Accessorizing with Fabrics If you like detail, craft, and design then dollhouse design is a great opportunity to grow your talents.
It is absolutely wonderful to be able to craft and design even the minute details of a doll's house.
Fabrics and cloth is one awesome example as you can coordinate colors and have your favorites stand out.
The bedroom is an excellent demonstration of detail and the breadth of items that you can create.
Everything from curtains and pillows, to mattresses and blankets can be created and made to fit.
Next is the dinning room where you can have your own napkins, dinning room table covers, seat covers, etc.
In the bathroom you have towels, floor mats, shower curtains, etc.
There is just an unending amount of personal style that you can put into your dollhouse.
Planning and Preparation with your Miniatures If you fail to plan you plan to fail.
A plan of action is crucial because it will keep you on a track leading to success.
With miniature design a plan of action will consist of a floor plan and budget.
A floor plan is a drawing, picture, or print of a dollhouse room that you would like to coordinate.
There is a plentiful supply of examples of good room designs both online and offline.
Make sure that you are taking notes of great rooms that you see.
If you see something in your notes worthy of changing your plan, then go ahead and do it.
Once you have a good idea of what you would like you will need to budget accordingly.
Remember, this is a hobby and constraining yourself to a budget allows control and happiness over your financial situation.
If you find a piece of furniture that is over your budget apply your patience and save until you can purchase it.
Using an Artists Color Wheel for your Benefit Color will be the over ruling design medium for your dollhouse furniture and design choices.
The desire to coordinate is known throughout any art or design school and is taught at a basic level using a color wheel.
This wheel was designed to fit all colors into a solid circle to express similarities and differences.
Opposite colors on the wheel are those with absolute contrast and stability.
This by no means is a full explanation of the science of color, but a mere push to get you thinking in the right direction for your dollhouse coordination.
Placing your Furniture in a Way That Works Because a doll's furniture is very light you can easily found the perfect arrangement in a matter of seconds.
There are many options in furniture layout that you might not have thought of.
As there are so many different ways to layout furniture let us talk about arranging by symmetrical shapes.
In first simple strategy, the triangle, imagine a large triangle in the middle of the room and then take the three primary pieces of furniture and place them at the corners of that triangle.
The square design is used with either three or four types of big pieces of furniture, with four pieces the furniture is places in the corner of an imaginary square.
You can also use the square approach with five pieces; just place the extra piece in the middle.
This is only the tip of the iceberg as you can allow your designs to envelop any arrangement of shapes.