French doll house

The Miniature French House added a new photo.

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The Miniature French House added a new photo.

My French Dollhouse, The Petite Maison, is a work in progress. The exterior is looking so much more French now! This is the dollhouse how I found it at the consignment shop. It was nicely built from plywood, with the exterior painted, but not much else. When I saw it, I thought the roofline looked very French, and I could modify the house to give it that Frenchy look. I also knew I needed to replace the railing system that was on the little roof deck area. ( Inspiration: a real French…

A night shot showing the interior three floors lit up, of the French Gothic Tower.

My new house is French Kiss, a 1/12 scale custom dollhouse with lots of French flair. This house measures 15 1/2" deep x 16 1/2" across x 20 1/2" tall. The interior is for downstairs including the conservatory : 12" deep with an extra 1" at the door. 15 1/2" across x 8 1/4" tall. The conservatory by itself is 4 1/4" x 11" deep x 9 3/4" at the tallest part. The upstairs is 11 3/8" x 11 3/4" x 8 1/2" tall. French Kiss dollhouse is available in my Etsy shop: www.cinderellamoments.etsy.com

Well, almost... just a few final touches yet to do like attaching doorknobs, cleaning windows, adding the shop name ... I'm not sure if I've over-done the dirt and grime, just a little :) It certainly looks rather less pristine than it did in this pic posted last May It's been a good project to work on recently when it's been too hot to work on pieces that need concentration and precision in measurement and putting together (although I must admit the French windows and doors fall into this…

Art historians Susie Rogers and Kevin Mulvany (pictured) spent a year working on the miniature shop on the Boulevard St Germain in Paris, which has t...

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This is the current 'state of play' in the French apartment bedroom, it's taken a long time to get this far! I started fiddling with possible furniture placements in 2015! This was at the beginning of lots of moves with full-time housesitting so it was put into storage for a while at that point and didn't come out again until 2016 when I started playing around with wallpapers finally settling on the pink before it went back into storage AGAIN. Fast-forward to 2020 and we finally have a…

This was the first building I ever built when I joined a Miniatures club that happened to meet once a month just around the corner from my house. When I joined the club they were building a row of Victorian shops for their biennial show. It was a good way to learn the basics of miniature building. It also made me realise I never want to make or glue hundreds of sandpaper bricks ever again! And there's the delightful Liberty when she was two and a half years old back in 2007. Time really does…

French dollhouse (jt-one of Caroline Hamilton and Jane Fiddick's dolls houses - they used to have the most wonderful display at the Kensington Festival - visit for lots more pics)

Creating my own miniature pieces for the dollhouse is exciting. There is a big learning curve, as miniature making is fiddly work, and requires patience and precision. Behold the French Dressing Screen! Sitting at my desk, I created this screen out of paper and paint, with the exception of the legs, which are made from dollhouse staircase balusters. Bristol Paper, which is heavy card stock, is cut according to a pattern found in my favorite book on miniatures: The Big Book of a Miniature…

I have to admit, this has been a strange week. My usual schedule; my comfort schedule, has purposefully been altered. This is the longest I've gone without sharing a blog post in the last almost 5 years. (Even when I've been in the hospital I've managed to get my hands on my computer) It felt a little like mourning, a little like freedom. But either way it's something I knew I had to do. I said I'd post when I had something interesting to share with you all, and right now even though I have…