#greenleaf dollhouse kit

[handweavers]

do you have any advice/a guide on making miniatures/dollhouses? i’ve always wanted to get into it and have no idea where to start or what skills i need to develop or have. i literally pore over dollhouse magazines and books and love watching miniature making videos on youtube but don’t know how to Do It Myself

honestly i would say the easiest way to get into it would be to buy a little kit that comes with everything you need and assemble it, it'll give you the easiest 'intro' to the hobby and you have the ability to customize it however you want as you go along if you decide to do so. i've bought and made a few of those mini 1:24 one-room kits from robotime rolife (like these ones here) before and they're fun little projects that give you an idea of the skills you'll need to develop if you want to design your own or build your own from room boxes or 'just the structure' dollhouse kits (like the ones from little dollhouse company, greenleaf, miniatures.com etc). you can also, of course, jump right in with making your own room boxes from cardboard and glue and experiment as you go along.

i found it super helpful to watch videos from makers who show how they make a dollhouse from scratch with the materials they use because it gives you an idea not only of what equipment to buy but also the variety of materials you can use including stuff from the dollar store, thrifted items, etc. here's a few videos i like that i've been watching:

[joslittletown]

Here's another trailer for the trailer park. This is a kit from Greenleaf. I added the walls, shower, etc. The occupant, Jolene, loves to travel around the US and explore abandoned homes, look for rocks in the desert, and visit historical sites. I hand made a lot of the stuff, but the kitchen came from my childhood. My mom bought it to go in my childhood dollhouse. I had so much fun making this. Jolene is getting ready to map out her next adventure.

[dani-ellie03]

2023 Book Count and Miniatures, Oh My

So first things first: I read 107 books this year. o_O

That's ... a lot of books.

(I mean, they weren't all new. There were more than a few rereads in there. But still. That's a lot of books.)

But my biggest discovery of the year is that I really like building tiny little buildings. Like, a lot.

So much so that when I saw some tab and slot Christmas village houses on Michaels' website, I drove myself right over there and was thoroughly disappointed to find that the houses were being sold already built. I was so disappointed, in fact, that I turned around, went home, and ordered the Greenleaf Village instead. (It's out of stock on their website but I found one on eBay.) So far I've completed the carriage house and am working on the Tudor house:

These buildings are super tiny. They're 1:48 scale -- about 6 inches tall or about the size of model train buildings. (As a matter of fact, the eBay user I bought it from sells other model train-type things)

I'm enjoying this kit so much that I bought two more: the Greenleaf Town kit, which will help round out my tiny little town square, and the Buttercup kit, which is 1:12 scale (so normal dollhouse scale) but because it's essentially a cottage, it has a smaller footprint than the Victorian house I made at the beginning of the year. The pics on the website show it decorated as a bakery with a storage/work area on the second floor. I plan to do mine up as a boutique toy store on the first floor and a studio apartment on the second.

And where am I going to put all these? Why in/on my new bookcase, of course:

The bookcase was $25 at Walmart. The 90s room box fits perfectly in the middle shelf. The 1:48 buildings are going to go on the other two shelves, and the Buttercup will go on top.

It's fun having a new hobby. :)

[wildbeautifuldamned]

Fairfield Dollhouse Kit by Greenleaf Dollhouses ebay mato-2747

[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.

[s-l-hendricks-arts-crafts]

Got more wallpapering done 🤩I looove these flowery sheets!😍 I messed up a bit on the pink flower wall and had to patch it, but hopefully no one will notice it🙈🤫

[littledollhousecompanyca]

Kinds Of Dollhouses

Normally when we consider miniatures, we consider dollhouses. All things considered, what better showcase case is there for your miniatures? With the end goal for you to start your dollhouse pastime, you should understand what kinds of dollhouses there are, so you can settle on a decision of what alternative is best for you.

We should start by talking about the most mainstream method of possessing a dollhouse - purchasing a dollhouse unit that you collect yourself. Despite the fact that there are various styles of dollhouses, they come in essentially two kinds of development:

Tab and space, otherwise called color cut dollhouses

Paste and nails, which use bureau grade pressed wood or MDF (medium thickness fiberboard)

Tab And Slot Dollhouse Kits (1/eighth" Plywood)

These kits are likewise alluded to as color cut, financial plan or punch-out compressed wood dollhouse kits. A few producers of these dollhouse kits are Greenleaf Dollhouses and Corona Concepts Dollhouses. Both are a similar organization, yet under various names.

A great deal of miniaturists have a negative perspective on these kinds of dollhouses due to their intricacy and alteration trouble. These dollhouses can be exceptionally definite and many-sided, making them harder to construct. These dollhouses are consistent with scale and look more like little model houses than dollhouses.

Tab and opening dollhouse kits comprise of punch-out pieces that come in 1/eighth" thick compressed wood sheets. This development just requires stick. Each and every piece of the dollhouse is in these pressed wood sheets. Since they come in level sheets of pressed wood, they are totally two dimensional and the structure cycle changes them into three dimensional items, when wrapped up. This requires a great deal of covering of wood parts to accomplish rich layers and legitimate thickness. You can see products for the dollhouse.

The Garfield by Greenleaf Dollhouses

Positives:

These dollhouses are imitations of genuine houses. They have practical and bona fide building highlights like bended mansard rooftops, narrows windows, winding flights of stairs and dormers.

These dollhouses have exciting bends in the road in their insides that take after the genuine floor-plan complexities of a genuine house.

The finished result is exceptionally lightweight.

They can be gathered by one individual, utilizing just paste. No nails are required.

The entirety of the trim is sliced to measure, so no cutting is required.

As a result of the slight pressed wood, cutting parts for unit alteration won't be troublesome.

These kits are modest. The most intricate ones will cost you two or three hundred dollars; some of the time even less in the event that they are on special.

They incorporate silk screened, acetic acid derivation window glass.

These kits incorporate all the parts expected to finish your dollhouse, (e.g.: windows and entryways). Commonly they will likewise incorporate assembled ins, chimneys, smokestacks, shop signs and furniture. A few kits even have a yard complete with a picket fence.

A portion of these kits have siding and shingles included.

These dollhouses are exceptionally sympathetic and fixes of harmed and additionally broken pieces should be possible without any problem.

Negatives:

The pressed wood sheets are made of an assortment of wood grains and shades and in some cases can twist, disintegrate or potentially delaminate. This gives the feeling that the wood is "awful quality" when this is just not the situation. Age and inappropriate stockpiling of the unit are the reasons for dry decaying of the wood.

These are not "QuickBuild" dollhouse kits. There are no pre-completed, pre-amassed and additionally working parts in them. The windows, flights of stairs and entryways all must be amassed piece by piece. Windows and entryways must be pivoted or in any case changed with the goal for them to work. You need to paint each part before get together on the grounds that it will be hard to paint a while later.

These dollhouses don't bring pre-processed sided dividers. You should apply each siding piece separately.

Paint and paste is consumed rapidly into the more slender wood, expanding the parts and making tabs not fit into spaces accurately. You may need to utilize a considerable amount of power to accomplish an appropriate fit. At times the pieces fit too freely and holes should be filled.

The punch-out must be done cautiously in light of the fact that parts can break. All edges will require sanding.

You can't alter the development of these dollhouses with instant parts. It's a lot harder to discover segments for them on account of their novel estimations. Pack alteration is best left to experienced manufacturers, since a large portion of it should be custom.

Since the windows have such special shapes, you may need to make custom window medicines to accomplish the correct result.

These dollhouses will in general have numerous distant territories in their insides, so you should prepare for the best possible utilization of completions. It's ideal to perceive how the dollhouse fits together in the general plan of development, so you can choose if you ought to apply completes, to a specific area, previously or after gathering. This can be befuddling and tedious, however it's the most ideal approach to keep away from an obvious, yet difficult to reach, incomplete space.

Pivoting of entryways can be exceptionally troublesome due to the extra covered parts which make profundity and detail.

You must be cautious with these dollhouses and spot them in zones where they won't be upset or perhaps harmed. Little hands are not gladly received, except if you purchase the less intricate houses or leave itemized trim off.

In view of their practical structural subtleties, similar to inlet windows, dormers and slanting upper room dividers, they have restricted inside space, making situation of furniture additionally testing.

[artgirldavis]

Work in progress. Half inch scale wooden dollhouse

[thedarkattic]

想要...

[freshengineerballoon]

https://greenleaf.dollhouses.us/

Fairfield Dollhouse Kit by Greenleaf Dollhouses

[wildbeautifuldamned]

Lily Dollhouse DIY Kit by Greenleaf Dollhouses Victorian-Style ebay 8ten1944

[smallerplaces]

It's Britney, Bitch: Kitchen BEFORE

My 7" Britney Spears doll lives in a gray mansard house built from the Petite Dreams Deluxe kit, a house that looks almost exactly like a Real Good Toys "Alison Jr.," only in reverse. I built the house with my parents as a family project over Labor Day 2017, so it was Mom's choice that the floors are painted brown and the walls off-white. She furnished it in very serious Old West.

When I moved into the family home a couple years after her death, I decided this was the only 1:12 house I was going to keep, since it had meaning to me, it's mostly flat and up so it takes a reasonable amount of space, and it goes with my gray bedroom walls. I refurnished it primarily with my own 1:12 furniture (previously in an IKEA Flisat that I didn't bother moving), plus pieces from Mom's collection that I particularly liked or found especially useful.

I'm now giving myself permission to really work on it.

The overall concept is that the house is the "big fancy house" in one of those little towns in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the present day. It's been divided into a main house (four rooms) and an income apartment (two rooms). It's to have been redone to capture or retain historic character while being modernized.

Let's take out the furniture and see what we have.

I'm 90% sure that the stainless steel kitchen set is from Hobby Lobby. While Mom boycotted everything in sight for the most random reasons, she never boycotted Hobby Lobby even though its management promotes appalling bigotry that she was supposedly opposed to. I'm chalking that up to the power of location: it's on the main drag of our city, near stores she shopped regularly. The other big craft stores are or were: (a) out near the highway in a difficult-to-get-to plaza; (b) way out past the highway; or (c) in the next town over. I've been tempted, just because it's so much closer than Michaels, but then I remind myself that its leadership would cheerfully have me killed, and there are limits.

Nonetheless, I'm keeping it, because it wasn't my purchase decision. I'm not tracking down the provenance of every innocent-looking item I've inherited, so there are probably items that are way more ethically gray. Also, I still wince when I recall my efforts to create a stainless steel kitchen using a cheap set from AC Moore.

The table set is a must-have because it was my find at an antique store in Sedona, Arizona, when I took the old AZ Shuttle there to get away from the Phoenix heat one summer. On the way up, I'd been talking with the shuttle driver about her dollhouses, and she talked me into the idea of making a quaint little cabin in a Greenleaf Corona Concepts "Primrose." So of course it was Meant to Be when I found this table set!

I never did order a Primrose kit, but this dining set is important and must be included.

Most of these items are things I bought at the Phoenix Park 'n' Swap or at the little J Chew Mexican Import shop in Scottsdale, or that Mom bought when I took her to those places. So they stay, and get some friends added out of my stash.

So the one thing that isn't making the cut is the paper rug that looks like a quilt. This room still needs a lot of work.

Flooring: I want something that says "Victorian California" but also says "washable."

Is this an occasion for subway tile?

Tin ceiling. Seriously. A must-have.

Shelving: means I can display more accessories.

Art: where the accessories don't fit.

Did I mention accessories?

It is time to get cracking on research.

[s-l-hendricks-arts-crafts]

Got the exterior window frames and sills done🥳 Apologies for the horrible lighting, but I just got finished and wanted to lose no time in sharing 😅 This color is one I mixed up personally, using pink, purple, and red brown!

[dollhousecollection]

The Quarter Scale Adobe Dollhouse

This dollhouse was produced using portions of the left over structures in The Miniature Greenleaf Town.

I utilized spackle blended in with acrylic paint to make the outside plaster.

The fence is totally hand crafted from balsa wood. I utilized wooden dowels for the rooftop pegs and exceptionally painted the outside furniture for a southwest look. The desert arranging can be found in the lifelike model part of your neighborhood make store. The floor covering going back and forth is a PC paper print out.

I utilized strip wood to make custom shafts on the inside. The deck was produced using PC printed paper. I utilized sparkle acrylic to give the tile paper a gleaming look.

I hand painted the entirety of the furniture to give it a southwest look.

The smokestack is a move of cardstock canvassed in spackle to make the vibe of plaster. The little desert flora grower dangling from it are handcrafted from wood strips and dowels. You can visit our site and check out our latest another dollhouse collection.

The little cap was an uncommon find. The entirety of the divider craftsmanship was printed from my PC.

The entirety of the inside carpets were printed from my PC. I utilized scissors to cut the edges for a frayed look.

The Quarter Scale Storybook Cottage Dollhouse

This isn't in fact the Storybook Cottage Dollhouse, yet it sure appears as though it. It's one of the structures in The Miniature Greenleaf Town Kit. The gazebo is additionally important for a similar pack.

You can discover the entirety of the outside arranging and extras for a little Christmas house during the Christmas season at your neighborhood make store. These things are from Christmas towns, which are a comparable scale to this dollhouse.

I made the snowman myself from cotton balls and gems discoveries.

The Christmas tree within the gazebo was handcrafted utilizing minuscule paper print outs and gems discoveries for decorations. The snow on the rooftop is infant powder.

I utilized scrapbook papers for the deck and dividers of this dollhouse. The entirety of the inside and outside trim is hand crafted from strip wood.

The entirety of the adornments and cakes in the showcase case are handcrafted from air drying mud.

The entirety of the toys are produced using air drying earth and the sales register is produced using balsa wood.

[dollhousedreamv]

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