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Ok im working on a doll house from my own plans. Any cost saving
decorating tips? where can i get funiture cheap? where can I find a
nice family for my house? What else can i make, (example, cardboard
makes great shingles)

Sandpaper makes great shingles too. Cherrios make a nice plate of
donuts. Art on the walls could be done with a postage stamp foreign
postage stamp (especially those from Hungary, aka Mayga Posta in the
Philatelic world) surrounded by cut popcycle sticks. They have some
beautiful stamps, and they are BIG. Lamps & plates or table decorations
from various beads and buttons.

Grandpa

jenny wrote:
Ok im working on a doll house from my own plans. Any cost saving
decorating tips? where can i get funiture cheap? where can I find a
nice family for my house? What else can i make, (example, cardboard
makes great shingles)

jenny wrote:

Ok im working on a doll house from my own plans. Any cost saving
decorating tips? where can i get funiture cheap? where can I find a
nice family for my house? What else can i make, (example, cardboard
makes great shingles)

Instead of trying to think and type page after page of suggestions, let=20
me first suggest a trip to your local library - look at their dollhouse=20
and miniatures and crafts materials.

Google the web for the same kinds of words

Read the faq for this newsgroup at
http://www.redsword.com/dollhouse

When you ask for getting furniture (or anything else) cheaply, it=20
depends on your own personal cost vs. quality equation. You could make a =

simple modern chair by cutting a 5=A2 piece of balsa wood with a penknife=
,=20
or you could buy one from Bespaq for $40-50.

It's not only a question of what can you use to make what, but of=20
making yourself see things as if you were 6 inches tall. A plastic charm =

becomes a statue; a clear rubber bumber becomes a glass paperweight; the =

base of an airline's salt and pepper set becomes a two-pet feeding dish=20
(that's the first thing I turned into something else 40 years ago). A=20
plastic mermaid at the end of a muddler becomes the figurehead on the=20
prow of a child's bed that's made to look like a ship; small electrical=20
parts become all sorts of things; christmas tree ornaments (especially=20
Sears and Hallmark) become dollhouse sized versions of whatever they=20
are; and on and on and on. Prints in high-quality catalogs become=20
framed masterpieces. Windows from plastic packaging.
I don't know where to start .... or stop... guess here's as good as=20
anyplace.

Unfortunately, the downside is that you end up NEVER throwing ANYTHING=20
away - it MIGHT be useful!

- Herb

Herb wrote:

jenny wrote:

Ok im working on a doll house from my own plans. Any cost saving
decorating tips? where can i get funiture cheap? where can I find a
nice family for my house? What else can i make, (example, cardboard
makes great shingles)


Instead of trying to think and type page after page of suggestions, let
me first suggest a trip to your local library - look at their dollhouse
and miniatures and crafts materials.

Herb, FWIW, if her library is as good as ours (population here 600,000),
the dollhouse section is almost non existant. Used book stores have
more books on this subject. Our library system is outstanding, but not
on this particular subject.

Grandpa

I just completed a hardwood floor using cut popcycle sticks and basic
weathering techniques. Turned out quite smart.
Good luck with your project.

BTW I wish I could find the store where I could buy balsa for 5 cents. :-)
Tania

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Herb wrote:

jenny wrote:

Ok im working on a doll house from my own plans. Any cost saving
decorating tips? where can i get funiture cheap? where can I find a
nice family for my house? What else can i make, (example, cardboard
makes great shingles)


Instead of trying to think and type page after page of suggestions, let
me first suggest a trip to your local library - look at their dollhouse
and miniatures and crafts materials.

Herb, FWIW, if her library is as good as ours (population here 600,000),
the dollhouse section is almost non existant. Used book stores have
more books on this subject. Our library system is outstanding, but not
on this particular subject.

Grandpa

The Artist wrote:

I just completed a hardwood floor using cut popcycle sticks and basic
weathering techniques. Turned out quite smart.
Good luck with your project.
=20
BTW I wish I could find the store where I could buy balsa for 5 cents. =
:-)
Tania

To be clear - I meant to say "5=A2 *worth* of Balsa" (maybe out of a=20
$5.00 chunk)

Yes - popsicle sticks and wooden coffee stirrers and plastic straws and=20
leather samples from recliner stores and texture samples from hardware=20
stores and ...

- Herb