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Oh dear I love miniatures! In highschool I made something very similar to these rooms for my final art class project. It was a portfolio building class and I chose to stick with a theme the entire semester to round out with a giant final presention that was cohesive.

First, I drew floor plans and elevations for a modern glass and stone house. My father had rolled up architectural plans strewn all over the basement and I learned to walk in the frame of a house. Home construction and design always figured prominently in my childhood and I had studied how plans were drawn. I could entertain myself with imagining fantasy homes, holed up in the basement at my father’s drafting table for hours and hours.

Then, my parents drove me all over town so I could take “artsy” black and white photos of some of my favorite modern homes I had seen in Richmond, VA. I needed to get in the back yard of one to get a shot of the angle I particularly loved so, after knocking on the door to get permission, the couple were incredibly gracious and gave me a tour of the interior. Oh! It was so beautiful. The entire home was totally open and full of glass on a hill by the James River, tucked away in woods. Their “bedroom” was on a platform that suspended from the ceiling with thick ropey steel cord with a similar steel railing surrounding. A tiny staircase led up to this magical place. Since they had no children, privacy wasn’t an issue but there were some sheer drapes to lend some coziness to the area.

The final part of the project was a 1:12 ratio model of the livingroom of the house I had designed. I used cut popsicle sticks for the hardwood flooring and got plexiglass cut for the glass walls, painting teeny white lines as grout between the “tiles”. My father helped cut wood for furniture on his band saw and I wrapped balsa wood with wire and sewed little cushions for the other furniture. My mom had ordered these paper fall leaves to place under desserts so one became a ”rug”. It was so much fun to make!

These little models from a Korean website called Casa (via Apartment Therapy) are apparently showcasing wallpaper through real life miniature models instead of de rigeur computer generated graphics. They did such an amazing job! Look at the teeny knitting!

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