Furniture, curtains odds and ends and new occupants and lights

Hello again, a few updates since my last post. Firstly I have a couple of new little people to add to the house. 

 Meet Edward the man of the house, clothed in Regency style and very handsome. 

Jacket cut out and ready to sew

All he needs now is a top hat...... another make for another day

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The beautiful Emily, the younger cousin of Charlotte the lady of the Manor.  Emily is visiting for afternoon tea 😀

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Simon the new Gardener.....

The young Butler, James learning his trade polishing the Silver in the servant's hall while the Head Butler gets all the easy jobs 😢

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Curtain making for the windows on the large front doors

Pleated and ready to go

making the pelmets before covering with material

Charlotte's bedroom curtains

The Morning room curtains

Lilac curtains for the upper hallway....and to the right the Silver bathroom curtains

below them are the green Dining room curtains and the white lace ones are the stair curtains

Made some cushions with leftover material, something to keep my hands busy while watching the tv

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Back to playing with Fimo again and made some food for the pantry and more doll components

Cheese

head and shoulder plate for doll

a few we bottles, salt holder, mortar and pestal, edam, cheddar, Silverside, Ham x2

garlic, onions, and tiny blotters for the study which cost a fortune in the miniature shops

meat

garlic and onions

a rope of garlic

A few additions to the pantry now. 

A new shelving unit for the floor (left side) more wine at the back ( a good household always has lots of wine 😂😂😂)

Garlic hanging from the shelf, a large white ceramic canister with a yellow one under the table, and a basket of onions on the top. The mice are having a good feast with the potatoes 😲

new for the laundry room a clothes horse, scrubbing board ( you can just see it to the left in the sink), and a new wringer

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New furniture in the Morning room.  A gold and mahogany settee and chair with foot stool and young Emily arrives for afternoon tea.

 In the study, we have some large size books and a glass whisky decanter and glasses on the small table

A lovely red rug for the Music room

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Thinking ahead to next year when hopefully I will get started with the renovation of the Victorian house, my miniatures shop had a 40% off all battery lights so I bought ceiling lights and wall lights to get me started.

 The Victorian house has never been properly wired as it was made over 30 years ago and I couldn't get lights then, so instead of wiring it up like the Georgian house I decided it would be much easier for me to light it with battery lights. Hopefully, I've made the right choice but that will become clear next year when I get started on it.

2 wall lights 1 ceiling light

3 more ceiling lights

Only one more to show you and that is the new cupboard Hubby got for Dalton Manor.

 I needed something a bit higher to sit the house on so that I had easier access to the basement area and we found this kitchen island on wheels which is just perfect. I can store more underneath and move it around easily.

That's all I have this time, so thank you for popping into my blog and I hope you enjoyed this update for Dalton Manor

Take care everyone

The Dalton house

More progress made this week and a lot of painting. Another coat on the windows as I wasn't happy with finish and I still might put on a coat of eggshell mainly because the emulsion is soaking into the MDF and is not as white as I would like.

I decided to make the Morning room/ Drawing room Wedgwood blue, I have seen a room like this with the white panelling and it looked lovely. At last some paint on the walls but still a long way to go.

 Next the ceilings were given 2 coats of white emulsion and so far they look fine, which led me on to ceiling roses.  I can buy these online and I have looked at them but decided to have a go at making some.

 At the moment I need 10 so I started looking for supplies in my craft room.  Firstly I found some air drying clay and using a fondant rolling pin I rolled out enough to make 3 to start with.  I used a rubber stamp, a cutting die and various little tools in my Dremel tool box. I made two different sizes as the attic rooms are a bit smaller the large ones would have looked out of place.  They look okay so far so we'll see how the are when dry. These will be painted white.

The Stairs

I wanted a longer bottom stair so I added a small piece of MDF and shaped it with the Dremel once it's painted you wont even notice it was added, and I decided to turn the stairs, this enables me to fit a door underneath on the right which will be the door leading to the stairs to the kitchen in the basement....which is not there yet but it's in the plan......

Before

 After

 A few coats of paint later.  The idea is to have a white marble staircase.....that's if it works out.  I have always loved these stairs in Georgian houses so my house just has to have them. Another coat of white and then I will try the marbling effect, fingers crossed it works out.  Now I have to get Newel posts and banisters.
 

A busy few days and I can definitely see some progress now but as I said there's still a long way to go and my head is buzzing with ideas.  Stop by soon for more updates on the Dalton House.

Veronica