Hi Ara, I am binge watching the abandoned coffee shop today and just had what I think may be a great thought for my own project. I had started working on the Fairfield house about 6mo before i found you on UA-cam (I was so excited you had the same doll house kit I was already working ((struggling)) with!!!). I've watched you put your house together and I have had so many problems with walls not matching up etc that I stopped working on it. Every time I go into my crafting area, I see the house and think I should just make it into an abandoned house. Watching these videos on the coffee shop, I really think I can adapt your concept into the House. What fun to make those walls deteriorate!
You are so inspirational! I keep going back to old videos for ideas. Since I first discovered you and you lit my love for everything dolls and dollhouses again (my great love as a child), I have been collecting cardboard and well - everything that might be useful. My daughters are worried that I am becoming a hoarder... lol - but again - thank you sooo much!
I’m years late to the party but WOW I am so tempted to start my own miniature worlds after completing my first kit! This just gave me TONS of inspiration
You might want to add some pipes under the sink for the hot and cold water taps. I would take the pipe material and paint it an old copper color with some copper green streaks on the wall and pipes like the water leaked onto the wall and ran down onto the floor and have it smeared like someone had tried to clean it up at some point in the life of the old coffee shop. You could also break one of the pipes and bend it or blow it out like it had frozen and burst. You could also add shutoff valves to them too.
Bentley House Minis I was watching an abandoned place... And you probably already have plans for some sheetrock dust..maybe you could use bit of chalk crumbles in various places like on the counters and window seals.. and even a bit around your fallen bricks outside too. We spoke about a water faucet out on your wall one day and adding a bit of hot glue dripping from it for water... (U tube has some neat samples to look at) you might even make a bit of stain on the sidewalk against the building where the run off water had been dripping for decades. Have a wonderful day and keep the fun coming...you are so talented. Your friends from Pearland, Tx...
Giraffer Pillar I had not thought of crumbled chalk that is a great idea! And I have actually been playing around with resin for some water effects and I how found some other great products that look like water I hope to share in a video one day :) There won't be room for a side walk as it all fits into a snug display case but i think staining the inside would work well too. All great suggestions as usual! Thank you!
I'm thoroughly enjoying watching this project come together. I love your attention to detail. I agree the drain pipe really adds to the realism. Congratulations on reaching 2,000 subs, you deserve them and many more :)
This is so awesome that it blows my mind!! The qtips!!! Wow!! I just LOVE it!!! Of course the shelf needs mugs and plates plus there needs to be one of those big Bunn coffee makers or even better would be a percolator! I love this project and how mistakes, which you have not made by the way, can easily be covered with the aging and distressing. It’s my kind of project!! Thanks so much for sharing!! Love it!!
Easy to cover mistakes are why I love distressing the best!! lol! I am really looking forward to creating the coffee maker but I need to find time to put in the research and make it great! ;) Thanks Leslie!!
I know, it's an old video, but dents in the wood can be fixed by steam-ironing them. They should be at least less visible afterwards. It works for other types of wood, so I believe it can work for balsa too?
Wow! It's looking great! So ingenious to use Qtips! 😍 I think a small round table that has a collapsed leg and some broken old mugs on the floor would look awesome!, like it was abandoned in a hurry!! ✌ Xx
Great ideas thank you! Your comment has made me think I really need to come up with the back story behind this place so all the left over items make sense ;)
My first job was in a restaurant and they had a mop bucket sink in the kitchen and drains in the middle of the floor near water sources. It had a brass drain cover on it and was the dirtiest spot in the kitchen beside the mop sink. The mop sink tiles it was set in and around it were usually coated with dirty grease and grime and everyone hated cleaning it them. It was the nastiest job in the building.
I think I will be adding in a floor drain and I think I can even push into the foam floor a bit to give it more of a slope into the center of the drain. Probably no room for a mop sink but I will be storing that idea away for a future project! Thanks Richard!
Thank you so much! Its a hand held wood cutter. You can find a similar one here: www.amazon.com/Midwest-Products-Hobby-Cutter-Ultimate/dp/B000BQT3VK/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1525104425&sr=8-5&keywords=easy+cutter
Thank you!!😊 Later on I fill the sink up so maybe I was thinking it would be covered up anyway... its been a while and I forget what I was thinking lol!
There is a product that you can buy for dry rot in wood you spray it on the dry rot and it makes it hard as hard can be so you could spray the balsa wood and make it hard once you have shaped it they way you want. My UA-cam is playing up won’t let me into the 3 reply’s 🤔🤔 😹😹😹okay did the next best thing I went online to the hardware store where I bought it from and it’s called “Earl's Wood Hardener” it comes in a 1 Lt bottle or in a 250ml spray pump bottle which is the one I bought. You will have to check your local hardware store to see if they carry it or something like it.🤔 I never bought it for dry rot 😹😹 I bought it to use of woods that are softer than others and can mark easy😳 found it to be the best solution for fixing the softer fibres in some brands of wood 😹😹
Bentley House Minis I will have to find my bottle of the stuff I have been trying to think where it got placed when we moved everything in the workshop to place the new shelving 😹🤔
Bentley House Minis 😹😹😹okay did the next best thing I went online to the hardware store where I bought it from and it’s called “Earl's Wood Hardener” it comes in a 1 Lt bottle or in a 250ml spray pump bottle which is the one I bought. You will have to check your local hardware store to see if they carry it or something like it.🤔 I never bought it for dry rot 😹😹 I bought it to use of woods that are softer than others and can mark easy😳 found it to be the best solution for fixing the softer fibres in some brands of wood 😹😹
Bentley House Minis your welcome Ava, it was only after your working with the balsa wood and my mentioning the spray I realised I could use the balsa wood for a few of my projects myself as it’s easy to cut but once I have cut all the pieces I can just spray them both sides and then it will be durable for dollhouse furniture 😹😹😹 I have not been able to buy the doll house wood here in Australia at a price that I can afford at least but with the balsa wood and the spray well this will solve all of my problems I think 😹😹😹😹 talk about a blond moment I could have been doing this months ago 😹😹😹 oh well as they say better late than never 😹😹😹
Hi Ara, I am binge watching the abandoned coffee shop today and just had what I think may be a great thought for my own project. I had started working on the Fairfield house about 6mo before i found you on UA-cam (I was so excited you had the same doll house kit I was already working ((struggling)) with!!!). I've watched you put your house together and I have had so many problems with walls not matching up etc that I stopped working on it. Every time I go into my crafting area, I see the house and think I should just make it into an abandoned house. Watching these videos on the coffee shop, I really think I can adapt your concept into the House. What fun to make those walls deteriorate!
You are so inspirational! I keep going back to old videos for ideas. Since I first discovered you and you lit my love for everything dolls and dollhouses again (my great love as a child), I have been collecting cardboard and well - everything that might be useful. My daughters are worried that I am becoming a hoarder... lol - but again - thank you sooo much!
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I’m years late to the party but WOW I am so tempted to start my own miniature worlds after completing my first kit! This just gave me TONS of inspiration
This has got me hooked! Love your tutorials.. thank you for teaching!
I have learned sooooo much from watching your videos. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your projects and tutorials.
Thank you Jerri! I am so glad you are finding them helpful!
That pipe makes it look so real!
Thank you!
You might want to add some pipes under the sink for the hot and cold water taps. I would take the pipe material and paint it an old copper color with some copper green streaks on the wall and pipes like the water leaked onto the wall and ran down onto the floor and have it smeared like someone had tried to clean it up at some point in the life of the old coffee shop. You could also break one of the pipes and bend it or blow it out like it had frozen and burst. You could also add shutoff valves to them too.
Great ideas Richard! I figured under my sink might need a few more pipes but I really like the idea of a busted one! Thanks :)
The counters turned out amazing! I'm glad that I'm not the only one who kind of wings it.
If its possible to wing it that's what I prefer lol!! :)
This is delightful. I'm going to have to give it a try.
Thank you! Have fun creating!
This is turning out do cool. Great tip for the pipes etc. Oh heck, great tips on everything.
Thank you so much!! I am glad you are enjoying this project series! :)
Bentley House Minis
I was watching an abandoned place...
And you probably already have plans for some sheetrock dust..maybe you could use bit of chalk crumbles in various places like on the counters and window seals.. and even a bit around your fallen bricks outside too.
We spoke about a water faucet out on your wall one day and adding a bit of hot glue dripping from it for water... (U tube has some neat samples to look at) you might even make a bit of stain on the sidewalk against the building where the run off water had been dripping for decades.
Have a wonderful day and keep the fun coming...you are so talented.
Your friends from Pearland, Tx...
Giraffer Pillar I had not thought of crumbled chalk that is a great idea! And I have actually been playing around with resin for some water effects and I how found some other great products that look like water I hope to share in a video one day :) There won't be room for a side walk as it all fits into a snug display case but i think staining the inside would work well too. All great suggestions as usual! Thank you!
This so amazing. Great job.
Thank you so much!
I'm thoroughly enjoying watching this project come together. I love your attention to detail. I agree the drain pipe really adds to the realism. Congratulations on reaching 2,000 subs, you deserve them and many more :)
Thank you so much Annejuli!
This is so awesome that it blows my mind!! The qtips!!! Wow!! I just LOVE it!!!
Of course the shelf needs mugs and plates plus there needs to be one of those big Bunn coffee makers or even better would be a percolator! I love this project and how mistakes, which you have not made by the way, can easily be covered with the aging and distressing. It’s my kind of project!! Thanks so much for sharing!! Love it!!
Easy to cover mistakes are why I love distressing the best!! lol! I am really looking forward to creating the coffee maker but I need to find time to put in the research and make it great! ;) Thanks Leslie!!
Bentley House Minis there’s no way it could be anything but great when you create it!
Aww thanks Leslie!
I love creativeness. This is looking so good.
Thank you Debbie!!
I know, it's an old video, but dents in the wood can be fixed by steam-ironing them. They should be at least less visible afterwards. It works for other types of wood, so I believe it can work for balsa too?
Looking awesome! I love the q-tip idea....got me thinking.
Thank you :) They can be so versatile!!
I LOOOOOOOOV what you have done ... its so so cool xxx Tina
Thank you so much Tina!! :)
Ugh, you are sooo good!! Love it!!! Can’t wait to what else’s you will make!!
Thank you so much!! :)
Wow! It's looking great! So ingenious to use Qtips! 😍
I think a small round table that has a collapsed leg and some broken old mugs on the floor would look awesome!, like it was abandoned in a hurry!! ✌ Xx
Great ideas thank you! Your comment has made me think I really need to come up with the back story behind this place so all the left over items make sense ;)
It looks so good
Thank you Daniela!!
Looks great ! You could add a old broken exit sign on the ground somewhere
Crafted Dirty I love that idea! thanks!
Awesome job. It looks so cool
Thank you Kathy! :)
Omg awesome
Thank you!
Love that
Thank you!!
Really loving the progress!!!!! (Bird's nest in the sink??? 💜💜💜) You are very inspiring. 😍
I already have somewhat of a plan for the sink BUT I LOVE the idea of a birds nest somewhere in the project! Great idea!! :)
Bentley House Minis you are very kind to listen to so many people's suggestions. I hope it doesn't drive you crazy eventually. 😉
Lol it doesn't drive me crazy so far. I hadn't thought of a birds nest and thats such a great detail! I appreciate everyone's creativity!!
This is so amazing! Have you thought of maybe an old lightning fixture, like a fluorescent light, that’s broken and on the floor?
Love the idea of the fluorescent light!! Thank you :)
Wow
Oooh what about a floor drain?? Where the water would go Incase of a flood?? Like a clean out type thing
Great idea as I think most kitchen areas are required to have drains! It would add a bit more interest to the floor for sure!
My first job was in a restaurant and they had a mop bucket sink in the kitchen and drains in the middle of the floor near water sources. It had a brass drain cover on it and was the dirtiest spot in the kitchen beside the mop sink. The mop sink tiles it was set in and around it were usually coated with dirty grease and grime and everyone hated cleaning it them. It was the nastiest job in the building.
I think I will be adding in a floor drain and I think I can even push into the foam floor a bit to give it more of a slope into the center of the drain. Probably no room for a mop sink but I will be storing that idea away for a future project! Thanks Richard!
what is that cutting tool you used? so many brilliant things you do....inspirational for sure!! xoxo stephie
Thank you so much! Its a hand held wood cutter. You can find a similar one here: www.amazon.com/Midwest-Products-Hobby-Cutter-Ultimate/dp/B000BQT3VK/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1525104425&sr=8-5&keywords=easy+cutter
What is that cutting tool called? Talk about making life so much easier
It's called an Easy Cutter! It's awesome!
I know there's a story video at the end of this playlist, but it's starting to look like this place burned down. I'm making that my guess now!
Hi, I love this project! But I wanted to tell you that you forgot the sink drain hole
Thank you!!😊 Later on I fill the sink up so maybe I was thinking it would be covered up anyway... its been a while and I forget what I was thinking lol!
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There is a product that you can buy for dry rot in wood you spray it on the dry rot and it makes it hard as hard can be so you could spray the balsa wood and make it hard once you have shaped it they way you want.
My UA-cam is playing up won’t let me into the 3 reply’s 🤔🤔
😹😹😹okay did the next best thing I went online to the hardware store where I bought it from and it’s called “Earl's Wood Hardener” it comes in a 1 Lt bottle or in a 250ml spray pump bottle which is the one I bought. You will have to check your local hardware store to see if they carry it or something like it.🤔 I never bought it for dry rot 😹😹 I bought it to use of woods that are softer than others and can mark easy😳 found it to be the best solution for fixing the softer fibres in some brands of wood 😹😹
I have never heard of that! Do you know what its called?
Bentley House Minis I will have to find my bottle of the stuff I have been trying to think where it got placed when we moved everything in the workshop to place the new shelving 😹🤔
Bentley House Minis 😹😹😹okay did the next best thing I went online to the hardware store where I bought it from and it’s called “Earl's Wood Hardener” it comes in a 1 Lt bottle or in a 250ml spray pump bottle which is the one I bought. You will have to check your local hardware store to see if they carry it or something like it.🤔 I never bought it for dry rot 😹😹 I bought it to use of woods that are softer than others and can mark easy😳 found it to be the best solution for fixing the softer fibres in some brands of wood 😹😹
Great tip! And thanks for checking on the product name! I will have to look here locally for something like that :)
Bentley House Minis your welcome Ava, it was only after your working with the balsa wood and my mentioning the spray I realised I could use the balsa wood for a few of my projects myself as it’s easy to cut but once I have cut all the pieces I can just spray them both sides and then it will be durable for dollhouse furniture 😹😹😹 I have not been able to buy the doll house wood here in Australia at a price that I can afford at least but with the balsa wood and the spray well this will solve all of my problems I think 😹😹😹😹 talk about a blond moment I could have been doing this months ago 😹😹😹 oh well as they say better late than never 😹😹😹