Happy New Year 2020

Happy New Year everyone.

I hope that 2020 has lots of NICE things in store for all of us. This year has been a dreadful one and awful things have happened that have touched us all. Lets hope we can all recover and find some peace and happiness.

I already have a project keeping me awake at night and keepiong Google very busy the rest of the time! I will have to add a new page for it all but here is the ambition.

For various reasons, the house I lived in from 3-18 has left a serious imprint. One or two ideas for miniatures came from this house, with many trials and tribulations in making them. I realised that much of the furniture would have been 'Utility' since my parents married in 1950. I am working on various bits but have realised that I could make the actual house, miniature of course! I am lucky to have the rare ability to remember things from about a year old or less! So that house I can layout quite easily. However the actual sizes are the snag.

I contacted the council planning department and explained what I wanted to do. I didn't think I would hear anything, but I did. All they could help with was a plan for an alteration of the ground floor kitchen of a house across the street and it was the mirror image. I scanned it and flipped it over and printed it the way round I need. However, there were not any sizes except for window, door and step which were to be changed. The company who did the plan, was on the page but they are defunked.

I thought it would be enough to give me a plan for the ground floor. I scaled it up on the computer but something seems to have gone wrong. Of course there are no height measurements either! I am hoping that a lady will send me some sizes. She lives in one of the same houses only a few doors up the street.

Here is what I have managed so far, although not right. But you will get the idea.

I have bought a real sink and made this to scale. I have made another and that is in my dolls house laundry.

I made the chair and the table is from a bought collection. This seems to be as wide as I remember but if the middle wall is a supporting wall, then the bedroom above is out of scale.

I am just using the same plan to size up. The kitchen wont have a bed in the pantry!

The bed is to scale and there was a gas fire and a gap between the foot and the wall, which was actually an airing cupboard. This cupboard had four doors. The bottom two concealed the hot water tank with the two above being the airing cupboard. I remember the bottom two would not open completely because of the bed.

(And Harry Potter thought he had a tight squeeze)

This is as far as I got yesterday. I will be making four utility chairs with drop in seats. I can use them to help scale this plan. I can't wait to get going.