I thought I would ahare one of my most outrageous rooms in my dolls' house this week for Show and Tell Friday.
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I had my doll house for my 40th birthday and for three years I worked really hard on it. It is a big big house and I loved decorating it.
I discovered scrapping in 2003 so the dolls house sort of got put on hold. It is a work in progress and I WILL finish it one day. I just can't finance both addictions at the same time.
The Music Room was my fantasy room. The house is late Georgian and I imagined that the family who lived there were great entertainers and they liked to host parties and musical soirees for their wealthy friends.
They had the luxury of having more rooms than they needed to live in and so had turned one of them over to a lavish music room where they could play music and be entertained by others playing music too.
Everything about the room is over the top and it took me hours and hours of painstaking work to complete it.
There is a faux marble floor and the walls are actually painted a wedgewood blue - I have been unable to capture the colour well in any photo. It either looks too garish or too ornage.
The feiezes around the room are plaster casts and then painted with liquid gold paint, as was the fireplace and the niches ceiling and columns.
That was the work that was really fiddly to complete but so worth the effort.
The house is all wired throughout and each light works independently from a remote control unit. I wanted lavish lights for the music room and couldn't find anything that was quite right, so I bought lights from a fabulous man called Ray Storey and then turned them into chadelliers with plastic thread and crystal beads. It was great fun to do.
The Louis XV furniture was a special find when on holiday in America. We bought it from a doll house shop in Falls Church Virginia and I still feel quite faint when I think about how much I paid for it.
The art deco lamp is not not in the right style but I fell in love with it and so it had to be there.
There are cats in every room and the music room is no exception.
The instruments came from various places at different times.
I had such fun creating the music room and collecting the pieces for it. Over the top it may be, but I love it. I promise the rest of the house is quite sane and plain by comparisson.
I look forward to sharing more rooms in future show and tells.