First off, in planning to use less costly, and lighter, materials I am going with tin roofing at this point for siding. I would love vinyl wood look siding, or real cedar but that is not going to happen! My plan is also to go with Victorian colors and to ultimately add flatter trims that emulate a sort of Victorian feel so that the house will not look like a cargo container!!! ugh! I am not a modern or industrial kind of person in terms of decor, although I love metals.
So in terms of of miniature making I had seen this technique years ago and was waiting for an excuse to use it!! You take a cardboard box, and get one side wet. I found that the side with print, not the brown side, worked best for getting wet. After maybe 10 minutes begin to peel the outer layer of cardboard off, the flat surface, and underneath this is what you get!!!
Dollhouse miniature tin siding, or roofing! Just paint! I kept telling my teenage son "look!! look how cool that is!!" and he was just "you are weird....ok it is cool" LOL
OH A NOTE: If you try this? I painted a piece first to see if it was a good color and it warped. I would recommend gluing in place and THEN painting it!!!
I did not have a great variety of bottles of acrylic paint to play with and kind of knew what I was going for, in terms of exterior and interior themes. In may many years of painting my walls I have always leaned towards an olive green and golden yellow. I mixed some interior house paint I had to other small amounts to come up with a subtle tan yellow and today I went to town (45 miles away) and went to hardware store first (to get trim) and found a fold out of exterior house colors. Then to walmart to match small acrylic bottle colors. Strangely enough, one of the colors I picked out matched what I had painted the siding already, the color I mixed!! But I put some golden yellow on and think I love that!! Fortunately I can live with in miniature and find if I really like the color!! Easy to change my mind in mini!!! Here is a close up of the siding with both colors
Here is my color scheme at this point. I will get a pic of the fabric I have in my kitchen right now, and show you inspirational how this palette came about. Oh another mixing coincidence? the background these paint chips are on is a piece of board I mixed paints to become a terracotta of sorts that seems to almost perfectly match the color chip on bottom right!!!
And lastly, a picture of a very very rough kitchen!!! I always wonder why more tiny houses do not have kitchens at the end of the house. I do not want people walking through the kitchen all the time!!! I plan on having 18" or so cabinets/counters. I can use 2 small under counter refrigerators that are 18" deep and find a nice deep sink that will fit as well. I have an old travel trailer range/oven whose burners work but oven does not. If I can get that fixed somewhere that will be my oven and stove. It is a 3 burner and is about 20" by 20" so that counter, by kitchen door, will be a tad deeper. The back kitchen door, if I choose to go that way, is at the bottom middle of the picture, where there is no structure. To the left of that is a very narrow counter, shelf unit, that acts as a divider between living room and kitchen. Also that white stuff is foam board and is the couch at this point. Front door is top left corner, and those stairs will go to hubby's and my loft.
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