Sitting Room - Furnishing

The rug came from My Tiny World and for once I left the fringe on.  I think fringes are OK on rugs but not on full size carpets - I have no idea if anyone else would understand my distinction.

I bought the mirror years ago from Elite Petite at a show.  I have just had a rummage for them and can't find anything beyond 2018 and no actual site.  Shame if they are no longer trading.  The sold lovely window dressing items and many other nicely laser cut items in at least three different scales.  This was a piece of mirror glass that I had and an unpainted frame, which I painted gold with a pen.

The important furniture in this room is from Alsion Davies Miniatures.  I was lucky enough to have met her at her first show and bought these as slight seconds - I truly can not tell you what the flaw is supposed to be and I am very fussy.  I recommend you visit her site just to while away some time in perfect contentment.  Her work is beautiful.  Her assembled and painted pieces (as these are) are to die for.  In those days she hadn't yet spread her wings.  I think her items are now self assembly and for you to finish - I may be wrong - go look.  I am back there tonight because I have just remembered she also does lovely tureens and things now.

I have a pair of each of these.  The passion for symmetry trumps all.

Perfect size lamp tables for an alcove

A couple of miniature miniatures, if you see what I mean.  This room will also have a couple of larger paintings of 'people' when i get round to finding them

Always remembering my rooms are in a lived-in-now Georgian house I am happy to include modern alongside traditional - especially when I can't find a traditional piece I like.  Lets face it Georgians didn't have coffee tables.

So the final furnished room waiting patiently for its dressing.

Dining Room - Furnishing

   I thought it would mean less clutter if I furnish each box when it is done even though it probably means doing it all again when I get to the dressing-the-room stage; for example in the dining room I will need to access the display cabinets to fill them.  I would still like to light these but I can't convince myself to drill a hole in a vulnerable part of an (expensive for me) mini. 

The first thing to go in was the rug.  This came from My Tiny World which I think had something like 600 rugs to choose from and at good prices.  It is one of the fairly ubiquitous Turkish rugs you see around so obviously there are other vendors. 

I really don't like fringed rugs - no, idea why - so I get rid by either coating with fray stop and cutting off the fringe, or turning over, gluing down and taping when dry as I did with this one.

I love all things Georgian (style) as I am a sucker for symmetry, so there will be multiples of some things.  The first is a pair of glass display cabinets.  These will hold some of the dinner service and maybe some silver.  I am sorry I can't point you in the direction of the vendor.  It was a stall I always visited at Miniatura but can't for the life of me remember the name and I have searched. These are part of the Jia Yi range of furniture.

The next pair are House of Miniatures Huntboard kits and are also a case of hunting them down.  Most of mine have come from eBay.  I was lucky in being able to buy several when I was part time living in the States.  

Huntboards are  tables which can be easily moved around grand houses and laid with buffet style food such as a hunt breakfast (post hunt).  They make excellent 'serving' tables in a dining room.  They are a comfortable standing height so are taller than a table.

I love making up House of Miniature kits and may well do some (and sell) if I still have the mini bug after this project.  (The tiny drawers do open)

I worked my way through several iterations of dining chairs and finally landed on these.  The set of six  were a spoil myself purchase (with birthday mini money) from Masters Miniatures

The table is another House of Miniatures kit probably from a lengthy eBay search.

I love this table and would have loved it more if I had room for the extra leaves..  The mass of legs is because of its brilliant design.  The real life Hepplewhite three piece dining table was two demi lunes which could be used as such or put together to make a small round tea table.  You could then add in another slim table to make a small dining table (as in mine) and then add one or two more flaps to create any seating length you needed for grander dining.

The inlaid wine cooler is by Masters Miniatures again and I can honestly say these photos do not do it justice.  It is in perfects scale and beautifully made - a joy to handle and look at.  I am hoping to find 'ice cubes' and a bottle the right size to go in it after I have made a 'lead' liner.

The over-mantle mirror is a lovely detailed one which I think is from Sue Cooke. 

I am not convinced it isn't overkill for this room.  I had a simpler round modern mirror in here at one time, which I liked, but have swapped it round trying to find the right one for the sitting room

The paintings for this room are from Ellie de Lacy.  when I first started in this game I found a wonderful person who made paintings to order so in Wentworth House I got precisely what I wanted and beautifully made and for a sensible price.  Sadly she disappeared.  For following projects I made a reasonable stab at making my own grand paintings but they were never professional looking so I moved on to these..

I chose two 'eating' paintings.  They did not have to be Georgian as I see all my rooms as being in the present in some large house (like Dalton House 😀)

A little tip here.  A general guide for hanging mirrors and pictures is that their centre should be between five feet and five feet six from the floor.  Basically this is so that the viewer is looking straight on at the painting.  Obviously there are times when this will change.

.... and so the dining room is furnished for now....  dressing to follow in several weeks time.