Learn how to create or customise fixtures, furnishings and accessories, using paint effects, plasterwork, papier-mache, plastics and soft soldering - to name but a few of the materials and techniques that are included.

With the help of this book, you can achieve in miniature just about anything that you can imagine, combining the pleasure of collecting with the satisfaction of exercising your own creativity. Transform inexpensive furniture, or make accessories and furnishings from scratch. If you want Victorian floor tiles or a rococo mirror frame, you can have them.

Thirty-eight essential projects show how the techniques can be applied, to give your dolls' house a unique and professional look.

Techniques and projects include:

Plaster casting: ceiling rose
Splatter painting: fire surround
Trompe l'oil: quilted screen
Soft soldering: brass plant stand
Routing: Georgian four-poster bed
Patination: Victorian jardiniere
Crackle glaze: distressed linen cupboard
Polymer clay: marble chess table
Spray painting: Georgian clothes press
French polishing: long-case clock
Plastics: stained glass window
Upholstery: Knole sofa
Papier-mache': chair
Basketry: linen basket
Weaving: rag rug
Sheet metal: kitchen range
Marguetry: veneered cabinet
Quick quilting: bedspreads
Lacquering:japanned bureau
Stencilling: Regency curtains