I Could Open A Furniture Shop

Last night after we moved a lot of our things back to the house from the caravan (the vast majority was my stuff: minis and some scrapbooking and crochet) – I was too tired to do anything much. I put several loads of washing on, and started to sort out the minis I brought home. Not for long though – soon I was assembling some of the furniture kits from BJ Miniatures. Now between these and the ones I showed you the other day, I could open a furniture shop LOL.

This lot is practically all dining furniture. I ordered them because I had a heap of bedroom furniture and sofas but was very short on the dining room side. I fell in love with the variety of furniture on BJ Miniatures – such delicate designs on the chairs, and different from the furniture I already had.

The background isn't the most effective I could have chosen, but it was what was to hand since after all our visitors, almost everything else is either in the washing machine, on the clothes line, waiting to be washed or waiting to be ironed!


Among the kits are several in the Jardin range. First, the Jardin Bench and Table.

 As well as including a ruler in the photos, I’ve deliberately left quite a bit of background around these pieces, to emphasise how tiny they really are,



There’s a Jardin dining table and two chairs, which are perfect for a small space.

And in the same colour wood, a Jardin rocker and table.

Then there’s a Hepplewhite Dining Set, in mahogany.  This is a nice elegant suite and I would like to do a cabinet in the same finish.

Now isn’t this next one an elegant design?  It’s a Ribbonback Dining Table and chairs in walnut wood with cherry inlay.  It’s so pretty.

Less formal in character is this Cottage Dining Set in cherrywood.  This one presented a real challenge to get the legs positioned evenly but we got there eventually.

And to finish this grouping, there is a China Cabinet in Golden Oak.  First, straight on:

Then, slightly at an angle to show the sides:

I thought last night that the mirror for this was damaged. This morning I emailed the Steinkes and asked whether I could obtain replacements for this and the chiffonier mirror. Judy was most gracious about it. Then I finally put my brain into gear and re-read the instructions. It sunk in that I was supposed to remove the protective film from the mirror back as well as the shelves – and guess what? The marks were on the protective film, not the mirror! In fact the mirror is excellent. It’s not true glass but you wouldn’t know it. This cabinet is, like the rest of the furniture, great quality.

Just like the previous lot of furniture, and indeed much more furniture I haven't shown you,  it all still needs to be sprayed with a protective finish. Hmmmm – that will be interesting with the mirrored cabinet! I will do all the furniture together that is already stained. The whitewood furniture that I showed you previously won’t be sprayed until I determine the finished colour to suit whatever home it will find.

So now I also have a good supply of dining furniture to put into those quarter scale cottages I have been building this year. In the meantime I might just put it all into one of my properties as a temporary furniture store.