Model house for the Borrowers
HOMILY, POD, ARRIETTY (13 years old) CLOCK
Under the grandfather clock, below wainscot on stone-flagged floor--a hole. -->yards of dark, dusty intersecting passageway, with wooden doors between the Gates--
1st gate outward, latched by a safety pin.
3 steep steps up to clock gate. Uneven. Hole, jagged edges.
Borrowers live under kitchen floorboards.
Grating in brick wall--can see garden through it--piece of gravelled path & fallen blossom. Grating embedded deeply into wall. Moss round bottom.
Screw lid of pickle jar filled with soapy water. Water thrown out through grating grows moss.
Music box spring keeps door shut against draughts from grating.
Woodlice.
Pipes tapped from big kitchen boiler.
Bath--pate de foie gras tureen, with lid.
Great cake of soap (coal tar/sandalwood) hung on nail in SCULLERY; pieces scraped off as needed.
Washing hung by grating.
Mousehole under upstairs stove: chute, ending near top of their wall. Cinders up top.
Doormat bristles to make brush with.
Kingfisher feathers in Homily's moleskin hat.
Emerald lady's watch on wall.
Must allow carriage of carpet roll.
Arietty's hat-pin with a bar for a top; string tied like figure of 8 & sealed with wax.
Earth floors--Pod dug down to give rooms height
Floorboard--hinged.
P & H's bedroom --> .................. --> sitting room --> kitchen --> grating --> store rooms
Arietty's room
Pod's workroom
POD & HOMILY'S BEDROOM--next room--sitting room
Chest of drawers
2 beds
Creaking doors
Boxes under beds
Homily's curl-rags in a drawer with curlers & other stuff
Oil-lamp--scent-bottle cap with floating wick
Full of bags, boxes, makeshipt cupboards
FOOT OF BED. Dark oak doll's dresser & plates; 2 drawers & cupboard below.
NEXT TO DRESSER. Victorian doll's chair, upholstered in red velvet.
ARIETTY'S BEDROOM
Walls--two wooden cigar boxes. Ceiling--glamorous scene.
Bedding--quilt. Knotted coverlet.
Satin bedcovers & embroidered sheets--handkerchiefs.
Stamp on wall--view of Rio Harbour
Silver pig from charm bracelet
Turquoise ring for a crown
POD's WORKROOM
Kid gloves cut into squares. Different colours.
Beads, graded & sorted in aspirin bottle screwtops
Fish-bone needles
? Hatpin with long name-tape harness rope tied to head.
? Sack for borrowing, tied at the neck.
Hammer--small electric-bell clapper.
SITTING ROOM
Wallpaper--"it would be so charming if" vertical-writing letters from waste-paper baskets.
Pictures--diff. colour stamps of young queen.
Settle--laquer trinket-box, padded inside, lid open.
Chest of drawers--match boxes.
Round table--height of cotton reel. Wooden bottom of pill-box on a chess knight's pedestal.
Tablecloth--red velvet.
Statue--chess knight's bust on column in corner.
Tilted wooden bookcase with miniature books, including 1 blank 'diary'.
Small white pencil with piece of silk cord attached.
Coal scuttle--pewter mustard pot & spoon.
Fuel--assorted slack & crumbled candle grease. Matchsticks.
Fireplace--cog-wheel, part of cider press; fire in centre.
Chimney-piece--small brass funnel from oil lamp.
Chimney--arrangement of pipes, from spout to flues.
soup pan--thimble, heated on cog spokes. (Nuts broiled on cog spokes.)
Button boots made from kid gloves. Buttons--beads.
Knitting needles--black-headed pins; darning needles.
Knitted jerseys & stockings.
Wool--reels of silk & cotton beside Homily's chair.
Carpet--deep red blotting paper, soaks up spills.
Candle holder--upturned drawing pin.
Candles--home mde dips.
Teapot--oak apple with quill spout & wired-on handle. Burnished & hard with age.
Chairs round table--cotton reels.
Coat hangers--safety pins all round the room, hung with underclothes.
Arietty has a place by the fire.
Ironing.
By fire: Victorian dolls' chair, upholstered in red velvet.
KITCHEN
Upstairs: drawing room.
Store house/room --> dusty lane --> kitchen --> sitting room
Half pair manicure scissors on nail on wall.
Pieces of razor blade--knives.
Onion ring.
Stool--metal trapped champagne cork.
Taps--rubber scent-bottle corks in holes in pipes.
Sink--tin lid of aspirin bottle.
Doll's china teacup & saucer. (Seems size of mixing bowl.)
Little stool for Arietty.
Frying pan on wall, hanging.
Table, no cloth.
Washing-up gets left on table.
STOREHOUSE, SPLIT INTO ROOMS
Partitions.
Shelves.
Scraps of silk & lace.
Ki gloves.
Pencil stubs.
Rusty razor blades.
Hairpins.
Needles.
Dried figs.
Hazelnuts.
Powdery bits of chocolate.
Red stubs of sealing wax.
STUFF
Roast sliced chestnuts--eaten like toast with butter
Cold boiled chestnut--bread
Hot dried currants, plumped before fire
Crispy cinnamon breadcrumbs lightly dredged with sugar
Potted shrimp each
Plates--(silver) coins
Arietty's hairbrush--part of toothbrush
Arietty's slobby Turkish bloomers--2 glove fingers
Reels of coloured silks & cottons
Small variegated balls of odd wool
Pen nibs for flour scoops
Bottle tops--lots
Aprons
Hazel shell cup, pointed end sawn off
Comb--18th Century silver eyebrow comb
Pod's night shirt
Homily's night dress, old, with patch in back
WHAT A BORROWER NEEDS
Food. Cleaning products. Water--hot & cold. Light. Entertainment. Heat. Toilet.
Cups. Plates. Bowls--eating, mixing. Pans. Cutlery. Utensils. Chopping board. Tray. Bath/shower. Basins. Brushes. Hoover? Dustpan & brush. Wiring; light bulbs & switches; lamps. Cooker; fireplace--fireglow light bulb? Oil ring? Camp stove? Games; computer games--an old mobile? Hand pinball? Draughts? Board games. Table games. Cards? Books. Washing line. Ironing board. Iron. Pegs. Hangers. Carpets. Wallpaper. Grating? With curtains? Wardrobes. Shelves. Cupboards. Drawers. Kitchen surfaces. Tables. Chairs. Upholstery. Beds. Bedclothes. Pillows, cushions. Toilet. Towels. Rugs. Pictures. Ornaments. Plants. Toilet roll. Nightclothes. Day clothes. Outdoor clothes. Shoes. Boots. Hats. Slippers. Dressing gowns. Aprons. Gloves. Tools & stuff for DIY. Glue & painntbrushes. Underwear.
Joists--2"x 4". 14 1/2" - 18" gaps.
Bedrooms: 1 main, 2 single.
Bathroom. Ensuite toilet for main bedroom.
Kitchen.
Lounge.
Store rooms.
Pet mouse in stable.
Workshop.
Under the grandfather clock, below wainscot on stone-flagged floor--a hole. -->yards of dark, dusty intersecting passageway, with wooden doors between the Gates--
- leaf of folding cheesegrater
- hinged lid of small cash-box
- squares of pierced zinc from a meat-safe
- wire fly-swatter
1st gate outward, latched by a safety pin.
3 steep steps up to clock gate. Uneven. Hole, jagged edges.
Borrowers live under kitchen floorboards.
Grating in brick wall--can see garden through it--piece of gravelled path & fallen blossom. Grating embedded deeply into wall. Moss round bottom.
Screw lid of pickle jar filled with soapy water. Water thrown out through grating grows moss.
Music box spring keeps door shut against draughts from grating.
Woodlice.
Pipes tapped from big kitchen boiler.
Bath--pate de foie gras tureen, with lid.
Great cake of soap (coal tar/sandalwood) hung on nail in SCULLERY; pieces scraped off as needed.
Washing hung by grating.
Mousehole under upstairs stove: chute, ending near top of their wall. Cinders up top.
Doormat bristles to make brush with.
Kingfisher feathers in Homily's moleskin hat.
Emerald lady's watch on wall.
Must allow carriage of carpet roll.
Arietty's hat-pin with a bar for a top; string tied like figure of 8 & sealed with wax.
Earth floors--Pod dug down to give rooms height
Floorboard--hinged.
P & H's bedroom --> .................. --> sitting room --> kitchen --> grating --> store rooms
Arietty's room
Pod's workroom
POD & HOMILY'S BEDROOM--next room--sitting room
Chest of drawers
2 beds
Creaking doors
Boxes under beds
Homily's curl-rags in a drawer with curlers & other stuff
Oil-lamp--scent-bottle cap with floating wick
Full of bags, boxes, makeshipt cupboards
FOOT OF BED. Dark oak doll's dresser & plates; 2 drawers & cupboard below.
NEXT TO DRESSER. Victorian doll's chair, upholstered in red velvet.
ARIETTY'S BEDROOM
Walls--two wooden cigar boxes. Ceiling--glamorous scene.
Bedding--quilt. Knotted coverlet.
Satin bedcovers & embroidered sheets--handkerchiefs.
Stamp on wall--view of Rio Harbour
Silver pig from charm bracelet
Turquoise ring for a crown
POD's WORKROOM
Kid gloves cut into squares. Different colours.
Beads, graded & sorted in aspirin bottle screwtops
Fish-bone needles
? Hatpin with long name-tape harness rope tied to head.
? Sack for borrowing, tied at the neck.
Hammer--small electric-bell clapper.
SITTING ROOM
Wallpaper--"it would be so charming if" vertical-writing letters from waste-paper baskets.
Pictures--diff. colour stamps of young queen.
Settle--laquer trinket-box, padded inside, lid open.
Chest of drawers--match boxes.
Round table--height of cotton reel. Wooden bottom of pill-box on a chess knight's pedestal.
Tablecloth--red velvet.
Statue--chess knight's bust on column in corner.
Tilted wooden bookcase with miniature books, including 1 blank 'diary'.
Small white pencil with piece of silk cord attached.
Coal scuttle--pewter mustard pot & spoon.
Fuel--assorted slack & crumbled candle grease. Matchsticks.
Fireplace--cog-wheel, part of cider press; fire in centre.
Chimney-piece--small brass funnel from oil lamp.
Chimney--arrangement of pipes, from spout to flues.
soup pan--thimble, heated on cog spokes. (Nuts broiled on cog spokes.)
Button boots made from kid gloves. Buttons--beads.
Knitting needles--black-headed pins; darning needles.
Knitted jerseys & stockings.
Wool--reels of silk & cotton beside Homily's chair.
Carpet--deep red blotting paper, soaks up spills.
Candle holder--upturned drawing pin.
Candles--home mde dips.
Teapot--oak apple with quill spout & wired-on handle. Burnished & hard with age.
Chairs round table--cotton reels.
Coat hangers--safety pins all round the room, hung with underclothes.
Arietty has a place by the fire.
Ironing.
By fire: Victorian dolls' chair, upholstered in red velvet.
KITCHEN
Upstairs: drawing room.
Store house/room --> dusty lane --> kitchen --> sitting room
Half pair manicure scissors on nail on wall.
Pieces of razor blade--knives.
Onion ring.
Stool--metal trapped champagne cork.
Taps--rubber scent-bottle corks in holes in pipes.
Sink--tin lid of aspirin bottle.
Doll's china teacup & saucer. (Seems size of mixing bowl.)
Little stool for Arietty.
Frying pan on wall, hanging.
Table, no cloth.
Washing-up gets left on table.
STOREHOUSE, SPLIT INTO ROOMS
Partitions.
Shelves.
Scraps of silk & lace.
Ki gloves.
Pencil stubs.
Rusty razor blades.
Hairpins.
Needles.
Dried figs.
Hazelnuts.
Powdery bits of chocolate.
Red stubs of sealing wax.
STUFF
Roast sliced chestnuts--eaten like toast with butter
Cold boiled chestnut--bread
Hot dried currants, plumped before fire
Crispy cinnamon breadcrumbs lightly dredged with sugar
Potted shrimp each
Plates--(silver) coins
Arietty's hairbrush--part of toothbrush
Arietty's slobby Turkish bloomers--2 glove fingers
Reels of coloured silks & cottons
Small variegated balls of odd wool
Pen nibs for flour scoops
Bottle tops--lots
Aprons
Hazel shell cup, pointed end sawn off
Comb--18th Century silver eyebrow comb
Pod's night shirt
Homily's night dress, old, with patch in back
WHAT A BORROWER NEEDS
Food. Cleaning products. Water--hot & cold. Light. Entertainment. Heat. Toilet.
Cups. Plates. Bowls--eating, mixing. Pans. Cutlery. Utensils. Chopping board. Tray. Bath/shower. Basins. Brushes. Hoover? Dustpan & brush. Wiring; light bulbs & switches; lamps. Cooker; fireplace--fireglow light bulb? Oil ring? Camp stove? Games; computer games--an old mobile? Hand pinball? Draughts? Board games. Table games. Cards? Books. Washing line. Ironing board. Iron. Pegs. Hangers. Carpets. Wallpaper. Grating? With curtains? Wardrobes. Shelves. Cupboards. Drawers. Kitchen surfaces. Tables. Chairs. Upholstery. Beds. Bedclothes. Pillows, cushions. Toilet. Towels. Rugs. Pictures. Ornaments. Plants. Toilet roll. Nightclothes. Day clothes. Outdoor clothes. Shoes. Boots. Hats. Slippers. Dressing gowns. Aprons. Gloves. Tools & stuff for DIY. Glue & painntbrushes. Underwear.
Joists--2"x 4". 14 1/2" - 18" gaps.
Bedrooms: 1 main, 2 single.
Bathroom. Ensuite toilet for main bedroom.
Kitchen.
Lounge.
Store rooms.
Pet mouse in stable.
Workshop.