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The Burrow_Ron's Room

Ron's room is bright orange with Chudley Cannons posters (found on the internet) and bedspread. I printed the Cannons theme on cloth. Ron's chess set (made of paper, wood, and polymer clay) is on the desk, and an aquarium by the window has a frog in it. His school trunk by the door is empty right now. Scabbers is hiding somewhere in the room.

The Burrow_Living room

The Living room is cozy and lived-in, a place to read or knit by the fire. Pictures of the Weasley children are on the walls, and the bookshelf contains a magical radio that plays Mrs. Weasley's favorite songs, as well as magical contraptions I put together from beads and watch parts. A basket of knitting sits by one of the squashy chairs. Of course the table is always set for tea.

The Burrow_Mr. Weasley's garage

The garage houses the blue Ford Anglia that Ron and Harry will fly to Hogwarts. In the loft is a secret stash of Mr. Weasley's Muggle artifacts and a few posters about plugs and "egletricity." Mr. Weasley collects plugs.

The Burrow_Kitchen

In the Burrow's kitchen, Mrs. Weasley's excellent cooking is in progress. The dishes are washing themselves in the sink, and a jar of floo powder is available for trips to Diagon Alley or the Dursleys' house. The fireplace is made from tiny flakes chipped off of limestone rocks in my garden.

The Burrow_Dining room

The Burrow dining room includes a table for 10-12 and is laden with Mrs. Weasley's food. The chairs are painted and repainted and chipped. The magical clock is in the background.

Ginny's room with Weird Sisters posters

Ginny Weasley's room is bright and sunny, with lots of "Weird Sisters" and Gryffindor Quidditch posters on the walls. Her quilt is handmade. Her school trunk is filled with second-hand books, and there is a portrait of her holding a weasel in the left bottom corner

Kitten on the chess board

In the family room, a wizard chess set is set for a game. One of Ginny's kittens likes to sit on the chess board.

Mr & Mrs Weasley's room 3

In Mr and Mrs Weasley's room, a portrait of the younger six children (after Bill has grown up and left home) hangs on the wall over the dresser. The bottles, necklace, and bouquet are all handmade.

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Mr. and Mrs. Weasley's bedroom features a portrait of a Weasley ancestor who was an animagus and could take the form of a weasel. (Mr. Weasely's patronus is a weasel.) Other family portraits hang on the wall. Mrs. Weasley's shoes and some of her Gildaroy Lockhart books are by the bed. I made the books by downloading jacket art from the internet and gluing the pictures to tiny books.

Mr & Mrs Weasleys' sweetheart pics

Molly and Arthur Weasley fell in love while they were at Hogwarts. The picture at the top shows red-headed sweethearts before their wedding. Below is a portrait of the couple after many happy years of marriage (the image is of the actors who play Mr and Mrs Weasley in the films).

Percy's desk and papers

Percy's room reveals his industrious work on a report for the Ministry of Magic on cauldron thickness. His books and parchments are scattered around the room, and his desk has an ink bottle and feather quill (the ink bottle is a bead). On the floor are some Daily Prophet newspapers (downloaded and resized).

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Mrs. Weasley's sewing and knitting room, where she creates and tailors the family's clothing. The Weasleys do not have much money to spare, so she hand makes many of their garments. Her Christmas monogrammed sweaters are in progress: blue for Fred and George, green for Harry, and maroon for Ron.

Percy's room 1

Percy's trunk is full of books and Daily Prophets. More books are stacked on the window seat and on the floor. An owl cage is hanging by the window, and Percy's wizard hat is on his dresser top.

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Percy's desk is surrounded by pictures of various types of cauldrons and international standards for his study of cauldron thicknesses for the Ministry of Magic. The posters were made from pictures downloaded from the internet.

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Percy's bookshelf holds sets of reference books on Ministry rules and regulations, while he proudly displays a Ministry of Magic poster above his door.

Potion supplies

These potion supplies are handmade from beads and tiny glass vials with paint or nail polish poured inside to make them look sparkly.

Potions

Potion bottles and jars made from beads. The stringy glue I used has the effect of making them look cob webby.

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The Weasley home is filled with staircases. It was a challenge to plan for all of them, especially since the kit did not have so many. I had to cut holes in the floor in some rooms. Some of the staircases I made, and some were purchased (it's really, really hard to make stairs).

Stairway from top to bottom

Lots of staircases.

Six stories tall

Exterior of house showing side yard with chickens. Some of the rooms on the top floors are opened to see inside.

Side yard with chickens

Side of house shows Mrs. Weasley's flower gardens and a few chickens. The books say the garden is rather unkempt, but I decided that Mrs. Weasley would grow some flowers.

Rusty cauldrons

Rusty cauldrons abandoned near the back door to the kitchen.

Ron & Ginny's windows

At dusk, the windows glow from fireplaces, candles, and Lumos spells.

Stairwell

Stairs with portraits of Weasley children on walls. The stairs visible in the background are handmade and very crooked.

Telescope close up

A telescope constructed from found objects, beads, clock parts, and gears.

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The telescope sits in an observation deck that looks like a gazebo perched on top of the roof. I want to put a weathervane on top and add a flying Hedwig owl.

Telescope, old chair, trap door

The kids have dragged some old chairs up to the deck so they can sit around and enjoy the night sky. You can see the trap door in the floor that leads down to the attic.

The Burrow back

View of house from outside, showing many layers cobbled together with magic. The burned roof is over Fred & George's room.

The Burrow front corner

Another side of the house. You can see the hinged exterior walls that provide access to the rooms inside.

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Side of house made from popsicle sticks, balsa wood, textured found objects, and wood scraps. The intention was to show a very weathered house in need of repair.

The Burrow

House with hinged outer wall open to show the interior. The house sits on a round turntable so that it can be spun around to each side.

The Burrow tall

The burn mark on roof is where one of Fred & George's experiments started a fire. This view of the house shows the gazebo-like observation platform on the roof.

The Burrow side yard

Another exterior view shows how tall the house is. I had to make it half-scale or it would have been too big for my small house.

The Burrow side open

Hinged doors open to reveal the interior.

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The roof over Fred and George's room has a burn mark where one of their experiments exploded and caught the roof on fire. This side of the house shows how it is made from various spare materials and is held together with magic.

The Burrow frontJPG

View of house from top to bottom shows its crooked structure. Harry observed that the house looked like it was held together only by magic.

The Burrow tower side

Interior glow.

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A portrait of a Weasley ancestor hangs over the stair landing. Because the portrait subjects can move from frame to frame, this picture does not always contain the same face.

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Portraits of Weasley family ancestors line the walls of the spiral staircase. As they do in Hogwarts castle, these images can move between frames and visit other parts of the house.

Weasley children's pictures

Mrs. Weasley's sewing room wall is covered with baby pictures of the children. Almost all the frames are handmade from wood scraps. Some of them are lockets or plastic dishes.

Window kitchen other side

View of kitchen window from the outside. The Burrow started as a shelter for pigs, and the Weasleys converted into a house -- this stone wall is from the original pig stye.

Window kitchen

View of kitchen from outside, through a different window. You can see food cooking on the stove.

Window on tower

Window on tower shows stair landing.

The Burrow_Family room

The Burrow's family room, where a chess game is always ready to go, a gramophone waits to play music, and squashy chairs by the fire invite you to sit and read a book with a cup of tea. I imagine the kids spend a lot of time in this room with their friends.

Laundry room

The laundry room behind the back stairs to the kitchen. With such a large family and summer visitors like Harry and Hermione, the laundry room is constantly busy. This magical tub washes the clothing, towels, and linens, then rings them through the mangle, and magically hangs them to dry.

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Gramophone in the family room is ready to play records, and the bookshelf contains plenty of reading.

Herb Garden

Mrs. Weasley's magical herb garden. Some of the plants are for cooking and some for potions. All the plants are made from moss, plastic greenery, and found materials. Pots are also found objects or created from polymer clay.

Fred & George's stuff

Cabinet drawers in Fred and George's work area burst with joke shop products. It was fun to find things to stuff in the drawers.

garden broom shed

Garden shed that houses broomsticks. Harry met with Dumbledore in this shed.

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The ceiling in Fred and George's room has blast marks from explosions. To make these burned areas, I glued pieces of burnt wooden matches to the walls, rubbed on some charcoal, and added black paint.

F&G workspace

Another view of the work table in Fred and George's room, covered with potions and plans.

Charlie's old room with dragons

Charlie's old room is completely devoted to dragons. He has dragon posters, models of dragons, dragon-scaled pillow and dresser cloth, and even dragon tiles on the floor. The books are about dragons.

Bathroom upstairs

Bathroom on 4th floor. The bathroom fixtures are "Tootsie Toys" painted white. We got boxed lot of these 1930's metal toys from eBay for a really low price, because they were so beat up, and I used them all over the house, even the ones with missing legs or other features gone. I wanted a "heavily used" look for the Weasleys' lived-in home. The towels and rug are snippets of terry cloth. The toilet roll was made by wrapping tissue paper on a paper clip.

Bathroom with rubber duck

Bathroom on 2nd floor with rubber duck in bathtub. These miniature fixtures were magnets I found at the grocery store many years ago. They were just the right size for this house.

Magical broom and dust pan at workJPG

Magical broom and dust pan sweep up.

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Another view of the magical broom.

Ginny's dresser

Ginny's dresser has a large ceramic owl (a bead), necklace (more beads), and posters (from the internet).

Fred and George lair

Fred and George's lair, with suit of armor (wearing Gryffindor scarf) standing guard.

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Fred and George's bathroom is covered with wet towels and features a "U No Poo" poster from Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. Yet another staircase is on the right.

Fred & Goerge from outside

A bucket on a pulley dangles from Fred and George's window. They use this bucket to haul things up and down from their room, at least until the come of age and can legally use magic to transport things.

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Fred and George have a journal of ideas, lists of ingredients, and notes on experiments for various products they are planning for their wizarding joke shop.

Bricked window

Inexpert but charming brickwork illustrates the cobbled-together nature of the Burrow.

Fred & George roomJPG

Fred and George's beds have handmade sheets, pillows, and quilts, but they are rarely made, because F&G don't want to waste time tidying when there is experimentation to do. Their bedroom walls have stains and scars from frequent explosions and scouring off blast marks. A Weasleys Wizard Wheezes poster (from the internet) and Union Jack adorn the walls.

F&G's suit of armor

A suit of armor adorned with a Gryffindor scarf stands just outside Fred and George's room.

F&G workspace

A cauldron sits in front of Fred & George's work room table, which is crowded with potions and spell books. The floor is burned with blast marks from experiments.

Ginny's desk and school trunk

Ginny's desk and school trunk. The quilt is handmade.

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Scabbers the rat sits on Ron's bed.

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Ron's old teddy bear that Fred and George once changed into a spider.

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Ron's room with Chudley Cannons posters. Other Harry Potter fans made these posters, which I found on the internet and reduced to the proper scale for Ron's room.

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Ron's room

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Sign on Ron's door in the attic.

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Comic books featuring "The Adventures of Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle" in Ron's room. Another Harry Potter fan designed these comic pages and posted them on the internet.

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A fat frog sits in an aquarium by the window in Ron's room. The aquarium is a recycled item that I filled with clear glue and green fuzzy thread to look like pond scum and frog spawn.

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Step ladder and old chair in attic outside Ron's room. This little ladder was my dad's when he was a child. It is the perfect size.

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I made these chairs out of card board and fabric scraps. I found a pattern on the internet. for constructing these little armchairs. The chair legs are beads.

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