Room Boxes Made by Walter Vaughn

Inch scale Sumer Roombox.jpg (53337 bytes)Ancient Sumer (Scale 1" - 1') A libation room as depicted on a Sumerian cylinder seal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Half Scale Sumer Roombox.jpg (96608 bytes)A kitchen from Sumer. (Scale 1/2" = 1') Notice the individually made scale bricks. Servants did the cooking in this room. The prepared food was placed on the "tray table" (in the center of the picture) and carried upstairs to be eaten.This roombox is approximately  six inches in height and eight inches in width.

 












Cruck Cottage Room Box.jpg (39222 bytes)English Cottage, circa 1400 (Scale 1/2" = 1') This is a sophisticated version of a central hearth with a reredos behind the fire to shelter it from drafts and a smoke canopy above the fire. The tally board beside the door keeps track of working days. This roombox is approximately  six inches in height and eight inches in width.

 












Half Scale room box #4.jpg (93290 bytes)Fifteenth Century Medieval Cruck Cottage (Scale 1/2" = 1'). This Germanic-type cottage has a smoke bay, which holds the smoke and allows it to escape through the roof. This roombox is approximately  six inches in height and eight inches in width.

 

 

 










Half Scale Room Box #3.jpg (95624 bytes)Inglenook Kitchen, a classic English design. Scale 1/2" = 1'
This roombox is approximately  six inches in height and eight inches in width.

 

 

 

 

 

 




Half Scale Room box #5.jpg (86014 bytes)Sixteenth Century Scottish "but and ben" cottage. (Scale 1/2"= 1')  This cottage sports a more advanced smoke hood called a "hangin' lum." The smoke exits through a hole in the exterior wall, just beneath the hangin' lum. This roombox is approximately  six inches in height and eight inches in width.

 













Half Scale Room Box #2.jpg (64298 bytes)Irish Croft Cottage, circa 1500. (Scale 1/2" = 1')  This cottage has a smokehood with a heck and bench. The heck protects the fire from drafts, just as the earlier reredos did. This roombox is approximately  six inches in height and eight inches in width.

 

 











Half Scale Room Box #6.jpg (115115 bytes) Seventeenth-century American kitchen. (Scale 1/2" = 1') the heck and bench have evolved into a settle and the reredos and smokehood are now a fireplace and fireback. Notice the individually made scale bricks. This roombox is approximately  six inches in height and eight inches in width.