Miniature Furnishings for DIY Doll House
Workspace Preparation
A course by Chelsea Andersson , Maker, Miniaturist, and Prop Designer
About the video: Workspace Preparation
Overview
“Now, you'll prepare the workstation and familiarize yourself with some of the most common tools for miniatures. If you don't have every single tool I'll show you in this lesson, don't worry! You don't need all of them to complete your project. Feel free to be creative! You can always use the tools you already have or feel more comfortable with.”
In this video lesson Chelsea Andersson addresses the topic: Workspace Preparation, 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
“ Workspace Preparation In the last lesson, we discussed technique foundations. In this lesson, we'll prepare our workspace and familiarize ourselves with the tools. If my workstation was always like this, I would be super happy but you know how things happen, they get a bit messy. This here is the ideal situation for what we want in our tool palette. Let's talk about these tools. At the bottom of my workstation, I like to have a large cutting mat. This will protect your work surface from any scratches. I also sometimes like to have a small cutting mat that allows me to work on individual p...”
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Course summary for: Miniature Furnishings for DIY Doll House
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Areas
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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