29th of December 2011
I started playing with the hippie house again.
PW & JD
I took a few candid Instagram snapshots of some new tenants in the dollhouse - Pee Wee Herman and James Dean. As you can see, they are making themselves quite comfortable in their new surroundings:
Getting ready in the morning
Going to bed at night
Drinking in the afternoon
18th of November 2011
Li Lihong
McDonald’s - Flower and Bird
2008
Porcelain
14 1/4 (H) x 17 3/4 (W) x 4 3/4 (D) in.
17th of November 2011
James Ensor
Skeletons Warming Themselves
1888
Belgium
Ben Roberts’ series of photographs titled ‘Occupied Spaces’ documents some of the communal and private spaces that have been set up outside St. Paul’s Cathedral in central London by protestors representing the global Occupy movement.
(via Junk Culture)
9th of November 2011
Interior of the Larkin Administration Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1904 (demolished in 1950).
Look at this office. Innovative for the time, yes. But do you think anything creative was ever produced in this space? No way!
Fun fact: Wright designed some of the desks so that the chairs were immovable - just screwed right onto the desk. Talk about being chained to your work. Those people could have used access to a yoga dungeon for sure.
For some really great Larkin ephemera click HERE
Chillspacing: How to Have the Coolest and Most Creative Office in the World
As part of my 2011 Lotus Awards hosting duties, I recently visited top ad agency Rethink to put my cool/creative workplace theories to the “IRL” test, and lead a guided video tour outlining some dynamic action items for anyone who wants to transform their own office or workplace into the trans-media creative live-work-play biosphere of their dreams, with Bon Iver Muzak and everything!
Attention corporate/contract/commercial interior designers/architects: This is a very important video. I would probably take notes, because he drops a lot of pretty radical terminology and design concepts you might not be familiar with. YET.
1st of November 2011
Have I posted enough dollhouse pictures today? Yes? Great! Here’s one more.
Lucky for you I think I’m done blogging for the day.
These are some of my miniature chairs before I wrapped them up. They went downtown last night.
I’m just posting this in case anyone ever needs to buy me a present and isn’t sure what to get. You can give me a miniature chair. Any kind. Anytime. Even if it’s not my birthday or Christmas or whatever and you just felt like buying me a gift. I will always accept mini chairs.
I’m good on rush seat ladderbacks though. Just FYI.
That is all, carry on.
I think these are my favorite windows of the dollhouse
MOAR STAIRS I MADE!
They’re kind of janky still, need some adjustments. I made these inside of an hour, maybe? Not including dry time. But still. They’ll do for now. For now, as in, something really cool and exciting is happening with the dollhouse next month and let’s just leave it at that. (Hint: it has nothing to do with this. Way better.)
So I finally installed window treatments in here! I made them myself, and as I do not sew, these are kind of an achievement for me. All the fabric (including the upholstered pelmet box) is from Scalamandré, and the curtain tiebacks are from Mood.
Also - My roommate totally Rococo-revived my little white piano. Wait till you see the fireplace mantel she worked on, too.
Again - this photo was taken at night with only a floor lamp. We do what we can.
Here’s a better picture of the whole room. and more details:
The dollhouse now has stairs! The black stone staircase was original to the house from when I was a kid, except now it’s been covered in about 5 layers of paint.
The white stairs I made from scratch and it’s definitely to my advantage that no one will actually ever walk on them. The handrail and balusters and whatever that bottom piece is called are made of dollhouse moldings. The steps are these thin pieces of wood from the kids craft section at Michael’s that come in a bag - they’re called like, SHAPES or something. You have to look e v e r y w h e r e when you are sourcing dollhouse materials.
The ceiling grate I found on sale in the beads section of Michael’s. Now, I’m not a jewelry maker by any means but I tried and tried and could not see this piece hanging from a necklace, or even as earrings - could you? It’s just so obviously a miniature air vent.
The window treatment I am not 100% done with - I thought that five feet of ball chain from the hardware store would be enough, but I think I need another few feet to get the best effect - the chains hang about 5” long, and I left them uneven for now. I strung them through a thick piece of tape - you pluck a hole in the tape with a thumbtack and thread them through. Despite my nimble fingers, after threading like, the second one, I was in pain. I persisted through the rest, but am not looking forward to completing it. For the pelmet box, I cut this jewelry box in half.
Is the lighting terrible in this photo? I can’t really tell. The photo was taken late last night, with just a floor lamp shining through the front of the house. I miss having time to shoot dollhouse photos during daylight hours, but I do enjoy having a full time job, so this is how it goes. What do you think?
I just love the paper I used on the ceiling in this room. It always gets overlooked compared to the awesome egg carton rock wall. The staircase is obviously completely out of focus here but I covered it in Krylon Make It Stone.
31st of October 2011
Dollhouse Roof Garden - In Progress
I finally spent some time updating the dollhouse this weekend! Here’s the latest in my roof garden. This space was completely naked as of Friday afternoon. Now, nothing in this setup is really permanent except for the wall and floor coverings. I still need to make and install actual trellis on the walls, and make planters out of a pair of fluted Ionic columns - they are going to be dripping with ivy - I just need to find some tiny ivy. The plan for this space is “floral explosion”.
