Little Doors
I was talking to my mom on Mother's day about how I wanted to make a small door to put at the base of the cherry tree to add a bit o' whimsy to my yard. I LOVE little doors. One of my favorite scenes in Alice in Wonderland (Disney version) is when she can see the garden through that little door before she drinks the potion that shrinks her.
I was talking to a friend about this over coffee recently and she sent me this fabulous link to Urban Fairies. These are places where people have added little doors, sometimes more, to their houses and places of business. That's just awesome.
But my fairy, or gnome, or whatever is going to be a garden dweller. I am going to do some research into miniature gardens with Liquid Sky Art as my inspiration and I have been transplanting moss from all over the yard to the area around the cherry tree. I am slowing turning this into a woodland garden, I have ferns, hostas and that little blooming thing in the lower right hand corner is wild bleeding heart.
Here is a close up of the hole itself:
I want to make a little shiny red door with what looks like iron hinges and a doorknob. Sort of like these. When we get the flagstone to pave my raised bed area I am going to a little extra and break it into small bits to pave the walkway I have created. I was telling mom about my idea and she started to tell me about the miniature door she had made. I had completely forgotten that she was going to do this! Her door is twice as big as mine will be, I think she said it's about a foot or so tall:
It's right on the edge of the pond, you can see the beginning of it in the lower right hand corner. She made the door out of weathered boards and the door knob is an old drawer pull. The fish was scavenged from something else and the hinges are painted on, and I think there's a little bell there too. Here's a close up:
I can't believe how great that turned out! Although... Mom, question - how does whoever lives here get in or out? His little door is blocked.
I was talking to a friend about this over coffee recently and she sent me this fabulous link to Urban Fairies. These are places where people have added little doors, sometimes more, to their houses and places of business. That's just awesome.
But my fairy, or gnome, or whatever is going to be a garden dweller. I am going to do some research into miniature gardens with Liquid Sky Art as my inspiration and I have been transplanting moss from all over the yard to the area around the cherry tree. I am slowing turning this into a woodland garden, I have ferns, hostas and that little blooming thing in the lower right hand corner is wild bleeding heart.
Here is a close up of the hole itself:
I want to make a little shiny red door with what looks like iron hinges and a doorknob. Sort of like these. When we get the flagstone to pave my raised bed area I am going to a little extra and break it into small bits to pave the walkway I have created. I was telling mom about my idea and she started to tell me about the miniature door she had made. I had completely forgotten that she was going to do this! Her door is twice as big as mine will be, I think she said it's about a foot or so tall:
It's right on the edge of the pond, you can see the beginning of it in the lower right hand corner. She made the door out of weathered boards and the door knob is an old drawer pull. The fish was scavenged from something else and the hinges are painted on, and I think there's a little bell there too. Here's a close up:
I can't believe how great that turned out! Although... Mom, question - how does whoever lives here get in or out? His little door is blocked. 
4 Comments:
Oh, the cuteness! Those are so awesome. I can't wait to see how yours turns out.
such an adorable idea! a little red door in your backyard woodlands :) can't wait to see how it turns out.
Are you like my sister or something, Erica?! I LOVE these kind of things too!
I once made a teensy little "door of wonder", with a mailbox and tiny front porch, for a girlfriend and hid it in her own house! She had a magical moment trying to find it!
Then at Christmas, I made it a decorated tree and put it in front of the tiny porch!
I recently found the link to people in the UK that create entired detailed scenes in public places with items the size of old railroad miniatures. I'll go grab you that link and email it to you.
Your red door in that setting is going to be so enchanting!!
Hi Erica,
I came to your blog and got a kick out of this post. I have a little maple tree in my front yard with a split trunk. We have new neighbors and one of their kids is a little girl about 8 years old. Her and her girlfriend have been building a fairie house in the split all spring. A cat or something went through it once and destroyed it, so I went out and re-built the house, walls made from bark pieces, a bed with moss pillows and table and chairs, birch bark rug next to the bed, all made out of stone...oh they were so cute telling their mom that the fairies had come and visited.
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