I'm 79 born 1944. I had a dolls house when I was around six - seven. It had paper made to look like roof tiles on the roof. The front was painted cream and had a painted rose bush around the front door. The door and window frames were metal with criss-crossed panes. It had a garage. My gran bought me little people to live in it. They were made of wool covered wire, with heavy lead feet so they'd stand up unaided. They were dressed in felt clothing. Yes, washing day was Mondays and we had a mangle which stood outside. We had a shallow stone sink - not a butlers sink which were a bit posher and it had a wooden draining board. Some women were lucky enough to have a gas boiler. We only had gas lighting. Our house was a two up two down terrace. Your house is based on a house that was slightly up market, so probably had electricity. Our bedrooms all had fireplaces. We used iron, irons heated up on the range or gas stove. Some housewives if they had electricity in their homes, had electric irons which were plugged into the light socket. We had a black iron gas stove. We just had brooms for sweeping. Some lucky ladies had a Ewbank which was wood, had a roller and was pushed around manually but they weren't very efficient on lino. We ironed on the kitchen table. If lucky enough to have an ironing board they were made of wood. No fridges, so perishable food was put in little wooden 'safes' with mesh fronts and fixed to the outside wall of the kitchen in the shade, but not used much in summer though! Fireguard around the fire and clothes aired on it. We had a wooden clothes horse too. No sliced bread, so breadboard with matching bread knife always on the table, along with a brown teapot and cut glass sugar bowl. Wicker shopping baskets. No fitted carpets. Rag rugs in front of the fire. Fancy lace curtains were essential. No plastic. Galvanised buckets. Front step scrubbed and done with whitening powder every week. And where I lived there were no bathrooms, so a big galvanised bath hung on the back wall of every house. Hope that helps :)

If you don't bring this house back to life, who will? This house is in the right hands!

My grama was born in 1894, and I still have some of her small things floating around my house, in 2023. All good!

Awe.... Fleur and Kate, this little abode earnestly, yet ever so gently plucks at the heartstrings. It was waiting for you to bring life back to it, so it can be loved again. A sweet project indeed. (*V*)

I love how the cat touched it and immediately felt the need to clean its paw 😂

Not being able to leave a sad dolls house behind is why I have 9 of them now in various stages of repair! You needed more space for your ever growing collection and miniature creations so it is all good. Be well from washington state USA ❤️

So glad that you found this house. You are just the ladies to bring this sad little house back to life again. Very excited to see this project as it goes along.

I can see why you bought it.Charming.1940's looking

This is how it happens. You get one dollhouse, think you are done, and suddenly you have several houses, none of which will ever be truly "finished" because you always find things to add. It's the best hobby ever! Your new house is lovely, congratulations on your purchase and I am excited to see what you do with it.

@swearenginlawanda

Жыл бұрын

IMHO..... a great addiction to have. I readily admit to my addiction.

Oh how wonderful, Kit and Caboodle to the rescue! Flower boxes with veggies etc. would be perfect! Love tuning in, such a joy! Thank You!

For the fascia timbers on that house, you can get a bundle of coffee stirring sticks that are perfect mini planks of wood that are easy to snip to size! I like that dollshouse! We apparently still had an Anderson shelter here when my parents first moved here. I love repair projects 😁 One thing I will say is that my house was built in 1938 and the white and black checker tiles were all over the place! So 1930s-1950s is my guess 😉 I think the name is "The Leas" which is a house name I have seen before!

@victoriacook8536

Жыл бұрын

I believe you are correct about the name being "The Leas". In fact "The Leas" was the name of Mr Eshtons house in the novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte!

@richardserridge2767

Жыл бұрын

@@victoriacook8536 kate will go wild at the bronte connection!!!

There is a book and dvd on a TV series about The 1940's house which tells you everything a 1940's house would have had. And it tells you about rationing, the Anderson shelter and about growing your own veg. The book and dvd would be a great help to you both. Can't wait to see the videos you make on your new 1940's house. Thank you so much for purchasing your new project. Already the house is starting to be more cheerful with the love you are giving it x

@NanciesArt11

Жыл бұрын

Yes, PBS showcased 1940's House, and I remember saving it to VCR tape a long time ago. Don't currently have a TV or sadly the tape. 😞

I love your plan for this house. Thank you for rescuing it. The base of it may have actually survived WWII.

I love it! You've saved it! I just watched a lady that took pictures of her dollhouse paper and had it reprinted. I think you could do it yourselves with some white cardstock, or maybe manilla. Very much looking forward to watching you two bring this little beauty back to life. Have a wonderful week Fleur and Kate!

That house couldn't have fallen into better hands.....it'll be wonderful when you're finished it.

What a great find, and that you resqued this poor dollshouse, but it is now in a house with lots of love for it!! ❤️❤️🏚️🏠

Funny that an abandoned doll house is so accurate to a real abandoned house.

It was cute that kitty was checking out the dolls house. I think she was thinking that when it's had a tidy up that she can move in.

Waiting for my doctor to call me back and you’ve provided some much needed smiles! YAY, new video!!

@juneyshu6197

Жыл бұрын

I hope it is good news.

@Cate7451

Жыл бұрын

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@sticklebacksummer

Жыл бұрын

Hope all went well.All the best.

@MatterMeetsAntimatter

Жыл бұрын

I love this community! Thank you, all!! 💜

@Widdekuu91

Жыл бұрын

Hope everything is alright.

Sunny cat at the beginning made me smile, thank you. 🙂💖🐈🐈‍⬛ I can’t wait to see what you do with this house.

I picture a soldier on leave from the war front. Maybe knocking on the front door or hugging his mum or kids. Making a uniform would be amazing!

I have a wartime house created in a house I had from a uk auction and shipped to canada. Love that era

Poor, sad little house. But the proportions are nice and the wallpaper is darling. What a worthy project for you to have undertaken. I so look forward to see it come back to life.

You can never have too many doll houses! Looking forward to the remaking of a gem.

@swearenginlawanda

Жыл бұрын

Agree 100%. I only have around 50. I'm still building. 😊

I love the new project and can't wait to see it's progress. I'm even more excited to see it come alive as a history project to commemorate the horrible time that was the Blitz. My uncle was stationed at Boxted as a fighter pilot who's job it was to escort bombers to Germany, but to also protect British citizens from the German bombing missions. He was killed in action in 1943 and this will be such a special project for me! I would love to help if I could, and hopefully I'll see some ways that I can make it happen. 🙂

Well saved ladies, i can see this coming back to life plus there’s plenty of room for your extra dolls. Take care and thank you for sharing 👍🙏❤️👏

If there was ever a team to fix this up, it's you two! ❤❤❤

Oh how wonderful!!!!! My heart skipped a beat when you said you were going to create a 1940's house complete with veg patch and Anderson shelter, how exciting. I can't wait to see everything you do, it will be amazing. I think you will do a FANTASTIC job. Two girls after my own heart xxx

Oh my what an amazing Dollshouse - it's going to be quite a project! I started off with my old childhood dollshouse and now have 4 that I'm restoring! It's lovely that you restore them together ♥

I know you said your intentions was to redo the exterior of the house with new paper, but it might be more neat, given how the poor house has been treated by time, to re-shingle the roof with popsicle sticks. you could even strengthen the doors of the house by gluing popsicle sticks and coffee stirrers over the existing stone and repainting it to match the original paper. so excited to see what you decide to do with it though!

The vintage wall coverings are so sweet.

I am so happy yo adopted this sweet house! I can't wait to see what you do with her!

You have lots of lovely paper and things to redo it. It'll be fun and wonderful as usual. 🥰🥰

In the beginning the old dolls house looks like the real abandoned homes today.

This is fantastic a new dolls house to work on. Can’t wait to to follow this process ❤❤❤❤❤

What a lovely project 😍 6:04 I would make an grandfather's clock out off this piece of wood 😅

I have loved watching these videos. Y’all are like the borrowers in real life! It’s a delight watching you guys as a mother daughter team just enjoying life and making cool miniatures and houses!

What a treasure. I think it looks like it was made in the 40s and played with into the 50s. Fun to restore, looking forward to watching.

I'm so proud of you ladies for saving this treasure. I can't wait to see you turned it to gold.

The card board along the roof looks just like cardboard used in upholstery to make folds nice and crisp. I've been on the look out for an old doll house here in the U.S.but all I have found are more modern plastic ones. I decided I'm not settling. I've been collecting furniture. Having so much fun. Your videos bring me alot of joy every week. ❤

What a darling little house! You might try figuring out the scale by determining what size doll would fit through the front door. It could be an odd scale if the dolls that originally inhabited the house were also handmade. This will be fun!

An exciting project a war time house. My favorite style of decorating is the 1940s farm houses here in the States. My mother grew up in the 1940s. Looking forward to this project very much I think because my mother was a child then and as a child I was in and out of that house that my Grandparents built in the 1940s.

So exciting ! I can see you making a little old fashioned radio to listen to Mr Churchill on. One of the dolls who take up residence must have some knitting, either socks for sailors, or a cosy balaclava for the ARP warden. The cook must have a Wartime recipe book and a tin of powdered egg . You are going to have such fun, thank you for sharing with us. 😍

@sticklebacksummer

Жыл бұрын

Good ideas, like it.

Thank you for saving this beauty. You will made "it" proud👍❤

Love the chimney with smoke, it’s a darling house

Love that you purchased another dollhouse, never too many for us to enjoy, we love coming along on the projects!

I could watch you do these kinds of things for hours!! I"m looking forward to all the future videos!

Just like a real house cleaning and remodeling

How lovely that you’re doing this for this sad little house. I would love to spend a day with you both, mudlarking and then looking at all your doll’s houses and playing with scraps to make cute things 🏡

This is going to be so much fun watching y’all rehabilitate this house. Can’t wait.

Such a sweet little house. Lots of work ahead which will be wonderful to watch. I love your wallpaper behind the little house. Thank you.

@joclothier5536

Жыл бұрын

The wallpaper looks like a William Morris creation. x

Well you certainly have your work cut out for you; but if there's anyone who could do it, it would be you two. I'm sure you'll having it looking great in no time. I love the way you superimposed a sampling of an actual 1940's room onto each dollhouse room at the end. That was super cool! It really helped us to envision what it would have looked like in the day. I know I'll enjoy watching this one come together as much as the I have enjoyed your other dollhouse projects. 😊

I am excited to see how you transform your new house! I never had a doll house as a child and always wanted one. Thanks for sharing with us!

A fun and challenging project! The fireplace may never have had a mantle. Some didn’t starting in the 1940’s and after - the modern style, right? Dad had to get clever with ours, creating wooden pieces that could be temporarily pressed between the bricks, so we would have a place to hang the stockings at Christmas. 🙂

Oh my that is a really cool rescue! I can hardly wait to see what you do in this one! So exciting!

Ohhhh!!! I just know you two will fix it and lovingly restore this..Im so excited for the future ..every bit of sweat and tears will be so worth it! Thank you for this surprise. Wow!!!

The new doll house is super! All the things y’all suggested sound wonderful! I am looking forward to seeing the results!!

The nursery wall paper looks like pages from a child's book. Loves

What a great project and a wonderful find. You will have a lot of fun with this fabulous old house.

If you Google '1940s dollshouse UK' you will see a lot of houses very similar to yours, brick paper and stone paper included. I think so much of the house made from cardboard speaks to rationing when wood was needed for the war effort. So I think you're off to a good start. I build dollhouses almost exclusively from cardboard and foam board, including furniture. So I am really looking forward to watching this project. Its definitely 1/12 scale

Queen City Minis (here on KZread) recently did a great little tutorial on making a 1:12 washboard with brush and tub! I thought I'd mention it, maybe it could be helpful. What a great sad/newly happy house this is! Totally understand that you couldn't leave it behind in the antique store. I can't wait how you are going to make it look. I love the 40's theme, it'll be splendid! ❤

@swearenginlawanda

Жыл бұрын

I just watched that. She did an amazing job

How fun! To start restoring a new dollhouse! You make all of your dollhouses so unique and fun! This one may be a bit more somber but it will be wonderful and I can hardly wait to watch it happen! What a wonderful find! Please be careful and stay safe!❤❤

YES! I cannot wait to see what you two do with the house! Early 1940s had a lot of art deco. I am thinking this is post war or even during. Still lots of shortages so the house is trimmed in paper timbers. You may be able to find reproduction papers that closely match the roof and brick papers.

I can't wait to see what projects you ladies do with the saved dollhouse, I just know it will be beautiful. I love this little house 💕

What a little raw diamond you found. Nobody could bring it so good to a new life than you. I’m waiting for the next chapter of this cute doll house.

Okay, I haven't even watched the video and you have brought a smile to my face. Thank-you sweeties.

Emmeline is a sweet name for this sadly sweet dollhouse. What fun you two will have.

A worthy rescue and a what looks to be an enjoyable challenge. We like the style of the house, particularly like the nursery decor; as you surmise Fleur, the era is probably late forties into early fifties. How about the name ‘Holly House?

Very cute house. Sounds like a fun project to do it up as a 1940s war time house.

Love the new project. I adore the wallpaper in the nursery. I hope you can keep it.

Sonny be like “I have a dust-bunny on my tongue”. Can’t wait to see you fix up the new house!

I'm fairly sure that the horse design wallpaper was in the house I was born in. My family moved into that house in the early fifties and the paper was already there so I think you are right about 1940s. I also remember a clothes drying rack in the kitchen which was hoisted up to the ceiling with a pulley.....your video has really stirred up some memories! 😊💗 x

Well i would say that doll house has found it's forever home with you dear ladies. I like the 40s decorating and fashions. This should be an interesting project. Poor Sunny cat didn't seem to like it. After it starts being repaired i imagine he will start enjoying it. Looking forward to seeing how you restore it.

There's something so exciting about finding something that's a challenging project. And this house is certainly that! But a wonderful one and I wouldn't be able to refuse to do it either. Having seen so much of your work over time, I know this is destined to be a great new start to a very neglected old 'building', and I look forward so much to seeing how it progresses! Good luck!

Just like your mudlarking finds, you two see the beauty and potential in the broken and discarded!!! Looking forward to this project. I'm sure Sunny cat wants to get in and lay in this house too!🥰🥰🥰

So excited for a wartime interior, the dump dolls will be interesting if you choose to include them. I hoped you would get another dolls house.

I am so looking forward to what you do with this 40s era dollhouse.

being made of cardboard and printed paper, I think it is a wartime house, and that's a perfect theme for it. Papered blackout windows!

@ceceliakeown5653

Жыл бұрын

I think the same. Makes it EXTRA SPECIAL because someone loved their child so much but didnt have the $ to buy 1. I think they made it look like real wood the best they could. Quiet ingenious really..cardboard that they livingly painted. Wow

@ceceliakeown5653

Жыл бұрын

Lovingly

Looks like a 1940s house but played well into the 60's and 70's maybe judging by the living room decor the red fireplace. Supprised the shop left the nest in it, glad you saved it can't wait for future videos

I love ❤️ your childlike spirit ...sooo much fun watching you I hope that you were wearing a mask tho while sweeping out the inside dirt / nest ... Stay safe and healthy

@moladhdodhia164

Жыл бұрын

I don't know why an antique store would sell something without cleaning it out.

What a glorious find! You will have so much fun refurbishing this old jewel and making her shine again!

I already know that you both will make this more beautiful than what it was 🥰 You both have such amazing talent as artists I have no doubt! I can’t wait to see your art and ideas on this project. Have a great night ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💜

It is so wonderful the way you see the beauty in something that so many would not. It is fascinating how you can transform this.

@maureengauvin1768

2 ай бұрын

Exactly!!!

I would suggest putting thin wood inside and outside to restore it and make it stronger. You have all that awesome stuff to remake that. Also in the 50's we had bathrooms built on the back porches doing away with outhouses. My grandmother used a chamber pot on her side of the bed. The had the old washing machines with the 2 rollers you pushed the material through with the big side button you could hit when your hand got pulled into it. I still have a ring mark where my hand was pulled in to my knuckles before I could hit it to open it up. 🙃 prior to that was we had wash board's in a big metal tub outside. Prior to that they were boiled in a cauldron over a fire and prior to that we washed our clothes in creeks using stones to clean the leather. We're Natives in our territory first contact. We took the French hueganauts in in 1525, 50 year's we lived peaceably together because they didn't try to steal our land. 50 year's later we took in the Lost Colony in our village of Tandequemuc in Merry Hill NC. They weren't lost. Like all other races they took a spouse from our people and assimilated into us.... we're Iroquois.

@maureengauvin1768

2 ай бұрын

Wow! Thx for sharing your important historical & genealogical First Nation information - fascinating! Greetings from the Live Free or Die state of New Hampshire, USA.

Absolutely beautiful dolls house & excited to see the 1940's restoration.

It'd be nice to see that house on a larger base board with an external washing line & a garden. Food for thought?

Love to watch you bring life back to this doll house. ❤ would make a very good orphanage too for all the dolls you rescue 😊 x

I’m happy you found another awesome house to adopt and bring back to life! Can’t wait to see more.

This will be a fun journey to watch as you create your wartime home…..TFS 🫶🏻🇨🇦☺️

Its a beauty, and I have no doubt that your talented touch will bring it back to life! Bless you and Sunny!

A fixer upper 😊nice project Can’t wait to see what it will become 🌼have fun decorating and making it amazing Greetings from California

A very inspiring not-so blank slate! I know it will be hours and hours of fun, reasearch and a truly noble cause to lovingly restore and fill it! I'm amazed at the little details - even the floor trim! I love the wall paper with the little feathery plume flowers, and the childrens paper is an almost exact match stylistically to what was in the childrens room in my Grandmothers house - last updated (until it changed hands) in the 30s and 40s. Pinks, golds, maroons, browns, and sage greens were the palete of choice for living rooms of the period and scenic wall papers, and pink/black and pastel yellow/black tiles and the checker-block floors in the kitchens and bathrooms.

I just know that you will enjoy your new project, and make it beautiful again. 🌹❤️🌹

I'm so happy you saved it.

I am so pleased you have saved this little house. Don't forget most houses had a picture rail in every room and also paper stripes of design on top of the wallpaper. Can't think what you call it. As to the rail I think I can hear my mum talking about a dado rail? going around the room. When I was young I had lino in my bedroom and a mat to step on beside the bed. When you said wartime house I thought you would have to make gas masks and don't forget the boxes people had to wear with them in. Always brown paper covered. I don't think they had stone cladding on the front of house at that time. Mums bungalow was built in 1937 and they had pebble dashed walls on the front and back. O this is going to be exciting I can see......

You guys need to check with wallpaper and carpet stores to see if they have any discontinued samples vv

It's beautiful ❤it just needs a little love

What a bargain!! Looking forward to seeing its metamorphosis. Think that spare bit of wood that came with it might be from under the roof? Nice that the house has a name. Great project.

You're going to make it beautiful. Enjoy!

I love this house, it was built with love and a small child once adored this little house, I think it’s designed as a later 30’s house and most likely build in the 40’s

@adelia988

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking 1930s house too, I live a 1930s built house. Maybe watch a house through time or back in time for dinner from the bbc they have done the war time.