The Damaged Triang Facade

This was my first Triang purchased. It was from Arizona and I did not realize the plants were painted on, not decals. I am still not sure if this was repainted or if Triang ever came this way. The surface paint had been repainted and was bubbling and cracking. It was in terrible shape and I loved it until I saw a better one...I know that is not the door for this house.

This was the replacement facade I bought on ebay. It has the correct sundial over the front door. The other had been painted as a clock.

So I decided to play around with it. When I stripped the paint off the steel structure was revealed.

This was before the Emerson house or my MH1 by Wes Christensen.When we used ANYTHING to make a modern structure. I pretended Colette was a real estate agent with an industrial property to sell.

The neighbors in the Triang neighborhood were not all happy.

This is how I play with it now, sometimes extending my MH1. (Sorry, Pubdoll for the small, teeny, tiny pictures, but apparently I haven't figured out how to save from Flickr without pixellating them!!! POOH!)

Go to my mini design blog to see more of the experimental modern house using this Triang facade. C  http://leftcoastmini.blogspot.com/2010/07/playing.html

Small Trianng structure

Structure without roof. Two floors and an attic. Main floor livingroom, kitchen, diningroom. Second floor bedroom, bath.Top floor. Children's room.

Childrens room under the red roof.

Happy September! Deja vu and I mean that literally...

Whoa! When they say red, they MEAN RED!

Ah a fresh month... A chill in the air, the children back in school... a leaf here or there brown. Let me begin Triang month again. This is my small Triang inhabited 3" bisque dolls.

As I said to Kim, some dollhouses are just MADE for dolls. This is one. I love the tiny crimped hat on the maid's head. I know these dolls originally come in the box with the string around their hands in packaging, but I like to pretend the maid is playing cat's cradle with the children so have not removed it.

This house is furnished with Tootsie Toy furniture which is well... I admit it... precious...

The 3" bisque dolls, I think they are German. Any opinions? They come in all nationalities. I even have a cute guy in a kilt.

Meet the Bisques who live in the Triang. Uh oh published by mistake!!!

(Which just proves planning ahead is a bad idea.) See post below first for introduction to Triang House. DOH!


This is the Bisque Family. They live in England. There is Grandfather Bertie Bisque, in the red tie, then Father Baines Bisque, in the tophat, dapper, eh, then little Mitzie Bisque, Grandmother Mildred Jones Bisque is in the center, Mother, Betsy Shepton Bisque in the Schaparelli pink, with little Tootsie Bisque to her left, and finally little brother Bobby Bingley Bisque.
They are 3" German dolls made of.... you guessed it...bisque.

Waiting in the livingroom for Betsy to come down.

Mother in her dressing room

And the maid, Molly Dolly visiting with the bread delivery man in the kitchen.

Hello Triang!

Happy September! Triang dollhouse maybe #50 produced in 1950's-60's . Plastic roof and house were purchased separately.
Go here to McKendry's doll house history http://www.mckendry.net/DOLLHOUSES/1930s-part_1.htm
to read a detailed account of the Line Brothers who started this company. There were 3 of them, and 3 lines make a triangle hence the name and logo "Triang".

I have 2 houses and one facade I changed the design of. (it was severly damaged). This is the smaller model and furnished with Tootsietoy furniture. It is wallpapered with Jennifer's printables which offer authentic antique and retro patterns. http://www.jennifersprintables.com/printables1.html  I would love to know about this noble person who created this site! Can you offer us any information about her?

This house is inhabited by 3" German bisque dolls, who are named appropriately enough... the Bisques. Oh look their gardener is in front at work. It represents the time of the 1920's.(My larger Triang represents the 1930's, more about that later)
Today is my assistant's "real" birthday. She is 4. Today they  sing "Happy Birthday" to her at circle time at preschool but her real party is in 2 weekends.
This is complicated by the fact that my other assistant who is currently living in my house with me has HER birthday tomorrow and she is an ancient 26. She celebrated her birthday Saturday and let's just say alcohol was involved.  (She said her older sister ALWAYS upstaged her birthdays! We were just greatful the new generation has her own day . We were sweating that birth) I mean,  together the birthday girls make up my staff. (Or am I theirs...) So we are in MAJOR birthday mode here and let me just say the theme for both of them seems to be "Princesses..." CM

The new facade

Yay! Spray painting! Love it. This is a galvanized metal spray, not silver.

This was how I received the facade

Celluloid doll #1 Triang, Antique
Originally uploaded by More2view

The tree and plants are painted on, not decals. Then someone put cream housepaint over it.

Antique dollhouse renovation

Antique dollhouse renovation
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This is my duplicate front to a Triang dollhouse. I removed the bad paint job and peeling decals. I have since sprayed it galvanized stainless steel on my recent spray paint spree and will post that next. There were too many discolored spots to this facade to leave it like this. CM

Keep it clean!

Celluloid dolls#6
Originally uploaded by More2view

It might be that 2nd cup to a tea set with only one. It might be incredible period wall paper. It might be that celluloid Martini glass that goes perfectly in your Triang House. In fact it might be a replacement for the one your two year old granddaughter was last seen with... but never mind. The older, the more obscure, the more delicate the manufacture... well it calls out to one.

We comb foreign ebays. We trade across the globe. We always want whatever is hardest to come by. Well... except for those incredibly talented collectors who make miniatures from scratch. Now that's a story for another day.

small Strombecker stove

Dol toi table, vintage handmade

counter with funky green formica

vintage Celluloid dolls

American made vintage plastic Martini tray, shaker, and glass