On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:26:42 -0700 (PDT), "Gramp's shop"
wrote:

On Thursday, July 12, 2012 6:19:19 PM UTC-5, Nick wrote:
Hello folks,
I'm from the other side of the pond and would much appreciate all the advice
I can get.
Our daughter has recently made us proud grandparents. This is a good thing.
My wife and daughter have entrusted me to make a dolls house for
granddaughter. This is not a bad thing.
I have enjoyed working with wood all my life and am reasonably equipped with
tools & know how to use them.
But.
(1) I have a tendency to get bogged down with detail.
(2) I would like to make something that Elouise [granddaughter] can enjoy
not only when she's old enough but also for her future.
(3) I haven't seen a dolls house for about 50 years.

Scale 1:12

Anybody know of good books or sites to get some reference please?
All tips and hints would be muchly appreciated.
Thanks,
Nick.

Your post brings back a lot of fond memories. 30 years ago, I began a doll house for my 4 year old daughter. She received it on her 9th birthday. I built just about everything by hand with the help of a 4" dremel ts. Cut every one of the shakes by hand (boring), built double wall construction so I could run the wiring between walls.

Now I have a three-year-old granddaughter and (being a bit smarter in my old age, and having heard from her grandmother that this house better not take 5 years), I'm starting to formulate my plans. But I just can't see myself buying shingles :-)

Larry


I built a doll house for my grand daughter. I contains about 2000
pieces of wood. It was a couple months job on and off. The shingles
only took a day or two. I had some old redwood pickets that I ripped
and planed. I banded then together with tape and cut them to length.
The beveled edges were done with a shop made jig that fit on a sander.
The plans for the house were on some free web site. A picture of it
is about 2/3 of the way down on this page.

http://ray80538.home.comcast.net/~ra.../woodwork.html