Your First Dolls House

[Melanie]

Originally Posted by VickyL

Ditto

Isn't it frustrating? Fairbanks is undoubtably the best looking inter-war house I've ever seen and the fact the rooms go back on themselves and that it has a garden too, make it head and shoulders above the rest. The house is lovely and big, but the fact it is so big and on a turntable, make it impossible to accomodate for me.

Even though I have my long wished for house, I still find myself taking sneaky peeks at Fairbanks

[Ashley]

Thanks for your feedback on Fairbanks Melanie. Your comments on a more modest sized house for this period have been noted and I will have my product development team look at the project as part of their development work for next summer.

Thanks again for taking the time to talk to us.

Kind regards,

Ashley

[ash]

Originally Posted by jennyedlington

Hi Everybody, we really want to know about your first dolls house. Did you make your own childhood dream home from shoe boxes, was it lovingly built by dad or grandad, or was it a brand new shop-bought treat by Lundby, Carolines Home or even Tri-Ang, we would love to hear your stories, swap memories and take a trip down mini memory lane here at the collectors forum...

Hello all this is my first post. My first house was built by my dad from scratch my 2 sisters and I all had them for Christmas a terrace of 3. I was so jealous of my eldest sister as she owned the middle one and it was much larger than the end of terraces. He made all the furniture and equipment himself crital windows as well as the tiny cutlery and pans(he was and engineer) and painted them realistic. I remember him going ballistic when my mum gave the larger one to the church fête to raffle, as my sister had discovered boys! When we got the the fête someone in there wisdom had painted it white with a red roof. My dad still goes on about it fifty years later.
I now own three houses and now I'm working on a replica of the pub I work in, in Hampshire. Why are glasses so expensive? I'm just about to have a go at making shelves of glasses out of resin!! wish me luck.

[Melanie]

Originally Posted by Ashley

Thanks for your feedback on Fairbanks Melanie. Your comments on a more modest sized house for this period have been noted and I will have my product development team look at the project as part of their development work for next summer.

Thanks again for taking the time to talk to us.

Kind regards,

Ashley

You are very welcome.

I do adore the sizings of Fairbanks, it is undoubtably my absolute favourite house and impressive when it comes to the room sizes. It is without a doubt a real treat for those with room to place it but living in a cottage as I do, I've had to compromise on the size of house I can take on, so something of the Fairbanks standard but smaller would be just wonderful.

I have seen other inter-war houses but they are nothing in comparison and just don't reach that standard. In fact they look rather cheap in comparison.

[Melanie]

Originally Posted by ash

Hello all this is my first post. My first house was built by my dad from scratch my 2 sisters and I all had them for Christmas a terrace of 3. I was so jealous of my eldest sister as she owned the middle one and it was much larger than the end of terraces. He made all the furniture and equipment himself crital windows as well as the tiny cutlery and pans(he was and engineer) and painted them realistic. I remember him going ballistic when my mum gave the larger one to the church fête to raffle, as my sister had discovered boys! When we got the the fête someone in there wisdom had painted it white with a red roof. My dad still goes on about it fifty years later.
I now own three houses and now I'm working on a replica of the pub I work in, in Hampshire. Why are glasses so expensive? I'm just about to have a go at making shelves of glasses out of resin!! wish me luck.

Crittal windows? How wonderful!

[Dawn]

My first house was a plastic one made by Fisher Price, I remember spending hours just putting the car into the garage, opening the front door and ringing the working door bell!

In fact because of my happy memories, when I had my daughter a year ago, I started looking at childrens houses, that led me to DHE junior collection and then onto Cumberland Castle for myself.

My daughter has to wait a couple more years before she can have her own house, in the meantime even Grandma now has her own couple of houses and between us we're turning into miniature property tycoons!

[jennyedlington]

Thanks Dawn, your family is certainly proof that we are never to old to get involved with the dolls house hobby.

[kayjay]

My first dollshouse was a bungalow back in the 70's. I can also remember the lady coming to collect it when my mum and dad decided I was too old for it and it was sold to pay for my sister's Lundby House. I think that's why I'm so obsessed with dollshouses now

[never to old]

MY 1st house.....wentworth Court,,,,,built by myself at age 52....my 2nd just finished,,,, grovener hall....I had to have a bit of help from "himself" !!! I am only 4FT 9:
I am obssessed with DHE and visit the web at least once a day
getting late so back for more soon !!!
Denise

[jennyedlington]

Grosvenor Hall is certainly a magnificent house, glad to hear you are so keen!