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Miniature kitchens and other kitchen projects in dollhouses, room boxes, and dioramas
The kitchen is one of the essential rooms in a dollhouse - one reason for that is of course food - people make and buy fantastic food made of clay, so they need to display it somewhere. There is so much food that I created a separate page for food only, and a food folder with pages about specific foods.
For oven mitts and dishwashing gloves, see gloves.
Enamelware - take a piece of unpainted metal, paint with an undercoat and then with Humbrol enamel cream. If wanted, make a colored edge on it. After this all has dried nicely, you take some dark brown Humbrol and make "chips" on probable places at the edges, where it would have chipped in RL.
Decals for dishes or cupboards - Cut out a colored picture from a magazine and apply three coats of clear nail polish or varnish to the front of the image. Let each coat dry! When it is dry - soak the clipping varnished side up in a dish of water for three or four minutes - carefully rub away the wet paper. Trim the decal to size and apply it to the object with a light coat of white glue. When dry, seal the decals with another layer of varnish. Use decals right away because they become brittle.
Look in DIY centers for laminate samples, and use these for countertops. Use a circular saw and tape both sides for a smooth cut.
Kitchen sink - Some plastic "bubble" packaging is the appropriate size and shape for a kitchen sink, bathroom sink or utility sink!! Paint the OUTSIDE of the sink shape the appropriate color...that way the INSIDE will still be "shiny" and porcelain looking. Add faucets, spout. & drain hole. A black Sharpie pen will work to draw in the drain or cut a silver circle from Christmas card and add black "hole."
If you are a scrapbooker, run aluminum foil through a sticker maker to make stainless steel appliances. Then peel the back and stick to the wood. This works like a charm. You could also use glossy white photo paper for white appliances.
Pactra model military spray paints come in several metallic silvers. These are buff-able and do come up with a super shine. The only "problem" is the surface must be smooth. A gloss spray will dull the finish.
Another option for a beautiful stainless steel finish on 1 to 24" appliances and furniture is to use adhesive backed aluminum tape you available from the heating and cooling department of many home improvements stores. It's about $6 to $8 for a roll, and it is only 2" wide. Once it is down, it is down. It can't be repositioned. Also, during application, it cannot be bent as it will crease and it cannot be flattened. Also, the tiniest speck of dust will mar the surface.
Make canned goods with a wooden dowel of the right diameter for the scale of the cans, cut to the height of cans, paint silver then search online for labels, if you can find some to suit you on a mini-site you probably won't even need to resize. If you can't find what you want you can carefully remove paper labels from real life cans and scan them, then re-size them on your computer, print on a gloss paper or use plain paper and lacquer them after gluing to the dowel cans.
For canned preserves, try putting seed beads or bigger beads in a clear plastic lid from an eyeliner (cut down to the height you want it) or some other cosmetic products and mixing the beads with crystal lacquer to look like liquid. Then just put a little bit of fabric covering the top or make a lid from cork or polymer clay.
Pot holders -- Use gingham ribbon and cut pieces 1-1/2" x 3/4". Fold in half and blanket stitch around four edges with embroidery floss, leaving a small loop to hang it. If desired, put a small piece of felt in the center to give it bulk. From the same ribbon cut matching dish towels with fringed ends, and a dishcloth.
Comments (2)
johanna janhonen said
at 10:46 pm on Mar 10, 2011
Thanks David for adding your first picture. :) I moved it in the side bar next to other pics.
Linda McD said
at 6:20 am on Oct 4, 2013
Page reverted d/t spam
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