c. 1966
H 25 x W 74 x D60 cm
Collection: Alison Joseph
H 25 x W 74 x D60 cm
Collection: Alison Joseph
Photographs and plans for this modern split-level doll’s house were published in The Australian Women’s Weekly on 9 October 1963.
Attention, all Dads with daughters! If you're thinking of making a doll's house for Christmas, this split-level mansion is specially designed to bring fun and fantasy to little girls.
THIS dreamy doll's house is so simple to build, an inexperienced handyman could make it.
There are stairs for dolls to climb, real doors to open and close, a snack bar, two outdoor patios, even flower-boxes near the carport and front door.
Alison’s mother must have set the clipping aside with her little daughter, who was born in 1961, in mind. Although the magazine wanted Dads to build this house, Alison’s mother took on the project. She had already repaired one doll’s house (a much older house she restored for Alison’s friend). She then made this house for her daughter and furnished it with a discontinued line of good furniture.
Did you know?
Most Mum or Dad-made doll houses have access via the roof. It seems to be easier to use the roof as a lid rather than match a hinged facade of a doll house accurately and tightly to the walls.
