Make Your Own Dollhouses and Dollhouse Miniatures
A Do-It-Yourselfer Guide for Dollhouses and Dollhouse Miniatures
The most satisfying achievement for a microphile, a friend or devotee of small things, is to create a dollhouse and the miniatures within. Marian Maeve O'Brien, the acknowledged expert on dollhouses and dollhouse miniatures, has captivated miniaturists all over the world with her charming, original projects, inexhaustible imagination, and a style that combines warm encouragement with a practical approach.
Marian O'Brien sets the Do-It-Yourselfer in motion with a review of the materials and tools of the trade from tweezers to electric saws to sandpapers and fine grained woods. Scaled house plans are provided for a wide diversity of designs: Tudor, Victorian, Cigar Box, a Multiroom Palace, a turn-about house of two periods-1870 and 1920-and even a dollhouse for a dollhouse.
With more than 140 Diagrams and Scaled Patterns, 65 Black and White Photographs and 17 Color Plates. Instructions, Scaled Plans, Elevations, Patterns and Photographs Comprise a Comprehensive Guide to the Construction, Furnishing and Decoration of Dollhouses of Various Designs.
Size: 11" x 8 1/2"
Hardcover Edition 274 Pages
ISBN: 0-517-391694 Condition: Like New
Bricktown Bargains = Quality Merchandise Bargain Prices!