The Lavender House - Kitchen

I completed the kitchen in the spring of 2019.  I sent my vacation in that winter working in the building and painting the cabinets.  All the kitchen cabinets are from Elf Miniatures.  I painted then with a a mixture of purples with Americana  acrylic paints.  the middle work table was unfinished and came from a dining set with four chairs.  I used the chairs in the dining room. The Aga stove I purchased when I began started working on the house kit back in 2016.   I choose to add a door from living room to the diming room with glass panel to bring more light to the dining room and so you could peek i from the living room.   The pictures on the wall are images I found from a google search. The table is from Doll House Emporium and the side board was purchased in a furniture lot on eBay. The piece was missing two of it's it's legs, so I remove the other two and attached four cerebral legs  and painted it black to match the dining table and chairs.  I made the apron from a tutorial from " My Miniature Madness". Overall I am really happy with how the kitchen turned out. I kept the work table top free so I can add seasonal miniatures thought-out the year.

 

The Lavender House - Living Room

 The Living Room: This room was wallpapered in a purple and marron strip with a white back ground. The floor are a light maple wood with white trim.  Here is a better picture of the old wallpaper.

before.

I choose to keep the white trim and the light floors. I changes the wall color to a moiré in a light purple. I added headers above the windows and the door.  I decided to add an over mantel above the fire place and I closed-in off one of the doors that lead into the kitchen.  

After

View from the front door

front door with pictures I made from charms.

The Fireplace is a French Rocco style. 

Can you tell where the door was? :)

The Lavender House

The Lavender House - Rebuild.

 The Lavender House - This is house is The Real Good Toy New Orleans house kit which is now discontinued.  I bought the kit  eBay. I started working on this kit in 2016. It was the second  miniature I done I had no idea what I was doing but I wanted the house  to be monochromatic purple.  I thought that it would be fun. Originally I completed the house in 2018 however, I was not happy with the second floor and I was trying yo understand how to electrify the house.  In late 2018 I stubbled across Jodi' Blog - "My Miniature Madness" and my second floor just had to have a make over!  "Confession I borrow the entire house layout." 

I took the entire house apart and rebuilt the house. below are some picture of the new layout with the second floor raised 3". I could not find pictures of the first build but, below is a picture of the kit built by RGT. In my next post I will show the before and after pictures.  thanks for stopping by.