Queen Anne furniture -- custom settee and japanned secretary

I've been buying and making more pieces for my future dolls' house lately.  I mentioned in an earlier post that I had ordered a custom Queen Anne settee from Kris Compas.  It arrived yesterday, so I set up a little vignette to photograph.

I arranged the pieces in the ground floor room of the Tower.

The perfect little sofa makes me so happy!  Kris makes every part of her pieces -- including shaping the cabriole legs.   I think it's begging for some needlepoint cushions :)  If you'd like Kris to make something for you, please check out her website at CDHM.

I'm so pleased with how this turned out.  It started as a bog-standard unfinished whitewood piece by Streets Ahead.  I primed it, spray painted it red and then used gold and black permanent markers to draw chinoiserie designs on it, looking at a variety of early 18th century japanned antiques for inspiration.  You could also japan a piece in black chinoiserie, but I really love red!