Heat register in the kitchen
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My original thought for heating the Heritage beyond the parlor fireplace was to place painted radiators in the rooms. Even though the rooms are somewhat spacious, radiators do take up a decent amount of space. Then I ran into this fantastic tutorial by Kris at 1 Inch Minis: gravity baseboard registers. Perfect!
When I went to Michael's to pick up a piece of plastic canvas, they also had a hexagon shape with diamond shaped holes. I thought that might make for some fancy grates, so I used that instead of the regular square kind. I cut the canvas so that the solid border served as the bottom of the grate.
This was my first time working with mat board, and I rather liked it. It was easy to cut but could still be sanded like wood. And, it doesn't fall apart like wood often does when you cut thin strips of it. The only part I used bass wood for was the 1/16" strip at the top since I already had the wood in my stash of materials. For the inside flap, I used leftover scraps of the parlor wallpaper since it is plain black on the reverse side. Nothing goes to waste! For the lever, I used a black nickel head pin cut to size.
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