WIP baking day c. 1914


Here is a room I’ve been working on for a while. It was inspired by a photo on Shorpy.com from the same period, though the baking of Irish Soda Bread in a cast iron skillet is direct from my own heritage. It’s what a kitchen might have looked like on the Canadian prairie about 100 years ago.

Any suggestions or comments would be most welcome.

Very nice, you’ve added a lot of nice details. The stove looks really nice…what type of metal did they use on those? I wonder if it should have a little more roughness/displacement.

Thanks for the reply and the compliment.

Stoves in those days were heavy cast iron. The few I’ve seen in real life had such a finely pitted texture on them that you would have to be within a foot or two and under the right lighting to see it. In reality, a camera wouldn’t pick it up at this distance.


An updated version - the bumpmapping on the table was way overblown, so I toned it down and dropped the saturation. I also increased the grunge on the stove a little. There were also some knot holes on the back wall that at a glance looked like a repeating texture, so I cloned them out.

Aren’t those Andrew’s breads? :smiley:
Anyway something is missing. I don’t know maybe volumetric scattering. I’m not really sure.