It may be the smallest room, but I left the Rowhouse’s bathroom for last. Partly because I had to get the stairs in first to pull the wire for the stairwell light through the bathroom wall, but also because I’m just not a fan of miniature bathrooms. My poor neglected Rosedale has two empty bathrooms keeping it from being completely finished, and my other recent houses don’t even have bathrooms. I just don’t like wasting a room on it, especially since the pickings are slim in half scale.
But I decided early on that the Rowhouse would have one, mainly so I could use the spa-like tub I’ve had in my stash for years (it won’t fit in the Rosedale’s tiny bathrooms!) I bought a tile sheet that’s probably meant for 1:12 scale but works okay in half scale. Each tile is half an inch square, which would make it 12×12 tile in real life.
I separated the white tiles from the border at the top and the orange tiles at the bottom so I could use the white ones for the bathroom floor, and the orange ones for a surround around the room. The tile sheet is actually shiny cardstock embossed with lines that separate the tiles. So it’s not quite as stiff as a vinyl tile sheet would be.
Because the bathroom floor had some tapewire and wires running across it, I lay down a piece of cardstock to make it more or less flat before gluing down the tiles.
The white part of the tile sheet is only six tiles long, so I ended up with a seam.
I glued in the big piece, then put the smaller piece in place and shoved it up against the wall to get a good idea of where to cut.
Beautiful! Oh, if only it stayed this nice. Keep reading. :/
Emily is a freelance writer, miniaturist, and adventure game enthusiast.
