Dolls houses and miniatures - house I house II house III

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Dolls houses - a world in miniature, something to create just the way you want it. Sometimes the scale is not quite right, sometimes 1:10, sometimes 1:12 but it doesn't really matter, does it? I mean, you can put the flower pot on the floor and turn it into a floor vase.... This is house no. 1 - what I call the house from the fourties. It is, of course, not quite stylistically correct, here you also find older things and younger. The house was hauled from a jumble sale in triumph and was renovated 15 years ago.
Bedroom You can't see so many details here, the chamber pots and the alarm clock are hidden. The stove is home made and so is the wallpaper (old paint and the backside of old wallpaper) The pictures are hard to get right. As a miniature lover, you want to see details but the photographs have to be reduced in size and then sometimes they get fuzzy.
Living-room The red armchair is marked "model by architect J Udd". Sometimes you see these armchairs on the market, but they are not common. Perhaps this J Udd made models to customers before the real armchair was made, who knows.... Anyway, it looks good together with a Jacobsen foot-stool since it seems to be the exact same colour. I am really proud of the Art Nouveau clock, since there is one just like it on the museum Kulturen in Lund where I live. The wallpaper is really old, from a very old cottage in Småland.
Living-room II The musician to the right is supposed to have a violin in the hand, where did it go? And furthermore, he has moved from the music room downstairs. It is hard to do dolls so that is a finished chapter. Everywhere in the house there are photographs from my childhood in small old frames. Have you ever bought cherry wine from Denmark with real brass wine glasses glued to the bottle? Right, that's where I picked them!
Dining-room On the hat-stand to the left, there is a sign: "Position obtainable for a cleaning lady. Board and lodging included!" The dust is everywhere! The china is coated with material from the inside of a vacuum flask, something we used in Sweden in the beginning of the century. It is called "poor man's silver". The furniture from Renwal, USA
Dining-room 2 and a music room The candles are real, fun but extremely hard to do, dipping sewing-thread in paraffin. What a triumph! On the table is a bunch of grapes made from hobby clay and a real bunch of grapes (the small parts, of course). On the wall hangs a barometer made from a strange brass thing I found in a drawer. This is where you are supposed to sit and play music. The small wedding couple is really old and from a wedding cake.
The kitchen is perhaps the most fun to busy onself with? The crispbread in the roof comes from big round crispbread. They often have holes in the middle where the bakes punch out small pieces and often you can find such pieces in the package. A lot of details, moulds, a lead coffee pot , a tortoise-shell brush on the floor, kitchen utensils and bread from salt dough. There is also a tile from Delft. The chairs are from Germany.
The larder Such fun to work with and lots of details - spices, dried herbs from the garden and the meadows, a small mouse and mouse trap, sacks with flour and potatoes, a hen, sausages and a ham hangs from the ceiling. Dry fishes made from old charms and eggs made from paper clay in an old clay bowl.

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