Elegant Teeny Furniture: Modeling Recommendations

Creating Colors that Work in your Environment

Color will be the over ruling design medium for your dollhouse furniture and design choices. Now you dont have to be a professional artist to understand color, the basic level of matching colors begins with the color wheel. This wheel was designed to fit all colors into a solid circle to express similarities and differences. The colors right next to each other are called analogous colors, and offer slight similarities for color patterns, and those opposite offer the most contrast and pop. When starting your designing pick up a color wheel for your color selections, a little knowledge about color coordination will go a long way to help your design and flow capabilities.

Dollhouse Exterior Design

When you have completed your dollhouse you will want people to admire the outside of your dollhouse just as much as they do the inside. You will want to focus on the most eye attracting points first: The paint and the shingles. Three coats of high quality paint, recommended for dollhouses, is the minimum for dollhouse display. Make sure that you draw lines prior to applying shingles to preserve a straight look, most instruction booklets will provide the required measurements. Bird houses, dog houses, gazebos, and more are other ways to spruce up your exterior. The exterior can even house subtle designs like a rock walkway, fountains, or flowers. And let us not forget the biggest advantage to designing the outside: the lights. Lights around the porch are the most common, if you have a gazebo place a light in the center so that the light will shine down through.

Modern, Victorian, Classical - The Standards of Design

At that moment that you sat back and decided to create your first or next dollhouse you should have had an idea of what it would look like. Most of us want the furniture, paint, wallpaper, etc, to match and flow together from one room to another. This will be your style choice or theme for your house. Victorian, Modern, and Traditional, though they are not the only choices, are the major players with dollhouse manufacturers - lets look at each one. Victorian is the first major theme, it is recognized by the embellishments in furniture through long curved lines, elaborate fabric, and old fashioned pieces. If you want to stand out or go with a more up to date style, Modern design will give you simplicity, technology, and some great straight lined pieces. The last is Traditional furniture - it is more about functionality than design, giving you the pieces of furniture that you might find in a local store which is great to make a replica, or to just make your dolls feel at home.

Furniture Placement Can Give You a New Look

Have you ever found yourself confused as to the correct layout of your dollhouse furniture? A placement strategy is simply a way of trying things differently to give you the arrangement you want. As there are so many different ways to layout furniture let us talk about arranging by symmetrical shapes. In order to use the triangle design you will need three major pieces of furniture for the room, imagine that they form a triangle and place them accordingly. The next example is that of the square, take four pieces of furniture and arrange them so that they make a square in the room. If you have an extra small piece of furniture you can have a five piece square by placing it in the middle. This is only the tip of the iceberg as you can allow your designs to envelop any arrangement of shapes.