Dollhouses & miniatures
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EPILOG
Hello dear reader, let me introduce myself to you: my name is Corrie de Hoon
and I am 45 years old. I'll like to show you, what I do with in my free-time.
As soon as I have some time-off I like to create things.
One of my hobby's is making dollhouses and decorating them.
About 25 years ago I was suddenly attracted by the mini-furnitures which
were for sale at a big warehouse called 'De Beijenkorf', although they were
expensive.
But I wanted to collect and create a lot of furnitures, before building a dollhouse,
because an empty house isn't nice.
I made wooden chairlegs and railings with a lathe. I got the wood from my grandfather's
waste-products in his hobby-house.
That's how I made the four-poster-bed ,the corner-chair and the railing of the stairs.
I builded up the entire dollhouse like that. Many things were made by myself, most of
the wooden furniture. Things that I couldn't made myself, I had to buy (glass e.g.) at
the store.
DOLLHOUSE
You could see the pictures of my first dollhouse during several years on this homepage.
It was a house in old Victorian style. ('click' on the picture for an enlargement)
About 1 year ago I started to built a new dollhouse: A canal-house from Amsterdam.
I would like to have many rooms and a grocery-store in this dollhouse.
My son made a building-plan, and after that the sawing and building was started.
I always try to keep everyting 'self-made' , because everything can be bought for money,
but you get more satisfaction by making it by yourself.
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That brings us to the tiles on the roof. All these tiles (several hundreds) are handmade by myself.
They are made of cardboard-sheets: cutting hundreds of tiles, moisturing the tiles
before modelling, drying, sticking on the roof and at last painting them.
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Let's go inside the house. The door is already open, because a soldier of the Salvation Army is
at the door trying to sell a 'strijdkreet' (the magazine of the Salvation Army).
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Along the hallway at the backside of the house we go into the livingroom. Here we see grandma
sitting and reading a book.
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The nearest room is the diningroom, where the lady of the house is setting the table for
dinner. Once in a while we have to eat isn't it ?
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If we go upstairs we meet the youngest family-member, who's nicely sleeping in
his baby-carriage.
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The next room is the library. Here we see grandpa.
He has retreated himself for a while to read his paper.
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At the opposite site of the hall is the bathroom. The lord of the house has given us
permission to peep in, while he is still shaving himself.
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Next to the bathroom there is a lumber-room.
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If we go to the upperfloor, we see the maid, called 'Miep' at the hall.
She is resposible for a spotless and clean house.
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On this floor there's also the bedroom.
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On the opposite site of the hallway there is a musician-room.
Here you can make a lot of music.
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If we go further downstairs we will arrive in a hallway. There is
a very old toilet with a shit-hole (without water).
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Next to the hallway there is a kitchen: 'Saartje's domain'. She does the
cooking and the dishes.
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Also downstairs in the house there is a grocery-shop, called
"Toermalijntje" , where you can buy everything you need.
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This is the end of the tour around the house. All the dolls in this house
are 100% selfmade of a material called 'fimo'. In their bodies there are iron-wires
to make it possible to bent there limbs as I wish. That's how I can make them
stand, bow, sit, lie down, or whatever I want them to do.
MINIATURES
What do you think about a 'Chapel' build IN een bible-book ?? :
'click' on the book to see what happens..........
This Chapel is build in the book.
Measures H x L x D = 41 x 36 x 15 cm
And what about a Workshop (barn) IN a book:
'click' on the book and see what's in it.
This workshop is build in the book.
Measures H x L x D = 35 x 30 x 10 cm
Latest update: february 2003
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