GroovyGert Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Growing up I made and helped my younger siblings make houses for our Barbie and GI Joe dolls. I used whatever was on hand, usually starting with a box that was the right size. I used wall paper sample books that had been discarded, scarps of fabric, boxes and other found objects, magazines and cut out pictures to create homes for these little people. Sometimes I combined boxes to create larger homes. I even figured out a pump bathtub for a 'B@rbi#' house to give it 'running water'. Even as I got older I made a two story dollhouse for much younger "sibs" from cardboard boxes, fabric scraps, and leftovers from a home remodel. I even helped my younger brother with a GI Joe bachelor bad, complete with animal print seating. When my grandpa build a 1:12 dollhouse for a much younger cousin, I helped build most of the furniture and bits and pieces along the way. In some form or another, I have been making dollhouses much of my life. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodentraiser Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 i've had dollhouses all my life. I remember playing with them when I was 5 years old. Those were the old metal dollhouses. When I got tired of the standard house, I set it up on its side and had an apartment building. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzeesuzee Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Reading your posts made me remember my childhood...I loved to play in my own creations...I had a complete encyclopedia set, which I used for walls and floors.Would build and play for hours...then every night, would have to take it down and put the books away.I believe I had a metal dollhouse at the time...but would enjoy the book house more... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 I saved up empty boxes to make into houses and towns for my little cars and trucks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyGert Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 I had a barbie doll house that I loved, but the homemade ones got a lot of use over the years. We could tailor them to suit out needs, what we were playing, and the doll or dolls that lived there. Since my sister and I shares the big dollhouse, we could also set up more than one household that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoStrandRiver Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 My dad made me a dollhouse when I was three years old. I played with it nearly everyday until I was embarassingly old. I tried to turn it into a more mature collectors house when I was a teen but never finished. I still have it though and want to make it into a seventies house someday as an homage to my childhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Valentina, there is no such thing as "embarrassingly old" to play with a doll house! I'm 73. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodentraiser Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 You tell it, Holly! I was 16 and pitched a fit when I found out my mother gave away my metal dollhouse. Plus all my toy dinosaurs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 You had toy dinosaurs? LUCKY! I was 14 when my mother decided I was "too old" for my dolls and dollhouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyGert Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 I have a metal one that I recently received as a gift from my significant other. Its is a printed Wolverine dollhouse. I think it was his way of smoothing the gigantic toy truck and tractor collection he has. Never too old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debra from Olde Cape Cod Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 My metal dollhouse and a nice china teaset disappeared when I was in Jr. High. Found another one a few years ago and slowly found all the furniture for it too! And I am not embarrassed to be 62! LOL! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyGert Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 Sadly, I grew up in an era where a lot of the purchased doll houses were cardboard. Really, really hard to find those for fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debra from Olde Cape Cod Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 That's okay, it's never too late to have a happy childhood! Make your new memories! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyGert Posted June 24, 2015 Author Share Posted June 24, 2015 Always exploring. And never too old. I keep finding all sorts of fun little things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smjsome Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 I had a bedroom set, furniture, - bed, dresser, vanity, that belonged to my great grandmother. We moved a lot! I had a small fuzzball toy, not sure what it was, anyway, I used bits and bobs and a LOT of glue to make a secret home with rooms, and homemade furniture, - little lamps made from q-tips and tooth paste lids, in one of the vanity drawers I have no idea when I started it, I think when we lived in Japan. My stepfather was very abusive, and this little house in the drawer was my secret home. I had forgotten about it, till I opened the drawer recently. It was a piece in my guest room, I wonder what my guests thought when they saw my tiny house with its little fuzzball occupant all theses years? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrickjudd Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Dolls houses are commonly considered as toys for children, but building and furnishing miniature doll houses is a detailed and adult hobby. The objective of building miniature doll houses is that they should be a perfect miniaturized reflection of home life, and copy every detail as possible. Most adults begin this hobby with casual interest, but once the bug has bitten, it soon becomes a lifelong passion of reproducing, as well as collecting, miniaturized items for these charming little houses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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