THE OLD BOX ROOMBOX - page 1, 2

I've had this old box forever..

I've desperately wanted to make another 1:12 roombox, but I still don't have a suitable box (I don't want to use a cardboard box) or materials to build one. But I had to make something, so I took an old wooden box which I've had all my life (I'm not sure where it came from, but I remember it from my early childhood), and started building a mini dollhouse in it...
I'll make it in a way that the box can be closed, but when it's open, the lid will be the front garden of the house. This means I'll have to keep the plants and all very low!

The house will be displayed sort of like this.

The box

Lid (not attached to the box at the moment)

Broken lock..

Foamcore and Marlboro pack stairs..

Foamcore dividing space..

Painting almost finished.

Fake doors with bead handles.

Kitchen door.

Bright yellow bedroom!

Turquoise upstairs hall (yes, turquoise!)

Bright green bathroom! Floor to be added..

Not a very big living room..

Hot orange kitchen!

More fake doors waiting to be glued..

In the next pictures, you'll see the new bathroom floor. I made floor tiles of paint catalogue sample colours (see my "Idea book" page for pictures of those). I didn't want the floor tiles to look all perfect and symmetrical, so I cut them without measuring or marking anything - it was nightmarish, but I quite like the final result.

Shiny floor tiles in the bathroom..

All greenish..

Exotic kitchen detail from a food advert!

Doors..

More doors..

Some old junk I found when looking for furniture material. Parts from a jewellery box, coffee jar lids, rubber (eraser) coat, and an odd plastic part.

These will be a double bed, a toilet seat, a sofa (clear plastic from a mouse package), and a table!

Painted shower cubicle parts and toilet seat part..

5mmx5mm-tiled shower cubicle (I used those paint samples again, from a brochure)

The sofa. It's actually Bright Red!! (Poor light)

Close-up. Cocktail stick legs.

Kitchen table (there will be a table cloth..)

Shower cubicle (not glued yet!)

There will be a shower and a shower curtain..

Hornby lawn matting glued..

Testing toilet seat size..

Pantyliner wrapping for shower curtain. (It works too)

Little needle cap sink

Tiny toilet roll (with real toilet tissue)

Finally some use for those AOL CDs (mirror)

Bead lamp (covering a bump on the ceiling)

More about this project on page 2.