My Dream Dollhouse

Hi, I am Sumaiya Mehreen and you are welcome to my Dollhouse. Here you will find some of the dollhouse miniatures that catch my fancy! Feel free to email me at smehreen@gmail.com if you want me to showcase YOUR favorite dollhouse on this blog!

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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Virginia Princess Anne Colonial Dollhouse

With details and proportions faithful to gambrel roofed houses called 'Princess Anne' colonials, this 18th century style miniature home is scaled inch to the foot. Most houses of this size were built 'one room deep' at that time, but this home features the modern addition of a bright and airy kitchen. Features include: exterior dentil molding at the roof-line front and rear, removable chimneys for easy packing and transport, and individually laid mahogany board floors in the living room and upper landing. My favorite feature is the grand paneled fireplace mantle in the slate blue formal living room, beautifully accented by tiny hand painted Delft tiles. The dining room walls feature a Zuber-esque mural of trees in a verdant landscape; the vestibule floor is decorated in a black and white parquet, reminiscent of the itinerantly painted floors of the period. The upstairs 'bonus room' or nursery sports hand-painted cabbage rose 'wallpaper'. The house is made of dense hardboard which was painted with many layers of color to achieve the realistic exterior salmon-brick finish and roofed in hand-painted artists board 'shingles'. Six dormers top the house, and the rear wall and roof are hung on finish nails as pegs. This is a one of a kind treasure, which has been carefully cherished by three generations. This really is every period miniaturist's dream home.

5 Comments:

Blogger kimsminiatures said...

I saw this too! Isn't so wonderful. I wish I could buy it :)

Feb 15, 2009, 11:37:00 PM  
Blogger Lissu said...

So lovely house!!!

Feb 16, 2009, 1:59:00 AM  
Blogger ME! said...

Such a beautiful house. :D

Feb 16, 2009, 4:00:00 PM  
Blogger kimsminiatures said...

ohhhhh I still want it!!!!! :o)

Feb 17, 2009, 11:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

18th c. P-A Dollhouse seller says:

So sad to see it go, have been answering lots of shipping queries.. I played with this a a child and was taught by my grandmother to appreciate tiny things.. I know that whomever it ends up with will love it though.

I wrote back and forth with S, Mehreen about how much fun it would be to have all of the eBay 'watchers' materialize here to share stories and have fun together!

and i have to say, Lissu, that is the most adorable profile picture i've EVER seen! I showed it to my husband and told him I know he would have had a crush on you as a child :) Nice bike too!

Thanks again S. Mehreen!!!

Feb 20, 2009, 8:24:00 PM  

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