An armchair make-over no1.

Dear Betsy has asked me lately if I do anything with miniatures nowadays. I am happy to say: actually I do!;) Here is the first post for a long time only about miniatures;)and I do hope to show you what I am working on soon.
Remember the puzzle furniture that Kristy once showed on her fab blog?(Does anyone know what is with Kristy anyway?) They reminded me about cheap furniture kits made in China that one can buy here quite easly. One of the kits is a living room set which includes sofa, two tables and two armchairs - that look like this.

Or they are supposed to look like above but it is rather hard to put them together - the holes are much too big for furniture to look nice without any additional work. But they seem to be good as the base for some changes. So I tried my chances and cut many parts away, then I had to fill the gaps in....

...then polish it up....

...and paint it once....

...and twice....

...then it was a time for upholstery and of course you can see the furniture suddenly got "older";)

Still it wasn't ready. I was looking at it for a long time and finally knew it needed a small addition....And here it is ready!





Hope you like the new-old armchair! And yes, the second one is something I am just working on...;)

W jednym ze sklepów zabawkowych w moim miescie mozna czasem dostać chińskie zestawy drewnianych mebelków w skali 1:12. Ich jakosć nie jest najlepsza i żeby w ogóle dobrze wyglądały trzeba się trochę przy nich napracować. Dzis pokazuję Wam co udało mi się zrobić z jednego z zestawowych foteli. Wymagało to sporej ilosci cięcia i szlifowania, ale myslę, że mebel wygląda nieco lepiej.;) Nad drugim własnie pracuję ;)