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News from ELF Miniatures
At long last the wind and the rain have stopped here in the UK. We are busy, as usual, with lots of
bespoke work, as well as regular orders. The bespoke work includes a 1930s commercial kitchen which
we will feature in a newsletter later this year, for which Elizabeth has created several unique items.
Always remember, that if you can’t find what you want on the website, it is always worth contacting us
with any special requests. Our Readers Houses section shows Elizabeth’s creativity in action!
Miniatura and the Kensington Dolls House fair are fast approaching and we hope to see some of you at
these events.
New items from the ELF Store
We are delighted to stock several new items from wallpapers to ‘Ghost’ chairs and a bright pink chaise
longue.
For a really glamorous look, a shocking pink chaise longue with a mirror cube table, at £17.90 and £3.50 respectively, against one of our new wallpapers.
A practical table and chairs set in white, at £21.00. Suitable for a dining room or kitchen or even a cafe.
Refreshing our designer chairs range, we now stock this chair based on Phillipe Starck’s famous ‘Ghost’ chair.
Put a set of four with a dining table or use a single one to make a statement in a bedroom or office. We have paired it with a black acrylic minimalist console table to make a stylish dressing table set:
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We have a set of five bathroom accessories in black, white or wicker effect finish. Here is the wicker effect set:
Wallpapers are available from 85p to £2.30 per sheet, in 2 sizes.
These are just a few of them:
Find them in the section called ‘Wallpapers and tiling’. As well as designs for ‘grown-up’ rooms, there are several which are designed for a child’s room or nursery, such as this one, featuring hot air balloons above blue panelling:
There are three new modern lights. A matching table lamp and floor lamp, and a simple half-moon wall light.
Finally, we have some new kitchen appliances, in the form of a highly affordable Aga in red or green at just £7.10, and an upright silver fridge for £14.70.
Please ask if there is anything you would like that we don’t already stock. We can’t
guarantee to find it for you, but we’ll try!
Featuring this month – the sitting room
...the lounge, the family room – or whatever you call it. The place where the inhabitants of your dolls
house can relax!
The first
room is
definitely for
the woman
of the house,
pink and a
little bit
glamorous!
Featuring our new shocking pink chaise longue, ‘ghost’ chair and mirror cube table with our ever
popular chrome and glass shelving unit and black acrylic minimalist console table to keep the look sleek
and restricted in colour palette. A pink laptop, pink roses, pink radio and box of rose tissues maintain the
theme. A new black vase picks up the black of the desk and chair.
The other room featured is a family room with TV, books, CDs and magazines, although the little boy
seems to have his mind on outdoor activities! Some of you may recognise this as the sitting room on our
fairs stand. Featuring ELF’s sculpted sideboard, designer desk and compact sofa, with matching coffee
table, the room also includes a media unit from the EAZY living range.
To make it even more up-to-date why not add a tablet or a
games console? We have 3 different offerings at £8.95,
£6.45 and £13.50:
You can choose from a wide range of accessories for the sitting room.
Books start at 90p for a set of 3 novels to around £8 for readable books.
Vases from £1.35
Wall art from £1.75
Houseplants and cacti from £1.90
A simple modern vase for £1.70
This piece of wall art, called Sunset is £4.50
More economical options are available for most of the
furniture items. The ELF sofa is £25 but you could have this
smart corner sofa set in white for only £15. And this vibrant
red chair and sofa are the same price.
The designer sideboard from ELF costs £45 but you could choose this
ridged sideboard by ELF at only £20 or an option from our economy
range at just £6.45!
The designer desk costs £40 but an EAZY Living Compact Desk kit
would cost you just £5.50 or a simple wooden desk like this costs
£9.90.
Finally, a coffee table need cost no more than £3.50 for the square
one seen in this photo:
Readers Houses Instead of our usual feature focusing on one of our readers’ houses, this time we show you how we worked with
two clients to replicate their own kitchen.
Tanja wanted to bring the essence of her
kitchen into the doll’s house, but the space
available was not sufficient to replicate the
kitchen in its entirety, so it was therefore
important to focus on the details. Her
beautiful sleek white kitchen is shown on the
right, and she wanted to include the wide
drawers, the stunning contemporary extractor,
and her island breakfast bar (not visible in the
photo). Tanja sent some initial drawings,
which we then developed to produce the
sketch you see below for the main section.
Elizabeth felt that the integrated handles were an important feature
that could be reproduced in the model and the island has the same
recess for bar stools as the original. Although her own kitchen
doesn’t have open shelving, Tanja requested the addition of the
shelves here in order to have room to display more of her
miniatures.
Although the model is less extensive than the full-sized version, when photographed together, you can see how
well the miniature echoes the original. Even the taps match!
Mr S wanted to surprise his wife on their anniversary with a model of their new kitchen, but as they don’t have a
dolls house (yet!) the units needed to be free-standing so that they could sit on a shelf without requiring any
support.
The full-sized kitchen is quite a
large room, with a long run of
units along the left side. Mr S felt
that it would be better to leave
out one or two units to reduce the
overall size of the model, whilst
still keeping the general “feel” of
the room.
Ignoring everything to the left of the oven, and making the
column oven an integral part of the support structure allowed us
to extend a backing panel to hold the remaining wall units in
place.
Although ELF offers an extensive range of worktops, none of
them was a good match for the lovely stone effect top in Mr and
Mrs S’s kitchen, so Elizabeth created one especially for them.
Again, it is the details that are immediately recognisable; the black
extractor with its front controls, the black gas hob, contemporary
upstands....and even the wall sockets!
Rather than simply sit the units on a shelf, Mr S
asked if we could replicate the floor to give context
to the model, so we created a real oak floor similar
to the original, whose richness enhances the pale
cream of the units.
The original kitchen...
.....and the model we created.
Mrs S was surprised and delighted with her “other” new kitchen!
We shall be returning to our usual Readers’ Houses feature, so if you would like to have your house
or project featured in a future edition of the ELF Newsletter, please email us at