Welcome to Smallwood Hall and we hope you enjoy your visit. If you have been reading our stories then you will already be aware that it is the home of the Smallwood Family.
The Hall is built from 10mm and 5mm plywood; brick paper and 1/32" plywood has been used to finish along with various beadings
The contents of the Hall come from all sorts of sources, i.e. miniature shops, shows, car boot sales, markets, home made - using all kinds of bits and pieces, and in the months to come we will show you how you can make some of them yourself.
This view shows all of the rooms, for more details about each one see the pictures below. Each of the views can be enlarged by clicking them.
The garden is built on pieces of plywood which can easily be removed and remodelled. The grass is Djon sticky backed "grass on a roll" from our local Hobbycraft Shop. The flowers come from various sources - the geraniums and pansies are our favourites, geraniums from instructions in Dolls House magazine and the pansies from instructions on the internet. Time consuming but so rewarding.
The terrace area and steps are covered with stone paving - we show you how to make these in our "TIPS" section.
Below the terrace along a passage you come to the gardener's store where he keeps his tools.
Almost all of the items in the laundry room have been made from houshold packaging, various findings, paper and cardboard etc. The floor has paving stones made of polyfilla and the instructions are given for these in our TIPS section.
The floors in this part of the house are made from lolly sticks stuck on card and then varnished. Ideal for beginners.
In the ante room is situated the dumb waiter which is used to carry food etc up to the dining room above.
The servants hall is where the servants take their meals and receive orders form Mr Jameison and Mrs Spalding.
The Estates Office where decisions are made concerning the running of the estate.
The Music Room where the family hold many musical evenings for their friends. Instructions for the large mirror frames are given in our "TIPS" section.
The Dining Room, with its wood panelling, is one of our favourite rooms. The dumb waiter in the corner is used to bring up food from the kitchen below.
The Main Bedroom with its luxury furnishings and bathroom.
The drawing room where friends are greeted and afternoon tea is taken.
The billiards room where Lord Smallwood entertains his guests.
The Night Nursery where the smallwood children sleep after a hard days play.
The Day Nursery where the smallwood children take their lessons from the governess. When the weather is bad they have to play here also.
The very basic servants bedroom. The Servants would also be expected to do mending and sewing here in their spare time during the day. A servants day was very long.
The impressive central staircase starts in the entrance hall and goes up to the nursery floor. The walls have marble pillars and hold some large oil paintings.
Each room is continued on the doors. Note the wrought-iron work on the glass door panels, this is achieved using black quilling paper.
You can see from this view the effective wall panelling in the dining room which is constructed from stripwood and 1/32" plywood.
We hope you enjoyed your visit.