KT Miniatures Early 1900s Miniature German Style Kitchen Now For Sale...

This unique handmade miniature kitchen has just gone up for sale on KT Miniatures website.

It is based on the kind of slightly larger scale German miniature kitchens found in the early part of the 20th century. 

It has been great fun to make! This was it in the very early stages...

And this is it completed.

The painting took quite some time before I finally achieved the effect that I wanted. 

The main carcass is made from MDF and given a white primed finish. 

The walls have been given an aged tiled and panelled painted effect...was great fun to do. It was loosely based on an antique miniature kitchen photo that I came across when researching miniature kitchens for KT Miniatures 2018 workshop project. 

The printed paper friezes were based on actual c1910 German dolls house wallpaper and recreated to fit this project. 

The floor is genuine antique wallpaper, it is stunning and perfect for this little room box. 

To kick start the collection of fixtures and fittings for this old style kitchen, I have added a number of bits and pieces, including this actual antique German dresser, which came to me already over painted and missing the original back. 

So I literally gave it a new back of printed paper tiles, based on an identical but original dresser which I just happen to have in my own collection. 

I am including this genuine antique German hanging flour container, which as you can see has the word "Mehl" printed on the front (German for "flour"). So too an antique white china jug. 

On the left side wall I have created and fixed an old looking wall rack, based on an actual rack seen in an antique German kitchen. Simple but very effective.

Pans and utensils can be hung from the tiny tack hooks. There is also a narrow upper shelf, useful for further storage. 

This heavily aged cream painted antique tin chair is included and suits this kitchen well.

Finally, a simple wooden chopping board has been aged with paint and hangs on the right side wall. 

This is now available to purchase and full details can be seen on the following link:

ktminiatures.com/early-1900s-german-style-miniature-kitchen

Whoever takes this on, can enjoy filling it with antique miniature kitchenalia. Scale did not matter in the early 1900s toy kitchens, so I would just say go for it...and fill it with whatever takes your fancy, regardless of scale. 

Thanks for looking.

Celia

Booking About To Close For April's Workshop!

Preparations are now in full swing for next month's workshop. Booking is just about to close for the April session, as the kits are being created. However two people have had to pull out last minute due to real life circumstances, so I now find myself with two spaces. 

So folks...if you fancy coming to join us on Saturday 21st April at Bicester (Oxfordshire - jct 9 off the M40) please do get in touch with me asap.

Early 1900s German Style Kitchen Workshop

The classes are small, friendly and relaxed - suitable for beginners and experienced miniaturists alike. You will be assured of a very warm welcome! My ex-workshop colleague Robin Britton (who  is now retired from the world of miniatures) has promised to come along and join in the fun. 

The project is versatile, so you can adapt it to suit your own taste and needs. Work at your own pace and choose whatever aspects of the project to focus on whilst you are with us on the day. Then you will have the kit and folder of instructions to finish the project in the comfort of your own home. Also, don't forget...there are two separate kit options. One full kit with room box, and one partial kit with just the furniture and accessories to make (for those of you who don't want the kitchen room box and who have an antique kitchen at home that needs filling)!

A corner view of just some of the furniture that we will be making on the day. There is a rather splendid chequered painted floor option seen here, for those who want to have a go. It is a fiddle and time consuming, but well worth the effort!

The small kitchen side table, kitchen chair and wooden wall rack, plus saucepan, jug and wooden breadboard are all part of the workshop kit.

The wall shelf, like most of the other furniture, has been given an aged white finish with a blue ink lined decoration, often used in the old German furniture in the early 1900s. But the furniture can be finished in any colour that is desired. 

The aged white bench rack is useful for storing pots and pans, and not just for sitting on. Included in the workshop kit are materials and instructions for making simple utensils, bakeware and saucepans, all made out of alternative materials. 

The German style mock tin range can be finished in different colours, with or without a back and even larger or smaller in size. There is a simple salt (salz box) on the wall to make.

Here from my own collection is an antique German dresser, antique German lithographed tin plates and an antique metal jug...

And here is the reproduced antique style dresser, lithographed plates and jug, especially made for this workshop project. The jug and plates are made out of card. 

It has been great fun creating the prototype for this project. Very shortly I will feature it filled with many of the antique and vintage pieces that I have put aside over a period of time, especially for this little kitchen. And it will illustrate how genuine antique miniature pieces can stand alongside one's own creations to make a rather nice old room setting.  

CLICK HERE TO VIEW FULL DETAILS OF THIS WORKSHOP

If anyone would like to take up the spare space for the April workshop, then please get in touch asap as booking will be closing at the end of this week. Alternatively I will be running this workshop all over again on Saturday 19th May, so if anyone would like to come to that, then also please do get in touch asap. 

Hope you have enjoyed seeing the photos.
Celia