{"id":7519,"date":"2014-10-14T17:21:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T00:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=7519"},"modified":"2015-05-11T12:58:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T19:58:33","slug":"rowhouse-bedroom-furniture-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=7519","title":{"rendered":"Rowhouse bedroom furniture (part one)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I recently scratch built a Victorian bed<\/a> for my half scale Queen Anne Rowhouse. To finish it off, I cross-stitched the Sara Pittman Coverlet from a June Grigg pamphlet, “More Charted Designs for Miniatures,” which shows up on eBay and Etsy from time to time. (I got mine at a flea market for $0.25!)<\/p>\n

The original design is for 1:12 scale and is stitched over one on 22-count fabric. I stitched mine on 36-count and kept the bed close by so I could keep repeating the pattern until I knew that it would fit on the bed. I also used a slightly darker shade of floss than the recommended “cream” because I was worried that would blend in too much with the fabric color.<\/p>\n

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The blank area near the top is folded under so the bedspread covers the pillows, and the part at the bottom folds over the front edge of the mattress. I cut my mattress from a piece of foam and sewed the finished bedspread to it, lining up my stitches with stitches in the design so they don’t show.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t bother covering the foam with fabric first, but as I got to the back of the bed, I realized that the mattress would show here.<\/p>\n

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I glued a scrap of white fabric over the edge of the mattress to cover up the foam.<\/p>\n

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While I was at it, I covered another piece of foam with fabric to make a wide pillow.<\/p>\n

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Two smaller pillows would be more realistic, but this will be totally covered up so I didn’t bother.<\/p>\n

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And here’s the finished bedspread sewn on. The circles are supposed to match up at the fold but I wasn’t quite sure how this would turn out when I stitched it, so mine don’t. I am happy with how it lies on the bed, though.<\/p>\n

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From the back, the foam is neatly covered up — a good thing since you can see this angle through the bedroom window!<\/p>\n

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And here’s the bed in place. There’s an outlet sticking out of the floor<\/a> underneath so I needed the bedspread to be long enough to hide that. <\/p>\n

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To finish off the room, I picked up some furniture kits from SDK Miniatures<\/a>. These are the dresser and nightstand from the Gothic bedroom set<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the room, coming together. I also got the Gothic wardrobe, intending to put it in the currently empty corner between the two doors, but it turned out to be *way* too big. Instead I’ll put together a Cassidy Creations armoire that I’ve had in my stash for ages. <\/p>\n

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As a point of reference, here’s the Gothic wardrobe (without its doors or knobs glued on yet) next to the back piece from the Cassidy Creations kit — the Gothic wardrobe is about 4″ tall (8′ in half scale) and the Cassidy Creations armoire is only about 2.5″ (5′ tall), and also not as deep. <\/p>\n

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(Instead I’ll save the Gothic wardrobe for the bedroom Little Belle, which has higher ceilings and more space overall. That’s also where I plan to use the Victorian bedroom set I originally bought for this room<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Here’s one last shot of the new furniture. I think the Gothic faceplates on the drawers complement the scrollwork on the bed nicely, and I’m planning to make a mirror to go on top of the dresser that has a little bit of that metal scrollwork at the top. I might use some of it to dress up the armoire drawers, too.<\/p>\n

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