit based household woodstain ..... and many, many more. Then I found these and I absolutely love them. I confess to having put all three in a small glass jar and mixed them together. I have ended up with what I wanted which is a 'mahogany' type colour with enough depth to cover the wood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They pretty much go on like painting with acrylics and are water based so soap and water means an easy clean up of your brushes and you. They dry overnight and don't stink. Win, win, win.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are loads of gel wood stains but I haven't ventured into trying another make as I was happy enough with these and the three have lasted me years; but if these prove difficult for you to get it might be worth a shot at another make.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">OK, Gluing/assembly, sanding, first coat of stain all done...... here comes the hardest bit of the whole process for me. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Heaps of patience</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Leave as long as you can, at least until the next day, you want the stain to have completely dried out to allow the wood to shrink back to its absolutely dry state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you run your fingers over the wood at this stage you will discover it is slightly rough again. When you paint or stain wood the moisture raises some of the wood fibres - nibs - so after any first coat of painting or staining you need to repeat the sanding process to denib the wood. At this point you almost feel as though you are going backwards in your build but it is probably the most necessary step for any kind of decent finish - at this scale all those nibs will show in the end result. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you look at this picture closely you can see why I said it feels like going backwards. The top three drawer fronts seem to be all nicely stained and then I go and sand them again (see the two other pieces) so they actually look worse. They may look worse but they feel a whole lot better. If your fingertips won't tell you the difference (my husband's don't for example) go across them with something like a cotton wool bud and see how it snags on the wood compared to how it passes over after you have sanded it. The brush in the picture is just to show you the large soft brush I use to clean off the dust .... followed by fingers and a cloth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After that the choice is yours - use your best judgement to see if it needs denibbing and be sure you have a nice even coverage. You may be fine with just the two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do a sort of very slight sanding by giving it a good rub down with a scrumpled tissue. All paper has wood fibres in it so even soft toilet paper and tissues are micro rough and it will smooth the surface nicely. (message to your nose and botty)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ah, here is the stumbling block in my How-to. This is still a work in progress with me I haven't yet found the perfect top coat. The main tip here is that you don't want to use anything gloss in a dollhouse. Be aware that everything is 1/12th even the amount of shine on something 😊 a satin finish will give you the miniature equivalent of a glossy shine on your furniture and painted wood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the wild hope that someone is reading this who has definitely conquered the glaze element of these builds PLEASE let us know here. Until then ...............</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PPPS: .... will it never end..... I just got quite a nice sheen using a 50:50 mix of gel stain and acrylic varnish. My actual mix was made up of three colours of Americana Gel stain (see above in the post) and the shiny bit was a mix of Delta Ceramcoat Satin and Gloss Varnish - so a bit of a complicated recipe to follow but it might be worth worth trying equal parts of any water-based gel stain and a water-based gloss of choice. (NB: you can not mix water based things with solvent/spirit based things - set off on one path and follow it through)</span></div>
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burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-9238830646252744852020-02-07T11:44:00.000+00:002020-02-07T11:44:28.094+00:00Oh dear<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my last post I left you in suspense as to what I might have ordered from Proops Brothers.........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I know you are fed up hearing about the window saga but I really thought I had it sorted. I am struggling to cut up my gazillion strips of wood that I need to make the frames. They are only one eighth of an inch square but absolutely solid. Knives won't do it and the saw is slow and often splits the back of them - they are really too small to try to make a cut on the opposite side each time to help avoid this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">..... a little guillotine meant to cut strips of wood and plastic..... I watched the youtube and everything! It chomped through strips of wood and bits of plastic but on my window frames it barely makes a dent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">....... but well done to the company, not the slightest quibble about a post paid return/refund. That is impressive these days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So! I decided on a little online spree in lieu of the Miniatura show at the NEC next month. I keep a little show notebook with samples of paint and fabric that I have used in Dalton and photos of my project in its current state, some measurements and, crucially, my shopping list. Out it came and I was off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time it was a quick run through their fabric section as I am still struggling to get something I like even though I have a shoe box crammed full of pieces. The silk Brodnax fabric was £5.95 a piece not the £10.50 shown on the packs. I haven't the slightest idea why I bought the very pretty blue piece - really - I don't have a speck of blue in the place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eeeehhh, the lime green stripe is truly lime green. I was living in hopes it might not be - how mad is that. The next one up in denim and gold has the perfect pair of colours for the music room but it seems too casual for a formal room. The tiny floral will be lovely for covering some chair seats (I hope). The next grey and gold piece, right now, is the best I have for the music room. I need grey and/or gold or combination of. Ideally I would like a pale grey and white striped silk...... if anyone knows of one, please, please direct me to it. The top two cottons are for curtain lining and sheets and pillows for the student bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My final bit of ordering is with a company called <a href="https://www.proopsbrothers.com/">Proops Brothers Limited</a> - that should keep you guessing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bye for now - off to start making a sweet little window seat. The windows themselves are on guilt-free 😇 hold until Proops Brothers deliver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I have thirteen windows still to do, and I am not really enjoying it, I decided the best approach was do do one floor at a time and then take a break and make up one of the kits that I have waiting for the house. Well, I managed to do three out of the ten parts needed to complete the top floor of the house before getting fed up and turning to a kit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I managed to complete three half (inner) windows before I got hugely bored. Pretty ugly right now but they will have window sills added. I did buy a ton of trims to go around the windows and the realised I would cover them all with curtains so it seems a bit pointless. Every time I come up with one of these brain waves I discover it has a knock on effect which then creates more jobs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a momentary panic when I realised the glue was a silly wishy washy pale colour when it left the pot (see top right blob). This was soon allayed; as you can see it dries pretty much mahogany coloured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It began with being instructed to cut out 1/32th inch (!!!!) grooves to take the hinges in the lid and in the back edge of the box. Much fiddling around with a couple of different shaped Xacto knives and it was done - not a work of art - but done. The instructions also stated that the hinges were to be flush with the back of the box, not sticking out. I spent a jolly half hour screwing the hinges to the lid - four teeny tiny drill holes to give the teenier tinier screws a purchase hole and then moved on to the back of the box. Quelle horreur! the wood wasn't thick enough to allow me to screw the hinges in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three options as far as I could see. (1) Remove the hinges and make a pair out of ribbon or leather strips, (2) glue a thin batten of wood to the inside top edge to make it wider, (3) set the hinges back so the actual hinge part was outside the box. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seemed a shame to go for option one when I had these cute little hinges, if I did option two there was a possibility the screws would land almost between the proper wood and the added batten and wouldn't hold well enough so it looked like option three.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I unscrewed the hinges from the lid, reset it in the new position and put the screws back in...... that was tons and tons of fiddling about and superglue came into play as the wood just wants to splinter here there and everywhere. This basswood behaves remarkably like balsa. I then fixed the other half of the hinge in the back of the box which is just about thick enough to allow the screws in without splaying out and splitting every which way too much ....more superglue help here. OK, I had a fastening - not very good looking by now but probably the best of a bad job. I closed the box and thought there was movement, this was confirmed when I lifted the lid and the hinges just pulled away, breaking out of the wood and glue easily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cut the hinges in half and reglued each half to the original place best I could and made an actual fastening 'hinge' across the back (inside) from a piece of gauze ribbon which has taken the woodstain very well and barely shows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the built piece. There is a drawer for any drink implements you might need - wine coasters, corkscrew etc. There is also a sweet pull out tray at the top for you to stand your glass on when you are pouring the drink. The internal cabinet measurement is about an inch so it is possible for it to contain wine though this one, for this period, was much more likely to contain 'digestifs' such as fortified wine, brandy, liqueurs etc for the gentlemen after dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This shows the first staining. I now use gel stain and am very happy with it. It goes on nicely, not smelly and is water based so makes for an easy clean up. I did a fine sanding and a second coat the next day and decided that was enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It did an OK job; no worse than the other things and at least there are no lumps and bumps with this. I may add some brown shoe polish some time - we don't have any right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was hugely lucky a couple of years ago to come across these transfers. They are made for this cellarette. Basically in England the piece of furniture would have remained plain but the ones in America often sported fine inlay - especially Southern furniture. I imagine this was to differentiate itself from the English. By the time of this piece in 1790 the Americas had only just begun to recover from the revolution and, I imagine, were determined to eschew all things English; or, at least, to make it their own.</span><br />
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<br />burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-37423202828687036092020-01-09T13:29:00.002+00:002020-01-09T14:23:39.877+00:00Roller blinds on show<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well the 'bit of a breather' (my previous post) seemed to turn into five months but here I am again, hopefully, back in the game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Part of the procrastination, on the days when I could have cracked on with my project, is that I have reached the 'doing the windows' stage which I always find pretty tedious. We all have our mini bete noires. . I have made it even more difficult for myself by deciding to add another dimension to the, already boring, window chore by trying to make them into a more realistic version of sash windows. This involves adding fifteen pieces of fiddly wood to each of sixteen windows. Two hundred and forty bits of wood to be carefully measured, cut, some ends shaped, lined up and glued in place..... over the glazing! Maybe if I stopped doing the maths and just cracked on with it, it would seem less daunting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The other challenge I have given myself is making roller blinds for these sixteen windows. Mostly their ends and tops will be hidden by curtain or pelmets so can be simple rod and roll of fabric.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My real life house has ivory blinds (different fabrics) in every single window and we don't, in fact, draw any curtains in the evening - we just roll down the blinds. They are all one colour because I like the idea of 'uniformity' when viewed from the outside. A tad OCD probably, especially as I roll then up completely when open and they are never seen from the outside in the daytime. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">Generally the fixing part (each end) is hidden by a curtain and they all fit inside the window rebate.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bathroom, kitchen and workroom ones don't have curtains softening their impact and the blinds can be seen ...fixings and all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Dalton House my three apartment windows are pokey and shoved in dormers in a roof and they won't take curtains very easily. The four basement windows are in my workroom, a mud room and the childrens rec room; so none of those require any curtains either. This gives me seven windows where the ends and tops of the blinds will not be hidden by curtains or pelmets, so they need to look a bit more realistic than a roll of fabric on a stick - why, you might ask...... and how wise you are. Off I went on trying to make realistic-looking roller blinds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's how I did it. If you are as mad as me, enjoy ...... otherwise just skip to the finished picture and I will see you again when seven of these have been made and fitted to their windows. It might be a while.....hopefully not five months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rods are cut from bamboo skewers. I discovered they are a pig to cut. Knife and fine saw worked but not easily then, guess what, I discovered I could cut them with large scissors.😂 Tidy up the ends with sanding and paint just the ends white. I forgot this and had to do it when I had finished the whole thing. Make them a tad wider than the finished blind will be as you should be able to glimpse a bit of them between fabric and bracket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Measure your windows and cut the fabric slightly larger than you are going to need. I wanted my finished blind to have an eighth of an inch overlap each side of the window: scaled up that would be only be about one and a half inches in real life so you could be a bit more generous with that . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the attic windows I needed a strip three inches for the window, plus quarter inch (two lots of one eighth) plus another quarter inch to allow some trimming later. This gave me a width of three and a half inches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The length of your blind is really determined by the fabric you are using. In real life of course it needs to be longer than the drop from your blind rod to below the window. Here, though, if your fabric is a bit bulky (and it is best that it isn't!) you won't want to roll a huge amount round your rod, so finding the best length is about trial error or good guessing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My fabric was too thin for blinds so I cut strips twice the length I needed. I folded them in half and ironed in a sharp crease.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To stop fraying I mixed 'Fraystop' 50:50 with water and pasted it generously on the inside of one half. I am pretty sure Mod Podge or any PVA glue will do the same job - but do a small test piece first to make sure it doesn't affect your fabric in any way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My real blinds have a wooden bar added in the hem at the bottom to give them weight. I cut a one eighth strip of photographic paper (thin card would do) and pushed that tightly in place and folded over the dry side and carefully rubbed the whole thing down to remove any pockets of air.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now here comes the hard part..... leave them alone and let them dry <u>completely</u>. They will be as stiff as a board and no fraying when you cut them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next, they need to be squared up perfectly so they don't hang winky wonky. I use my marked up with guide lines cutting board for this but you could use any right angle and ruler or even make a nice cardboard template exactly the right size.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am no way a fan of superglue for all sorts of reasons but sometimes it is the go to place. Put a few dots of superglue along the top edge (I use a toothpick and squeeze small amounts of glue onto a glass tile for easy clear up and good control)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I made the brackets by cutting strips of photographic card into three sixteenth inch wide strips and then cutting these into three eighths of an inch long lengths (top left) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[I chose to use photographic paper because I wanted the outside elements of the fittings to be a bit shiny like the real ones. I have a feeling I am just proving my 'madness' with everything I write....😊]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The end discs (top centre) were made just using a normal two-hole paper punch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The bracket arm was stuck to the round end cap; again with superglue just for speed of assembly. (top right)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the control end a piece of cord was glued in place and then the cap piece glued on top. (bottom right) I took a long time finding a cord that was in scale and had some texture.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Et Voila .......</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.......... and there we have it one roller blinds that can be seen </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only the people reading this will understand the self-satisfied glow of being able to replace the attic flap for its very last time after having the attic rooms exposed and the sloping roof lying on the mansard for five months. Happy day. This is what minis do for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was disappointed with my Jim Coates Trumau mirror from the States (for me an expensive buy). The idea was to match the one I already have in the hall. This is a completely different colour - I realise it is likely to be slightly different from a different batch of paint but this one is waaaayyy off. I am very wary of having to repaint both of them to make them match as they are fairly complicated when it comes to a repaint. Additionally the moulding seems to be bordering on 'crude' - its partner is nicely done, hence my original and subsequent investment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love, love, love this. One of Elizabeth's super-dooper creations from <a href="https://www.elfminiatures.co.uk/">Elf Miniatures</a>. I bet you are all looking and (a) wondering what the heck it is and (b) why is she so excited. Well, it is a pan rack which I love in its own right but the plus for me is I had a single miserable looking open shelf (over the sink area) between my cupboards in my student's kitchen and I kept putting this and that object on it and each time deciding it was too boring to stay. I actually risked being able to get this in the space but committed to it before its arrival by gently tugging out the offending shelf. It is such an exact fit it will almost stay in place without glue. I even have the set of pans to go on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mmmm, yet another disappointing expensive purchase. I paid £30 plus postage for this as it was the exact mirror I wanted for a particular place. When the desire for a Girondole mirror arose I couldn't for the life of me remember where I had seen one of them - years ago! So I was pleased when I fell across one via Etsy. I spent some time talking myself up into another extravagance but bit the bullet and off went my pounds and back came this broken and bent version of the Girondole mirror I craved. I am leaving the 'repairs' for now and just hoping it will be OK after a bit of glue and gentle reshaping. To add insult to injury I have, of course, since remembered that this very mirror is sold by <a href="https://www.phoenixmodeldevelopments.com/cgi-bin/sh000001.pl?WD=mirror%20girondelle&PN=drawing%2ehtml#aDH115">Pheonix Model developments</a> in a (very easy) kit form and I could have had that for £12.60 with less postage and the same amount of assembly (of not bent pieces) plus a little paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also bought some silk fabric for curtains to match a Brodnax wallpaper which turned out to be absolutely <b>not </b>a match and managed to look like someone had been smoking in the house for the last thirty years. My sitting room wallpaper is an almost white background to pale pink cherry blossom and pale green leaves. The silk arrived with a cream/beigy background and very undefined pattern of flowers and branches. Most decidedly not the vendor's fault, just a rubbish product. I am hoping some of it might make cushions as my chairs are a cream silk. Again, fair warning if you are using Brodnax wallpaper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This fabric shown below is from <a href="http://www.leschinoiseries.com/MINIATURE-WALLPAPER">Les Chinoiseries</a> and is a perfect match for their wallpaper. I also got a lovely little free bonus included which unfortunately I can't use as this fabric is for the library and I only have one chair int there which doesn't need a cushion. There is printed fabric for four different pattern cushions with plain matching backs. It is a nice weight cotton and will work well. If anyone can use them please let me know and I am happy to post them to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My first little make was a great kit by <a href="https://www.janeharrop.co.uk/">Jane Harrop</a>. A shopping basket. One of the things I love about Jane's meticulous work is her spot-on scale and this was no exception. There are gorgeous baskets out there in mini world at a price but the budget end of basketry that I have found is a bit clunky. I have made some quarter scale baskets using a fine hessian and they looked good but I hadn't attempted anything for 1/12ths.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a simple matter of weaving some beautifully cut paper strips presented in a way to help you manage them accurately and easily. I honestly loved doing it and considered mass production on this one. The kit had extras in case of any mishaps and easily made two lovely baskets. I love them and wish I could think of reasons for having more. Don't be put off by the idea of them being 'just paper'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By now I was on a roll - what else would be quick to do - a kit from <a href="http://www.thecraftpackcompany.co.uk/">The Craft pack Company</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />First things first I needed to find all my other Christmas decorations to see what I might want to put with what. This entailed clearing out the bogey hole under the stairs in Dalton House.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can't see the poor light fitting in real life as you can't get your head through the doorway; unlike the camera. Mental note - when fitting a light in a deep, dark cupboard make sure it has some oomph! This is a bogey hole I would decidedly not go in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The decorations were duly made and packed away with the other Christmas stuff. I decided the bogey hole would only have a ton of Christmas decorations in it. This is a big house and it needs a Christmas decoration cupboard.😏</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ah, those blessed chairs. I made them from a couple of House of Miniatures kits and their first incarnation was a mahogany finish which I thought looked poor. They hung around for a good long while and then acquired what was to be a shabby chic cream finish. Decidedly shabby and not at all chic. I was going to just add them to someone's parcel of goodies but am too ashamed of their awfulness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How about I paint them gold for the music room?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Done.... and they looked even more dreadful - completely patchy all over and another thick gloopy layer of paint. Perhaps I would I like them better the next day?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wonderful, wonderful gold leaf Krylon pen went on like silk and covered every blemish. The 'ugly' now is the gazillion layers of paint, which is never a good look. Why oh why didn't the god of minis give me that fabulous solution when they were bare wood?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not content with almost bringing four scabby chairs back into the world with some paint, it was time to find fabric for the seats. One huge box of fabrics later and the only one I liked for the chairs was already on four chairs in the dining room. That's OK I was thinking of recovering those any way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apologies for the hideous finish but, after such a hellish birth, they have become the screaming baby that I love. They can be 'got away with' as they are only glimpsed in amongst the other furniture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mostly my time was spent masking-taping up this and that for painting. The first round was to tape up for painting the three eighths of an inch divisions between the rooms. Again, this is purely a personal choice. No problems with joining up room to room. I do it because I like the outline it gives each space and it remains true to the build in that where these lines are there would be walls separating each room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'doors' had already been primed with a thin coat of ordinary household matt paint. I do this when I open the flat back on all sides of the wood to stop it warping and sucking up glue and paint at a rate of knots when the finishing work gets done later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The left hand side actually had two rooms already painted - I must have been on a roll at the time way back when.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> When all the tape was in place it was a simple case of two coats of Tidy White matt paint. One handy tip when using tape is to let the paint dry a little but not completely and pull the tape off in one quick movement. If you let it dry it can cause little flakes of paint to come off with the tape and if the paint is super wet it can run or smudge when the tape comes off, so something between the two gives a nice crisp edge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After this you will pretty much need to reverse most of what you have just done and outline the walls that need painting with more masking tape. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You need to do all the painting needed before you do any papering, otherwise you will end up with masking tape on your wallpaper</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and believe me if it is at all 'porous' the tape can grip and mark it when being removed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hugely annoying on this kit is this perfectly cut, smooth, curved groove in the top and centre of the main door. It is like something made to receive a bolt but doesn't make an atom of sense in relation to where it is. I spent a very frustrating time trying to fill it smoothly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dry test your cut wallpaper in place just in case you have made a mistake. Better to find out before the glue goes on. So far, so good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I pasted it (I use wallpaper border adhesive) and tried to hang it, absolutely nothing went right. Hand on heart I can't remember ever having a problem hanging paper so I have no idea why it all fell about my ears this time. The paper sagged and stretched and immediately clung to the surface (MDF is like a sponge) even though the wood had been primed as usual. This meant there was little or no way to move it about to adjust it. All of that resulted in a right cod's ear round the windows and it just had to come off. Well, yes, that would be fine if if had just come off. It seemed to have dried instantly and would not budge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was using Dolls House Emporium paper in this room so if you have any just try a test piece first to see what it does. Probably a good idea with any paper. This was decidedly like trying to wallpaper with blotting paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simply cut five strips. Number them on the back as go you from left to right and label the top and bottom of each piece. Strip one is the width of the space to the left of the window, strip two is the width of the window, strip three is the strip between the window etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The box for the deadbolt was too big for the space I had and I decided chipping a little out of the architrave to squeeze it in wouldn't look right. I discovered it almost fitted the space if it was turned on its side, I just needed to file off the bumps which represented the screws. Necessity is certainly the mother of invention when it comes to dollhousing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am not able to add the dado rails in any of the rooms at this stage because, like a lot of things in RL building, one stage is often contingent on others being in place first. The order of work now is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>PS: </b>I just ordered a sample pot of paint from Farrow and Ball and there was no shipping charge. Mind you they do cost £4.50. I usually use Valspar test pots from B & Q. They have thousands of colours and will mix it as a matt or a silk paint. Cost £3</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-81087570813346046502019-07-28T15:40:00.000+01:002019-07-29T11:00:04.586+01:00Dormer windows<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I kind of sorted out the no-wallpaper problem, rather than just white paint the lot. I quite literally had three small pieces of the green paper left over which got patched and joined together with a panel each side of the window and a piece beneath. The hairiest part of that job was having such a large pattern which needed matching over very minimal pieces of paper, absolutely no room for error. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I did this before Anna kindly offered to mail me a couple of sheets all the way from Australia. [Thank you, Anna] Not that she didn't comment and email me as soon as the post went up but the posts run close to what I am doing but I am often a little ahead of them in actual work. At least my having already fudged it saved me from having to make another decision of how best to go about it. I seem to be floundering a bit in that department right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I didn't have any grey paper at all I did my best to mix a grey as close as I could get to the one in the room - it really needed a slight touch of blue but, as I keep saying, the inside of a roof flap really isn't an area which gets looked at. It just needs to give a good impression of being finished. I keep telling myself that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Clearly that wasn't challenging enough, so I decided authentic windows needed those little nubs on the frame to stop them thumping down or up. These require spot on measuring and judicious carving and sanding of just the right amount of stick to shape them and...... hey....... I only have 64 of these to make.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes, I know it is not earth-shatteringly amazing but it feeds the soul of a slightly bonkers mini-enthusiast.</span>burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-80368698214810468392019-07-22T18:23:00.002+01:002019-07-24T10:51:47.520+01:00The fourth Wall<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am pretty much all finished with the construction and decorating of each room. I have a few locks, alarms and (mock) electrical outlets of various sorts to add in, otherwise the rooms are done; so it is on to the fourth wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I suspect there may be extremely well-organised and finely tuned planning type folk who do any work on the inside of the wall before it even gets attached to the house. This is not for me I'm afraid. I want the whole outside of the house done first. I am sure it is a sort of psychological thing of working on a (real-to-me) completed building. The exterior finishes might then 'suffer' if they were laid down to allow work to be done flat on the table when doing the inside. I also want the doors and roof on fairly quickly to reduce the amount of dust collecting inside the house. My two main fourth walls, therefore (for me), have to be tackled in situ, which means working on a vertical plane.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are various schools of thought when it comes to finishing the fourth wall of an English-style dollshouse. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1. </b>Some feel it is best simply painted in a muted colour and left alone so that it doesn't detract from the finished rooms when you open the doors. <i> This seems a very reasonable stance to me and makes for an easy finish to the project.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am very happy with this level of distraction that the decorated 'doors' create when viewing the open house and it does mean that the windows look finished when seen from the outside. That will do nicely for me. </span></span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This seems a very reasonable stance to me and makes for an easy finish to the project.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Feel free to go with any of these three or your own mix, there is no right or better way to finish the fourth wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When you start any work of any kind, it is wise to sort out every little thing you are going to need before you begin. In this case two kinds of trim, two kinds of paint, wallpaper, two kinds of glue and a bunch of different tools such as scissors, saw, mitre block, brushes, rules, pencil, eraser and probably more. This is a vital step - you will understand why later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here comes another 'don't skip this' step. Make a (very scribbled) plan of what you intend to do. This helps in a few ways. Firstly the orientation has been flipped and your left is now your right, so it is important to be clear which colour paint or wallpaper goes in which place. You want to think about any trims you might want to add and how they will interact with the edges of the room and trims you have in there. They must be clear of those edges or the roof won't close properly. In my case I also needed know where I wanted the white paint to go and I like to avoid drawing all over the actual piece and marking up with pencil. It often bleeds into glue or paint if you leave it behind and it is sometimes hard to rub out. I like to have the measurements all worked out on my diagram and then use masking tape to outline the various spaces. I don't want to be continually working out what goes where as I go along; so, the rough sketch with measurements keeps me on task.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another handy tip..... buy the very best quality trims you can find/afford. I get some very good quality wood ones from <a href="https://www.jandasupplies.co.uk/">J & A Supplies</a> when I am at a show, but I can't see them on his website. I didn't do this with these trims (1/8th inch x 1/8th inch square). I wanted so many I bought a ton of cheap ones from <a href="https://hobby.uk.com/">Hobby's</a>. They immediately want to bend as soon as paint touches them [painting all four sides pretty much mitigates this] and they are not super smooth to begin with and the wood produces quite a lot of nubs when wet. All this will be manageable but better quality can save you some blood sweat and tears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dab some generous dobs of paint along one edge.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">....... rub it along the wood gently, keep dobbing and rubbing all the sides and work your way along the trim roughly a third at a a time. Leave them to dry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I did the maths and I painted 27 trims x 19.5 inches x 4 sides x 2 coats and that's about 350 feet of fiddling with paint. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't be deterred it is a pretty pleasant mindless task and they only </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">took a little over two hours.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dormers are notoriously badly made - it is not my assembly skills - more the maker's design/cutting. The worst of this particular one is the bottom of the window which luckily is a sort of overhang and looks fine from the outside but from the inside there is a decided gap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each side of the roof has the wallpaper areas outlined with masking tape so the rest can all be painted white. The centre room will be all white as it is the kitchen, so there are only two small wallpaper additions needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">......... but a coat of paint improved them greatly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here comes a bit of an aside. Way back when, I bought an A1 portfolio very cheaply from eBay which stores my wallpaper beautifully; no rolling and then trying to flatten it, no knocked up edges or grubbiness. I commend it to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is where tragedy struck and my following my first instruction would have been useful. I don't have any green wallpaper big enough to cover the space. Yes, I have checked here there and everywhere on line and no one has it. It was on its way out of Dolls House Emporium when I bought it on sale several years ago. A couple of other folk had it but they don't any longer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> As for the grey paper I don't have a shred of it. There is absolutely no hope of getting this one as I bought years ago from some Etsy maker (in New Zealand I think!) who made to order and was also 'winding up'. I did waste a lot of time 'just checking' though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So the current state of play is me walking away and controlling the urge to rant or cry and eventually coming up with a not very great solution. Come back next time if you can stand the excitement of watching paint dry.</span></div>
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</span>burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-73434150706741656782019-07-14T17:25:00.002+01:002019-07-15T19:41:56.023+01:00Probably my last plants<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was looking through my stash of things to see if I had a pot for my proposed Swiss cheese plant and discovered a white rose kit which was a lovely surprise. This led to continuing the stock check to see if I had enough vases or pots or whatever for my proposed three plants; inexorably this led to me treating myself to these.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wanted to share this purchase in case you are looking for perfect scale, hand blown, paper-thin glass at a price you can afford. The vendor is just the very best. <b><u><a href="http://www.glasscraftuk.com/Welcome/welcome.html">Glasscraft</a></u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nothing here costs more than £7 ($8.80) and the cute tadpole in a jam jar at the front was all of £3.50 ($4.40)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />I made a cardboard pot; later it was painted silver grey. In these pictures it is at its inception with the surplus cardboard on its bottom waiting to be cut off, trim added and then painted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />The grey pot was soon discarded as it was too clunky and I found this over-size vase/pot in my things and used this. The leaves were bent into shape and glazed with Americana triple thick brush on gloss and glaze - any pva glue will do the job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />The first decision for the final room was this</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It sits very well on its pizza box spacer, smack bang in the dormer window grabbing all the light it can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, on to the roses. I have shown you a picture of the real plant first, so you can see how careful Theresa Stringer is in making her plants realistic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">............. but I wanted them on this side of the hall where there was going to be a painting but I think they will be too 'busy in front of that. I have a fetish for symmetry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I loved making the buds. The pieces for these buds/centre of the rose are cut on a sort of angle - like a child's windmill so they 'want' to overlap each other. If you just gently roll them between your fingers they fold over each other beautifully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A word about stamens - all flower makes start with adding a small blob of glue to one end of the paper covered wire to stop the petals being pushed off. You need to decide if this is going to be visible or not and, if visible, what colour it needs to be painted. In something like these roses they were not intended to be seen so they can be left like this. The glue dries almost clear and takes on the colour of the green paper underneath so they are very subtle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This story has a bit of a sad ending. I bought these for the music room without really thinking about it and now realise they just don't look nice in there. It proved difficult to find a place for some flowers in that room and, if I did, they really need to be yellow as the room is grey and gold, this pink just jars. Hey ho, one for the sell-it box.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.ladiesmileminiatures.co.uk/">Ladies Mile Miniatures</a> offers a fabulous choice of kits if, like me, you don't have the requisite punches and such like to work from scratch. The service is excellent and prices good and quality top notch.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I chose a Cleome (Spider Flower) for my dining room vase. This was a bit of a daft choice as this is a three to five foot high shrub and is rarely used as a cut flower because of its size. Hey ho, I like them and I don't have any outside growing space because my house is part of a row of Georgian terraces so they are going to have to go in a vase.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Always a nicely packaged and presented kit with absolutely perfect instructions. I won't do the step by step thing as it is done so well in the kit but I thought I would share some moments which might add something to your understanding of what's going on if you are doing your first flower kit and show you what 'tools' I use to complete them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First thing is to take your wire stems and add a blob of glue. The photo is to show you what I work on. I have a glass tile - a few pence from B & Q years ago. As you can see it is handy for any small amounts of glue or paint. When it gets rather full it just goes in a wash basin of warm water and soaks for a little while, then a bit of a rub and, voila, brand new again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This photo is maybe a handy tip. All my wires are poked into a bit of styrene. I couldn't find my spare piece so I just grabbed the one I use to keep my drill bits in; but you get the idea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I then discovered the blobs of glue were sort of running down the wire slightly so, with a bit of ingenuity, gravity was inverted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a share in case you ever see one of these any where. It is just the best way to keep glue handy and ready to go. I used to keep my glue upside down in a mug until I had this. The downside of that method is that the cap is always full of glue when you take it off. This little stand allows the glue to stand in its own little puddle of glue without a cap and that seals it nice and airtight. It comes free easily when you want to use it. Absolutely ready to go at all times. I can't help with buying one of these stands as it was bought at an American show years ago and I was told it was the last she would have. I am sure some of you can make one like it for yourself . The glue stand part of it just has a support and a base with a small groove in it for the nozzle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Often the glue blobs are painted yellow to represent pollen coated stamens but cleome just have a bud filled centre so it needed to be painted a matching pink. So the tip here is to just google and check out your real life plant to be sure you are on the right track. I had some very, very, pale pink, acrylic paint (paint samples) so (here comes the next handy tip) I just mixed in a little red water colour to get to the right shade. Both paints are water based so they mix just fine. I couldn't paint the glue blobs with water paints as they don't have the sort of pigmentation and durability to do the job that acrylic has.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A small amount of glue behind each section. The photo is to show you the tool used - a cocktail stick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Left to right - three with three layers, three with two layers and four with the small first layer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How the flowers look when finished, now for the leaves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From the left, top row; one side pale colour, the other side darker green, and the third shows lines drawn for the veins. Bottom row of two leaves turned over to the right side. On the left hows the indentation made near the stem and the right shows the stalk bent back ready to stick to the stem. Using a mouse mat you make indented lines on the reverse of the leaf (all in the instructions) I am mentioning it because I usually do this with a very sharp coloured pencil just a shade darker than the leaf colour. I know it is on the underside but it can sometimes add some 'interest' and reality to the finish. It looks crude in this photo but remember you are seeing the leaves much bigger than they are in real life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They are a bit OTT but I love them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are considering having a go I would say a good rule of thumb is, if your eyesight and dexterity are good enough to thread a needle, you will be able to make plants and maybe enjoy it as much as I do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are reading this across the pond - when I spent half my year in the States I used to buy from <a href="https://sdkminiatures.com/">SDK Miniatures LLC</a> which are also good to do.</span></span>burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7413035007278755615.post-26865674848286994742019-07-02T16:09:00.003+01:002019-07-03T12:11:04.577+01:00Lighting done and dusted<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lighting done and dusted ........ w...e...l...l....... maybe......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After taking a photo of each room to note the work I did, I can see a lot more opportunities for adding some more lighting. Talk about glutton for punishment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also, while I remember, the little power strips I have been writing about can come with switches for each terminal. You could then group things together and turn on separately from other groups - all the ceiling lights or all the fires for example. If you had two strips or not many lights you could have a switch for every single light in your house. My strip is not switched.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The apartment kitchen/diner. Way too many missed opportunities here. In a very long time from now I am going to add pelmets under the cupboards and some under-cupboard lights and have a big think about whether I can get a light into the cooker hood and maybe even change the centre light to a group of recessed lights. Why, Oh why am I only just seeing what the room needs at this point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is lots brighter in real life - I am very happy with these recessed lights and would have put them in the apartment kitchen and in the mud room if I had realised how good they would be. This library has climate controlled lighting, heating and humidity to preserve some very valuable books. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Love the hall lighting - proper Georgian hall light and a glimpse of stairs and lights in the corridor behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well all the fires lit up too so that's a happy place. The dining room will depend on some additional candlelight for special occasions..... I do have them when I come to dress all the rooms</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As with the Georgian style formal dining room, this music room might want to add in some candles for its soirees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the children's rec room I still might add two modern wall lights to the back wall though they won't add much useful light and will use the space I had planned for two posters, soooo???? maybe not. The door open on the right leading to a central corridor. The corridor is also lit but its not showing up too well in this photo. There is no way I can add another light in that space. Lesson learned - over-light the 'hidden' places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Always remember most dollhouses are just the front slice of a house and there is another layer of rooms behind these. There is a corridor on every floor running behind all the rooms you can see here leading off to the other rooms of the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the roof space across the corridor from the kitchen entrance is another entrance to a larger apartment belonging to the housekeeper. The door from the bedroom we can see here leads to a small shower room for this apartment and the other side of that wall is the bathroom belonging to the larger apartment where the housekeeper lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the upstairs level there is a door into the music room on the right (I forgot to open it and show you the light from the corridor) which leads into the corridor on this level. You can see the upper hallway and stairs clearly through the open door in the library. Across from that corridor are three bedrooms and bathrooms for the family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the ground floor level the entrance hall leads to a larger inner hall and staircase and to the back and side of that central hall is a very modern family kitchen/diner and family room combination taking up the whole width of the house. This is where the family usually hang out together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the basement level there are several rooms from the days when the house had storage needs for food and drink and places for servants. Some are still used for storage. There is also a guest bedroom and bathroom, a laundry room and an office. The hive (the workroom) that we can see here was once the housekeeper's room, the mud room was servants' hall and the rec room was a kitchen and scullery. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Behind all of this and across a yard is a converted stables area. So, all in all, this modest looking terraced Georgian house is a substantial property.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are some different colour lights as a couple of rooms have LEDs. The library (upstairs right) has a lighting and humidity control system to protect some rare books and so that lighting is not the usual warm colour. In the basement mud room there is strip lighting under the cupboards which are also 'white' LEDs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is a list of the steps I take to connect my electrical fittings to the power supply. It assumes a couple of things. Firstly, you are wiring an English-style dollshouse which opens at the front, so you are able to take all your wires to the back of the house. Secondly you don't care how it all looks when its connected up because (a) the back will never be seen or (b) like me, you are going to cover it all up with a piece of thick card </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or thin ply cut to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the size of the back of the house, using magnets or Velcro tabs, mounted on som</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e spacers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>3. Select the wire you want to connect </b>and remove about an inch of plastic sheathing to reveal the copper wires. You will need to separate the two sides of the wire. If you are lucky you can make a small snip with a sharp knife or scissors and then pull the two strips apart. More often than not this doesn't work too well and bits of wire are exposed: in that case there is nothing for it but to cut down the centre channel between the sides very carefully. If your wire is going to need extending you will need to have about two inches of the plastic separated. You need this to put the heat-shrink tubing on to cover the join. Almost all of my 32 lights did need longer wires to reach the power strip.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. Use a hair dryer to shrink the tubing</span></b>. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't be nervous about this, it needs to be held very close to do the job. I had two kinds of tubing - some clear, soft sort, in a long coil which I bought somewhere by the metre and a packet of black pre-cut tubes. The clear soft tubing melted more quickly and more efficiently than the black.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having struggled my way through this over the last few days I can't in all honesty say it is an easy job or one that I don't mind doing. It is fiddly and frustrating and annoying almost every step of the way but by the time you have committed a good deal of money and have some nice items requiring power, the choice to do it or not is no longer an option.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you have about twelve or less items to light it is probably easiest to just stay with the plastic power strips and extend any wires using plug-in extensions. Maybe even up to 24 items and using two power strips to keep your life very simple.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You could, of course, use this method for any size project by just adding in more strips but I think there would be a point where you will need more than one transformer and very soon it becomes very cumbersome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do think that once you are messing around with something like twenty or more things needing power and you are on the round-wiring rather than tape path, the only way to go is the Small World power strip I use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are no shortcuts or easy ways to do any of this be it copper tape system or round-wiring, white plastic power strips or the strip I am using - you will just have to flog away at it until it is done. I swear, very close to the end of the chore I began to think about whether it would have been a good idea to hire an electrician and let them fiddle about with it!! Wonder if you could..............</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">** I have just been told that some Chinese-made 3v lights don't like being tested on a battery and will 'blow' I have never been unlucky this way but I thought I should pass this on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">A while ago Martin
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written about my suffering when putting in round wire lighting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t get me wrong I much prefer it to the
copper tape system but I positively hate those wretched little plugs that have
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discover language I didn’t know I knew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to do with fiddling about with electrical bits and bobs can be ‘put off’ by the
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the power centre I used here is a bit of overkill on the small property I was
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how many <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">bulbs</b>, not lights, you will
want to connect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From Small World
Product’s tiny (SW06) power centre which can handle forty-five bulbs, up to the
one I am showing you here (SW04) there is an SWP system capable of controlling
a simple room box to a huge mansion, including flickering fireplaces and added wall
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been following my build you will recall I had a time hitch on the lights as I
couldn’t collect them for a couple of months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sadly, it still didn’t pan out as I wanted so in the last week of the
‘lighting month’ I ordered some replacements from my regular ‘life-saver’
Jennifer’s of Walsall; a couple of days later they arrived and within an hour
they were in the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much for this
being an episode about a month devoted to lighting; it turns out to be more
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">If anything in
your project depends on the light being in exactly the right place you need to find
a way to mark its position. Don’t do this ‘by eye’; you’ll be astounded how far
out you will be. In Chocolat’s case I wanted lights centred over the two counter
tops and in the shop windows. I put the counters in their place and marked the
centre of their tops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the shop
windows I hung a heavy bead on a thread (bit like a plumb line) to find the correct
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to the spot and carefully transfer these measurements to the floor above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point where they intersect is where you
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of times until it fits nice and squarely in the corner and, in this case, its
other edge is on the centre of the counter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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it to the floor above, ready to drill your hole through the ceiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phew!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe measuring is easier after all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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exit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ignore the wrong looking hole in
this picture it was leftover from its previous existence as O’Rourke’s Post
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of dangle and the ones in the rooms needed to allow free passage
underneath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stick them in place with a
bit of masking tape so I can keep fiddling with them until I am happy and then
hack off the appropriate length of chain and rejoin it to the ceiling rose
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vitally important if you are using lights that have been used somewhere else
before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These lights were new but I
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I don’t like
the appearance of those oh-so-useful sticky tabs that come with most lights so
I peel them off and stick my lights to the ceiling with glue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What glue, you might ask.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have tried just about everything from thin
double-sided sticky tape, the usual PVA, a hot glue gun and super-glue and they
have all given some sort of problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
now use my all-time favourite glue which I promote at every opportunity; so
here we go…. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I use it for everything and I mean
everything – it glues any material to any material and will glue painted and
stained surfaces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It dries clear and you
can paint or stain over any residue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
hasn’t failed me yet so I’ve no reason to believe it won’t work on lights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It is called R/C Modellers Craft Glue by
Deluxe Materials but I call it my rocket glue as it claims to withstand the
shock of rockets taking off and landing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t ask for rocket glue though because they
have one by that name!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The lights that have a sticky tab also have
a slit in the ceiling rose to let the wire through, always check you have put
that at the back out of sight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Straighten the
wire before sticking your light firmly in place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thread through the hole in the ceiling and
run the wire flat and neatly along the groove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You should exit, where you can, straight through the back of the
building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have to meander, like
this one, snug it down between the floor and the wall as it travels along the
back – fingernails are good for this if you have them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t push too far or they will appear in the
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running my wires through a thin plastic straw (coffee stirrer) so they could be
pulled in and out without disturbing a floor but decided this might be a step
too far as I am very unlikely to want to pull them in or out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a good thought though if you think you
might want to change the light some time or you are concerned that they might
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you might want to put down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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power strip, its instructions and three little ‘feet’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It screws into place through three holes you
can see on the board and these spacers are used to keep the soldered bits on
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to being fazed by the instructions – entirely my fault not theirs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do I have this mental resistance to what
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perfectly clear and I understand them but I feel I need language like – strip
the ends of the wires, screwdle them up a bit and bung in the holes in pairs,
which is what this actually says and is what I did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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second piece of kit which I now deem essential if you are going to do more than
one house or are tackling a lot of lights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is a wire stripper and cutter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Until the kind Mr Butler sent me this I have always used scissors, teeth
and nails – not always my own!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
not only unhygienic, it is also not a good look if caught doing it nor is it even
very effective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This little gizmo made
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Using the super
stripper/cutter simply chop the wire to the right length, strip some of the
plastic cover off, fold over and twist the wires a couple of times until you
have a decent size ‘blob’, shove it in the holes and tighten the screw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each light will have its own number and two
holes labelled plus and minus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For our
purposes this labelling doesn’t matter, either wire can go in either hole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So here you see one of my lights going into
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centre already screwed in place when I was putting the wires in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was probably not the best idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would have been marginally easier to be
able to jiggle the strip around but it wasn’t hard to do any way, so it didn’t
really matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may want to consider
it if your power centre is going in a more awkward position than mine did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also had the power supply attached so I
could check each light as I went along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is especially easy to do with this strip as it has a switch for
every light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can buy any size strip
with or without individual switches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They have a minimum fifteen year life and are repairable – neither of
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fully intend to cannibalise Chocolat when I do a larger project and replace
these items with their smaller versions – that shows how easy it is to do if I
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brand new to the game I knew I wanted to light my builds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It creates a whole other atmosphere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here, on build three, I have even added the
suggestion of rooms further back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
dollhousing we are almost always looking at just the front slice of a building
and that frustrates me in terms of reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is the door through to the stairs which lead down to the, what was
once a bakery’s, kitchen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have also
added a light in the stair well on the other side of the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This ‘extension’ to the building would have
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I didn’t time the job but really I don’t think it took much more than an
hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know the grooves were in place
and that is a very time consuming part of doing the lighting but actually
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kinds of other bits and pieces that I can’t wait to build into my next project
such as the sweetest little wall sockets to plug in lamps and Xmas trees. All
my future rooms will come with sockets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There also wasn’t a ‘design’ opportunity for flickering fires in this
piece – there will be next time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I used the word
‘brevity’ in the opening sentence – clearly not a skill I am familiar
with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I assumed that even I could cover
something this simple in a few sentences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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on how to do things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are the
ramblings of someone who came to dollhousing without a clue about any
craft-type hobby or anything very practical beyond cooking, gardening and
sewing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Happily all the new skills I
acquired when I was making my <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Wentworth
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me beaten in all sorts of ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you are considering lighting your house the first big decision is whether to go
the copper wiring route or in the plug and play direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sure this is just a totally personal
choice and I can’t see how one is better or worse than the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They each have drawbacks and pluses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I chose the socket and plug route as these
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if you need them just by googling ‘dolls house electrics’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just want to share <u>my</u> findings with
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advance how many plugs (i.e. lights, fires etc) your house will end up with as
this determines the size of the power strip needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You also need to know how many actual bulbs
you will have – no, this won’t be the same number as plugs; for example a
chandelier is one plug but several bulbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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in advance when tackling your first project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most of us don’t design the interiors to within an inch of our lives <u>before</u>
we start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At best we have a vague idea
and chop and change and fiddle around with it as we go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All I can say is, if you are in any doubt,
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difference in the electricity needed to service it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bought a power strip which soon ran out of
socket holes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This worked out fine
because my house is very tall being over four floors and it meant I could have
two power strips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This allowed most of the
various wires to reach one or other of them without having to be extended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So this is an ‘accident’ you might want to
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have ended up with too small a transformer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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choices attached.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When do the
fireplaces go in?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fireplaces in my
dolls house were going to be sitting on the finished floors rather than being installed
before they went in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided I didn’t
want to have to cut the sheets of wooden flooring to fit around them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All sorts of things come into play here, including
what era are the fireplaces?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each period
will need different things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What sort of
hearth do they have, for example?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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simplest route so once the painting and wallpapering were done and the floors were
put in I decided to add the fireplaces. In the Wentworth the fires go on the
side walls because this is where the chimneys are located.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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power socket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t want wires all
over the sides of the house so I drilled holes in the back corners and ran the
wires along the join between the floor and wall and out through the hole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wires were eventually concealed by the skirting
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can see all sorts of potential problems doing this and maybe cutting a groove
to meet the usual pre-cut groove in the centre of the floor would be the best
way to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sure if a light or fire had
to be removed (heaven forbid!) it would be easier to remove the floor to get it
out than remove a skirting board to liberate it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also couldn’t solve the problem of the wire
making the fire stand away from the wall slightly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tried scratching grooves in wood and resin
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how much of a problem for me that turned out to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most people when talking about wiring a dolls
house just casually say something like – ‘’cut a groove’’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, well, like how?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots more web trawling followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far I have come up with advice such as
buying a fantastic piece of kit like the Dremel (and other mini routers) which
many of us (a) can’t afford or (b) don’t want to buy for a handful of jobs.
Then there are suggestions like using a small, fine, sharp, v-shaped chisel,
please refer back to (a) and (b) and add (c) as they are as rare as hen’s teeth
to find.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have just bought a tile grout
remover for £1.53, which is something else someone recommended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’t tried it yet, so I can’t
comment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All I can say about cutting
grooves is that if, like me, you try to do it with a craft knife and steel
ruler (another piece of web advice) and/or a v-shaped file you may as well give
up now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be fair it must be doable, so
have a bash, but I never succeeded in making any half way decent straight
groove, with the right depth, to neatly carry wires across a floor or
roof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hack away at it as best you can is
my only advice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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so now I have the fires in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily with
the Wentworth it came with grooves for the lights and I didn’t have to make any
additional ones. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is one thing though before putting the lights in place; you will need to
consider if any of the wires or chains that some of the central lights are
hanging on need lengthening or shortening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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used successfully in the room I had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To
get it above head height the candles would be virtually touching the
ceiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know in this house the
chandeliers are supposed to be modern and electric but they would still look
pretty silly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found a compromise with
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second-hand lights, the wires are too short to reach the power strip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doing the Wentworth I just bought half a
dozen extension cords, so the short wire plugged into that and they then plugged
into the power strip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have since
learned to join wires but unless the junction is going to be a problem, under
flooring for example, the simple method of using extension cords works
perfectly well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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those decisions made and lengths adjusted you can now go on to thread the wires
through the teeny (nigh on invisible) holes in the ceilings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To do this you begin by removing the
plug.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of the unscrewing backs of
plugs and pins inside like in 1/1 world, you just pull out the pins and then
pull out the wire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find I am grinning
as I am typing this. Pull out the pins begins with fingers and thumbs,
progresses to teeth and ultimately – the tool for the job – needle nose
pliers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you buy nothing else – buy
these – your fingers, thumbs and teeth will thank you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You then tug the wires up out of the holes and
back through the plug.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile you
have put the teeny pins down somewhere and they have rolled or you have become
pin blind because you can’t find them anywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The next handy tip is: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>before you
start, find something small but heavy to put your pins in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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removed the sticky pad waxy paper cover all we have to do is thread the wire
through the ceiling hole, pull the light up gently, centre it over the hole and
press firmly in place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bet if you
haven’t done this yet you haven’t a clue how frustrating this little task can
be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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doing many, many of them I eventually figured out that trying to wiggle two
waggling wires through a small hole is just plain daft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have enough length on the wire to be
able to cut off the split ends – do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You then have a neat, stiffer piece of wire to poke through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also sometimes push a biggish needle downwards
through the hole so it marks the exact position for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sounds daft but most times you can’t really
see the hole properly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is quite dark
in those small room spaces and you have to be a bit of a contortionist as you
attack each floor trying to see where it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As always you only have two hands where you need three.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the wires now threaded through you can pull gently on them until the sticky
pads are in place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is another thing
I would like to change but I don’t know how.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the Wentworth all my lights went in using the sticky pads which were
attached to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only do I not like
the look of them but, sometimes, they made the wires sort of lopsided.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wires are coming from the centre of the
light but then they have to travel across the pad to the side edge and then
through the ceiling hole, so you aren’t strictly centring the light over the
hole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unless you have micrometer
eyeballs that in itself doesn’t matter but the wires do make a slight lump so
things can look a bit skewed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I confess
that I am probably being excessively fussy here and really they are fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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real issue I have with the sticky pads is that while they might be pads they
aren’t all that sticky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of mine
don’t seem to stick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often when I open
my house my first job is to re-stick the kitchen, the girl’s bedroom wall and
the sitting room wall lights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Annoyed by
this I have tried adding all sorts of glue to the pads without success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On my current (second) project I have peeled
off these pads before putting the lights in place, but I am struggling with
finding a glue that works well, so I am not promoting that as the path to take
(yet).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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opening the house is the odd light bulb here and there which, presumably has a
bit of a loose connection and doesn’t light up without it being pressed, pushed,
twisted or flicked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is another
issue I haven’t resolved as yet although the numbers were reduced when I went
round screwing them all in properly with this handy little gadget.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, this is an essential tool for changing
any bulbs further down the line and can be bought cheaply if you keep your eyes
open for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is double-ended; one end is soft and the other is metal with splits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is just a matter of trying which end does
the best for the bulb shape/size and the job you want doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also made to work in tight spaces as it
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when you thought I’d said all there was to say about plugs.... not so, because now
that the wires for the lights and fires are all threaded through to the back
and the power strip is stuck in place you will need to re-attach the
plugs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is where my tears and
tantrums really start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In all
seriousness this is the only task I have done in all this dollhousing stuff
that I positively hate and would hire someone to do if it were possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of my frustration is that I can’t
understand why I find it so difficult. I can make a box and a lid small enough
for a <u>single</u> tablet of soap easily and with pleasure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then hand me a dolls house plug, wires and
pins and I lose the use of an opposing thumb and become an amoeba.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband who usually has the manual dexterity
associated with a bunch of bananas can just pick up the various bits and
reassemble a plug in a nano-second.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Every time I have them to do I am determined to conquer it and refuse to
call for help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually I don’t need
to call for help as he can no longer stand the stamping and cussing and
complaining which is emanating from the room I am working in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have trouble with it all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t even
strip the plastic off the wires without shredding most of the wires as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A twelve inch length of wire very
soon becomes a lot shorter in my hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If I do succeed I then have trouble twisting the fiddly little wires together
so there are no stray bits when they get shoved back into those teeny tiny
holes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They either remain obdurately
scruffy or they break off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back to
cutting some more off the wire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I
actually manage all of that to get to step three, it appears that the teeny
tiny holes are now all filled up with wires and/or plastic and yet you are
required to shove the pins back in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last ones I did I
resorted to hammering them in with a small hammer – honestly, I did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it bears repeating this isn’t a series of articles designed to put you
off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may very well find, like my
husband, that doing the electrics in your dolls house is your metier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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but when it is finished, what a joy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Almost everyone I know prefers their house when it is ‘plugged in’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the colours are warmer and richer, many
of the smaller details in your rooms are clearer and some how it just makes the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Round wire v. copper strip</b>..... there is no right choice here: use the system you feel comfortable with. I use the round wire system because when I was doing my first project I was told by a super nice, knowledgeable chap that copper/tape wiring can have more problems if you intend to keep the house a long time. The wires can deteriorate over time especially if they are covered in wallpaper paste and acid wallpaper. You may not make good soldered connections so they too can be a weak point. sometimes if you move a house it can also break the wires. If the whole lot 'blows' it is often hard to track the fault. I am absolutely sure there are many people people who would refute this and wouldn't use round wire systems but that's how I arrived at my choice.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, <b>using the round wire system</b>.......Most lights come with a two pin plug on the end of a wire which eventually, after weaving its way through your project, will exit and want to be plugged into one of these power strips. That is then connected to a transformer then to your wall socket/electrical supply and you are good to go.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This strip will take twelve lights so on a large build you may need several of these. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I absolutely hate removing the little plugs on the lights to get the wires through the exit holes and then struggling to get them back on again on the other side</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They are a fair size and if you use several of them it is cumbersome</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The power strip I use looks like this.... you can get it from <u><a href="http://www.littlehousesplus-shop.co.uk/">Little Houses Plus and Small World Products</a></u></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This strip will take about 85 bulbs (note that's bulbs, not lights) so it has at least four or five times the capacity of the white plastic power strip</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No messing about with the fiddly plugs, the wires just go straight into the terminals</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is smaller than one of the plastic strips and, for example, I would need two of those for this project</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is well made and reliable. It has at least a fifteen year life and can even be repaired if needs be </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The terminals are numbered so you can make a list of what light has gone where</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can easily attach flickering light power strips if you want flickering candle light or firelight</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They come in several capacities so there will always be one for your project</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are ones with switches for each pair of terminals, so you can control areas of your build - lights on in any place you like while others are off if you want to</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is how you calculate what you will need for both of these units.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You need to know how many bulbs you have (not how many lights and fires you have) so if you have a grand twelve candle chandelier you set off with twelve and so on. In a perfect world you should know how many bulbs screw in and how many push in. I do think this is unrealistic and have never bothered calculating that accurately and have just gone for overkill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A push in bulb uses 0.05 Amps and a screw in bulb uses 0.07 Amps. So for this project I have 44 bulbs and if they were all screw in bulbs I would need a transformer able to cope with 3.08 Amps. If all my bulbs were push in bulbs I would need something to cover 2.2 Amps. As I have an unknown mix of these bulbs I am confident my 3 Amp transformer will be large enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As my bulbs add up to roughly 3 Amps I also need to change the fuse in the power strip as that is only a 2 Amp fuse. That would cover roughly 34 bulbs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">OK - now I have blinded you with science and put you off for life let me just say you can just dive in and follow the instructions that come with your power strip and keep your life much simpler. </span><b>Here's the simple approach </b>......It says you can add up to 80 bulbs to the strip, as many as ten wires in each hole. Work out your amps by calculating 1 Amp for every 17 bulbs and you have it covered, change the fuse if you need to and you are good to go..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am very proud of me: I actually did what I said and finished putting in the last of my lights today. </span>I seem to have saved up one ceiling light, four table lamps and one standard lamp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a quick review of putting in a ceiling light - they are the easiest ones to do. Just make sure you know exactly where you want it in the room and measure carefully or even better make a template. If I want one in an 'odd' place I make a template of the floor - sounds 'posh' - all I mean is cut a piece of paper to fit the floor. I, then, position furniture on it and mark where I would the ceiling light to go. This is useful for a light over a dining table for example. I then take the template upstairs to the floor above and make sure it is lined up with the front edges and the side edges of the room below and make a mark through the paper where I want to drill the hole for the light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I normally apply a <u>little</u> superglue (it must be the gel version) with a cocktail stick to the back of the light fitting; this is short cutting it. I also usually remove the sticky tabs lights that come with most lights and put the glue on the rim I don't like how they stick out from the ceiling and they don't have very strong glue on them. This one was very thin, didn't show, so I just left it in place</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pull wires through gently and get it in position preferably in one go. Make sure if there is a wire exit hole on your light it is at the back so it can't be seen. A helper here is handy - press and hold in place until the glue 'takes'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want even more detailed explanations of putting in lights - showing grooves in the floors etc just click on the 'Lighting' label on the left and there is probably a ton of stuff there. I think I did a video too so just go over to You-tube if you want. There is a link for that too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A while ago I asked the Brilliant Kath at Delph Miniatures if she could let me have some of her plug sockets that she uses for her electrical appliances as I wanted to drill a hole through them so I could take wires from lamps through the wall behind so making it look as though the lamp is plugged in. She not only did that but also drilled the holes for me. They are even drilled at an angle - sloping - so the cord lies realistically down the wall. She went on to make them for general sale - so you can get them if you want them. Here's the link to that page on her site. <a href="https://store.delphminiatures.co.uk/search.html?search%5Bkeywords%5D=plug+sockets&_a=category&token=e22486715ba28b980a2a00d367aacb57">Delph Miniatures</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what was all the fuss about. In less than a couple of hours including a tea break, they were done and dusted. I think I have broken my duck now on 'not working on Dalton' and I can't wait to tackle the actual putting in the leccy tomorrow:</span></div>
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