Miniature Furnishings for DIY Doll House
Technique Foundations
A course by Chelsea Andersson , Maker, Miniaturist, and Prop Designer
About the video: Technique Foundations
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll teach you about miniature scales and the most common materials you'll find used in miniatures. I'll talk about fabric and fiber, wood, tools, and paper.”
In this video lesson Chelsea Andersson addresses the topic: Technique Foundations, which is part of the Domestika online course: Miniature Furnishings for DIY Doll House. Learn to build a 12-scale furniture and miniature decor set from scratch using accessible tools and materials.
Partial transcription of the video
“In the last lesson, I told you about a few of my inspirations, and in this lesson, we'll talk through some technique foundations. During this course, we're going to be designing and building a miniature living room set. We're going to take our inspirations, create mock-ups, and then build them from scratch. When creating in miniature, one of the first things you need to decide on is what scale you're going to be working in. There are a huge number of scales used within miniatures, in dollhouses, in trains. But deciding on which one you're going to use is going to impact everything that you ...”
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Course summary for: Miniature Furnishings for DIY Doll House
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Arts & Crafts, DIY
Chelsea Andersson
A course by Chelsea Andersson
Chelsea Andersson is a maker, miniaturist, and prop designer based in New York. Although she spent nearly a decade as a licensed landscape architect, her love for creating models and miniatures led to a career in building scale replicas. Through her studio ChelseaMakes, she offers custom-made miniature replicas as well as a line of DIY modern dollhouse kits.
She made her TV debut on season three of NBC’s Making It, which is a reality competition show hosted by Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman where the contests take part in weekly creative challenges. Chelsea has also been featured in publications like Marin Independent Journal, SFGATE, San Francisco Chronicle, E! News, Shoutout LA, among others.
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