Little house in the garden

Some of you may remember that I was sent a miniature house with the missing roof for my main dollhouse.

I decided to have a play with this mini project as I’ve reached a bit of a dead end for now with the main house.

I quite fancy the idea of setting it in a garden or field and making the location rather than just the house.

I also wanted to experiment using different materials to the usual paint and tiles. For the roof I used colour permanent marker pens to create a varied tile effect.

Although there are limitations with the blending and colours achievable by not using mediums like paint, I think the result was quite successful. Especially for a first experimentation!

I then used a magnolia paint for the main walls. I’m not sure house these will be the finished result however. It all looks a bit pristine at the moment.

I used some AstroTurf free samples for the garden and the dollhouse grass I had left over from my main house for the surround.

Tiles for the roof

I’ve pondered for months, literally, over what to do about tiling the roof. It looks so impressive but can be so expensive. And not to mention the decision of whether to use texture sheeting, tiles or stencils? And do you go for terracotta, maroon, light or dark grey? So many choices!

But another decision was made after seeing so many of these options first hand at the dollhouse show. I’m a little sad to say that price did end up playing a role in my decision making process, but it was always going to really, I have way too much roof to cover!

I chose a terracotta clay square tile, some of which are weathered in appearance to give an authentic feel.
I’m a little worried that I didn’t actually buy enough to cover the whole area though…

 

I painstakingly hand glued each tile individually. Placing each row in the gap of the previous.

I haven’t finished yet as I need to find a way to cut out all the tricky shaped pieces. But here is an idea of the finish so far, and the amount of time it took me!

 

The Missing Roof and a Surprise

Some of you may have noticed that in the first photo, where I showed my newly assembled house, one of the large roof sections was missing. Unfortunately it had accidentally not been sent in the original package however I’m glad to say that it arrived safely today!

Even better than this, the seller sent me a miniature house by way of apology which I had great fun assembling this morning!