On Facebook you have all these groups where you can buy and sell stuff. Some even give away things. As a child I always wanted a dollhouse, but for some reason I never got one. I made my own houses with books and spend hours on building them and playing with my dolls. Now that I’m older and having a daughter of my own the dollhouse desire has come back with a vengeance. On one of those Facebook groups I found a warehouse dollhouse. When I picked it up I was a little disappointed, because it really needed a lot of tlc. However, I could still see the potential of it, so I stripped it and threw away all the rotten bits. This included the front, back and bottom. I have replaced the back and I am still working on the front and bottom bits. It is slowly getting there. I have been a little distracted by this second dollhouse. Where as the warehouse is going to be played with by Mika as soon as it’s ready, the other one is going to be Mika’s when she is much older. It will be one of those dollhouses that will remain in the family.

Here some photo’s of the warehouse

My mother told her friend Duck I was into this sort of thing and it so happened that Duck had a dollhouse, however it was was just sitting there and many people had taken furniture and bits of pieces out of the dollhouse over the years. Her intention was to one day do it up herself, but there never seem to be time for it. She gave it to me and I’m just loving it! When I got it, it had half a roof and it was extremely dirty. It had no stairs, one window, the other one missing and broken.

I made a roof here with multiplex and added roof tiles.

Stripped all the wallpaper.

Made really crooked but charming stairs.

Made a floor out of stirring stick and varnished them.

Added a banister and tiles on the kitchen floor.

This floor is my next project. It will be on the ground floor. Also made out off stirring sticks. This will take up some more time! It’s called the hungarian point.

So far on my dollhouse adventure.