Puppenstube update: "Hollllllywood..."

Just a little diversion away from the Colonial House.

I think this little Hollywood swing is by Lundby. It will be my first Lundby piece.

I don't know it's age but I thought it would look cute on the terrace.

The spot on the wall above the green potted plant is from a missing wall light. I don't know what to put there.

Any ideas?

I have to tell you how much I love the thumbnail pictures of people who follow our blogs. It makes me so happy to see the faces when I turn on my blog. I love all the doll faces, cartoons, flowers, black and white photos and all the creative ways people express who they are. It's like the best bouquet of flowers and makes me instantly happy. Thanks, C

Update: Love how everyone agrees about the little pictures, in fact I noticed this when my friend Norma was edged off the page and I missed her face when she disappeared. I saw a blog where all the faces were displayed but I don't know how to do that YET. Seeing everyone would be like being at a party. (except those weird shadow ones of my best friends who joined when I started and don't have pics.Yes that is you Bev and Donna. They look rather sinister, like relocated mafia people!)

under awning

So when I removed the yellow shirting material someone had added to the awning, this is what I found.

Close up.

That is how I got the idea to enlarge Jennifer's red stripe wallpaper to about this size. I traced the scallops from the yellow material.

Puppenstube awning

I removed the added on awning that came with the house. It was yellow striped shirting material with unsightly glue spots. The wood underneath still had bits of the original red and white stripe pattern.

I used Jennifer's free printables, listed below in resources, and had it increased 100%.

This is the result.

The puppebstube inside

I am wild about the flooring.
I love the ceiling lamps. They are so wonderful.
The wallpaper is fabulous. Well what can I say, I guess I really love it

Right side

Left side there are 2 glass sliding doors which I don't have in this picture

My puppenstube

This is the dollhouse that made it all the way from Germany to me. IN WINTER, and a bad one at that!


This is the front. It is VERY intact for
a dollhouse of this age. Remember these were made as playthings. Toys. God bless the little girl who took such good care of this one.

If you compare it to the one from the Puppenhausmuseum, which is posted below, you will notice the front light is missing but the front plant is there as well as the railing. I am particularly pleased the plants in the window box are all arranged in the original way. I don't think I could replicate that. A few shingles are missing. The original awning material is gone, replaced by what looks like shirting material with glue spots. It looks carefully cut out but the gluing looks like the work of a child. I will post the back next week. xoxo C

How much do we love mid century design?

chair
Originally uploaded by More2view

Lots! Where is Domino Magazine when you need it?

Just in the nick of time

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Originally uploaded by More2view

The cardboard COMPLETELY disintigrated when the packing tape was cut. The structure of the dollhouse itself is what kept the parcel together.

That white stuff is grocery bags which helped insulate the dollhouseand kept it dry. Clever Lars.

Bungalow from Puppenhausmuseum edited by Jorge Bohn

Bungalow from Puppenhausmuseum edited by Jorge Bohn
Originally uploaded by More2view

You can see the back of this bungalow too by clicking on the site listed below in resources.

I will dust mine off and blog pictures this week. Thank you to everyone who helped me with this project. Sometimes the survival of these old dollhouses seems almost a miracle. This one barely made it from Cheminitz to Berkeley.

My package arrived from Germany

package
Originally uploaded by More2view

Through rain and sleet and snow this big box came to me.

Ich liebe duse Mobel!

Dieses kostetein en arm und ein bein! Warum, alleine versenden ein vermogen ist!



I purchased this wonderful chaise and decided to restore it.

The legs are not reattached yet.




If you recognize this, please let me know the manufacturer.

I loved the thick, celadon, woven material that covered this chaise. I can just imagine some sophisticated child saying, "this will update my old furniture" and I can see a parent helping her.

I could see the original material underneath. After debating what to do and because the green covering was unravelling I decided to remove it. I carefully pulled and tugged it off. Then I used rubbing alcohol to dissolve the remaining glue holding it to the couch. Somehow the adhesive under the originl covering was not affected. The original material seems to be silk and quite strong.

Because it is red, that is the main color I am choosing for the corresponding furniture I am collecting to go with it. My new passion is DDR furniture in the 60's 70's eras.

So I have discovered Babel Fish on google, I can translate fragments of language! Love it! By the way, what does "Caw!" mean. Caw translates from German to English as... "Caw!"

Oh, P.S. I'm missing. I mean my "Colette" doll who is my alter ego is missing. I will have to check with my 3 year old granddaughter. We found a phone in her dress up trunk the other day when it rang.