Low Cost Miniature Furniture Ideas!
If you lack the skills to use the sophisticated tools used by more experienced miniature furniture makers, you might want to consider recycling on a small scale as well as roaming jumble sales looking for materials and ideas. With a little imagination, broken jewelry, buttons, chess pieces and the like can become the basis for beautiful Victorian miniature furniture which couldn't be made by conventional means.
A bracelet with Indian motifs can be transformed into a paneled screen and become the missing link in inventing the dolls' house family. Their characters quickly influence the miniature furniture throughout the dollhouse. Maybe the master of your dollhouse doesn't believe in electricity and will not allow it in the house. It's all up to your imagination.
But absence of electricity allows a creative dollhouse miniature furniture maker to make miniature oil and gas powered Victorian gadgets and household objects which can be used in the dollhouse and shops. The rooms will quickly acquire the gleaming, ornate, cluttered look which was the fashion in Victorian times.
If you'd like to show the contents of your dollhouse including the miniature furniture at craft fairs you can make portable display boxes, furnish them, and take them along with you. Perhaps you have no intention of selling your wares for profit. Maybe you just won't to inspire others to make their own miniature furniture. Perhaps you could even write a book that details how you crafted all the miniature furniture in your dollhouse. A natural progression may be to move on to making miniature shops. My first shop was a present for a child. Even at only five years old, the recipient sensed that the shop was made especially for her and was more special than something bought in a store. She treasured it and after all these years still has it. Put your thinking cap on and imagine all the things you can do when you acquire the skill of making dollhouses and miniature furniture. You can make birthday and Christmas gifts. You can construct beautiful wedding and anniversary gifts too. There's not limit except your imagination. And the best part is you can add more miniature furniture year after year so it's the gift that keeps on giving. It was so fun and rewarding to make the first shop for the five year old girl that I proceeded to make a second shop for myself. This shop had an upstairs sitting room with a pot-bellied stove, a gas stove, an armchair, a cat sleeping on the hot bread, and shelves of bread and cakes. This shop opened at the back so the wares could be arranged on the shelves. Ah the joys of making dollhouses and miniature furniture.
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