I get asked all the time where I find my ideas for my furniture kits. All my kits are miniaturized reproductions of real furniture, and there are a couple of places I like to find pieces to reproduce.

Museums

Not everybody can visit a lot of museums all the time, including me. So I turn to museum collections websites! Most large museums, and many small museums, post their collections online in searchable databases. If they've fully catalogued them, each entry will include photos, a description, historical information, and (importantly) dimensions. 

Not only can you look at furniture that the museum has collected, you can also often find design drawings, room illustrations, and furniture seen in photographs and artworks.

The kangaroo chair kit is an example of one I saw at a museum.

Auctions

Another place I like to find furniture to reproduce is at auctions. If you live near an auction house, you can attend a preview day before a live auction, and view pieces in person. I have definitely been the crazy person shamelessly lying on the ground measuring the underside of a china cabinet! If you don't live near an auction, you can browse items that are selling soon, or have already sold, and sites like LiveAuctioneers. 

I like auctions best for finding everyday furniture and accessories--the stuff that doesn't make it into museums.

The washstand kit is one I originally found in an auction listing.

Old Catalogs

Another of my favorite sources for finding furniture, accessories, and even building components are old catalogs, which I mostly look at through Archive.org. In the 19th and 20th centuries, mail-order catalogs were a huge part of commerce, with people able to even get whole home kits delivered by train. The catalogs had illustrations (or later, photographs), materials, descriptions, and often dimensions. In the 18th century, design books started to become available, and those are also on Archive.org!

The bar cart kit was taken from a catalog advertisement.