My Miniature World: Making the Ceiling and lights for The Queen Mary's Bedroom

Sunday, 20 November 2016

Making the Ceiling and lights for The Queen Mary's Bedroom

Hello everyone,

How are you all? Hope you are all fine and have enjoyed your weekend. I haven't posted as regular. Had a very bad cold which kept me away from my play time. Also I have to say that I have a new member that joined my family. Yeps I have a 5 week old puppy. She is really sweet. A baby Chihuahua. Trust me not to get the smallest dog. A miniature for a miniaturist. She needs some extra attention just like a new baby.

So for the past week I have finally finished the ceiling and lights for the Diorama.

I never got to see the Queen Mary's dolls house in Windsor Castle but I have been through books and the details are amazing. One thing that always impressed me was the ceiling and the very obvious Chandelier.

Queen Mary's Bedroom

There was no way I would get a chandelier looking anything like the one in the real room. So instead I have improvised.

I had one of these six armed ceiling lights and I thought it could have an uplift.

It took me hours and days to finish it off. It was the first chandelier that I ever made. I might use a different method eventually but I am pleased with the results. I have beaded it all and used tiny glass beads and also crystals.

When that was done I was pondering how I was going to make the beautiful ceiling. The kit didn't come with one so once again I had to see what I could find.

I came across a nice high definition picture of a ceiling which I believed was just right for my project. Took some measurements and printed the picture in a poster size which took me almost 6 A4 sheet papers.

Printing the ceiling

Now the tricky part was how to fix the picture to the ceiling which is angled in four sides. And besides all that I still had to add the lights .

The ceiling was going to be slightly difficult to work with as the ceiling itself wasn't straight as it had 2 supporting beams. So the only thing I could think of was adding a piece of mdf wood with the same thickness of the support beams.

With that I took the measurements. I have stuck the ceiling paper to a cardboard so it would be much neater and stronger and slowly I started to stick the ceiling to the roof inside.

Sticking the paper the ceiling

I was over joyed that the ceiling looked so perfect with the measurements and all. It was just meant for it I guess.

When that was done I was very anxious to put the top on top of the room. I wondered if it would look up to standard. But once it was there I was relieved to see it in it's glory.

Here are some pictures with the room and it's new ceiling and chandelier.

So I hope you like my Queen Mary's Diorama so far.

Before closing this post, I wanted to announce that we have another free give away for the month of November. We have the ready made miniature readable book called The Story of the Three Bears.