Miniatures (Eastlake/Stick Victorian)

Miniatures (Eastlake/Stick Victorian)

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Per-Seshen Annex

This dollhouse is still under construction.

It is the Heritage kit, by Duracraft,

although I have heavily modified it.

The style is Eastlake or "Stick" Victorian.

The shell is built and nearly finished.

I need to touch up the roof slates,

and fix some minor details

(such as stair bannisters and railings,

and some inside trim which is askew.)

Then I need to build the furnishings for it.

I'll be updating this later on this year

as I add things to it.

So please check back in about September or so

and see what more I have done.

Masking tape is your friend, when building

any dollhouse or miniatures.

Other great tools are spring clothespins, and heavy books.

Waxed paper is a necessity of life.

(Cats who try and help are not helpful!

Spike discovered he could just fit into the window bays

if he sat up very very striaght and squeezed himself in)

To see Spike helping in another dollhouse,

please look on the Victorian Townhouse page.

This is not a kit for the first-timer,

nor is it a kit for someone in a hurry.

It has a lot of little pieces

and the directions leave a lot to be desired.

(Especially in my case, as they had been left in a damp

moldy environment, and were literally shredding.)

I winged a lot of this by looking at the photos of everyone else's

Heritage houses on the web, the clear photos on the

www.miniatures.com website and a knowledge of

how such a house ought to go together.

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The pictures are not too clear,

but the wallpaper is authentic to the style and type of house.

The paper in the parlor downstairs

is deep rose with golden peackocks on it.

The room above it has paper in a William Morris style.

The wallpaper stripe in the kitchen/dining room

and the other papers are true to style.

The Victorians were fond of tucking indoor plumbing wherever they could, as most houses were not designed for it.

The bathroom will be up under the eaves, and

has an hexagonal tile floor with wallpaper

which has been lacquered to look like imported Dutch tiles.

The walls in the kitchen are beadboard.

The floors are done in red oak hardwoods, which has been lacquered.

I modified the staircase to be more authentic "Eastlake" style,

with flat carved spindles and heavy post.

The wide curved stairway is a hallmark of Eastlake design.

Yes, I know the railings and trim are crooked!

They will be fixed.

I did quite a lot of adjusting in this house,

including reorienting the doorway

from the entry hall into the parlor,

and adding two smaller walls to form a kitchen

wall and arch into the dining area (striped wallpaper).

On the second floor I enlarged the main divider,

eliminated the second divider altogether,

added a staircase to the third floor,

and made the window out onto the porch a fake door!

The color scheme is authentic,

taken from an actual advisory book

from the 1880's.

The roof is faux-painted in imitation of a beautiful

mottled maroon and gray slate

I saw while traveling through the slate belt

in Vermont and New York State.

It needs to be touched up where the

paint didn't quite cover.

(A number 1 brush, a small dish and a lot of patience!)