Maybe unrealized dreams explain it. That love for an English Tudor house, but you spent your life in Tampa and that house was never on the agenda.
Get it now!
The world of miniature houses beckons.
Dollhouses, some call them, are an underground passion, built and decorated in living rooms across the globe where readers of Miniature Magazine and hobbyists decorate their dream houses.
According to the Wall Street Journal, these dollhouses can be extravagant.
Lighted chandeliers in a golden baroque living room. Extraordinarily expensive wallpaper, not so dear when bought one foot at a time. Carvings. Tables and chairs. Tiny paintings. Even a teensy cat on a chair.
Some dollhouse projects are lifelong works of art, costing upwards of $300,000 to complete.
Others are just works of fun, a good use for scrapbook paper never used.
Famed therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer has eight dollhouses. One is a replica of a dollhouse she was forced to leave behind when, at age 10, she escaped Nazi Germany.
Another features a doll as a maid to remind her of one of her first jobs.
Dollhouses, she says, don't have to be expensive but they can be good for the soul.
Miniatures.com advertises dollhouses for prices ranging from $10 to more than $1,000. You can build it or buy the house complete and then furnish it with tiny miniatures found on the site.
Nearly ever dream house is available from log cabins to Tudor mansions and colonials. All ready to make your dreams come true.
On the other hand, some dollhouses are expensive.
One collector, selling out to finance her real house, has four miniatures listed on eBay for prices ranging from $28,000 to $100,000.
