The Decorated Doll's House (Paperback)

In this comprehensive manual, Jessica Ridley aims to provide everything you'll need to know to create a truly striking and creative doll's house. Working in a wide variety of styles - from American Country to Artist's Studio, Etruscan to Edwardian, Scottish Baronial to Scandinavian - and on four facades and nineteen different rooms, she explains how to hand-paint 18th-century wallpaper, marbleize floors, wood-grain tables, gild picture-frames, upholster furniture, make miniature food, and more. The step-by step instructions are clearly illustrated with more than 350 close-up colour photographs. Along the way, readers will learn how to research authentic decor and stretch their powers of ingenuity by making the most of what is available: how, for example, to make chairs from pieces of champagne wire, a thatch roof from a mop head, or medieval weapons from cocktail sticks. Both a practical manual and an illustrated sourcebook, the book offers ideas, instruction and inspiration in an introduction to the world of miniature interiors.