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The Bier Garten-1934

As I didn’t want to detail the full interior of the Bier Garten with furniture and wallpaper, I chose to mimic green stripe curtains for all openings on the second floor.  I used a sheet of dollhouse wallpaper, which I cut to size then folded “accordion-style” to create curtain pleats.  These were then glued in place behind cut sections of Hewlett Packard Transparency printer pages, which is what I normally use whenever I need superbly scaled glass window panes.

For the rear storage shed I had to create more walls and duplicate another section of wooden shingle roofing.  I created the walls using the techniques discussed in my article “Building a Diorama From Scratch” (link here).  The foamcore board was cut to shape and glued together, and then I used wooden strips to create the beam effect seen throughout the building.  Again, my Xacto knife was used to groove in the required wood grain of the beams.  Spackle was used to close any gaps in the wall joints, and then the entire piece was coated with a layer of Spackle paste to duplicate the plaster effect of the rest of the building.  The dried piece was then glued into place, and the roof was added.

On the lower floor, I placed the wooden shutters in the closed position, with the exception of one window, which has a lace curtain flapping in the breeze.  The curtain was made from a paper border treatment sold in the stationary department of a local craft shop.  I taped the paper to the inside of the building window, then sprayed it with a bit of my wife’s hair spray to lock in the position of the curled drapes.