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marsh hall friday 5 april 2024 the last post jacobite room and attic hello followers if any of you are still here i haven t gone off grid i stalled with this property and got carried away with another one recently though i have been finishing off the final two spaces one of which i really struggled with i also wanted something i hadn t done before which added to the delay in progress i have now completed it and the adjoining little space as part of the marsh hall story the owner is a fervent collector of jacobite artefacts and has dedicated a room to his collection a lot of the items have meaning the room is a relatively small space measuring 12 30 48 cms deep by 11 27 94cms wide on the back wall along with the two scottish landscape paintings are a shield targe and basket hilted swords below on the sideboard stand a vase of roses a display of butterflies and a vase of sunflowers the roses symbolised the exiled king james the butterflies represented the hope of scotland reverting to the stuarts and the sunflowers represented loyal jacobites a painting of bonnie prince charlie is hung on the right of the room with a blue bonnet and cockade displayed below the central table shows a tray with decanter and jacobite drinking glasses these were engraved with code and a book containing a secret in the left hand corner of this room stand the oars used by flora macdonald to take bonnie prince charlie over the sea to skye in the right hand corner stands the jacobite flag the finished room and finally the attic space is a triangular room at the top of the swing out section of this property given that these projects are never truly finished i m sure bits will be added as and when the end thank you all for following the marsh hall journey posted by irene at 02 46 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 10 april 2020 some progress at last i was quite taken aback when i looked at this blog to see that my last post was june last year that was a bit of a shock i can tell you i ve been working away on this in between playing with another property so it seems as if i should have more to show you all work started on a bathroom in the roof space not really historically correct for the time 1850 but i do like having a bathroom in my properties and as there are three spaces in the roof to be dealt with why not this is what there is to work with in the roof space the bathroom is on the left upper hall in the centre and something else on the right no idea what yet work started in the bathroom by adding a false wall at the back to take a cabinet and leave a recess for the loo annoyingly i didn t take any pictures at the start the cabinet was a barewood piece that has been painted and varnished shelves lined and trimmed and lace added to the inner door the loo was a piece i already had lots of bathroom accessories to be added the wallpaper is a susan bembridge design and the panelling was created from self adhesive flooring the fancy washstand is a little table kit from alison davies which has been painted varnished gold detail and a marble top added the victorian towel rail was a kit purchased from arjen spinhoven maddeningly i got as far as working on the door when it dawned on me i couldn t get any further with the bathroom until the hall had been completed purely by the order of jobs to be done so that was left aside and wall panelling was ordered i had also completely forgotten that i wouldn t be able to route the wiring through the back because my false wall was already fixed in place so it had to go out via the hall before the toilet was installed i ve called it the upper hall purely because i couldn t think of anything else and it s quite a sparse little space the hall chairs and candle holders are again kits by arjen spinhoven i hope you are all keeping well and we don t have to remain housebound for too long stay safe everyone and happy mini ing posted by irene at 06 15 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 17 june 2019 beds and brains hello followers i know it s been some time since i last posted an updated on this property and miniatura and the york fair have come and gone but i was able to attend both fairs and managed to collect quite a few accessories for all three properties on the go at the moment i can at last show you the completed bedroom some photos have to be taken with the flash as the room is situated behind a pull out section and that blocks any natural light with flash without flash the lady of the house has her slippers by the side of the bed and at the end of the four poster is a kist scottish chest which will hopefully in time be filled with items as yet to be thought of the photo below shows the decorated fourth wall with the door leading into the study the snuggery on closer inspection you can see a furry friend making it s way in and finally the sleeping cap shown below was made for me by jonquil i ve had this sitting in my stash for quite some time and was just waiting on the exact spot for it i just hope you didn t think i d forgotten about it jonquil it s such a lovely and unusual piece i m very pleased to have it in my collection phrenology according to wikipedia was a faculty psychology theory of brain and science of character reading what the nineteenth century phrenologists called the only true science of mind phrenology was derived from the theories of the idiosyncratic viennese physician franz joseph gall 1758 1828 for some time now i ve been searching for a phrenology head i decided that the master of marsh hall being an educated victorian individual was keen on the study of phrenology so of course he had to have a head this proved really tricky but i eventually got one made in fact the maker gave me two adult and baby tracked down some images and added the relevant lines so i can now place them in the snuggery along with the poster i already had these are the images i used as reference the baby looks a bit scary at last i can finally say that the snuggery is complete posted by irene at 06 28 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 23 march 2019 at last the parlour sofa thank you for your lovely comments regarding my last post the bedroom hasn t moved forward at all since then and now with only a week to go i m holding off buying anything or doing anything to it until after my trip to miniatura next weekend where i m hoping to find lots of lovely minis and accessories so until then i thought i d better do something with my very swanky sofa in the parlour this sofa has been sitting there in it s naked state since i last posted about that particular room it s a john hodgson piece in the raw and i was so chuffed at having found it it s signed on the bottom and everything using crafter s acrylic paint i gave the body of the sofa three coats of green and the wooden framework received two coats of mahogany a touch of gold on the castors and it was job done ta da i also gave the whole piece a coat of matt sealant posted by irene at 08 40 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 23 december 2018 bedroom update i ve just done a very silly thing prepared this post added photos and posted it all to the wrong blog that s what happens when i don t pay attention all sorted out now and i can go ahead and show you the stage i m at with the bedroom i ll give more detail on where i bought what once all the accessories are in place below is the fourth wall with the door leading into the laird s study the extending section on this property the screen below is from art of mini i replaced the decorative paper panels provided with very thin leather unusual for a laird and his lady wife to share a room in 1850 but this is the scottish highlands and it can be very cold as you can see below there is a decorative ceiling rose i decided that something had to be added to that space but there isn t enough room to include the drop of a light fitting it wouldn t be unusual to have no form of lighting there and i like to think it has given the room some atmosphere the little accessories that bring the room to life have all still to be added so until then i d like to wish all my followers a very merry christmas and a happy new year posted by irene at 05 45 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 23 september 2018 the bedroom 1 work is progressing on the marsh hall bedroom and to date and to let you know i haven t forgotten about this property i have just completed dressing a four poster bed the bed was purchased quite some time ago from ashwood designs picture courtesy of ashwood designs website i had bought it for another property but unfortunately given the size of the room i was working on at the time it was too wide so i replaced it with a single bed of the same design leaving me with this one which worked out really well as i think it s ideal for marsh hall in my head marsh hall is a baronial property situated in the highlands of scotland round about 1850 high fashion didn t reach the highlands for quite some time so what may have been cutting edge design in 1850 london or even edinburgh wasn t seen for a while if at all even for low gentry unless of course there was plenty money to hand or you were queen victoria and living at balmoral the style it has been dressed in is pretty plain with no unnecessary cushions or frills that wasn t the scottish way although it was tempting to add a couple of cushions i remained firm so and while i carry on decorating the main room here is my baronial bed posted by irene at 03 40 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 25 july 2018 the oak gallery i know it s been a little while since i last posted here but i have been busy mini busy the only task left to do in the parlour of marsh hall is to paint the sofa and i ll let you see that when it s done i ve been working on the oak gallery a small space measuring 5 5 13 91 cms wide by 16 40 64 cms deep by 9 22 86 cms high firstly a colour scheme had to be chosen paint and fabric to the right were selected and work got started as i had already taken the decision to remove all staircases from this build the impression had to be given that there was some form of access to the upper floors and so a door at the end of the hall was installed with very worn stone steps next lighting and a baronial looking screen after that came the cornice and panelling a couple of ornate halberds some suitable artwork and finally the whole gallery next the bedroom posted by irene at 04 56 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me irene i have been married for 43 years and have two adult sons both of whom have now left home i may have lost the sons but i ve gained a 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