This
week I got another message asking about how I had created the painted
walls in my Harrison. The viewer had watched the video photo tour of
my dollhouse and liked the look of painted walls. She had tried just
painting her walls but they didn't give her the look she was after.
So she asked me what I had used. Since this is a question I get on a
fairly regular basis I thought it would make a good topic for a
video.
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| Dining Room in my Harrison |
The
papers I show you today are from the only choices. There are many
more papers you can use. I am only showing/sharing with you my
favorites.
For
the look of painted drywall I like to use a paper from the
manufacturer Canson. They make lots of papers that artists use and
are well known and well thought of in that area. The particular paper
I like for my dollhouses is called Mi-Teintes
it comes in large 19” by 25” sheets. I can find a limited number
of colors at my local Michael's but online I found over 50 colors
available from one art supply store (Dick Blick) The paper is made
for use with a variety of artist medias including: pastels, oil
pastels, chalk, pencils, water color and acrylic paint. Because of
this it is able to handle the process of gluing it to the walls very
well. It is heavy (98 lb) so it is durable. It also has different
textures on the two sides so you can get slightly different looks
from it (just remember which side you are using on the particular
project LOL) I usually find this priced somewhere from $1.25 to $3
per sheet so it is not bad especially when you consider how large the
sheets are.
I
also like this paper for covering the ceilings in my dollhouses again
because of both the texture and the size of the sheet. For this I
normally go with a white.
In
the video I also talk about two different choices if you want to have
the look of wallpaper. The first is regular dollhouse wallpaper.
Again it comes in a largish sheet, usually 12 (or so) by 18 (or so)
this will vary depending on the manufacturer. Again it is made to
stand up to the moisture of gluing. It comes in designs specifically
for dollhouses so the scale should be correct. However because of the
fact there are only so many manufacturers the selection can be
limited. If you don't have a dollhouse store near by you might have
to order it online. Also it can get very expensive, very quickly.
The
other choice I discuss is scrapbook paper. The sheets are smaller 12”
by 12” is common so you might have to piece to get longer walls
covered. You may run into trouble matching the design where you have
to piece it since this was not what it was designed for. It is
usually made of a lighter weight paper so it is a little bit harder
to paste without getting wrinkles.
In
my Harrison I used a mix of all three of these papers. I love all of
the ones I chose to use and was able to base the decor of each room
around the papers I used. In that house I decided to go with a plain
“painted” wall in the living room and dining room. I used real
dollhouse wallpaper in both kitchen, nursery, bathroom and study. And
if I remember correctly the rest is all scrapbook paper. It is not
convenient to go look right now so I am relying on my memory for what
is actually in there.....
I
also talked a bit about Yes! Paste since that is what I always use to
glue paper wall coverings or floor coverings in my dollhouses.
There
are so many other types of wall coverings so maybe we can cover some
of those in future videos.
thank you for the information, I learned a lot from it, will be trying this in my new shop
ReplyDeleteThanks Joanne Some very useful information about wall coverings.
ReplyDeleteelizabeth