Finest Dollhouses and Miniatures
This dining room was inspired by a photograph in a Godey's LadyBook magazine from the 1800's that I inherited from my Grandma. The basic box is copied after a design for a smaller room box in a class given by Brooke Tucker in the early 1980s..
1985 house This house represents the territorial/ranch style house I designed for my growing family and built in the early 1970s. Although the real house was of slump block and was one-story, this dollhouse is 2 stories and is stuccoed. I've started collecting and placing the items in the proper rooms, but I haven't made a lot of progress, probably because I would prefer that it be made to look more like the real house. |
1955 house This house has been modified from the Open House by House that Jack Built.. It reminded me of the house that I lived in as a child in Iowa, so has been decorated in that style. I enclosed the open sides and roofs of the house and am still working on the "engineering" for hinges and lighting. It seems like I get nearly done with every house, except the stairways. 1955 PHOTO |
| 1945 house This house really reminded me of my Aunt Phyllis's house in a small town in western Iowa. She was a great cook and make incredible candy in her tiny little kitchen. 1945 PHOTO |
1935 house This house has also been modified from a House that Jack Built. It reminded me of the 'house across the road' from the farm where my family lived during my junior and senior high school years. My grandma and grandpa came home to Iowa from California every summer and lived in this very old house with minimal furniture. 1935 PHOTO . |
1925 house This house will eventually be a Chicago brownstone decorated for the 1920s. The house was originally a partially build kit from the xxx plans. Although I have selected the wall paper and furniture, much remains to be done, including the brick siding, staircases, electricity, and repairing the warped doors. My mother lived in Chicago as a child during the Depression, and her cousin lived in a similar house when I visited them. This dollhouse represents what a rich couple would have had during Prohibition. 1925 PHOTO . |
1895 farm house This dollhouse is a near replica of the farmhouse I lived in in the 1950s in Iowa. This dollhouse was the first dollhouse that I built, starting in 1976, and finishing in 1991, when I displayed it at the Phoenix NAME show (the one where everyone sweltered in the extreme summer heat). I built this dollhouse totally from scratch. I had no plans, but had slides of the real house taken at right angles to the sides. I shone the slides on a piece of paper and backed up the slide projector until the purchased windows were the same size as those in the slide. 1895 farm house This house is decorated as if a wealthy farm family lived there with grown daughters returning with their family for a dinner celebrating the graduation of the young daugter. |
| 1895 city house This is an upgraded Beacon Hill kit that someone had nearly finished and had for sale at the Old Pueblo Miniatures Store in Tucson. There is still a lot to be done, mainly the lighting, and wallpaper. Thank heavens that person did the stairs. 1895 city house This house is decorated as if it were a wealthy family in San Francisco (perhaps a mining mogul, to keep to the theme of houses and time periods to which I have an emotional tie). |
1785 house This dollhouse kit is really two kits, which are supposed to be two halves of a colonial house similar to the old house of Abigail and John Adams in Massachusetts. Although I have never lived in the east, I have always had the highest respect for the "Founding Fathers" and their supportive spouses. 1785 house . |