Box Beds

The lights should be delivered today, although I think the tracking site said, "delivery confirmation".  Does that mean I have to sign for them! I don't get home in time and tomorrow is "Good Friday" then the weekend. Sigh... I hope it's in the mailbox when I get home.
Anyway, I've been playing while I wait on the lights. I wanted to try my hand at Quarter Scale furniture soooo...I made a "box bed". Apparently, during the 19th centrury, box beds and closed beds were common. The advantages are quite obvious when you think about it.  They are very cozy in damp drafty houses, they give you privacy without having to build a wall and you and/or your children are protected from rebellious farm animals and/or wolves that come and steal babies. Don't forget in inclimate weather they kept animals for comsumption inside the house. They also, usually, hang a cross inside to ward off evil spirits. Oh, but I digress... LOL!   It looks like a gyspy bed to me, but I had a lot of fun doing it. I found some instructions in one of Dolls House Magazines that was for 1/2 scale and it looked interesting. Okay, if 1/2 scale is this big, then 1/4 scale is half of that, right?  Well, my first attempt looked a little crude because the wood was twice as thick? Simply put...I didn't like it. So, I did it again with thinner wood and I think it turned out a lot better. I need to make a step stool for it and maybe practice a little more, but it seems do-able. :-)

So, this is about 1.5 inches wide (1.5 inches = 6 feet) I probably won't put it in the Mouse House, but I have future plans that may fit it better.