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Dining Room Diorama

Okay, here is one that DIDN'T work.  It was going to be a very formal Victorian dining room, but everything about it was wrong- the colors, the dark floor, and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't seem to get away from a nasty green cast to everything, even when I color-balanced it.  Yuck!!  Thought you might think it was interesting to see one that got scrapped.


This was the first try.  I used a dark floor and didn't like it at all.  I loved the grand old Victorian wallpaper, though it didn't photograph very well.  The style of the table and buffet seemed too plain to me.  I wanted something more ornate, but they were all I had that would pass for Victorian. 
The pictures aren't hung because that is generally one of the very last things I do in a diorama.  Since I usually stick them to the walls with glue dots, I want to make sure all the furniture is in place before I attach the paintings.  I often do some test photos before I hang the pics.  That way if I need to move a piece of furniture a few inches (or occasionally across the room!) I can see it more clearly.  Once I've finally gotten everything where I want it, then I hang my paintings, otherwise they end up off center or oddly out of pla
Dining Room Diorama one sixth scale antique furniture

I liked the flower pictures, but the blue soup tureen, which is a favorite of mine and normally sits on top of the buffet, was the wrong color for the room.
1:6 scale diorama dining room

I tried changing the floor to a wood one in a lighter shade, but it had a greenish cast.  I was also getting that off the clock, which is gold, but also has a slight greenish cast.  In the end, I scrapped the whole project and these photo are all that remain.
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