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Hi Summer Scribe, don't just look on the net, there are plenty of reasonable houses for sale in some of the specialist shops and as already been said Sue Ryder charity shops are very reasonable. Where do you live, I can recommend a very good shop where they have an all year round club and you can save for one and anything you need to furnish etc.,

I was looking on the net at some last night and couldn't believe the cost of them. Maybe I'll keep dreaming for now LOL.

Hi

Just seen this thread, I have a dolls house and I love it. Always wanted one as a child but never got one, now I use it to "escape" after a hard week at work.

I love the little bits you can get and I make some too.

kerry x

My dad made dolls houses forts and garages mine had electric lights in all the room open and closeing doors and windows as dad was in the army we could not take it with us so it was sold Valxxx

I've had electric lights from Sue Ryder shop very good selection and good quality as is the furniture, houses are a lot cheaper than in specialist shops and at fairs, although one shop owner a couple of years ago was complaining in Dolls House World magazine that they are a charity with not the same overheads and shouldn't be allowed to sell new imported doll house things.

I saw a thread a time ago about dolls houses and remembered a little wooden welsh dresser at my Grannys house, with miniature crocks and I used to play with it for hours....

.....so I went on the net and bought a little dolls house for my granddaughters with the furniture, nothing fancy so it doesn't matter if it gets damaged.......if I remember the fun I had, they perhaps they will.....

I saw the Queen Mother's Dolls House and it was so neat and tidy and perfect....

Hi Liz,

They have some nice dolls houses in the Sue Ryder charity shop just round the corner from you and they sell all the furniture too.
I have bought no.2 grandaughter lots of bits and pieces from there and keep saying I will buy a house for myself and do it up as I would have wanted it when I was a child!

Told you I was in my second childhood, lol!

Frances

We have 3 in our house I have a Victorian one which took me months to tile the roof I still have not built the basement for it thought thats still in the box. My eldest daughter has a nice pink one which is no style she just buy's what she likes for it. Our other daughters was custom made for her as her bedroom is small so there is no where to put it. It looks like any normal dolls house 1/12 scale but it is not very deep and it hangs on the wall. I spend hours making curtains for them and have made a pair with swags and tails and all fully lined. I tend to do work on it during the winter when the warmer weather comes I tend to spend more time in the garden!

Just seen your post Liz - yes it is me!! LOL
My brother makes model boats, cars etc with motors, and has recently started making a Victorian Steam boat 1/12 size - so we now compare and share bits, and discuss the best shops!!
He gets into the more intricate bits more than me - makes his own floorboards/decking etc - I just buy it.
He is, however, going to give me a small bench lathe he doesn't use so I can make fancy chair legs and supports for the 4 poster beds etc I will need in the Tudor house!!

maggie

I never had a dolls house as a child - my dad made one for my sister, but we moved 6 months later and he gave it to a family down the road!!
My daughter and her fiance moved in with me 2 years ago, which put the mockers on my decorating and DIY.
I bought a second hand 4 room house with the intention of doing it up, instead of decorating my own house, but didn't get round to it, but my grand daughter played with it.
Two Christmases ago, I persuaded my daughter to buy me a kit for Christmas so I could start from scratch. It is nearly finished - in Edwardian style, with lights, wood panelling etc, but I want to build an extension some time. Grand daughter now plays with that one!!
About 2 months ago, I bought a 'derelict' tudor house, which I shall decorate in early Elizabethan style, with a thatched roof. At the moment it is sitting in the middle of the living room, having been stripped down to a shell. I can see it's going to be a long project!!
I haven't got anywhere to keep the houses - the middle of the living room is hardly ideal!! The Edwardian one is in my bedroom and the original is in the small bedroom my grand daughter stays in when she's here.
However - when my daughter moves out I will have a nice spare double bedroom :o)))

maggie

I am lucky enough to have a large Victorian Dolls House made by my OH. Even got an outside Loo with wooden seat and tiny squares of newspaper on hook! Definately not a childs toy but have no Grandaughter to hand it on to only Grandsons who are more interested in football and TV games!!
Fran

Don't wait for grand daughter Liz, do it for yourself.

There is someone else on these boards who has one, is it Maggie from Winchester?
I had a small one, Dad got it secondhand and did it up and put a light in it for me, I loved it but it disappeared, it went to a younger relative. We are in touch by email and she mentioned recently what happened to the doll's house? Don't know why she thinks I should know? Wasn't very happy about it being passed on, a lovely handmade, 1920s dolls bed went too, with original bedlinen etc
My Mum got rid of lots of my dolls and things, I had no say, she cleared them out when I was living in Cambridge.
Have always wanted another doll's house, maybe if I get a granddaughter one day I will have an excuse lol
Lizx

I might get to the Swansea one if It happens but the other is Cwmbran I think, don't know about that. Would like to go but hubby waiting for an op and don't know when it will be so can't make too many future plans at moment.

Nite nite May and maybe we will meet and can carry on the discussion . God Bless Val

Think we have , we will have to talk again soon what interests one doesn't interest another and its surprising how many people, men and women don't have a hobby but Ithink it keeps the mind occupied and keeps one young at heart if not in body. By the way will you be going to the Wales meet? I'm closing down now, I've had supper so I'll say Good Night God Bless... May.

I think we have bored everyone else to death LOL...........................

I love Clarice Cliff but unfortunately don't have any have seen some d.h. size also expensive but I've not bought anything for ages so maybe at the next fair I go to although the next one at Pudsey is the same day as the Wales meet, I think and thats where I saw them in November.

I want to do an Art deco one as well. I fancy doing it all in black and white. I love the geometric shapes

Lovely Valerie, it really gets the imagination going this dolls house business doesn't it.

May , no it was a 40's kitchen with a larder and war rations, the old type sink with draing board. The old armchair by the fire and her knitting just as she left it all. I put a little calender and marked the date of my birthday on it so was set in 1943