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A 'Past Project' from 33~34 ish years ago...

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Frank
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Just before my daughter's fourth fifth birthday (so SWMBO informs me - 1994!) she became interested in the Dolls House shop we had in Frome at that time... Based on Catherine Hill... quite steep and one of the attractions of Frome. The shop, sadly, moved to Warminster a few years later... run by the same elderly couple that ran it in Frome.

So... with her apparent interest of such, and visits with her to the shop, I ventured into making one for her. Plenty of dolls house kits available from the shop at various prices - and some I'd have loved to purchase for her. But... as I'd worked at/for a hardwood timber merchant, until '92, selling all the materials I'd need it was more of a challenge to make from scratch... my own design.
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Late nights - some weekends - trying to hide it from her... I constructed a two storey plus attic rooms "Georgian" style (?) detached, 4 bed, 1 sitting room plus kitchen, main entry with central staircase... Just managing to complete it in the early hours of her 4th 5th birthday. I didn't put in 'electrics' at the time but did a few years later.
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It's now looking a bit worse for wear and neglected. In need of some TLC and coat of paint. Where do the years go... Photos are of it 'today' and not when first made way back... sadly I didn't think of doing WIP photos all those years ago 😕
 
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That is a thing of beauty Frank and far better than my doll's house, which, as mentioned elsewhere was never loved or even played with....such are daughters, but at that time she'd already started to become a voracious reader and still has five or six books on the go at the same time. She's now over forty! - Rob
 
Thanks Ian. Have a 4yr 8mth old grandson Ian 😊. He's been known to have a play with some of the items in there. Especially seems to like the cats 🐈 😊
 
Woodbloke said:
That is a thing of beauty Frank and far better than my doll's house, which, as mentioned elsewhere was never loved or even played with....such are daughters, but at that time she'd already started to become a voracious reader and still has five or six books on the go at the same time. She's now over forty! - Rob
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Thanks Rob. Mine's now 37+... also enjoys reading and passing the books back and forth with SWMBO and her friends.
 
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