Hi my fellow followers
It's been a while that I last posted something something from the "DORFPUPPENHAUS"
You remember, that's the dollhouse that came in bits and pieces with a magazine over a time period of 2 years. Well, I stopped with issue 200 because it simply got too expensive and also there starts to be a lack of space for all the additions.
For those of you interested in this, here's my honest opinion :
PRO
* The quality of the house and the furniture is good
* Some of the accessories are a lesser quality (probably made in China) 😖
* The wood for the construction of the house comes bare and unpainted, which is a great opportunity to paint and decorate it as you wish
* Absolutely not comparable to the DEL PRADO houses, which were really really bad in every sense of the word and far too expensive. I had them both and burned them 😖
CONTRA
* When you start buying the first few issues, they tell you that there'll be more or less 100 issues and you can choose whether you want the conservatory and/or the electrical kit with the lights ..... BUT as you go and pay 40 Euros a month for 4 issues of the magazine and parts of the house, furniture, accessories, etc (not including the folders for the magazines), suddenly there are more and more additions (garden, BBQ station, barn) and it just won't stop
* I stopped at issue 200 because I've already spend 2100 Euros of a period of time of +/- 2 years, which is far to much for a dollhouse that size
* The lights work ok, but although they have wires, they are connectod to a battery operated transformer, which I personally don't like (but that's of course just a personal note)
Nevertheless, I'm happy with the end result, so let's take a look at the latest pics I took
I'd say it us as good as finished, just need to make a work table to fit into the barn and maybe a few little things here and there, but other than that, it is DONE ..... yeah
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As you can see in the picture above, I finally made and added the shutters
The additions I have are the conservatory on the right, the garden, the barn and the BBQ station on the left. Since I didn't have enough space to display all of them, I integrated the BBQ station, barn and garden into 1 slightly bigger part.
I made a fence with large popsticle sticks
As you can see, even with the BBQ station, I still had enough space left to add a little garden feature
First I didn't want the barn, but then I thought : what the hell, why not :-) :-)
and it has turned out quite nicely. I altered many of the accessories, I will show you more details in a future post in my DIY section
The shingles that came with the house were simply terrible, never saw anything like it in my entire miniaturist's life .... first, they were all wavy, not a single one was straight, and I tried at least 5 different glues, there was no way they stayed on. And when they did finally sticked, both sides stood up like wings ..... arrrgh ...... I took them off (had only made 3 rows anyway) sanded the roof and used this shingle paper sheet. First try, but the end result isn't bad at all.
I added a little DIY sign to the front door ...... HOME SWEET HOME
A side view of the barn
The interior of the barn still looks a bit empty, I need to make some sort of work table to go in there
In front of the barn, I also had a little space that I did use as a garden, made some flowers and voilà ... cozy little corner, don't you think
Bird's eye view of the garden in front of the barn
Although I had to shorten the garden, I managed to have enough space for a little table with chairs to enjoy a cup of coffee and I also added a little flower bed in the back
Closer view of the flower bed with the fishing garden gnome :-)
Feel free to contact me should you have any questions
email : dmzminiatures@gmail.com
or : dany4361@yahoo.com
Enjoy
See ya
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