My New Dollhouse

New to me.

The front facade. It’s crooked because in this picture it’s lying on a hand cart.

7/15/21

This is so exciting: I bought a used dollhouse! This is perfect because my least favorite part is building the dollhouse — in this case, it’s already built. The facade needs some repairs and such, but I felt like starting on interior decorating. Today I painted primer inside.

I didn’t think to ask the seller about the dollhouse’s past — I’m so excited about its future. It looks like a child may have painted the interior, because the paint missed a few spots.

The dollhouse is Victorian style with a tower and mansard roof. I need to put some trim back on the exterior and do some other improvements… but I feel more like working on the interior — in other words, interior decorating on 1:12 scale (one inch equals one foot).

The interior before I started working on it

While painting, I started making up a story about the house. In the year 1884, Millicent the Aesthete inherited a farmhouse in Pennsylvania. She and her lifelong companion Jocelyn moved in and turned their new home into an artist community. There’s a large barn on the property, and they’ve converted it to a studio.

7/16/21