It Begins…

Yesterday my flatpack dollhouse arrived.

I had decided I wanted this project to be more ambitious than the last, choosing to order a flatpack model and assemble it myself. However I had not anticipated quite how many hundreds of tiny pieces there would be.

I have spent the last 24 hours trying to work out what each of the different shaped and sized pieces were designed for in this three dimensional jigsaw puzzle and assembling them accordingly. Only once or twice did I discover that I had glued pieces together in the wrong order and that consequently another piece could not be assembled. However, give or take a few pieces which I am still trying to find a use for, the  final pieces of roofing were eventually positioned and my new project had been born.

Here’s the Idea

When I was about 10 years old my parents bought me my first dollhouse and I have been enchanted by them ever since. My first house was of fairly simple design; 4 rooms, 2 corridors and with a black and white tudor style wood exterior. Countless hours were spent painting, wallpapering and carpeting the tiny rooms, building and decorating furniture and wiring in lamps and ceiling lights.

Twelve years later, I have decided to revisit my love of creating a miniature world endeavouring to build a new, more complex house from scratch.