I wrote a little reportage "How to assembly a dollshouse" for the German dollshouse magazine 1zu12. It is the story of my country dollshouse. I started my hobby as a little girl...
As a child I had also a wooden dollshouse (a second hand house by my cousin) but I prefer to built my own houses from cardboard boxes....
Later I saw the delprado dollshouse on tv and decided to buy it (thanks to ebay so the price was o.k.). The quality of the house was a catastrophe!!!
So I decided to buy a new one for 39 US$.

For my country house I used a lot of delprado parts: handles, hinges, window dormer, the armchair in the living room. I made my timber wood from the delprado dollshouse (I cut all the terrible wood in small piece!).......

The house was not very big so I decided also to build a little garden, a barn.....

I had so much ideas for the house but I wanted to have something specail for my dollshouse. My idea was to create something with water. At christmas time I saw a little fountain in a D.I.Y. shop!!!!! It was a fountain for a crèche.
So I built a little barn and put the fountain in one of the walls. In the barn is also the transformer of the dollshouse. I put the switch power strip into the chimney.
The country dollshouse is my first house which I assembled.

So here are some photos of my country dollshouse bedroom.
Bed by EuroMini (I painted the black metal bed with a mixture of white acrylic paint and water and made the bedlinen. The night table is an old film canister.
Slippers by my friend Bärbel Epping
I bought the cupboard on a dollshouse fair in the Netherlands.
I used some family photos for my dollshouse so it is more personal......

Here are some photos of my country dollshouse. It was a discount dollshouse by Real Good Toys:

http://www.miniatures.com/Discount-Dollhouse-by-Real-Good-Toys-P17518.aspx

I paid only 39 US$ for the kit and I used a lot of delprado parts for the house (f.e. the dormer window).....

Today I will start with my attic swap. Some years ago I made an old mattress for my attic (it is in my Country house which I finished 2006).
I found only an old blue/white fabric (my old summer trousers)....
Tomorrow I will post the result of mattress no. 1 (we are 8 in our swap group..so I have to do a lot..)