M and D's Victoria's Farmhouse

So lovely!!

Beautiful work. How do get the floors so even and shiny?

The oak floors for this home were made firstly by printing on high quality photo paper, pictures of real floors altered in photoshop to the correct scale 1/12. You can find many floor pictures on the internet all taken from display samples of real wood. After letting the paper dry for several days, I then glue the paper floor to 1/16 inch thick clear polystyrene sheets. I use tacky glue watered down a bit to spread evenly like wall paper paste. Rub the air bubbles out (you can see through the back of the clear poly) and then I clamp the work by laying the floor on a flat table with a sheet of mdf on top and heavy weights to hold it very flat and tight. Any weight will do, tool boxes, paint cans, whatever is available in the workshop. I let that dry for a day or two and then I apply several coats of "Krylon" UV-resistant gloss which is a clear acrylic coating. If you take the time and do it right you get perfect flat really deep shiny floors that look 100% real.