Why Rebuild?
You might be wondering why anyone would want to rebuild a dollhouse. Here sits a dollhouse in awful disrepair, one that someone started building from a kit then decided was just too much work and gave up on. Maybe it spent a year or five in a garage or garden shed being abused by the elements, maybe it lived out its days in a dusty attic or musty basement.
Then one day, there it went, out into a pile of items to be sent to the second hand store or sold in a yard sale. A half built dollhouse that over the years had parts broken and other parts lost. Maybe a child assembled it and there are structural flaws in the building, or perhaps the thing was assembled with a hot glue gun and unsteady hand so there is old hot glue visible everywhere. Maybe a child painted a room or two with whatever paint they could get from their parents or older siblings. The carpet, if it was ever installed, might have been chewed up by a mouse for nesting material and the plastic windows have been broken and knocked out.
It is a sorry sight sitting there on a table at the back of the yard sale. A little house that had the potential to be a little girl’s dream home and yet is now just a discarded bit of useless clutter with a low price tag on it.
Rebuilding a house like that is a process that can only be undertaken by someone that has a genuine love for the art of building dollhouses. To attempt such a feat without genuine desire for it is to take in a falling down doll house that will sit for years in your own basement or garage and never reach the potential that it holds. To rebuild a doll house with honest love for the art of rebuilding dollhouses, however, ah… that is an endeavor that can build the most wondrous of display pieces and genuine one of a kind artwork.
Doll House Interior, Georgian StyleFramed Art Print
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