English Tudor Dollhouse

The early stages of the house and underground basement. The top of the basement will be landscaped.

The stonework is going up. Tons of mortaring to do!

The livingroom area showing the window seat. A fireplace will go on the wall to the right.

The middle basement room. The walls were done with a faux plaster technique I teach in my forum.

A view of the right basement room.

The right basement room where the caretaker will reside. The little room is the bathroom.

Early stages of the kitchen and the metal range that will go in it.

Front door showing lions head knockers.

I took off the spray texture I had done on the exterior and am preping to do plasterwork. The roofs are also now on. It's really coming together!

Embossed roof edge trim is up and I just love this stuff! Too bad I can't find any more of it. Grrr!

My beloved chimney! Inspired by Brian Long's Tudor dollhouse book. It's so perfect for my house!

Timberwork has begun and I've also started adding the slate shingles to the roof.

Plasterwork has started. MUCH better than the spray texture which looked more like stucco.

The shingles are done on the largest roof. Whew! The chimney stands out even more now.

Another view of the house.

Here's the detailing I've done on the front roof. This is my favorite part of the exterior so far. There will be more brackets added later.

The front entry support beams and brackets have now been added. It took me forever to decide how to do this part.

Plasterwork has been covered with a dirty water wash to make it look old. So far so good!

The front view.

Dark walnut paneled lower walls with a delicate, warm floral wallpaper above.

Experimenting with a two-sided fireplace I made, which will now go up on the third floor because my friend Christina is making me a beautiful German style fireplace for this room.

The kitchen is finally starting to come together. I made the sink and the little shelf unit next to it. The trestle table is from Willow Models. The little window isn't in the plans of the house, but I cut it into the wall anyway because I just had to have a window over the sink!

Here's the fireplace wall in the livingroom. This was a tricky sucker to make, but I'm pleased with the results. The staircase to the left has also been started.

I still have a LOT of work to do on this staircase, but it's coming around.

With the exception of accessories, this room is pretty much finished. I'm very pleased with how it's turned out. I'm also considering adding some sort of adornment to the top of the doorway into the diningroom so the door doesn't seem so tall.

The sink and storage shelf/cutting board next to it were both made by me.

This is an overall better picture of the bathroom. Except for a window treatment and your basic decorating, this room is finished.

A range hood has been added and I'm waiting for it to grow on me. I like the size and shape, but I need to get used to the plaster look AND I need to patina the copper a bit so it looks older.

This bed was a commission piece done by Martin Pierce of Willow Models in England. It's my pride and joy and my favorite part of the whole house. I can't wait to get started on the bedding.

The third floor bedroom. This room belongs to the little girl that lives in this house. The bed was handmade and dressed by me.

Another view of the third floor room. You can see the hand stitched headboard now too.

The other view of the room.

Here's the area next to the bedroom. It's going to be a simple nursery.

More accessories have been added.

With the exception of the doorway, I can now officially dub this room as finished! The range hood has finally grown on me and I just love the room!

Another view of the kitchen.

Here is a recent shot of the left side of the house; when viewed from the front. Timber and plaster work has been done and the stonework completed. I even managed to get most of the mortaring done on this side. The roof over the diningroom bay is in place. I was very lucky and managed to find one piece of embossed trimwork that comes close to matching the rest of the embossed trim on the house, so used it on this roof piece. The gable trim and brackets were done to match the front gable. I'd say that the exterior of the house is about 70% finished at this point.

I can't believe the mortaring is finally finished! I've been putting off this part of the finishing for what seems like forever because I was dreading it. I ended up getting a very fresh container of mortar from HBS and squeezing it through a cake decorators tube into the spaces between the stones and it really worked out well and went so much faster than using just my fingers.

This is the right side showing my own addition to the plans; a side extension. There's going to be a faux staircase that goes into the basement from the livingroom and this extension will help add to the realism and affect.

Here is the grille I installed at the top of the doorway between the kitchen and dining room.

For now, this is where the residents go to play chess. I might do something else with this later on.

This is the wall in the hallway showing the lawyers cabinet and two Tudor style chairs on either side of it.

It was hard to get a decent picture of this, but you can see the tapestry on the wall, the coat of arms above the door to the basement stairs, and the suit of armor in the hall above.

Another difficult shot to get, but it's basically a simple swinging cradle and a rocking chair, with a dresser in the back.

This is yet another shot of the master sleeping chamber.