Ever get stuck trying to decide on the right paint color or the perfect matching carpet color for your miniature room? Here's four tools you can't live without!
Old House Colors: Information on choosing interior and exterior paint colors for old houses. Most houses look best in the paint colors of their period and have different requirements for color schemes – Arts & Crafts bungalows should look different from Victorian houses, and different from 1920's houses. Interior paint colors are dependant on the fashionable colors of each period. This site will help you choose colors like a pro!
The Virtual Room Designer - This tool gives you a preview of your color choices in an actual room. Choose the room you want to design (kitchen, bedroom, living room, etc.), and then try out colors to your heart's content. Let's you choose paint for the walls, trim, ceilings, and even the cabinets in the kitchen. Try out wood flooring, or see how it would look with tile. Change the orientation of the flooring to see how it affects your design.
Design a Room: Brought to you by the folks at Armstrong flooring. Similar to the tool above, but here the focus is more on flooring (natch.) Every type and color of flooring you can think of!
ColorSchemer: This tool is intended for web designers, but since I'm rather color-incompetent, I use it for all kinds of things; it's like having an online color wheel. You can enter in the specifics for your key color (RGB values or Hex number), or just select from the color spectrum at the bottom of the page. Instantly see coordinating complimentary and contrasting colors! You can lighten or darken your color scheme, or click on one of the coordinating colors to focus the scheme on that instead. Very handy.
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4 Indispensable Links for Decorating Your Dollhouse |
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More New Miniature Gardening Books! |
These are the last of the new gardening books I've been working on. You'll find something for just about any miniature gardening need! Blank pages and beautiful illustrated covers, these are all my original designs. I hope you like them!
Note: I'm not sure why the photos are showing up so fuzzy, but of course the actual miniature books are sharp and clear!
English Gardens 2-Volume Set
Antique Gardening Books 2-Vol. Set
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What if you could live in a dollhouse? |
But have you ever thought about doing the reverse?
Saskatchewan artist Heather Benning did just that. In 2007 she created this delightful art installation in Manitoba, Canada. Over the course of 18 months she transformed an old farmhouse into a life-size dollhouse.
Two stories tall and one room deep, it's a perfect layout for a dollhouse. Brightly colored rooms and furniture from the 1960s, when the house was abandoned, add to the surreal feel. And finally, completing the illusion - an entire wall of plexiglas that allows the interior to be viewed!
I wonder if she did the Happy Electricity Dance when she got the lights to work?
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Etsy Treasury: IT'S A small, small WORLD... |
Wow, twice in two days! Etsy artist Carly, aka stitchntyme (visit her shop for lovely fabric and embroidered accessories), included my miniature "Little House on the Prairie" book set in a treasury called "IT'S A small, small WORLD." The collection features vintage, cottage-style miniatures. Thanks, Carly!
You can purchase the miniature "Little House on the Prairie" set on my website or in my Etsy shop!
