She’s Building a Pinterest-Perfect Miniature Village

First of all, you need to be prepared to accept, as have I, that your own home may never be as perfect or “Pinterest-Ready” as this dollhouse built for miniature people. Then you need to be okay with the fact, as am I, that you may be tempted to steal decorating ideas from said dollhouse…

California Dreaming in Thumbelina’s SoCal Mansion

There are architects and designers, and then there’s Chris Toledo. For the past two years, the miniatures artist and professional perfectionist has been creating the Spanish Revival home of our dreams, complete with glossy, red-tiled floors and Juliette balconies; vaulted ceilings, hand carved beams, and 1920s-inspired furnishings. He’s crowned it “Casa California,” and it’s the ultimate…

Stop Everything and Check Out these Miniature Book Houses

So here’s something that absolutely needs a place in my cabinet of curiosities– book houses! Real books, “hollowed-out” and filled with a miniature vignette setting, complete with tiny scaled wallpaper and parquet flooring. They come from a little-known artist I found in the far corners of the net, Shannon Moore, who has been working with…

Stop Everything and Check out these Vintage Suitcase Dollhouses

Well this just about rolls everything I adore into one perfect little package– miniature crafts, the golden age of travel and tiny fairy doors to another world. Marisa and David of Queanbeyan, Australia make dollhouses out of beautiful old suitcases they come across. They love to make old things new again and combine David’s skills in…

Stop Everything, check out a Life-sized Victorian Dollhouse for Rent

I‘ll admit it’s a completely delusional exercise, but I do it anyway, staring wide-eyed at dreamy historic homes where I could act out my own Daphne du Maurier novel. Today’s property du jour, found wandering the internet, is a National Historic Landmark, a unique octagon-shaped and domed Victorian style house known as the Armour–Stiner House. It’s currently for rent…

The Coziest Bus Stop in Britain, Made by a Mystery Guerrilla Homemaker

For the residents of a small village in Dartmoor, England, the universally-dreaded morning commute to work is now very much something to look forward to. Last summer, the village of Walkhampton woke up to find their grim and graffiti-covered bus stop had been transformed into a welcoming living room, complete with an armchair, pillows, framed pictures, potted…

Stop Everything and Get a Brooklyn Brownstone for your Cat

Now, I’m not exactly a cat person per se, but today the internet may have finally lured me out of my doghouse and into the light. Has there ever been a better reason to adopt a kitty than the hours of entertainment this Brooklyn house for hipster cats surely promises to provide? No friends, there has not… New York-based…

Inside a Miniature Miss Havisham Mansion

I haven’t owned a dollhouse since I was a kid so I really don’t know what I would do with this stuff, but I’ve nevertheless developed a strange addiction to browsing miniature shops on Etsy. There’s one shop in particular that stands out to me for all its eerie bohemian and romantic oddity. Lady Delaney,…

Oh, Just a Miniature Mermaid’s Dollhouse

This is one of those slightly random finds that I was about to throw in with my Monday series of 13 Things I Found on the Internet Today, but then I looked closer (rubbed my eyes in disbelief a little), and realised it definitely needed its very own post. That, and the fact that it’s a Miniature. Mermaid.…

Communist Dollhouses: Stasi Chic in Miniature

Cold War-era furnishings, kitschy wallpaper and fine examples of mid-century architecture from the German Democratic Republic, there’s a huge collection of “Soviet chic” German dollhouses on Flickr, hailing from the short-lived era when East Germany was under communist rule, for all your nostalgic Stasi needs… Browse the full collection here.