THE DOLLHOUSE - PART 3.

Several of you have written to me, asking for updates on my dollhouse. I finally got my husband, John, to take some new pictures. The poor man actually hauled this huge creation outside, in order to get some full-length shots that wouldn't be cluttered with the furniture in our family room, which is where my dollhouse is currently residing.

We've made quite a bit of progress since the last time I blogged about my dollhouse. The exterior is now pretty much complete, including the weathervane on the tower and the installation of the four porch lights, which have been wired (John hard wired them---more about that in a later blog), so they actually work. The dollhouse on the top is mine; the one on the bottom is from the Dura-craft San Franciscan Dollhouse box, which shows the original model.

As you can see, we've made some modifications to the original---raising the roof of the tower, adding a dormer (which gives the smallest room inside a lot more space), and doing some extra trim. The crescent moon over the top door is there because I've named my dollhouse Crescent Moon House. An Irish seer is going to live in this house. I'll tell you about her and show you pictures of her in a later blog, as well.



John didn't realize the front door was open when he took these pictures of my dollhouse. The fact that some of the window tops are down, however, illustrates one of the problems with the Dura-Craft San Franciscan Dollhouse. The windows are very difficult to install and require a great deal of tweaking over time in order to get them to open and close just right. Three of them still need a little adjusting. Some people get so frustrated by this that they simply glue all the windows shut. But we decided to have them all work.

Here is another shot, showing the dormer we added. Right now, we have my dollhouse set up on a small worktable, which you can also see in these pictures. But eventually, it will have a permanent base, with a lawn and a gazebo.



Our next task is to continue work on the interior.

Read: The Irish Seer.
Read: The Dollhouse - Part 2.
Read: The Dollhouse.