Art Deco Cabinet Decor

The Art Deco Baby House is now wallpapered and has flooring! I love the colours that Lady Bug has chosen for this project. I like it, when doing a cabinet, for all the rooms to compliment each other, so that it looks good as a whole. When choosing the colour scheme for the flooring and wallpapers for each room Lady Bug has achieved this brilliantly.

Here is a side photo so that you can see the detailing on the sides of the cabinet.

This is the cabinet with the doors closed - don't you love that they are glass and you can still see the insides?

Starting at the top floor, this is the bathroom. The floor was great fun to make. It is one piece of green speckled paper. Stripes were then painted on the left side, I used twinkling H2Os as they give a clear but iridescent look. The right side was then painted with Instant Age Varnish. Silver stickers were then used to add interest. The whole lot was then coated with Triple Thick Glaze - hey presto a wonderful bathroom floor!

This floor is going to be divided into a bathroom on the left and a dressing room on the right. Each room has an alcove with a piece of artwork in it. The bath will fit into the one on the left.

This is the dividing wall between the two rooms.

..and from the other side.

Again a full photo of the cabinet but this time with the top dividing wall in place.

The third floor is the bedroom. A lovely pearl flooring and complimenting wallpaper.

The ceiling in this room is sparkly and I have added a real bit of bling to the ceiling to go over the bed. All of these pieces came with the kit.

The second floor is the lounge. I love the wallpaper in this room. It is so warm and goes beautifully with the wood floor. The flooring in this room is a very thin piece of wood with the most wonderful grain, which I then coated in Instant Age Varnish as instructed and it has really brought out the character. This will be such a cosy room to sit in once the fireplace is in.

Of course lastly is the foyer. The floor and the wallpaper are now stuck in.

I love the warmth that this cabinet gives off. The wood of the piece itself along with the colours inside are just perfect to work on in Autumn.

Art Deco Baby House

I have to apologise because once again the Lydia Pickett Artist Studio photographs have missed their slot! Tomorrow I promise!

The reason for this is because I have to show you my Art Deco Baby House Cabinet.It has beautiful glass doors.

With four floors and a hand carved spiral staircase it will be so much fun to do. As soon as this cabinet was out of its box I had to make an immediate start.


It comes from Lady Bug who does a range of wonderful Baby Houses. At the moment however they are not on her website so you would need to contact her directly.

The first thing to do was the floor for the ground floor entrance hall. I checked that my piece of card fitted the cabinet.


Lady Bug has designed the most amazing technique for making wonderful inlaid floors. This cabinet comes with a bag of shell pieces ready to do the inlaid floor. She has very kindly given me permission to share my photographs with you as to how it was made. All of the pieces that you need to make this are available from Lady Bug on her website at www.ladybug-fairies.com .

I made my design using peel off silver stickers. A central star first.......

then lining up some swirly detailing...

almost there....

and the final design!

Then you have to add some accents with paint. I decided that I wanted to do the majority of my floor with the shell pieces, so I only painted a few tiny parts.


Here is a close up. The paint is slightly pearlised, which doesn't show up so well in a photograph.

Then I started tiny piece by tiny piece gluing the broken up pieces of shell.

I must be mad because I very carefully broke each individual piece of shell to fit the space I wanted it in. Then I added the glue with a pin. Lastly I oh so carefully pushed my piece of shell where I wanted it with my Grandmas old hat pin! Which it has to be said is my most useful and trusted piece of equipment!

Still a long way to go!

This was a long process!!!

Finally all the shells are where I want them !

Just to give you an idea of scale here is an English 10 pence piece!

A close up of the middle.

A close up of the left hand side.

A close up of the right hand side - can you tell I am rather pleased with this??

Lady Bug then suggests covering with an antiquing medium, which brings out the lovely shades of the shells.

Last of all is a thick glaze over the top. This really makes it look like an inlaid floor. It is so hard to see on the photographs but trust me the result is spectacular. Thank you so much Lady Bug for teaching such an effective technique. Here is the final floor!

It is not glued down yet so it is curling slightly but here is the floor inside the cabinet.

And how wonderful that I can still admire my hard work even when the doors are closed!