White Cottage and Teaching Myself How to Create Furniture

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share my latest little house I'm calling the White Cottage which I completed in about 5 days and over 30 hours of work.  Its made out of heavy duty cardboard and I was inspired again when I should be taking a break from creating, but once again I thought I cant sit still I have to create something.  Plus a couple weeks before I tried my hand at making some wing back chairs.  I was inspired by a white wing back chair that is pictured below.  So I made a rough pattern from it and did my best to teach myself how to create my own chairs, plus attended 1 couch, which was my first attempt.  I think I enjoyed making them even though I think I can build a house quicker than I can build a chair lol.... but I am always in a hurry, and was able to create a chair in about  1 1/2 hours.  Not to bad, if I would dedicate more time I think I could get better.  But I'm not sure if I'm a furniture builder, it wasn't as fun as creating a house.  I hope you all enjoy the pictures.. Have a Wondeful Month.  Stan.

The white chair was the inspiration chair I thought I would attempt to create.  The floral chair is the first attempt, which I had a hard time on the arms and it turned out more of a fantasy looking cottage chair.  The checkered chair was my second attempt.  

This floral chair was my third attempt which I really liked the line. and I simplified the arms. The chair on the far left which is below which was the hardest since I used an old curtain for material and the material was 3 times as thick, which was way to hard to glue and shape.  

This was the hardest attempt since I used to heavy of material.  I had no legs around so I found some beads and glued together.  

My first attempt at making a couch that matched the lines of the wing back chair.  Its far from perfect, but I have adjusted the pattern I made, but now out of energy and inspiration to create another one.  At least I know I can always build my own furniture to furnish my houses I build if I ever need to.  

Brick Mansion

 Hi everyone, a couple of weeks ago I was inspired by a picture I found online of a building that I thought I so should try to create that.  So I did, it is not a complete match to the house but my version of the house and the picture was my inspiration.  I'm calling it the Brick Mansion since I cant think of a good name to call it.  Lol.. Made so many houses this year I lost my creativity in naming them.   Its made out of paper mache and I used plaster windows I made from a mold.  I ran into an issue which I over distressed the house with sanding off 3 layers of paint I had painted on, which there are pictures below.  I worked for 2 days painting and sanding off to give it an aged looked.  But when it was done it was to overwhelming even for me liking to age or distress a house.  So it lead me to repaint it in white and age it with dry brushing the white.  I hope you like my newest creation.  Well I think I am now at about 19 house completed to take the Fall Miniature Sales Show this year.  I am going to try to take a break from creating to rest a little since this house wore me out taking twice as long to create, which I think is my largest house I created so far.  I hope you all have a wonderful month.   Stan

 This is what the house looked like when I over distressed it.  It was sorta cool looking but too much.  I stared at it for a day just to figure out what to do.  So repainted it and started over.  But then it lead me to second guessing myself of how to lightly age the house without ruining it.

 This is right after I repainted the house in white to cover the distressing I did by sanding too much paint off of it.  I was so tired at this point since I had spent one day just painting 3 layers of color on all the trim and windows before I sanded off the paint to give it the aged look, base color of red, then dark grey and a cream color.