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[lovecomesdown]

sorry i haven't been posting drawings DOLLHOUSE UPDATE

[smallerplaces]

Dura Craft Farm House 500 project mania!

We are back on our bullshit. A surprising swath of time got wiped out by Dad's wanting to do a booth at a swap meet geared specifically for his skilled trade... in Las Vegas. Mentioning Vegas always gets "you partied too hardy" sniggers, but we did not party at all. We drove 10 hours across the desert (EV, significant charging stops), spent 8 am to noon the next day laboring in the 95-degree sun (the sponsors provided free shaved ice desserts, and I love them for it), sold very little (neither did anyone else), did a quick tour of quaint Boulder City, then drove back across the desert, with a stop for the downtown Bakersfield antique stores because if I had to spend another minute in the car, bickering about the range of a heavily loaded EV, I was going to scream.

This was, in aggregate, exhausting. So it's later, and we have pieces of dollhouse on every flat surface in the dining room and kitchen.

To the left, the window frames that I'm repainting after Dad glued them together with beautiful mitered corners. He sanded off glue specks, and a good bit of the earlier paint. There are a bajillion of them because the way he's doing windows, there are identical frames, with interior edges (so the frame is kind of L-shaped) on interior and exterior. I don't feel good about this holding in "leaded glass" printed on transparencies, but that's a problem for later.

To the right, Dad's been reinstalling the bars of wood that support the second floor and attic floor. The original builder had hot-glued them in place, so of source they came off while we were regluing the walls. These have to be painted in the trim color -- semi-gloss Pearl Essence -- because they will function as ceiling trim.

Meanwhile, we have started the base!

This is where we question our life decisions, as 40" is HUGE. I'd swear that when I had this house in 2008, it was about 2/3 this size. That would strongly suggest it was a different house, but I can't find any photos, so we'll never know.

With glue and paint drying, I pulled out the staircase parts to decide if I wanted to paint or stain the steps before glue was involved. I clearly stated this to Dad and got acknowledgement. I then went upstairs to dig in the guest room closet to see if we had a Houseworks staircase for comparison. When I came downstairs, Dad was happily gluing treads to their base.

The short answer on the Houseworks staircase is that it addresses the problem of stairs taking so much volume by being off-scale in width (only 1.5", or an 18" stair in real life) and steepness. The original Dura Craft stair, at 3" wide, is more accurate.

Now, there was a kerfluffle on r/Dollhouses the other day because someone said "dollhouses don't need stairs" and got brutally attacked by people yelling REALISM. I took the anti-stair side, as I view my dollhouse projects as somewhere between art installations and stage sets. I don't electrify; I omit stairs where possible; I don't worry unduly about closet space or doors.

Me to Dad: "I'm only doing the staircase because I know you'll insist on having a staircase."

Dad: "I'm about at the point of wanting to leave out stairs. They take up so much space."

Me: "It's really easy, You just cut scrap wood to fit the hole, glue on the sides, tape it up level to dry, then do a fancy scrapbook paper ceiling to cover the lines. I never build stairs."

Dad: "Oops, I guess a key part of the stairs was missing from the kit. Oh well. We'll have to just skip them."

Triumph! The living room will be a decent size due to omitting the stairs!

[royaloak-furniture]

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[eiichikise]

着用画像 ARCHIVE 過去のコレクション又はSOLD OUT商品

30s PERRY 両V2トーン(ネイビーコットンツイード×ネイビー) ワンポケットスウェット(裾リブバインダー仕様)

ボディーはCOTTON TWEED(コットンツイード)と当時のカタログでは紹介されており、スウェットコレクターの間では、通称:ザクザクと呼ばれています。リブのネイビーを基調として織り込まれているので、同色系の2トーンカラーと言えるでしょう。

裾リブはバインダー仕様の4本針縫製です。

(リブが斜行しているのも特長)

ブランドはPERRY(ペリー)。1930年代の名作を世に送り出しているブランドです。

ChampionとDuraCraftと密接な関連性があるブランドでもあります。

左胸のワンポケットはパッチポケットではなく、スラッシュポケットで、縁がコットンで切り替わっているのもポイント高いです。

#30s #30年代 #両V #doublev #2トーン #2tone #PERRY #ペリー #ワンポケット #cottontweed #コットンツイード #ザクザク #裾リブバインダー #ヴィンテージスウェット #vintagesweat #ヴィンテージスウェットシャツ #vintagesweatshirts #ヴィンテージスウェットコレクター　 #vintagesweatcollecter #ヴィンテージスポーツウエア #vintagesportswear #ファッション #eiichikise #木瀬英一 #specialoldandnewclothing #スペシャルオールドアンドニュークロージング #reductiondrop #リダクションドロップ #スペシャル復活に向けて奮闘中

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[nolwyn]

I got this dollhouse when I was 13 but never finished it. Now I get to build it with my girls. such a fun project, but time consuming. #dollhouse #duracraft #crafts #miniturehouse #sanfranciscan https://www.instagram.com/p/BnnLIM6hyf4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=37r6v1i07amr

[freshengineerballoon]

https://duracraft.dollhouses.us/

Vintage 1994 DuraCraft SAN FRANCISCAN SF555 Dollhouse Kit + LIGHTING KIT 136-30

[photojenicphotography]

So I had the pleasure of being escorted around today, by this cute lil Fella. 88 year old Byrne J. in his 1960 DuraCraft. Rainy Lake up in International Falls is filled with islands and so many have Cabins and a few year around homes. So he took me out to the one I shot for work, 1 island with 4 Cabins/owners. Then asked if I’d like to see his families island. They own the whole thing and have many Cabins on its property. He shared many great stories. It was seriously, so.great. When we parted, he left me with a “If you’re ever in these parts, stop in and visit” ❤️😍❤️ I think he made my day, and I made his. #justlikeoldfriends #internationalfalls #rainylake #1960duracraft #duracraft #byrne #88yearsyoung #getsaroundbetterthanme #sharpasawhip #talkingoldtimes #islandowner (at Rainy Lake)

[twentymuleteamborax]

when I blow into the side of my Air Duracraft ™ I feel like I'm hitting the nitrous

[miniaturesanddollhouse-blog]

Newberg Dollhouse make-over.

Once upon a time, a dollhouse kit was given as gift to a 6 year old. The kit required intense assembly of hundreds of tiny wooden parts. The dollhouse was constructed according to the kit instructions but nothing else was done to the house. The owner of the house played with it even if it wasn’t decorated. Fast forward 26 years, the house was re-discovered by the daughter of the original owner. Here is where we started recording the renovation-completion of the Newberg by Duracraft one inch scale dollhouse.

www.youtube.com/c/loydollhouse

[lovecomesdown]

dollhouse update 🎠🧼 i want to be finished already

[smallerplaces]

The saga of the Dura-Craft Farm House FH500, part 1

All the Dura-Craft Farm House posts will be tagged Dollhouse Diaries, so you can avoid them if you like.

Last Sunday, we were at the Save-a-Pet Thrift in Valley Springs, where we saw this enticing box. It's the Dura-Craft Farm House FH500: "So authentic you can almost smell the hay!"

This is one of my two favorite 1:12 houses, which is reprehensible of me because the window sizing and placement is really not good. Back in 2008, I had bought a completed one, in fixer-upper shape, at an antique store in Phoenix for $60, but a lot happened in 2008, and it did not make some move or other. I'd been thinking that while there was no realistic way anything big from 2008 could have made it to 2024 with me, I wouldn't mind finding another one.

This one was $50. The proprietor of the thrift assured me that the kit is complete. She knew the guy who was trying to build it, and he just ran out of steam because it was complicated. Having built kit dollhouses with Dad over a long weekend, I scoffed. (Spoiler: I'm going to eat my words, unsauced and chewy.)

Obviously, I bought it. (Actually, Dad bought it for me while I protested that I have unspent birthday and Christmas money burning a hole in my wallet, but you get the idea.)

Upon reading the instructions, I found the stamped date when it was boxed up: October 7, 1982.

Dura-Craft was an Oregon furniture maker that started using scrap lumber for dollhouses in the late 1970s, with its kit production starting around 1978. From about 1978 through the 1980s was a huge boom period for dollhouse kits, with so many more brands and models than there are today. (Furniture variety peaks in the 2000s, though, go figure.)

The pictures on the box thus show some of the earliest Dura-Craft designs. Dad has built the San Franciscan (that's the one he built while Mom was dying, that she never got to put the furniture in, so you can figure we sold that because we couldn't stand the sight of it). I think he has the Southern Mansion kit in the attic, missing one floor piece, but I refuse to build a plantation house. I've never seen the Chateau!

The first step is to assemble the walls, as the walls are not sheets of plywood or MDF, the way most kits have always been. No, the walls are assembled from individual strips of plywood, about three fingers high, with milled siding. This here is three of the wood strips already glue together.

I am grateful for the milled siding, as dollhouse siding costs a fortune, and all DIY trash-to-treasure substitutes are an incredible amount of work to do. I admire and applaud people who make their own siding from stirring sticks or whatever, but I know I would do poorly at it.

What I'm not grateful for is that the prior builder had assembled the walls with hot glue. Never build a dollhouse shell with hot glue. Don't do it if the instructions say to *cough* Greenleaf *cough*. Definitely don't do it if the instructions say to use wood glue.

Hot glue puts a rubbery, flexible layer between the two surfaces glued together. There is fabulous if you're gluing silk flowers to a hat. It is not fabulous when you have wood that's intended for square, direct joins. The wall sections flap where the joins between strips are rubbery. Some are off-kilter because a rounded line of hot glue doesn't absorb down into the wood the way wood glue does. Many are simply breaking because hot glue ages faster and worse than wood glue.

So every time a join breaks, we have to pick hot glue debris out of the tracks on one side of the wood strip. Dad scrapes at it with a knife. I don't trust myself around sharp instruments, so I alternate between heating it with a microwaved napkin (damp in the center so it doesn't catch fire, but dry on the surface so it doesn't get the wood wet) and picking at it with my fingernails. We have tacitly agreed that we will not attempt to fix every join unless walls refuse to slide into their corner posts, many steps down the road.

There is a great deal of gluing and clamping involved. We're somewhere between halfway and 2/3 of the way through wall repairs, and I'm hoping we didn't jump the gun in gluing that gable back on.

Meanwhile, the box does come with a clear photo of the interior layout!

The interior walls are not optional -- every model of this house that I've seen without those walls has severely sagging floors. The floor edges balance on narrow wood sticks that don't give a lot of support.

I need to see how tall the rooms really are before making a firm decision on who gets this house. If ceiling height is reasonable for Arvin Lebec, who's a tall guy at 7", then it's his. If it runs short -- as sometimes happens with older kit houses -- then I may rebuy the couple intended as the original inhabitants the first time I bought this house: the Archie McPhee barista and hipster action figures.

Tomorrow is yet more wall-gluing. So many walls. So, so many walls.

[estherjhernandez-blog]

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[lovecomesdown]

I have to clean up these pieces and use lots of woodfiller to make things fit. But she's coming along pretty well. The dollhouse kit was $15 at an estate sale and had been kept outside where it got wet and warped. Ironically I'm building it in our flood damaged concrete floor bedroom. Nice.