I’ve started furnishing the Little House cabin. I’ve collected several Cassidy Creations kits for this house and am also planning to scratch build some of the furniture.
I started with the “big bed” and trundle bed. Little House in the Big Woods has a couple of illustrations that part of the big bed’s headboard, but not the whole thing, so I didn’t have a good idea of how I wanted it to look. A bed seemed easy enough to scratch build, but it would need enough clearance underneath to fit a trundle bed, and that made it a little more complicated than I wanted to tackle on my own.
I have a very old pamphlet named How to Make Shaker Furnishings for Doll Houses or Miniature Rooms that has 1:12 patterns for a bed and a trundle bed. I adapted these to half scale. Here’s a photo out of the pamphlet, of how the finished pieces should look.
I built the big bed first. I made these out of basswood and just cut the dimensions of the pieces in half. The 1:12 plans called for wood that’s 1/16″ wide. I stuck with this width even though it technically should have been 1/32″ wide, because I was concerned that 1/32″ wood would be tough to glue.
The headboard is a bit taller than it should be (larger than half the size of the original pattern), because this was the closest I could get at the shop and I didn’t want to cut it down, but all the rest of the pieces are exactly half the length and width from the original plans.
When I visited Double Fine’s office to take a look at Ron Gilbert’s upcoming game The Cave, he and I spent about an hour talking not just about the new game but also about adventure games in general, and where they’re going, and where they came from. It was too good a conversation to keep to myself, so in addition to 
Emily is a freelance writer, miniaturist, and adventure game enthusiast.
