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I have had a life-long love affair with dollhouse miniatures, and careers in art education and interior design. I hope to combine these life experiences to help other miniature enthusiasts get more out of this wonderful hobby we enjoy, a hobby that often reaches the level of an art form. Susan Downing

Posted on 02 June, 2019

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Sara Rothe Cabinet Dollhouse, Gemeente Museum, The Hague

Sara Rothe – The Other Cabinet Dollhouse

On April 2, 1743, Sara Rothe was the high bidder on 3 dollhouses created by Cornelia van der Gon, a leading dollhouse builder of the time. The incentive seems to have been to scavenge these dollhouses for their contents to improve the two cabinet dollhouse Rothe already owned. Apparently, it worked out. The dollhouse in the Franz Hals Museum is amazing. The one at on exhibit at the Gemeente Museum at The Hague equally so.

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Categories: recycled, Uncategorized


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Posted on 31 May, 2019

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Megan Hornbecker adjust the accessories, found on the Shapeways blog

Megan Hornbecker, Miniaturist

Megan Hornbecker is an experienced web designer turned miniaturist. She has liked dollhouses since childhood, but for the past 8 years has been obsessed with modern miniatures. Megan chronicles her dollhouse pursuits on her Modern Mini Houses blog.

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Posted on 27 May, 2019

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Bluette Meloney with stacks of room boxes at Good Sam Showcase

Bluette Meloney, Miniature Artisan

Bluette Meloney passed away on Sunday, June 4, 2017. A nationally acclaimed IGMA Artisan in Faux Finishes, Bluette made distinctive 1:12 scale structures and hand-painted furniture. She used realistic decorative faux finishes and Trompe L’Oeil (fool the eye) painting

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Categories: art deco, art nouveau, room boxes


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Posted on 22 May, 2019

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World’s Greatest Dolls House?

That’s what a Daily Mail headline writer called “Langdon Hall.” Leonard Martin spent 26 years building this miniature Georgian manor house. Is this the world’s greatest dolls house? There is lots of competition for that title, but it fits my definition of an Amazing Miniature.

Here’s the story behind the building of the amazing project in Leonard Martin’s own words, found on the Hungerford Antique Mall site:

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