Homes for Tinies discussion part 3

Has anyone actually made a doll HOUSE for tinies other than just rooms? It would be kind of fun maybe. Just curious.

 

I bought a couple of Greenleaf dollhouse kits before I got into BJDs or had even heard of Real Pukis, the now intended residents. Neither house is finished yet, and I don't have a Real Puki to live in either yet, but here are the company pictures:
andhttp://www.greenleafdollhouses.com/...lsize/8801-Sugar-Plum-Dollhouse-PF-400_fs.jpg

 

Really nice! Any pictures of the parts that are done? Would like to see!!

 

If anyone's looking for diorama's for their tinies I saw a few Calico Critters ones at Target the other day for 11.

 

I went to Michael's today, and got this two story house for just 5.99. Sorry for the off-topic dolls, but I do not have any real BJD tinies, and those are for size comparison - the smallest one is 11 cm, next is 14 and the biggest one is 21 cm.

 

I'm going home for the weekend next Friday, so maybe I'll manage to take some pictures. I'll be able to work on them over the summer.

 

I've figured out what I'm going to use for my realpuki's hidey-hole. I wanted to find one of those book-shaped boxes so that I could put it in a bookshelf, making it seem like she'd just moved in there of her own accord, but I couldn't find any that were deep enough. (Though granted, I didn't look THAT hard...) But then I remembered that I have this little yellow safe that used to be my brother's, and I'm fairly sure it's just deep enough. I don't keep an anything in it that actually needs to be in a safe... (it currently holds my dismantled idog guts) and because it's a safe, it has an actual DOOR, which also means I can keep her out of the light when needed or even theoretically keep her safe when I'm out of town. (It's pretty easy to unlock though... I don't even remember the combo, but it only has two numbers...) But anyway, yeah, I feel pretty excited about this! I just hope there's enough room in there for her new jewelry-box-bed AND her awesome chaise lounge... Hmm, perhaps I could get some dried moss as the craft store and use that as a sort of 'carpet'.... I'd be doing all this stuff right now, but I AM out of town at the moment! I can't wait to get started though!

 

If you glue two of them together it makes them deep enough:

 

AngelVampire13- Here's a picture of my pukis next to my brownie (and a lati and an OT doll)




But so this post is relevant (since that's why I came here XD), I picked up a couple 1/12 furniture pieces this weekend at FAO Shwarz. They were on sale, I got overly excited. All those fancy new toys push the dollhouses to the back and I get to reap the benefits ;D I can't wait to get home and put them in the house.

 

Aw they're super-cute and helpful! Thank you!
Is the WS one the Lati? What kind is it?

My rooms should be home now! I'm so excited to see them, I hope they'll work...

 

They are all cuties!!

 

Leo Phoenix, it's interesting, the Sugarplum house (2nd one) is the one I've chosen for my future RP house too. I also intend to get a Buttercup but that's for my Elfdoll Catsies. The Sugarplum seems more fitting for a RealPuki fairy house and seems easier to convert into a fairy home. The Buttercup is more elegant to me. The Sugarplum is a cottage and should be easy to add in some real nature elements.

 

I've started to accumulate wooden coffee stir sticks to use as a floor in the Tudor house (the bigger one) that will eventually belong to a Real Puki Aki. There are some great pictures of the Sugarplum as a fairy house on flickr, but that is not how I plan to do mine. I have a color scheme of blue and silver in mind.

 

"Coffee stir sticks!!!!!" Brilliant Leo Phoenix, just brilliant! I often wonder where my imagination went to!
I'm not sure I've seen the fairy Sugarplum house on flickr. I know Onetwobead posts a lot of tyjul's houses. I'm not sure I want to go to quite the extreme that tyjul does on her fairy houses though; I assume it's very time consuming. But I would like to add a few "natural" elements to my RealPuki home when I get it going.

 

I have to agree Leo Phoenix, totally Brilliant!!

I, however, am lame. I found some scrapbook paper (I had to buy a whole book for two sheets), and have a fake wooden floor. For my first "wallpapering" it's not horrible, but the walls don't meet in the middle. Luckily, he should have a door to the back rooms somewhere, so I'm planning on covering it up with fabric. Other than that, my two little boxes are looking nice! I'm trying to get pics, but it's kinda dark...and it's just not looking good with a flash.

I'm getting so addicted to this now. I'm already thinking of buying four more of these boxes, to expand the store and make the two back rooms, then add on a garden >.<
Either that or I need to find a much larger box(es).

All for one Puki. Aishe will be so spoiled. Big Aishe will be so jealous XD

 

Vampire, it's so easy to become addicted to dollhousing. It's terrible actually, as if the dolls alone aren't an expensive enough hobby! But cutting corners is always an excellent idea wherever possible. As long as you're happy with the end result, I plan to rehab the tiny house I have to either an abandoned cottage or a fairy hide. It was never officially completed so should be easy to redo.
Anyway, I had purchased a few scrapbook pages with the idea of wallpaper too. It's just far more economical that way.

 

real wallpaper comes in rolls so there is no reason you can piece scrap book paper

 

The work in progress pictures of the Sugarplum. I started painting it before I realized it would be better to use primer first. The floor is purchased dollhouse flooring that was kind of expensive. The furniture came with the house, and it was pretty easy to put the whole thing together.

 

Just make sure you buy all you think you will need. Sometimes, scrapbook companies rerun a popular paper and the colors in the next run is a little off.

 

Or you buy some three years ago intending to use it then and don't...only to find that when you finally do use it and run out, there's no more XD

 

Exactly. You can always share with someone if you have too much. BTW, make sure you watch for sales at the craft stores for paper.

 

There are also a lot of choices or wallpaper and flooring made specifically for doll houses. I like Miniatures.com

http://www.miniatures.com/Default.aspx

 

Check out this guy's Buttercup!! It's finished in PaperClay! I would LOVE to do this to one of my houses!!
http://aandcconstruction.blogspot.com/2011/05/buttercup-cottage.html

I've worked with paperclay, but never as a finishing medium to something else, very interesting. I think my biggest problem with doing a house like this is maintaining the patience required.

 

OMG that's amazing!! I think that's the house my roommate just bought for her puki. I don't have the patience for that either. And I'd need like, 5 of them for my Pukis. As it is, they've already outgrown the shop and I've barely started it!!

 

The Glencroft (Tudor style) is big enough for lots of pukis...But it does take patience and lots of sanding. And the pieces don't fit together perfectly. Still, I'm having fun putting it together.
For wallpaper and flooring I recommend printmini.com

 

well, this might be the worst picture ever, but here is the beginning of Aishe's Shop (which is actually unnamed).



I've gotten more furniture since taking this, so I have to do it again...but maybe I can wait til this weekend and get some decent light.
I've already decided to add more rooms because it's way too small lol. I should just have someone make me a box and get it over with....

 

I've been fooling around with dollhouse/tiny scale furniture and miniature things: it is ADDICTING.



That shop looks amazing so far. Tiny props and details go a long way!

 

I think crossing the dolls with dollhouses & dollhouse props is expensive and addictive, but it's so much FUN!!!
My Elfdoll Catsies (dollhouse size) have a "magic room" with spell books and crystals. I want to redo my tiny cottage/garage set up for my realpukis to have a fairy hide "spell house." lol

 

I keep the costs down by making as much as I can out of supplies I already have, like clays, wire, paper, paint and found objects. Custom made dollhouse stuff can add up fast. Making things is a good way to have fun with it and still stick to lower prices.

 

overcrowded and cluttered looks perfect for that kind of shop imho, great start!

very fairylike! is the dressing table an actual stone or did you make it out of stone colored clay?

 

Rosslyn, you did an excellent job at your little vanity/table set there! I was studying it a bit and it is VERY innovative! I seem to have lost my originality as I got older, I'm just boring now and even if I create ideas I don't know how to execute them into a finished product. But I can see the simplicity in your vanity set there. It's inspirational and I hope you would share more with us. ((could even toss us some tutorials in the craft section *hint, hint*))

 

i missed this on the first read, but on my goodness now i need to get a buttercup cottage! though i'm really tempted to up-size it enough to fit my little fees. just don't know where i would put it, hmm. do we really need a kitchen table

 

The next size up that I know about is playscale which is Barbie size! They're big enough to stand on the floor!

 

If you don't have cats... The house I've been dreaming of making for my bigger tinies (Barbie scale) would be huge. And I have no talent or materials out of which to make it, or a place to put it, and my family has cats. The 1/12 Real Good Toys dollhouse I've had since before I got into BJDs (that has no BJD residents yet) is our cats' route from the floor to the top of my bookshelf. Mostly they just jump on and off of the floor of the open attic, but occasionally one of them will squeeze into the livingroom. Tiny BJDs and dollhouses are a good combination. Cats and dollhouses, not so much.

 

i guess it depends on how many rooms/floors

we have a lovely cat, but since we live in the country she is an outdoor cat and only comes into the garage, so no worries about her getting into my dolls or dollhouse.

 

auntbear, do you know how to work with paperclay on the houses? Is it easier than we'd think?

Speaking of Barbie sized dollhouses, I found these, which are REALLY nice!!
http://www.martindollhouses.com/ prices are quite nice too

 

haven't actually tried it, but that has never stopped me before seriously though i haven't worked with paperclay in several years but from what i remember of it it was fairly easy to work with. as long as it sticks to the wood ok, i wouldn't anticipate any problems. i'll probably try picking some up at the craft store next time i'm in (which might be a while) and fooling around with it to see how it works. there are tons of other things i can do with it if that doesn't work and michaels almost always has a 40% off coupon so i can get some to try pretty cheap. i'm thinking a garden wall would be a good test project and something i need for a diorama i'm building anyway.

 

Thanks! Your tiny furniture is so cute!! I love it! I can't wait to see more!
This really is super addicting...I just bought some more stuff at a miniature shop today, and then sat down to "make" some props. I'm not so great with a glue gun XD
All my little bottles came out slightly crooked XDD At least I tried!!

Do you have pictures of the magic room somewhere?? I'd love to see it!

It's even more cluttered now! Still resembles a living space and not so much a store...but I need to get some more shelves I think....

The shop I went to today had some great occult minis! Someday when I actually have a card again (identity theft: it's not a fun.) and can spend my money I'll probably go totally crazy buying stuff I don't need. Which is kind of the definition of this hobby XDD
I need a larger space first. The stuff I have now has almost taken up all the room...Poor Aishe, he doesn't have much room to have customers lol

 

Those look really nice! Especially with doors!

 

This is what I want for my 1/6 scale dolls:

As it is standard 1/12 scale I would buy the plan and make everything twice as big. Except I have no wood working ability above the size of a small mitre saw, and the finished building would be 3 feet deep by 7 feet wide by 8 feet 8 inches tall. Impossible. But I can dream, right?

 

Vampire, I don't have any pictures. I claim to have the room, but really it's in a shambles. I need a new table badly, it's the center piece for crying out loud and I can't display my cards, crystal, or Ouija board without one. I also need a shelf unit for my "potions" - which I can't even find, save one! Also, my original dollhouse was tossed and I'm left with a small garage "house" that has to suffice but I still need furniture items. Basically I have a bunch of little props but no way to properly display them. It's shameful.

 

I was so incredibly sad a few weeks back... At my local Goodwill, I found the two most amazing dollhouses I've ever seen (in real life, anyway) outside of a museum. They were both perfectly pukifee sized (is that too big to be on-topic here?) and had amazing details and windows that opened... One was was pink of the outside with white trim and red french doors, tiny hardwood floors on the first floor, was wired for electricity (dunno if it worked, but it did at some point) and had different wallpapers in every room, and tiled walls and floors in the bathroom, and had three floors including the large attic rooms. The other one was all unpainted, but the windows had been etched with patterns on the edges and it was four stories tall including the large attic room and TOWER. Yes. It had a tower. It was gorgeous. I truly almost cried when I found it was too small for my YoSDs and they were waaay too big for my lone realpuki, and even if she had friends it would still be out of proportion, plus she wouldn't live in such a nice dollhouse anyway... Thought I would mention them even though they are gone now.... They were so incredible...

 

I have been lurking for the past year, looking at all the wonderful houses and ideas. this week I FINALLY had some free time and worked again on Ali's ranch the house is done (only need to paint white a little piece on the porch), but Ali and me need to work on the furniture and the garden. I love my country pig, she deserves much more attention


Ali's ranch by siruveru, on Flickr

 

That's great! She looks like she's out on the ranch!!

 

Very sad! I have a bunch of random Halloween and witch/ wizard minis most of which I made, without a proper display space or anyone to use them. But the house is now in progress, and the owner is chosen. (A Real Puki Aki) For furniture, I would recommend checking Micheal's Crafts for mini wooden cupboards and wooden bits and pieces to make into tables. I can take pictures of the furniture I've made from pre-made wooden pieces and balsa wood when I go home from college it about a week. And make more mini things out of polymer clay...
And siruveru your little pig's ranch house is super sweet!
[/URL] photo (13) by Leo Pheonix, on Flickr[/IMG]
The Glencroft in progress. To be the home of a Real Puki witch. But it seems quite big for one Real Puki, even with a Doll Factory Pet Ari familiar in residence. Challenging though it is, I have been having fun working on it. The stairs, railings, and right wall have been added since I took this picture. I second Rosslyn in making as much as I can myself. VampireAngel13 I like your Puki's collection of magical things. Want to be home from college so I can go back to working on it and the things I'm going to put in it!

 

Leo Pheonix ~ thanks! I probably should have used better glue when I tried making stuff...I'll most likely have to make more things (filling this space up will be insanely expensive otherwise D: ) so maybe I should think about that for next time....

I love it!! That little house is fantastic! She's so cute standing on the porch 3

Aw that's sad! It sounds awesome though!! And kind of how I feel about "Big" Aishe (Sleeping Vampire Breakaway) who has more props than Chibi Aishe, but he's so giant and takes up so much room I have them all boxed up where no one can see them...I tried making him a store at one point but it took up half a room I couldn't justify giving up....since it was the living room XD

Which is why I have Chibi Aishe. All his stuffs fits in one tiny space! That he's trying to outgrow already >.<

My cell takes better pics than my actual camera does in my apt *giant sigh*

I would like to paint the shelf, get more shelves and then somehow expand because I'm already out of room lol
I also would like to start hanging stuff on the walls, like drapes or something to cover the place where both boxes meet :P
I'm a little afraid to commit though. I found a great dollhouse that looks like a brick apt building, that is way more my dolls style than a house...I may have to splurge on that and rebuild his store in an actual structure instead of the little boxes....Then he can have his fortune telling annex and bedroom! Omg why did I start this... D:

 

OH! VampireAngel13, I LOVE LOVE LOVE your apothecary looking room! Did you buy or make all the little bottles? I saw a tutorial somewhere that used clipped litebrite pieces with print out labels for bottles...

 

an apartment building sounds like a really cool idea! would you do apartments/flats above and stores on the main floor?

 

Thank you!
I bought them *shame*
But I filled them myself! Most of them. :B
And the....decorative ones that look like beads glued together are beads I glued together XD But labels!!! I needs! I saw someone selling them in a local miniature shop, but I would love to make my own.
One of the bottles is from a doll meet we had in the area around Halloween. She didn't label them but put tiny words in them on clear paper. Mine says death...which, given some of my characters, is very appropriate :\

I know!! I want it so bad!! That is the plan, but I would have to really look at it before I start etching things in stone.

 

I'm delighted to hear about and see other people's mini magic spaces! I'm making a house for a wizard and a house for a witch (or two...). I like reading the blog for Pixie Dust Miniatures for inspiration. I've been playing with polymer clay since I was little and have gotten pretty good at making things out of it. I have also found several cool things just by being on the lookout around Halloween. I have a couple of slightly out of scale jars of mineral fragments from gift shops.

 

Vampire, that is very, VERY nice!!
Unfortunately my dollhouse plans are thwarted again - they finally released a MNF Ante! Hopefully by next year I'll have started working on something new for my tiny guys.

Leo, I'm also glad to see so many people with magic rooms, a bit surprised as well. Do you plan to sell any of your polymer props here or etsy?

 

All of your houses and rooms are wonderful! I have been so busy with life that I hadn't seen this new thread. (I'm also beginning to back away from the hobby a bit as I am moving across country soon and those dollie things take up space! LOL!)

I would suggest that if you want to use coffee stir sticks for flooring that is a great idea -- but the really skinny sticks are better for 1:24 scale (half scale) size houses. They would work in 1:12 houses but it would take forever to do the floor. If you are doing a standard 1:12 dollhouse, try popsicle or "craft" sticks instead -- still give you the same look but would not take as much time (and the proportions are better looking for hardwood "plank" flooring).

You can also buy 1:6 dollhouse kits (Barbie size) from Real Good Toys -- I've always wanted to make one for my YoSD but do not have the room to put one.
Here's a link to what I mean:

http://www.realgoodtoys.com/collections/unfinished-dollhouse-kits-fashion-doll-scale

I thought I might do the gazebo one day and give my YoSD dolls somewhere to hang out.

Keep the pictures coming, they are great!

 

I haven't finished my house yet, but it sounds like you guys might like to see these bottles I made for the apothecary dollhouse I'm working on. I was going to make a doll to live in it, but I'm really hoping I can afford a Realpuki or maybe a tiny from Dreamhigh Studios.

The bottles are polymer clay on the bottom and the tops are clear plastic pushpins. They need labels, but it turns out computer printers can only print so small, and I haven't had time to experiment yet. I'll warn you, these are totally addictive. You have to buy like a hundred pushpins and they are so quick to make, if you aren't careful you end up with dozens and dozens of them.


Bottles by TeaRoseArts, on Flickr

 

thessaly, those do look great. How innovative! I love the ideas you guys have and offer! I wish I could get my creative mojo back.

 

thessaly that's a great idea! I know using skinny stir sticks is going to take ages, but I have a but I have enough to make a floor from, and they are longer than popsicle sticks. I do hope to sell some of my minis on Etsy after I have a few more made.

 

I have a couple dollhouses that aren't finished with decorating. I couldn't finish them because I felt like I needed occupants. Now I have a new project for my first BJD which will be here in 8-10 weeks. ResinSoul Yu.


and
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll115/creslie/DSCN0955.jpg. It is a work in progress.

 

I started a thread in the project journal forum and finally figured out how to put up pictures.
VamipireAngel13 Aishe's little magic room looks really cool.
Reslie that house looks good. Was it from a kit?