Roomboxes, dollhouses with one room
Not all miniaturists have dollhouses - some of us prefer roomboxes. See roombox in different languages. Roomboxes can be created to a box (made of wood, plastic, glass, metal...) but you can also use other objects.
Commercial roomboxes
Brooke Tuckers Put-abouts - by Judy Kincaid
Room by Room by Jazwares
Steve Harvey Miniatures - roombox designs
Kreative Acrylics - plexiglass cases
** also check Michaels and Hobby Lobby for football and basketball display cases
Acrylic Display Cases - from Cases for Collectibles
Acrylic Collectibles Cases
Martins Miniatures - Hastings Ont.
Completed Roomboxes for Sale
Miniature Room Company - by Robert Off
Special shaped roomboxes
Bookends - by Dick Tabor, using Library books as background
Infinity Room
Scenes made in gift bags
Scenes made in a watering can
Grandfather Clock
House in a Pringles Can - by Nan
Finishing School for Worms - by Preble McDaniel
Minis in a PC Tower Case
Travel Bag- by Karin Foster
Various Projects - by Shannon
Links to roombox projects for sale
Bluette Maloney
Lady Jane Glass Display Cases
Minis in Motion
Roombox Gallery - by Peter Tucker
Willow Models
Roombox instructions
Recreating a Kelly club box - by tabloach. Create a box to display your doll.
Assembling a Kitchen Roombox - by Anne Vanture of Paper Minis
Create a Roombox for Photo-taking - adapt instructions for the preferred scale
Links to discussion groups
Roomboxes- yahoo group
Doll Divas - for Barbies, but some spectacular ideas on how to create dioramas and glamourous modern scenes
Roombox hints and tips
The process
- You can start by defining the theme, choosing the furniture or the box
- If you will build your box you can start by making a paper copy of the floor area (arrange the furniture on that)
- While dollshouse rooms are generally too small, roomboxes can be bigger and contain more stuff, like a cupboard in a bedroom, or maybe add a reading nook.
- Make the roombox a bit bigger than a standard room in a dollshouse, and also make the ceiling a bit higher (why?)
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- 30 cm is a good depth for a bigger roombox (from front to back).
- 144 ROOM - Matchbox is a little high and is better suited for 1/120 size. The 144 roombox should be “eye sweet” as there are a lot of illusion
involved.
- 1/12 and any other size- A roombox is irrelevant in size – the width and depth here. The height will be easy to determine as you can look at your own house walls. Place the furniture on a piece of graph paper and mark all the items to place and where.
- Create little corners and different levels. Place the walls are on a slight slant so that it comes in at the back, that makes all the areas more visable. Hidden corners can be reflected in a mirror on the opposite wall or on a mirror on the side of the hidden corner.
- Keep a doll handy to place between furniture pieces and to measure the height of a shelf etc.
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