Ron Hubble’s Jacobean Salon In the Miniature Museum of Taiwan

Beige Is Beautiful

Beige Is beautiful if you have more than one shade in the room. When working with a neutral as your primary color, go from light to dark hues on the walls, rug, and large pieces of furniture. The walls could be the lightest shade; curtains, a filmy darker hue; the rug a much darker shade. Be careful to keep these secondary colors compatible, that the undertones are in the same family. Because of the compacted spaces, unfortunate choices in color are more obvious in a miniature than a real room. But it’s a lot easier and cheaper to correct the mistake.

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Miniature Fixer Upper, “before” pictures of a dollhouse makeover, found on Thoughts From Alice

Refurbishing This Old Dollhouse

The dollhouse is battered and worn. Several generations of little darlings have had their way with it. A loving father picked it up at a yard sale for next to nothing, the seller relieved that someone had hauled it away. Now she wouldn’t suffer guilt pangs because she trashed her grandmother’s treasure that had been taking up space in the attic.

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Mark O’Bank’s Nybelwyck Hall, found on the Hudson Valley Museum website

Nybelwyck Hall

The following 2011 press release from the Hudson Valley Museum offers an excellent description of the Miniscule Manse:

“The new setting for the minuscule manse is fitting because its architecture evokes Hudson River homes still seen today. The 24-room, granite-and-mortar Glenview [Hudson Valley Museum building] and Nybelwyck, the 24-room dollhouse, share architectural features ― a Great Hall and a double staircase that curves from the top floor down to the Hall. Nybelwyck’s central

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Susan Downing’s First School – Dent, Ohio

My First School in Dent, Ohio must have been the last place in Hamilton County to come into the 20th century. Located on Harrison Pike, about ten miles west of Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati, the Dent School was a two-room affair on two floors — 2 classrooms and a principal’s office. Each room was about the size of a present-day middle-class living room, where kids in grades 1-12 learned their 3 Rs: reading, righting and ‘rithmetic.

I made this room box for my daughter Laurie when I grew weary of her eight-year-old whining about the privations she suffered on going to school, mainly in winter. Besides this visual example, I’m sure I laid some, “Well, in my day …” nonsense on her.

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