It's been ages...

Oh my Goodness, I can't believe it's been almost 2 years since my last post here! But I'm still working on so many things, first my art nouveau dollshouse, one of the rooms looks like this:

I'm making my own chandeliers from scratch, using brass and Swarovski crystal beads:

Making bobbin lace mats (my new passion from the last year:)

And of course - furniture, lots of it:

 

There's even more, soo many new things to show you. 
My latest work in progress - Victorian game table, just yesterday I finished the table top, very time consuming marquetry, but totally worth it!

You are welcome to check more photos of it on my site here - http://inchscaled.com/en/ . It's both in English and Russian, only RSS feed is only in Russian, unfortunately. I'll be posting the links to my new posts here, so stay tuned! I can't wait to show you the game table all finished and done.

Art nouveau house

Hi everyone!

I'm still in the progress of making cabinets for the sofa, well, to be honest, the parts are on the workbench, and I haven't touched them in weeks.  The reason for it is quite good - I started building a house! :)  At first, I was thinking about roombox, something small, something that would be good for the sofa. And it would be art nouveau again.
Somehow, I'm building the whole house, all in art nouveau style! Isn't it fantastic? I'm making it from scratch, the first plan in Sketchup looked like this:

And it's really huge, I'm using 18mm plywood, so the walls have realistic thickness. It has four rooms, and the size of it about 90cm long and 40cm deep. That's how it looks at its current stage:

And from the back:

I'm super excited, the whole project was started only because of the sofa I made :)
Also  I'm practicing making plaster moldings:

I hope to use them for some rooms too. Besides, I tried carving on plaster, and was really inspired - you can work with tiny details, it's a very interesting material to work with. Also I'm working on lighting  and chimneys now. Hope to show you the result pretty soon! :)

Some new furniture, new roombox.

Busy days, I've only managed to read some of the blogs - Elga's chair is gonna be stunning, and I loved the carpet, The Old Maid - your greenhouse is going to be just fabulous! Another inspiration for me -  Natalia's fretwork shelf not to mention beautiful round footstools - I'm still struggling to finish my carpet for a new roombox, such beauty keeps me going!

In my last post I mentioned my Russian site and how it was important for me. It still is, of course, but sometimes I have second thoughts about it. I hate to admit it, but I have to, it's hard keep posting some howtos and pics in progress when you don't get feedback. I love my readers and everything, but there's one day when you want to post something and suddenly you think - "what's the point? who's gonna read it? ", and then the whole idea of the blog in Russian sounds kind of stupid to me. Well, maybe it's just me, besides, I love blogging, love sharing my thoughts, some information that might be useful. Anyway, thank you guys for your comments to my last post (esp. Karin and The Old Maid), I love Blogger, I don't want to leave it or anything, I still haven't decided if there's any need in posting "in progress" stuff (all my jigs seem so obvious to me). Oh, well, we'll see :)

Back to furniture -  I've finished two pieces of furniture for my new roombox. I'm very excited about it! It's a new project I've started with my Mom. I won't go into details by now, you'll see everything very soon. :) The walls and a floor are not ready yet, but here are the finished pieces:

 I've finished the first one some time ago, I've made the pattern for fabric too, it was very easy with textile pens. The fringe on both pieces is self made, macrame in miniature is fun!  I used embroidery color threads.

 Chaise lounge sofa was a bit of challenge, the frame was a bit hard to construct (I mean the back part). I've made several plans in Google Sketchup which helped me a lot!  So now I'm a huge fan of this software.

 I just love the colors!

 And my cat does too!:)

I still need to finish decoration of the sofa, so I'll be back soon!:)))

The roof - fixed.

      When I was posting this picture I thought maybe I shouldn't write anything:) I was choosing the decoration for the roof for a week, I didn't like anything - it was too easy or too difficult and time-consuming. I was worrying too much, then I realized that this is my first big project, and if  I mess something up it's no big deal, I can fix it later, or don't fix at all but I always gaining some experience which is the most important for me.
     I relaxed a bit and started fixing the roof. And it's working now!:) You can open the facade without problems. I want to thank Karin, Caterina, Tom Pouce and Sans for great tips, in the result I used fabric as hinges (I forgot to make a photo, sorry, will do it next time).
    Some more pictures, I'm really sorry for the quality, I had to use my hubby's DSLR, and I'm not used to his camera, so they are a bit blurry.

Three pieces you see above will be used for wall decoration.  In russian it's called ("причелина" - pree-che-lee-na:), hehe, sounds and looks funny in Latin letters). This is the part that covers the corners of the house. So without it the house corners look like this:

With it:

I hope to make them tomorrow, and I'm moving to interior. It's going to be fun!

Наконец-то я это сделала! Закончила крышу, остались причелины. Где-то неделю я выбирала рисунок для крыши. Все было не то, или слишком просто или слишком сложно. Остановилась на данном варианте. Я не могу сказать что довольна, очень переживала, как получится, в результате поняла, что важен процесс, тот опыт, который я получу, а остальное совсем не важно. Сразу успокоилась - и сделала:) Фасад теперь открывается без проблем, спасибо всем тем, кто дал ценные советы. Подробной фотографии нет - я забыла:) Три элемента для причелин уже вырезаны. Осталось все это вместе собрать. Должно получиться неплохо. В целом, фотографии не очень - мой Кэнон разрядился, пришлось брать камеру у мужа:) А с ней я не очень дружу, дает холодные цвета очень. В общем, заканчиваю причелины и вперед делать интерьер. 

The problem with roof - photos.

Yesterday I posted about it, and Karin offered her help, so I'm posting the photos. Here it is, on the slope of the roof there should be decoration, about 1'' wide (i used here  paper pattern):

So when I try to open the facade, the decoration is blocking it:

Because the slope is too close:

So my solution would be, one part to the right is glued and not moving, another that is blocking should be on the hinges, something like this:

 

 I think it would be easy to use some sort of fabric hinges, besides I'm afraid that I won't find hinges small enough. At the moment I can't think of another way to solve the problem.

Продолжение "драмы" с крышей, теперь с картинками!

Small update - first but not the last problem.

I've finished gluing the veneer on the pediment, and the main part of slope of the roof is done too.

This week I need to decorate the roof and the rest of the house, then I'll be able to move to interior part. And now I have a problem, I was going to decorate the roof  this way (well, something like this):

But the slopes of my house are longer (it's ok, depends on the house really). So when I open the facade part of the roof is blocking it.  Here's what happens when you haven't planned it all. So I had to think of something. First of all, I thought I wouldn't decorate the roof at all and do only pediment,  like this (the pediment or should I call it  tympanum, is great here): 

Then I thought it would be ok, if I still decorate it the way I wanted before, but with one trick. I need to break it in parts, and the part that is blocking opening of the facade would be on hinges, the smallest ones or I think it would be ok to use some sort of fabric hinges. So when I open the facade part the part of the decoration goes up - well, I hope you get the idea. I think this will go. Anyway, I'll post the results this week, so we'll see.:) 


Наконец-то закончила клеить шпон на фронтоне. Крышу тоже поклеила, остался декор. И тут обнаружилась большая проблема. По склонам крыши я собиралась пропустить резьбу, добавить полотенца, но оказалось (хех, раньше надо было думать), что это невозможно - когда открывается дверца фасада, она слишком плотно прилегает к крыше, и если пустить резьбу, то дверца будет открываться не полностью. Очень расстраивалась, пока не придумала пару способов решить эту проблему. Первый способ - забыть про резьбу и полотенца, основной акцент сделать на декор фронтона (смотрите вторую фотографию). Тогда дверца будет открываться полностью - вроде все хорошо. Но это все равно не мой вариант. Второй способ - резьбу все-таки сделать,но те части, что блокируют фасад, сделать отдельно и не клеить намертво, а прикрепить на петли ( в моем случае это даже не классические петли, а просто соединительный кусок ткани). Второй вариант мне пока нравится, буду пробовать. Посмотрим, что получится.