bookcase

I didn't take a picture of the pre-assembled pieces, but you can probably figure it out. ;) I had 4 shelves and 2 sides. Really simple and basic. Stained the same color as the floors, stairs and fireplace (Dark Walnut). The house will definitely match, hehe.

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A thin dowel + cut pieces of popsicle sticks = a cute little staircase! My house isn't too tall/big so I wanted something simple and the normal staircases would take up too much space. So I copied what my Grandpa did on my Grandma's miniature store and made my own staircase... It turns out pretty nice :)

I circled the stairs a little (I didn't measure to make sure they were proportional to reality but I didn't want to worry about that, I'm only going for appearance right now). I added some detail using the top of toothpicks to structure the stairs. They go all around the sides to both balance it and make it look better (another idea I got from Grandpa!)

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Another item from scratch! This was much harder than the other ones (because of the number of pieces and because of the texture/style of it).

I didn't take any picture of the process. While I was making this, I was also working on fixing my computer so I was semi-distracted with that. I stained all the wood pieces (that I knew would be showing). I pained the fireplace pieces (two different shades of gray) and then made the bricks. I used brick material that I had left-over from my other house (Bellingham). I dry-brushed "Burnt Sienna" on the bricks to give them a more used/aged look. I ended up mixing the gray colors in with "Dap Spackle Paste" to fix the gaps - they were too thin before, with just paste and I didn't care for it. Then I dry-brushed black (more so on the bottom) to add to the used look. Overall, I like it. It took about 3-4 days to do (mostly just letting them dry and working on another item while waiting).

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I forgot to complete this with the others... just a really simply nightstand. The foot stand was with some extra pieces of wood [I believe it was a post for a staircase?] and the top is just a small piece of wood with coffee stirrers going around the edge.