KittyKatt's Dolls House Project

This is how it looked in the advert: BTW the little red trapdoor in the top RH corner really does open, so you could just walk out up the stairs and onto the roof (no safety rails!). The indented cream wooden part in the centre looks as if there's a piece missing, and there should be a chimney of some sort. From my time in town yesterday photographing parts of various 1950s buildings, (you can get a good view of several roofs from the top floor I'm of the library!) I think it may have been supposed to represent some kind of ventilation cover looking a bit like this (taken from the top floor of the local library!): However, the only similar looking pieces I've been able to find are the wrong size / shape. (Dolls houses come in various scales, and I think mine is a 1:16. But, sizing wasn't always accurate, and a few mm either way can make a difference. True story, in the Dol-Toi factory that made a lot of dolls furniture from offcuts of the owners' caravan building bu...

 I've been looking for a new project to work on while the weather is too cold/ wet to do much outside in my garden. I remembered how much I'd enjoyed sorting out my childhood dollshouse nearly 20 years ago, so decided to find one that was completely different and in need of renovation, and see what I could do.  I've found a 1950's dollshouse, built in the modernist style, so it's completely different from mine, which is a sweet late 1960s traditional cottage type. It was decidedly unattractive, in need of a lot of TLC, and extremely dirty, but I felt it had potential.