Grand Salon

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The Grand Salon was one of the first rooms I envisioned and I ended up making the footprint of my dollhouse to be much larger due to it.

I found some awesome peacock blue sari fabric with small print and used that as the color scheme for the whole room.

Before the pandemic I was fortunate enough to travel to St Petersburg Russia and visited many spectacular palaces that inspired this room. My very last trip before the world shut down was to visit my team in Paris and I visited the Louvre and Napoleon’s apartments which I also leaned on for inspiration.

I built the furniture first from card stock and resin but when I laid all my pieces, I realized I was going to have to go bigger to get the right look.

The floor is printed paper I bought online. The walls are card stock over plywood. The windows are card stock over clear sheets of acetate.

Everything is handmade in this room except for the large ceiling rose in the center, the little chess set and clock on the mantel that I purchased online

The walls and ceiling were a ton of fun Its all card stock and resin – I poured a two part resin into those silicon molds used for cake decorating. Painted it all a nice creamy french château color and then used a metallic gold marker to highlight all the gold details.

I made the chandelier using beads, wire, coffee straws and fairy LED lights.

Here you can see more of the layout process for the walls etc. I create the design for the wall on sheets of card stock and when the wall is complete I epoxied and screwed it to the base. The ceilings are similarly laid out and painted before adding to the house. I found it gave me more control over the result. Although I confess there was the occasional surprise that led to some minor rework here and there.

I was really happy with this fancy couch – all card stock and all the curlicues came from the silicone molds – I snipped out the pieces I wanted, glued them on and painted the whole thing brushed gold before upholstering

The Canapé à Confidante (pronounced kan-a-pay ah kon-fee-dahnt) is a long sofa having a seat at each end that faces outward at right angles to the main seat. The style was developed in 18th-century France reflecting the development of new types of furniture at that time. It is characteristic of Louis XV and rococo styles, as well as the mid-19th-century revivals of those styles.