Dollhouse Commission

My dad bought this dollhouse in the US as a model kit and my late grandfather did the electrical wiring, made lamps and built furniture for it. However, when I received it for Christmas as a little girl, much to my mother’s regret, I never quite took very much. I liked playing with my teddy bear, my toy cars, crane and digger and Playmobil. Throughout the years, she has updated it lovingly with a keen eye on details, using materials from our former house, only carefully adding new details. When she asked me for a painting for the dollhouse, I happily obliged and chose a single Zentangle pattern for the tiny canvas (square of 2.7 inches).

Exterior view.

I love all these details that my mum put into the dollhouse. She put the fabrics on the sun umbrella and made all the curtains.

The upstairs gallery features a fireplace with books and a globe, a rocking chair and the new drawing.

Nursery with wallpaper from the house where I grew up.

The master bedroom with rugged farm house furniture, knitted blankets and silk bed covers. On the upper left hand side, you can see one of the light switches.

A coffee table with black forest cake.

And, of course, a cat. The yellow fabric used to be a curtain to stop the draft from our front door.