My First "Scene"

My $1.25 wood floor.  I bought a set of four bamboo placemats from target and took them apart then cut all the pieces to fit the space.

I did my best to make the roof look like real asphault roofing from mid century modern houses.  I just used "Make it Stone" spray paint.



I still need some kind of handle for the front door and as you can see, there is a lot of construction going on inside.

This is the covered porch underneath the back of the house.  It's my first "scene". It still needs some refining, but not bad for a start. I love these chairs.  When I was a kid our local library had these same kind of chairs.  They were yellow and white and as I remember, very comfy and loads of fun to spin in.






Midcentury Bubble Chairs

I have these great little mid century modern bubble chairs for sale in E-bay for $14.99.  

More Progress

OK, so now I'm nearly done with the outside of my house.  It's actually in two sections right now.  The back of the house has huge windows and they are encased in real aluminum.  The underneath is going to be a place to lounge and have a dip in the hot tub.

The front part of the house has the slanted roof.  I stuccoed it by mixing sand and paint.  I made all the windows and doors myself, frames and all.  The bottom story is "concrete block".

Some of my favorite blogs and web sites:

minimodern.blogspot.com
call-small.blogspot.com
elfminiatures.co.uk
minimodernistas.com
prdminiatures.com
dollshouse.com
theshoppingsherpa.blogspot.com
brincadada.com
alterasworld.blogspot.com

June 13,2011 Progress

I have now made some progress on the new dollhouse.  It's basically assembled, but I don't have the doors/windows readt to install yet.  Here it is...

My husband wants me to put it up for auction on E-Bay to see if we should go into a money making venture...it sounds enticing.  I wonder how well it would do.  I think I will at least get the outside finished first.

Pics of my Miniature Mid Century Mod template

There are some great links/blogs that I have been checking out recently that have inspired me to try this...

My First Blog - My original obsession with modern miniatures

   I've never blogged before so here it goes...
     My obsession with modern miniatures began about 12 or 13 years ago...before kids.  My husband bought me a doll house, a traditional doll house for Christmas.  I asked for this doll house so I could keep redecorating it rather than our real house.  I started on it by making authentic looking everything.  I laid tiny strips of wood flooring, made a ceiling light and everything I could think of to make this doll house modern. I traveled a lot for my job, so I made sure to drop in on every doll house miniature store in the midwest on a regular basis.  I had A LOT of really cool stuff.  
     A couple of years later in 2000, my first son was born.  Being that it was my first child and I was a stay at home mom, I rarely got to work on my precious doll house.  I then decided that it was taking up too much room and I just wasn't doing anything with it.  I sold it in a garage sale for $50.00.  That's right I probably had $1000 invested in this and sold it for $50.00!  Not just the house, but the furniture and building supplies too.  I did sell a few individual pieces on their own.  This was before I really discovered Ebay.   It broke me heart, but I just didn't have the time, space or energy to work on it.  I saved a few choice pieces, but sold the rest.  I had hoped to get back into it, but no luck.  
     A couple of those choice pieces were an Isamu Nogucci coffee table and the living room from Bozart's Kaleidoscope house.  We moved to a new home when my second son was about 1 1/2.  At that time I decided to sell the  Kaleidoscope House sofa set for...$30.00.  I thought that was great since I only paid $20! So, if the person who is reading this bought it...I would like it back, please and will gladly refund the $30.00.  LOL!!!
      My renewed obsession started when I saw a set of the Reac Designer miniature chairs in a Chiasso catalog.  That did it, I was hooked again.  Shortly after that I saw the Brinca Dada Emmerson House in an issue of Dwell Magazine.  That was REALLY it, I had to get back into it.  I started reading several blogs and watching on Ebay and haven't been able to stop.
     This past year, I asked my husband to make me a mid-century modern doll house for Christmas.  That was the only thing I wanted.  Partly because I usually just buy something if I want it, partly because I'm extremely particular and partly because we are not exactly rich.  I waited a few months and nothing came of my Christmas request, so I designed the house and made a template out of foam core board.  a month ago, we finally bought plywood and I finally drew it all out to scale.  Next weekend we are supposedly going to cut out the pieces and assemble the main structure. 
   I will post pics as soon as I figure our how to do it.