The Building of... THE PRIORS ... a doll room

 If you are not interested in wallpaper you might want to move on to the next post. I use the doll to show scale and I have left in a couple of bloopers. My wallpaper collection started about 30 years ago and while I have thrown out a few I still have ...well a lot!   The picture below shows what happens if you use the wrong kind of glue. This is the type of paper you get for model railways and I did it like other papers using a boarder glue.. not such a good idea.   Below is another example of when things don't go to plan. This was a second use board and it just does not work. Not sue why this has gone two tone? It has been stored away from light?  So many more to add 

  This might depend on style and country but for me I'm going to talk about what I can get in UK. When looking through books and magazines while in some respects style and what's 'in' is the same but in other ways we are poles apart dictated by population and land size. Places like China or Japan the homes are in general very small  so a clean minimal look is pretty much the only way to go. In Europe, homes in the most part are middle sized and if you are careful you can get away with most styles.  For the bigger countries with less population per square mile homes are on the most part larger and you can do more but need to be careful that your rooms do not end up bitty or disjointed.  When designing for your dioramas these same things need to be thought about before you start. Modern,Victorian, themed, large or small etc? Will you be adding door or windows or a ceiling? What colours are you going for? Paint, wallpaper, gift wrap, moldings, built in's or what do yo...