I went to the AllesKlein dollhouse fair in Rotterdam yesterday
It was a cozy fair with many different types of stalls
I got some advice about lighting for the dollhouse and immediately
bought a transformer, some wire, and my first lamp for the basement
The furniture I bought includes two cabinets for the library,
a cabinet for the parlor, kitchen, and basement,
and a school desk for the children’s room
Additionally, a standing coat rack, two fireplaces,
a drying rack with clothes, a spinning wheel, a grain bin,
linens, plants, tiles, and the tiniest paint roller
For the kitchen and pantry, tins, jars, and lots of food items and
each one a little “work of art.”
Sometimes I find it unbelievable to see
what some people are able to create
Soon there will even be a delicious breakfast in bed
At The Mini Factory, I bought a cute tray with a tiny teapot,
plate, and cutlery, along with a rack of toasted bread
If you watch the video, you can see all my purchases accompanied by music
I thought I already had a lot of miniatures, but furnishing
14 rooms still requires quite a bit more
Freubellientje sells all this beautiful food
Once my cabinet arrives, I can place everything on
the correct floor and get a little glimpse of how the dollhouse will look
For now, I know exactly what to ask for my birthday
I bought all sorts of fun things for the kitchen:
a wooden kitchen table, bags of flour, sugar, and grain,
a bread knife, a cleaver, a butter mold, spice jars,
a water jug, and a small milk can
There’s also a delicious platter with pancakes,
a round loaf of bread, baguettes, and tasty sausages on the table
A few slices of salami have already been cut to taste
I sprinkled the breads and pancakes with talcum powder
to make them look even more “real”
By restoring old dollhouse furniture that I already had,
I started delving deeper into the miniature world
Like many others, I caught the “dollhouse bug”
After that, I began buying dollhouse books and miniatures,
refurbishing miniatures, and sometimes even making them myself
I don’t have space for a very large dollhouse and wasn’t quite
sure what to do with all the miniatures I had collected
In the meantime, quite a few miniatures are stored away in boxes
in a cabinet, which I find a bit of a shame because they’re so fun to look at
During my visit to the XXSmall dollhouse exhibition in The Hague,
I saw Maria de Vogel’s dollhouse displayed in a cabinet,
and that seemed like a perfect solution to me
After that, I searched online for a suitable display cabinet,
but unfortunately, there wasn’t one that met my requirements
I wanted an old pine cabinet with only one door
and as much glass as possible
In addition, there could be only 25 cm of space between
the shelves; otherwise, the ceilings would be too high
I also wanted wheels underneath so I could easily
turn the cabinet to work on the wiring at the back
I then started calculating and drawing, and found a cabinetmaker
who will make the display cabinet according to my specifications
I still have a few weeks to wait before the cabinet is ready,
but I hope it turns out as I have envisioned
The advantage of the display cabinet is that it fits in the living room
I can already place all my miniatures inside,
even before I’ve created the rooms
Then all the miniatures can finally be seen,
and they’ll also stay dust-free
In addition, the cabinet will have a lock, so curious little hands
won’t have a chance to put the miniatures in their mouths
I want to create a French house from the early 1900s
with 14 rooms inside the cabinet
For the time being, I’ll be busy crafting for years to come,
as I want to try to make as much as possible myself
I’m now busy planning the interior, and I’m
already having a lot of fun doing it
This house was designed by New York architect
Peter Wheelwright and his wife, photographer Laurie Simmons
The house is made of plexiglass and plastic
It’s a cheerful playhouse with transparent colored sliding walls,
which create ever-changing colors like in a kaleidoscope
The layout, with interconnected spaces,
reflects a modern family home
Famous designers contributed to the interior,
including Ron Arad and Kaiser-Newman
The dollhouse features furniture by
Jasper Morrison and Karim Rashid
It was produced in 2000 by Bozart Toys in Philadelphia,
a company that is now defunct
This house comes from a private collection
This little palace from the Museo Davia Bargellini in Bologna
is a rare example of a dollhouse from Italy
Little is known about its origin
According to an old description, there was once a card
in the hall with the name “Guiseppa Sorm,”
possibly Sormani, a noble family from Emilia
The dollhouse does not exactly replicate a real house,
but it does display characteristics of
18th-century architecture in Bologna
The frescoed ceilings in the interior and
the furniture are genuinely Italian in style
The same applies to the kitchen furnishings as well as
to the impressive canopy bed in the alcove of the
bedroom and the matching “gondola” cradle
The chests in the hall, decorated with floral garlands,
follow the tradition of the Emilia region,
and no expense was spared on gilding
The living room of a small dollhouse, consisting of two separate rooms,
gives a good impression of the Biedermeier style
This style, dating from around 1820–1850, is named after a caricature
of a respectable middle-class man called Biedermeier
It is characterized by a more restrained approach,
without excessive ornamentation, simple and honest
At the center of domestic life is a round,
single-pedestal table, surrounded by chairs
A sewing table, a drop-front secretary, a corner buffet with a top section,
a tea stove, and the inevitable bell cord are essential pieces
of furniture in a Biedermeier interior
The donor of this living room and kitchen,
Mrs. J. Hordijk-de Voogd, stated in 1905 that the interior
was based on rooms from a house on the Begijnhof in Dordrecht
The dollhouse room and kitchen, circa 1840, are part
of the collection at Huis Simon van Gijn in Dordrecht
