the roofline
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
I took everyone's advice to play around with color so added in some of the same material that I'm going to use for grass around the base of the house. It looked better, but the whole thing still wasn't working for me. It's just too big, too much, too prominent, too...something.
The color still isn't right, and the plants need to be smaller, definitely. Small sedums in scale would probably be flocking, and I have some flocking, but I don't like flocking, it looks too fake.
I ripped the plants off the roof, then played around with shorter iris, moss and other various smaller materials, but nothing worked. I'll try planting a thatched roof later, on a different house, after I've given it some more thought and experimentation...or maybe on a half scale house flocking would look fine. I don't want the roofline to be the focal point of the whole project, I want it to blend in. With the Spring Fling deadline looming over me I don't have time to figure out a planted roof right now.
Perhaps it's a matter of perspective...when I walked around the real house I had to crane my neck to stare up at the roof, while I'm looking down at the roof on the miniature. Maybe a planted roof just isn't going to translate to miniature.
Aww. Sorry it isn't working out for you!
Posted by: Melinda | Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 07:14 AM
My take on it - weird, as usual - is that the grass on the real thatch is most likely grass that went to seed, got gobbled up by birds that then sat on the roof and did what birds do on roofs, and the grass sprouted and grew up there.
That may have already been said and I missed it - am not firing on all cylinders here, whatsoever.
But whatever you put up there has to look like it went through a bird's digestive tract... something "grassier".
Posted by: Susan | Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 08:23 AM