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This fall I was searching for a doll's house for my 5 years old daughter Lotte. I was surprised of the large offer of wooden houses with chunky furniture, wooden doll's with hair made of ropes that were not resembling today's interiors or persons. In my childhood my grandfather made a doll's house for my sister and me and I still remember the tiny little kitchen and bathroom that where just like the real thing. It triggered my fantasy.

That's exactly what I wanted for my girl.

Soon I bought a doll's house on the Dutch site Marktplaats.nl I was planning to restore and refurnish it one for my daughter but when it arrived in our home I realized it was the perfect example of 70-ties home decor. The wallpapers where in perfect condition. (Pretty egocentric but I couldn't let this beautiful house be tortured by my five year old) The label on it said it is a Hanse of Denmark house.

The second house was a Lisa, I bought this one for Lotte because she didn't like the fact that mummy took over her doll's house. The house was furnished with a bed in perfect condition which obviously ended up in the Hanse house before my girl could lay her fingers on it.

But those two houses both had to be furnished. So I bought an other house with beautiful items that I actually did share with Lotte because I didn't like the part that was in baroque style and she did (hopefully taste comes within years).

Now I had a gorgeous kitchen and bathroom but the Lisa was still kitchenless, not very much appreciated by the young one.

I started to get fascinated by the world of doll's house. Great resources as minimodern.blogspot.com and theshoppingsherpa.blogspot.com let me discover the amazing miniature design of the past decades. More research told me that Hanse as well as Lisa had been taken over by Lundby somewhere in the eighties. And apparently I used to have some Lundby furniture in my childhood doll's house. I took a dive into the Lundby world.

And then I discovered another house on Marktplaats.nl. At first I just bought this house because of the beautiful Lundby furniture pieces but when I arrived at the seller's house I saw the beauty of the doll's house underneath the shabby wallpapers and flooring. And the seller still was so enthusiastic about the house that her father and grandfather had made for her in her childhood that I decided, at the spot, that the house had to be restored in it's full glory and that it would be the perfect house for Lotte.

In this blog I will tell the story of the renovation of the large doll's house and the search for perfect furniture pieces of the 60-ties and the 70-ties.

I hope everyone will enjoy reading the posts and getting inspiration by design in miniature!