News from ELF Miniatures

First of all “Season’s Greetings” from Elizabeth and Kate! We have had a busy few months and have lots

of new products to show for it. We’re delighted to launch several new items in response to customer

requests; please see below for more details. If you have an idea for something for your modern house,

please ask if we can make it – Elizabeth is very resourceful!

New items from the ELF Store

We’re delighted to introduce a couple of new items at more affordable prices than the products currently

stocked. A green wheelie bin is now available for just £6.20, while we have a

satellite dish for £7.80.

We also have a four-oven ‘Aga-style’ stove in

cream for just £9.90. It is non-opening but

represents real value for money. And check out

our smaller Aga-style stoves in red or green at only

£7.90.

We have always looked for good quality but economic

options for your dolls houses – this kitchen set provides

an affordable solution at £21.95. It includes all the basics:

fridge/freezer, sink unit and oven, and, as they are free-

standing, they can be laid out as you prefer.

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We’ve added some smaller items to our product range as well. These digital

kitchen scales are £4.30. A delightful toy

trolley is £2.80 (not including the contents).

We’ve added some more vases to our selection.

This gorgeous cranberry coloured jug is £4.90, while

the Ikebana-style vase is only £1.25. Please look under ‘China, glass and tableware’

in the ‘Accessories’ section of the menu to see our full

range of decorative vases and jugs.

Finally we now have a red Ball chair

alongside the black one, for £19.80.

Please ask if there is anything you would like that we don’t already stock. We can’t

guarantee to find it for you, but we’ll try!

New items from Elizabeth

A number of new items have come from customer requests...

A client came clutching

a photo to the

Cranmore Park Dolls

House Fair on

November 16th and just

two days later Elizabeth

had designed this

bathroom unit kit!

Available with or

without the bidet, the

kit includes the vanity

bowl, toilet, towel ring

and loo roll holder and a

choice of tap. Starting

from £17.35 for the unit

without bidet up to

£32.30 for the unit with bidet and the more expensive modern chrome tap, this unit is a great way of

giving your bathroom a modern look for a very reasonable price.

Another

customer asked

Elizabeth to

make some

children’s play

equipment - a

swing and a

sandpit. The

sandpit is

available to buy from the website, as a kit in wood

(£6.50) or ready-made in coloured acrylic (£8.50). At

present the swing is only available as a special request

so please email if you would like to buy one.

One of our clients asked for a self-contained "kitchen-in-a-cupboard". Ours has two fixed doors at the bottom, while the top doors open to reveal a steel worktop with sink and two-burner hob. There is a wrap-around steel splashback with extraction grille over the hob and hanging rail over the sink area. Above are two open shelves. The right hand door has a rack for storing condiments and cook’s ingredients, while the left hand door has a handy white board and marker.

The unit is available in two versions. One has 12v LEDs and can be wired to your existing 12v lighting system (£95). However, the

other, shown in the photos, has a 3V LED, run from two AA batteries concealed in the base (the battery holder is supplied, but you will need 2 x AA batteries, which are not supplied) (£105). This makes the unit perfect for any room without a lighting supply, and also means that the unit is totally portable, and can be moved anywhere in the room, or indeed from house to house! With a lightwood frame, the unit has side panels and doors in white, and aluminium "D" shaped handles.

Finally, one of our clients wanted a rollover sofa but didn’t have enough space so we now have the rollover chair! You could use it with a rollover sofa or have one as a statement piece. At £35.00 these are made of real leather.

We’ve now included all these items in our standard range but Elizabeth also makes one-off items such as this beautiful retro kitchen cabinet, based on the client’s full sized cabinet which she had up-cycled. Elizabeth’s reproduction is just visible in the photo on the left and in more detail below. She made the film and the handles as well as the cabinet!

Now you have seen what Elizabeth can do to fulfil our clients’ dreams, please remember

to come to us with your ideas for the modern doll’s house!

Having acquired the means to make the pattern on the doors for the cabinet above, Elizabeth has made several other patterned items including kitchen splash-backs and retro tables.

Here is a retro kitchen table and a coffee table, both for £12.00.

We have a wide range of splash-backs (£6.50 each) and you can send us your own patterns (£9.50) as well. Here are a couple of examples.

We’ve called it the “Bridge” sideboard. It’s a very simple design with endless possibilities. Available as a

four door or two door/drawers kit, you can make this as a

classic or as zany as you wish! Shown here in white with a

walnut top, you could choose a wood effect film or even

paint the doors in four different colours, à la Mondrian.

The four drawer kit is non-opening and costs £9.50, while

the two door/drawer kit can be purchased with non-

opening drawers for £9.50 or opening drawers for £12.50.

We also have the special edition ‘Mondrian’ sideboard

available as a kit, supplied with the four different coloured

pieces of film.

At Miniatura in

September we

exhibited a new display

kitchen. Using EAZY kits

as the basis for the

kitchen but including

bespoke items and

new items for sale, it

attracted many

admirers. We featured

the minimalist wall

clock and modular hob

in the last Newsletter.

The kitchen also incorporates a new pop-up socket bar, shown

here with a blender, and kitchen tap with hose, both now

available for sale.

To find the 1/16th range, scroll

down the menu on the left hand

side of the website to ‘Other

Scales’ and then select 1/16th

(Brinca Dada, Lundby, Triang).

Click on that, then scroll down

again and you will see various

sub-sections, such as 1:16

kitchens, 1:16 bathrooms.

Featuring this month – 1/16th scale

1/16th or 1/18th (also known as 3/4”) scale was a popular option

for dolls houses in the past, by makers such as Triang and

Lundby, and many of our clients are renovating their

childhood dolls houses in this scale, wanting to create a

modern look. Houses are still being manufactured in this

scale by Brinca Dada, Lundby and others, some with very

modern designs. As anyone knows who is working in this

scale, finding what you want can be more challenging than

in 1/12th scale. ELF Miniatures offers kitchens, bathrooms and

more in this scale, both made by Elizabeth and using selected

items from the Lundby range. When we can find them, we also

offer second-hand 1/16th items for sale.

Looking at kitchens first of all, ELF offers its own ready-built kitchens, Lundby kitchens and ELF kitchen

kits. Currently ELF has two ‘off-the-shelf’ kitchen designs. The one on the left is available in lightwood

finish for £95; the high gloss finish seen here is £125.

These can also be made with kits, and the ‘Compact’

kitchen kit is available in 1/16th.

The green kitchen is made from the

1/16th version of the EAZY kits

range, called ‘Simply Sixteenth’. The

chairs are no longer available from

ELF Miniatures but all the other

components of this kitchen,

including the accessories seen on

the worktop, are available. ‘Simply

Sixteenth’ enables you to design a

bespoke fitted kitchen; remember

Elizabeth is always available for help

and advice in planning.

The Lundby kitchen provides a more economic

alternative and comes with all the accessories

shown. You can buy the complete kitchen as shown

for £58 or the two pieces separately for £29.95

each.

In the 1/16th bathroom, the key issue

is the toilet! If you have been working

in this scale for any time, you will

know that toilets are difficult to come

by. One way around this is to create a

separate room for the toilet with a

false wall and a door, possibly part

open, indicating that there is a toilet

behind the door (although in reality

there isn’t). Having a toilet in a separate room was often the case in older houses. A more modern

interpretation of this idea is to use a modesty screen and a rough outline model of a toilet. However, we

do stock Lundby bathroom sets that include toilets – here are two of them and another one can be seen

in the photo below.

Here we have added an ELF gloss white

acrylic bath (tub) to a Lundby vanity and

toilet set to make a complete bathroom.

ELF also makes the loo roll holder and loo

brush.

An ELF minimalist shower kit or a walk-in

shower kit are available in this scale:

We also stock Lundby

bath and shower sets,

complete with the

accessories shown.

If you put the loo in a separate room or behind a modesty screen

(see above) you could go for one of ELF’s vibrant acrylic vanity

and bath sets like this, also available in other colours. We sell

taps and vanity bowls separately if you want to make your own

vanity units.

We have several items for the living rooms and office, and we are currently developing a range of

bedroom furniture.

From sofas in real leather to

display shelves to a desk....

ELF’s very popular white sculpted sideboard is now available in

1/16th scale.

...not forgetting TV and TV table, console table in white or clear acrylic, and

various coffee tables.

To show you a

complete look from

the 1/16th range,

here is a living room

furnished with

vibrant white

furniture and

accessorised from

the ELF store,

including the TV and

laptop made by ELF.

Finally dining sets and dining tables are available.

The green chairs are available as a set of two with a

square table or set of four with an oval table, as

shown here:

Just as we do in other scales, we make custom-built items at the request of our clients. Perhaps the most

unusual request was for a park bench! In case you are wondering, yes, we do supply the scooters and also

motorbikes in this scale.

The motorbikes at £3.70 each are a real bargain!

We have several other accessories from teabags to wheelie bins – see the 1:16 Accessories section in the

1/16th section for the full range.

If you would like to have your house or project featured in a future edition of

the ELF Newsletter, please email us at elfminiatures@hotmail.co.uk