Gallery of Examples

These are pictures of several different rooms, from different dollhouses and roomboxes.  Although each room represents a different historical period and architectural style, I created the components using the same basic techniques we've been covering.  As always, please feel free to post any questions or comments.

I created these two rooms using the applique technique.  The white on green simulates the plaster appliques, which were so popular in Edwardian architecture.  The blue on blue simulates the comparatively simple woodwork, which was common in working class colonial American homes.

I created this half wall using the inset panel technique.  Paneling only one wall can help to add some architectural interest to the room.

Here, in the library of the Hampton, I combined floor to ceiling paneling with wainscoting. 

In the dining room of the Hampton, I combined floor to ceiling paneling with wainscoting.  Here, I replicated a classic Georgian style, where the door blends into the woodwork.  Georgians were obsessed with symmetry; it wasn't unheard of to go so far as to balance a working door at one end of the room with a pretend door on the other.  More practically, many Georgian architects compromised symmetry and practicality by hiding doors in the woodwork.

Here, in a roombox, I used trim to frame wallpaper panels.  In colonial America, wallpaper was very expensive; trading ships imported it from China, where artisans painted it by hand.  Even wealthy homeowners could only afford a little at a time, particularly since they had to replace it every few months.  In an era where artificial light came only from candles, kerosene and whale oil, decorations got very dirty very quickly.  Panels such as this were actually removable; the homeowner (or, more likely, his servants) could remove it from the wall, change the paper inside of it and replace it.  

I created a different look for the wainscoting by reversing the trim; instead of an inset panel, I created a raised panel.