I’ve had these scraps of wood dollhouse flooring left over from trimmings from both the “Big House” ie my Pullip’s house as well as this 1/12th scale house. I had been pondering what to do with them for a while, and an idea came to me that I could probably transform them into wainscot for the 1/12th scale house. How I did this was to take the dremel and using a sanding bit, I just sanded off the edges off of each strip. It only took a couple passes at a low speed to get a defined dip between the boards to imitate the look of paneling. Anyway I think it looks pretty good, and it’s going to help me get rid of my leftover wood flooring. Also I like to be as frugal as possible, because dollhouse building sure can get expensive! Anywhere you can cut your costs is good in my book. 🙂
After sanding the boards I decided I would see what whitewashing them would look like since I had really good success with whitewashing the floor for the living room. It looks OK, but it got a little too wet and some of the paneling separated from each other. I think though that tomorrow I will just paint it straight white as the white wash doesn’t seem to go well with the paper that is already in the room. Anyway more pictures of the house are to come as I get more things finished.
Haha, I had to google the word “wainscot”. If you translate it directly from Norwegian, it would be “chest panel” – which returns 90% images of chest tattoos, lol..! Random amusement of the day. 😉
OMG, that is too funny! XD I had quite a good laugh.