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Great stove and pot rack.  Again I love your brick work.  What products do you use to create that effect?

I got a bag of mini used bricks so each brick is placed one at a time.   I used an emory board as a spacer after first drawing pencil lines on the floor.  It was a labor of love.   I looked up real life brick patterns and the one I chose was the basket weave pattern.   I also used mortar that I got along with the miniature bricks.   They are actually very easy to use but just take a bit of time.   I have become quite the miniature brick layer now as I added brick work to the front porch and the 2 balconies and the chimney!   You can find the bricks at the online dollhouse stores. 

Thanks for sharing the info.  I'm impressed with the precision and patience it took to create such great brick work.

Wow!   I think you just made me beam.   Thank you once again for your comments.   Sometimes when I think back just over 2 years ago when I had no experience with miniatures or building for that matter I am amazed at how far I have come.   Now I'm nearly unafraid to do anything....well except for actually electrifying a dollhouse but thank goodness for LED battery operated lights.    I used to check on this forum so often and look at other galleries on this site and it sure helped me a lot.   Thanks!   In all of my research the Victorians did use brick especially in their sun rooms and kitchens if they could afford it.

I've just been working on my dollhouses this past year and a half.  Discovered this site last spring - and yes - helps immeasurably with ideas and techniques.  I too am starting to experiment with making furniture, surfaces and bits.  No electrifying!!!!   Lately have gotten into  making beds.  Will post my results soon.  It all is so fun.

Love knowing that about using bricks in V ictorian sunrooms and kitchens.  Another great bit of info to store away for future use. . .

It really is a fun and enchanting world and a great escape.   Sounds like you are relatively new at this as well.   I found this site because I had gotten a Greenleaf dollhouse kit and saw a link to this community forum.   The experienced forum members are so helpful and I loved looking at the galleries and especially of those that had done the Garfield dollhouse.   It helped me so much in the beginning when I was unsure or feeling overwhelmed.   Now I'm much more adventurous and not afraid to try something different except for electrifying.   There are many books available and online information if you want to research history and decorating ideas for different periods.   

I'm looking forward to seeing some of your photos when you post them so be sure to let me know when you do!   I just finished making a kitchen shelf and a framed tile with a brick surround and shelf so soon I will take pics and post them too.   They will hang above my sink and the stove.

Ooh - I just bought some glass tiles to do the stairs in my current project - a hacienda house.  May want to use the same tiles to do a bathtub surround and also surfaces in the shower and on the sink counter in the bathroom.  So -- I'll be excited to hear about your experience with tiling furnishings.   I used to make "chipped china" mosaics ( in the 90's) on anything from small dishes to birdbaths - so hope the technique is similar.

I too love history of furnishings but do admit I take liberties on the dollhouses.  You can get so colorful and imaginative in small non-functional spaces vs. real life.

 

Your tile idea sounds wonderful and doing a hacienda house using them sounds perfect!   Oh, please post some photos soon and let me know! The tile/brick and wood shelf I made for my kitchen above the sink got glued on the wall yesterday.   I even added 2 small pots with plants and 2 old soap bottles that I found on eBay.   The tiles I used though were actually on card stock but look like individual tiles in a floral pattern so I did not use real tiles.   It looks very realistic.   I would imagine that using real glass tiles would be similar to using the mini bricks.   I also put in some vinyl tiles in my entryway in my Garfield and then painted some of them in red enamel paint.   These look like real tiles too but are vinyl pieces with a sticky back.   I bet your glass tiles will be beautiful.    I have to take a few more photos of my recent projects and will have to post them....then you can see my tile shelf above the kitchen sink.   It made me dream about the south of France!   Keep in touch!

Looking forward to seeing your latest photos.  I'm going to use your emory board tip for spacing my tiles.   The rest of my tile-look in the hacienda is all cardstock.  Thought some actual tile work should add dimension.

I just posted my beds a few minutes ago.  

I'll try to post hacianda progress tomorrow.  Have a long way to go yet on details.  

I'll check out your postings; still have to get my new pics uploaded so I can post them.   When I used emory boards for spacers between the bricks I used 2; one was vertical and the other horizontal to keep the spacing accurate between the rows.   It really helped plus drawing pencil lines down first kept things from going crooked and wavy!    That's what happened the very first time I attempted miniature brick work in my Spring Fling sunroom.   It made me dizzy looking at the wavy lines so they were removed and I started over!   Ah, lessons for a beginner (me!).   I bet your beds and hacienda will be beautiful!

Thanks so much for the details about tiling.  Believe me - definitely have done things the hard way with iffy results.  I've had to reglue whole rooms of wallpaper - etc.  Helps so much to learn from others rather than going blindly forward at times.  With all the mini beds  I've made - have been  experimenting with various techniques and am finally coming up with preferred methods.