Slatefloor.jpg
The "slate" floor I made for the kitchen in my Japanese dollhouse.
The wooden part is a raised platform, and the lower part is where I installed the "slate".
To make it, I cut a bunch of thin cardboard into 1" squares,1"x1/2" rectangles, and 1/2" squares. I wasn't sure what I wanted for a pattern, so today I played around with them and decided to use these.
Since I wanted it to look rustic, I sanded the bare cardboard to lift off some of the plies in places, then spackled it to make the grout, smoothing with an old credit card, sanded it roughly some more while it eas still damp, added slightly watered down slate grey, ran the credit card in the grout lines to deepen them, then applied a light coat of water based poly. In person, they really look like slate!
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Photo Information
- Taken with SAMSUNG SM-N900T
- Focal Length 4.1 mm
- Exposure Time 1/59
- f Aperture f/2.2
- ISO Speed 50
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