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Making Interior Details of Buildings and offices

Over the past couple of weeks I have been reading a lot about Detailing your structures. I found a few major things you can add to the interiors of offices or homes that are within close visability of visitors.
These are very cheep to reproduice if you own a printer.
I found that photos of carpets and orential rugs as well as wall paper found at department and hardware stores on sales pages of the internet. You can copy and resize them to what ever scale your working in also, fraimed pictures can be shrunk down and cut out and then glued on the interior walls of your homes and busnesses to decorate.
Here are some examples of orential rugs I found and shrank down to fit I put just more than 100 for you to use. since no sales are being made and these are from advertisements of full size items for the family home and office I don't think these violate any copyright laws.



Now you can take these and resize them to any size you need and glue them to walls or floors as needed as Orential rugs are used on both. you will notice a wood floor back ground around many as well as some printing just cut them off for some nice rugs.
Now if you go to wall paper manufactures and panneling manufactures on the internet you can copy & paste make duplicate pastes placeing one next to the other until you fill a page. Then shrink down their example photos and make complete pages of wood interior panneling for the walls in your models. See the following White Oak Panneling I made and shrank down and Duplicated over ond over until I had a full page: If you want more examples let me know and I'll post full pages of pine, Oak , Cherry, Ash and others I've made. all use the same idea shrink of expand to size needed then print and cut to size and paste on walls.

These being full pages you can mix and match with a dozen or so wallpapers I've made and miniturized. this way you can wall paper the top 3/4 of a room and then the lower 1/4 use the wood panneling as Waynes coating.
Dan
Not only cheap but very easy and the method is not limited just to interior detail you can use it to create signs , building flats etc. A friend built a chinese restaurant for his layout complete with a menu board done this way. The overall effect far outweighs the small amount of time it took.
Cheers Steve
Thats what I was thinking when I started this project Steve. The internet and all it's advertisers give us unlimited applacations that we can use and find to use. There are photos of interiors at all the lumber and hardware sites that can be used by pasting on interior walls to give the look of a home when you look in the windows of our structures.
Like your friend, Signs are everywhere of every kind shape and size.
Dan
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