This is "The Darling House"Victorian Dollhouse. This house is over the top with layers of white gingerbread from the lattice foundation to the peaks of the roof. The house color is kind of a light wet sand tone with light accents of two shades of an aqua teal . Clean crisp white give it a lace quality, and is soft against the sand tone of the house. The garden style flowers are all done in soft tones of pinks, creams, and lavenders. The fancy laser fence just adds another layer to the texture and pattern of the porch gingerbread. The house has two stained glass windows. One in the oval front door and the other in the octagon gable window. They have pink flowers and green leaves in the design. The hanging baskets are white washed wicker with pink geraniums, fillers and caladium leaves. Now lets step inside the first floor. The aqua pallet flows through every room. Just a touch of aqua tones can be found it each room. Now let's go upstairs…. This house is a girly girly house for sure. A small to medium size house with decent size rooms for decorating and a friendly footprint. The yummy laser cuts came from Heritage Laser, and just made the little house come alive. I had days of painting gingerbread laid out on trays, but, when I began adding it on the porch, the house just started getting this amazing personality. I seriously just worked on it almost straight through with little sleep finishing the outside! It was just so fun. icing on the cake for sure, every addition was just to exciting. I actually got up at 5:00 AM one morning to make window boxes, I just could not stay in bed another moment. Guess after making so many houses it is still fun to know that they are just as exciting to me as ever. Love this Dollhousing hobby!
I am working on a couple of commissions one of which is Place Conti custom dollhouse. This is a 1/12 scale house. This house is 24" across x 14 3/4" deep x 20 1/2" tall. Downstairs is 8 5/8" tall. I am finishing up the next house. I hope you are all having a great Summer! Thanks for the visit!
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When I was young my Papa built the most incredible dollhouse for me and I loved it with all of my heart. But at the time (pre-Internet shopping … shocking!), dollhouse furniture was expensive and hard to come by; so much of the dollhouse’s interior remained unfinished. However, in today’s world of sharing DIY ideas, […]
La Maisonnette French Dollhouse This darling project was from a vintage kit that I found last year on Ebay. It is dated 1986 and was manufactured in France. How fun is that! It actually was the most beautiful wood I have ever worked with in a kit. It assembled differently than another kits, which seems hard to believe that anything so simple at this point could actually stump me construction wise, but I took pause more than once. You will notice this house having many different textures used on the outside. Each unique texture adds another layer of interest. From smooth to chunky, and gray to pink, all coming together to give it a great visual experience. The textures on the outside of the house give it a bit of an earthy, country feeling. The inside is done in very clean, fresh, feminine colors and prints. Here is an overview of the inside design. The first floor rooms in detail. Second floor detail views. Decoupage paper cutouts on the doors. Up to the attic. Fun French newsprint wallpaper. The color selections for the gardens, were chosen in only a close feminine pallet of pinks and crisp white. With so much color going on in the inside of the house, the garden flowers needed to not compete with them. A round flower bed seemed a good style, and the sun dial could be replaced with an elegant tall statue, or bird bath for a different venue. Detail garden pictures. Each house always develops a little personality. Sometimes not the one I had planned for it. When that happens I always let the house decide. Some houses are elegant, others homey and cozy, but this house is happy. My Key West house that I have in my dinning room has a nice rocking chair beside it, and I can sit there with a cup of tea, and in 10 minutes, it is like I took a mini vacation. This house has that same feeling, it takes you away into it, and it makes you feel.....Happy. I loved every moment i worked on it.
Greetings Friends, I have been so very busy this past year that I haven't taken much time to post new pictures and highlights from my dollhouse builds. So today is the day! I will be posting lots of pictures so I hope you enjoy! Here is the Alison Dollhouse with the two story addition done in my package C finishing. I made this for Judy. She chose to have the house painted in gray with burgandy door, shutters and window boxes. We also added my handmade window valances to the finished interior. Lovely!
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Perfect in every detail, the Queen's Dolls' House at Windsor Castle is one of the largest in the world. The Dolls’ House, which now belongs to Queen Mary’s granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II, is a creation unlike any other. Designed for Queen Mary by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the 1:12 scale dolls’ house stands 8ft 5ins wide, 4ft 8ins deep and 5ft high and features all the comforts required in a stately home of the period, with a few regal extras such as the strong room for the crown jewels. The house, finished in 1924, was a gift to Queen Mary in thanks for her presence in World War I. This exquisite structure is filled to its royal rafters with the work, in miniature, of the finest artists and artisans, craftsmen and manufacturers of early 20th-century Britain. "The most perfect present that anyone could receive", wrote the Queen to all those involved in its creation. The house was in display at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley and then a year later, it was taken in 45 boxes weighing four and a half tons, to the Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia in west Kensington. Finally, in July 1925, it was put on show in Windsor Castle, in a room specially designed by Lutyens. There it has remained ever since. It is definitely among the highlights of a visit to Windsor Castle. Queen Elizabeth II was given the Dolls' House by it's original owner, her grandmother, Queen Mary. Mary of Teck was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominians, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V. She is the grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. This five-foot-high, 40 room miniature mansion is priceless. From the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost in the garage to the original works by Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling, it is a perfectly preserved piece of history. Exterior view of the Palladian style house. There is a hidden garden revealed only when a vast drawer is pulled out from beneath the main building. This has replicas of greenery and garden implements and follows a traditional ornamental garden theme. There is also a landscaped garden complete with a functional lawnmower designed by famed gardener of the time, Gertrude Jekyll. The Grand Entrance Hall and Staircase are finished in real marble. The painting on the landing walls is by William Nicholson. It depicts Adam and Eve being cast from the Garden of Eden. The jewellers Cartier built a longcase clock for the marble hallway.The clock’s chimes can be heard upon every hour. In the Salon, the largest room in the house, under the silk canopy sits two thrones. Here in the Drawing Room there are portraits of both King George V and Queen Mary on either side of the fine marble chimney piece. Every room has a working fireplace.The ceiling was painted by Charles Sims The house contains finely carved Adam and Chippendale furniture. The Dining Room has a table and chairs made of walnut. The table can extend from 5 inches to twenty inches. The screen, which hides the servants entrance into the dining room, was made by Cartier.The linen table cloth was made in Belfast and is an exact copy of a table cloth used in Buckingham Palace. Much of the silverware was made by Garrard and Co. A fine dinner service was also donated by Doulton. A fine dinner service was also donated by Doulton. Wedgwood provided porcelain dishes The Queen's Bedroom. This room is finished in grey damask and there is a mirrored ceiling! With running water, electricity, two working elevators, and many other delights, there can be no question that this is a dollhouse fit for a queen. The house which is a piece of art itself, 750 works of art spanning from Victorian and pre-Raphaelite. Vanity from the Queen's Bedroom The carpets and curtains in the doll’s house are all copies of real carpets and curtains. The Queen's Sitting Room, on the second floor. It is furnished and decorated in a Chinese style with walls are painted by Edmund Dulac. The glass cabinets are copies of those used by Queen Mary and are filled with miniature carvings in jade and amber alongside small ceramic ware pieces. The chairs are carved and painted to simulate bamboo. The library includes original works by the top literary names of the day. Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy and A.A. Milne, produced original hand-written works for the library.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a Sherlock Holmes story, How Watson Learned the Trick, especially for the Dolls' House. Desk from the Library The King's Bedroom is on the first floor, It is the central room in a suite, which also includes a dressing room and bathroom. The bedroom is dominated by the state bed, with beautiful silk damask, and a finely embroidered royal coat of arms, donated by the Royal School of Needlework. The Doll's House even includes running hot and cold water and flushing lavatories. The Nursery In the kitchen, 2,500 tiny sections of oak recreate a wood-block floor, a copper kettle made out of a King George V penny, with the King’s head on its base, sits on the stove,On the kitchen table is a tin a Coleman's Mustard and Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce. By the sink are tiny tins of Lifebuoy and Sunlight soap.The kitchen whimsically includes a cat and trapped mice. The Housekeeper’s Room. The domestic quarters and the rooms below stairs were given as much attention as the grand rooms above. And behind a gate in the strongroom lie tiny copies of the Crown Jewels, weighing 1.5lbs rather than the real thing of 1.5tons. The house also includes a fully stocked wine cellar filled with 200 bottles of Chateau Lafitte 1875 and five dozen bottles of Veueve Clicquot. The house includes a five bay garage which contains a Daimler and a 1923 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost limousine built especially by those companies for the house. Click here to see the previous post! http://eyefordesignlfd.blogspot.com/2013/08/decorate-with-mirror-walls.html This blog post was published by Lisa Farmer
Here it is! The Christmas dollhouse I call the "Quintessential Cottage." By the way, I hear the Google translator is not defining quintess...
Hi Everyone, I just wanted to share what I have been working on for the past couple of weeks! This is the Mansion as I am calling it. I bought it for myself to keep but it sat in the closet for a year. I wanted to actually keep one house for myself and to have a place for all the miniatures and furniture I have been collecting over the past couple of years from the Denver Miniature Shows and Auctions I go to. I kept looking at the Mansion thinking its just to plain and Boring on the outside-picture is on the right. So before I could add the lighting and miniatures I had to give the house a Facelift. I made little window planter boxes and created flowers for all the boxes, then I decided the front door needed something over it since there was a huge Nothing but wall above it. So I created a Copper Awning out of Balsa wood and wood strips and lots of Copper paint. Then I added lots of shutters. Then I Taught Myself how to make Trees and Shrubs in the front of the house to give it more character, there is a close up picture below of the trees. I am not completely finished with the house, but as usual I am realizing the house is just to big for my house and no good area to display it so I am contemplating putting it up for sale on E-bay. Just the house not the furniture. I found some awesome pieces over the years such as Sonya Messer Import-Couch and 2 chairs that I found out are worth a lot, plus the bedroom set is all Bespaq and other Bespaq furniture around the house. But MY FAVORITE OF THEM ALL is the furniture done by Laura Crain, whom was also selling her furniture at the show--such as in the kitchen of this house the table with the bread and cheeses, and the table and chairs in the kitchen and also lots more of her distressed furniture throughout the mansion. Laura which is such a nice lady and her friend bought the 2 large Tudor Houses right of the bat from my sales table this year. Then I was admiring her furniture pieces she created and she Traded me another house I had for the equal value of her Furniture- I was in Miniature Heaven picking out furniture from her table. I hope you enjoy the pictures. Happy Fall Everyone and Have a Wonderful October First Floor Living Room Second Floor Living Room. Second Floor Living Room The Upstairs Hallway The Entry Way This is one of the Sonya Messer vintage chairs I think is beautifully crafted. The couch and chair on the left is also Sonya Messer. I also found a whole box full more of Sonya Messer furniture I purchased at an auction. I truly love the little hand painted painting I put on the walls. I keep meaning to look up the artist name on the back of them to see if they might be valuable since I also purchased the artwork at an auction. I have been saving the Bespaq bedroom set for years for the right house. I found the Dress on the mannequin on the left at an auction which still had a price tag of $100. Someone worked really hard creating it cause up close its nice work. Someone hand made the dolls on the bed and chair and up close are very really looking! The Dinning Room The Kitchen My first attempt at making a realistic looking tree for the outside of the house. Nobody sells them the larger sizes I need and that also look realistic. I created this from 2 stems of greenery I bought at Hobby Lobby and I cut them apart and wrapped them around the main wire the greenery came with and then individually added each branch and wrapping its wire around the main wire, then I wrapped each branch with brown floral tape and Walla-a tree. I think it looks better then just flocking wires with glue and green fluff. The shrubs this time I created out of Large Think Scrubbing Pads I bought at Home Depot, I cut them to the basic shapes and then sprayed with glue and dipped in green landscaping fluff.
Seeing how much I loved the stonework on her previous houses, Robin sent me photos of the Willowcrest she had made for Dean Roberts from Greenleaf. The Willowcrest is one of my favorite Greenleaf kits because of its architectural details, and Robin's meticulous brickwork makes this one so very special!
Here's my new favorite dollhouse! And this one will be featured in a local magazine! http://digital.turn-page.com/title/4248 Reverie...
Here it is! The Christmas dollhouse I call the "Quintessential Cottage." By the way, I hear the Google translator is not defining quintess...
Julie's dolls house blog
This is "The Darling House"Victorian Dollhouse. This house is over the top with layers of white gingerbread from the lattice foundation t...
The exterior of the Thumbelina has been painted, and the siding has been glued on. I will be gluing down the loose siding and add more pink paint when I come back around. I was once told in college that you have to keep the entire art piece a working project. Do not do one part and be finished. The piece has to flow together. The drapery treatments are in, but I have to go back and clean them up. I used satin and lace to execute them. I added extra gingerbread window trim from some movable attic windows. Victorian houses were typically built with differentiating trims in the early 1900's. The little resin wreaths add French appeal. I was very excited to find them! Adding detailed wood trim has been fun. Being an interior designer I love little details. The crystal door knobs add something extra special to The Thumbelina.
My newest dollhouse is The Old Country house. This is a 2 story custom house built from scratch. On this house I used a ready made door and 2 ready square dormer windows. All the other windows are custom. This dollhouse is 19 1/2" tall(including the chimney) x 13" wide x 14 3/4" deep. The colors are a light taupe for the siding with white trims and a light grey roof. The chimney is concrete. I am including mailboxes on all my houses since I made the trailer! I just love them. I also made a little crate and 3 flower boxes. The underside of the porch turned out fantastic with the planks looking all weathered. And this porch has a swing. I had not done a swing in quite some time. The battery and switch and hidden in the chimney. The siding is birch. There is only one coat of paint on the siding. It gave a marvelous vintage look with the grain of the wood showing through. The chair is my own creation. As it the little wooden table, chandeliers, rug, clay houses, paintings, box of photos. The stairs are purchased. I also purchased this little metal table from the fairy garden department at Hobby Lobby. The little chair that comes with it is on the porch. The box of photos is something I saw on Pinterest. Easy to do! This is a pie cabinet sold at Hobby Lobby. It comes in a brown finish. I stripped off all the varnish and repainted it white, aged it with brown ink and finished it off with random grey paint streaks. The dot paper I used in the door is a translucent paper from Michael's Craft store(scrapbook). The ceiling is scrapbook textured paper which has been aged with a brown ink pad. This is the area in front of the stair landing. Super aged, super vintage! Upstairs I made a bed, a bench a clay house and books. The nightstand is a purchased piece. I removed 2 drawers for a more rustic look. All the curtains are sprayed with hairspray so they stay perfectly in place and draping like real curtains. The chandelier is crystal seed beads. You can find the tutorial by clicking the tutorial tab at the top of the page. These little benches are easy to make and add tons of character to a room. I made a messy bedding this time. My last house had the bed perfectly made. Someone has already jumped in this one to read a book. :) I made these 4 sketches of villages and sealed them with modge podge. That's my dollhouse! I am listing it on Etsy.(cinderellamoments.etsy.com) Thank you so much for your company! I hope you have a wonderful day.
Welcome to Little Darlings! Are you looking for a beautiful dollhouse to call your own? Or one for a special little darling in your life? Then look no further! I offer beautiful handcrafted heirloom quality dollhouses for all ages. I have several dollhouse models to choose from. Take your pick- every one's a little darling!
This was one of the first houses I did, and the first attempt at doing the flowers. My gardens have improved greatly since this humble attempt! This house sold on eBay year before last. This will be my 4th year for making dollhouses. ~ R0bin Carey
This is "The Darling House"Victorian Dollhouse. This house is over the top with layers of white gingerbread from the lattice foundation to the peaks of the roof. The house color is kind of a light wet sand tone with light accents of two shades of an aqua teal . Clean crisp white give it a lace quality, and is soft against the sand tone of the house. The garden style flowers are all done in soft tones of pinks, creams, and lavenders. The fancy laser fence just adds another layer to the texture and pattern of the porch gingerbread. The house has two stained glass windows. One in the oval front door and the other in the octagon gable window. They have pink flowers and green leaves in the design. The hanging baskets are white washed wicker with pink geraniums, fillers and caladium leaves. Now lets step inside the first floor. The aqua pallet flows through every room. Just a touch of aqua tones can be found it each room. Now let's go upstairs…. This house is a girly girly house for sure. A small to medium size house with decent size rooms for decorating and a friendly footprint. The yummy laser cuts came from Heritage Laser, and just made the little house come alive. I had days of painting gingerbread laid out on trays, but, when I began adding it on the porch, the house just started getting this amazing personality. I seriously just worked on it almost straight through with little sleep finishing the outside! It was just so fun. icing on the cake for sure, every addition was just to exciting. I actually got up at 5:00 AM one morning to make window boxes, I just could not stay in bed another moment. Guess after making so many houses it is still fun to know that they are just as exciting to me as ever. Love this Dollhousing hobby!
This is "The Darling House"Victorian Dollhouse. This house is over the top with layers of white gingerbread from the lattice foundation to the peaks of the roof. The house color is kind of a light wet sand tone with light accents of two shades of an aqua teal . Clean crisp white give it a lace quality, and is soft against the sand tone of the house. The garden style flowers are all done in soft tones of pinks, creams, and lavenders. The fancy laser fence just adds another layer to the texture and pattern of the porch gingerbread. The house has two stained glass windows. One in the oval front door and the other in the octagon gable window. They have pink flowers and green leaves in the design. The hanging baskets are white washed wicker with pink geraniums, fillers and caladium leaves. Now lets step inside the first floor. The aqua pallet flows through every room. Just a touch of aqua tones can be found it each room. Now let's go upstairs…. This house is a girly girly house for sure. A small to medium size house with decent size rooms for decorating and a friendly footprint. The yummy laser cuts came from Heritage Laser, and just made the little house come alive. I had days of painting gingerbread laid out on trays, but, when I began adding it on the porch, the house just started getting this amazing personality. I seriously just worked on it almost straight through with little sleep finishing the outside! It was just so fun. icing on the cake for sure, every addition was just to exciting. I actually got up at 5:00 AM one morning to make window boxes, I just could not stay in bed another moment. Guess after making so many houses it is still fun to know that they are just as exciting to me as ever. Love this Dollhousing hobby!
I have to say, my favorite in this house has to be the stained glass, and the flowers that are everywhere! Also my favorite: the awesome marble floor. The delicate railings, the sweet pink and floral wallpapers remind me of sugar and spice and everything nice. I am sure Miss Muffet is positively delighted to live in this house. No spiders allowed though ... tame or otherwise!
My sister has a dollhouse like this, but crappier.
