Welcome to Petworth Miniatures

I fell in love with miniatures when I was in high school although my Mom noted that at 3 years old “Gayle loves books and tiny little dolls.” I guess I just never grew up.

Over the years, I have created miniature reproduction oil paintings, room boxes, painted furniture and polymer woodland scenes. I taught workshops in painting techniques and furniture construction. Friends laughed that if they saw something on my sales table they liked, to grab it fast because next year everything offered would be different.

When I made my first quarter scale workshop kit, on the request of a friend, I never thought it would expand into over 400 furniture kits, a line of small project Q-Bit kits & Snippets, Building kits and a series of special Limited Edition kits.

Nearly 15 years later , Quarter scale still enthralls me. It is the challenge of creating something so small with the detail of a full sized piece and then making it easy for anyone to assemble. I am always so pleased to hear that someone enjoyed their kits, found the instructions made sense and the kits went together easily.

Most of the furniture kits are based on full sized pieces and I try to be true to the dimensions of each one. So you will find a delicate Louis XVI chair for your sitting room or a massive Griffon decorated throne for your castle. They don’t look right side by side but they are actually perfectly to scale.

From original idea , to design, to cutting and trial runs and finally to a packaged kit; it is an adventure every time. Frustrating, exciting, and oh so satisfying when it finally all comes together.

I hope you enjoy our kits. If you have any questions or comments, please contact me gayle@petworthminiatures.com

Cheers Gayle

Oh… and for the curious, we are not in the village of Petworth , neither in the UK nor in Ontario. I read an article about Petworth House years ago and just liked the name. With our menagerie of dogs, horses, cats and now a few freeloading racoons, it just seemed appropriate.