So, in addition to the Moorehead Showhouse, I’ve acquired a Swiss chalet which I will be transforming into an early American Colonial folk-art type of dwelling, and a handmade gingerbread Victorian which I will be turning into a San Francisco circa 1968 Painted Lady hippie commune. Each came to me from a friend of my grandmother’s, whom I told in July that I had started working on the showhouse. In just under two months, she has gifted to me not only those two dollhouses, but about three or four shoe boxes of vintage dollhouse furniture, both constructed by hand and machine, in all different scales, and from a range of eras. I can’t believe how fortunate I am to have received all this great stuff! It’s kind of overwhelming though, because there is so much to figure out about it. What should I sell on eBay/Etsy? If I sell, how much are these pieces worth? Where/when are they from? And for a lot of the pieces which are broken, how am I going to repair/refinish them?  Once they are done, where will I put them? I now have in front of me an endless supply of projects to work on for a while. Not to mention, I am nowhere near complete on the interiors of the showhouse, and I won’t begin interior work on the other two houses until I finish the first one! But I feel like furniture projects are a good way to break up the time in between doing walls, ceilings, floors, doors, windows & moldings. Below are photos from my brand newly massive collection.

I love this wicker bed. It is not marked or stamped, but it came with two pieces of a matching screen that I’m going to use to frame the window of the room this bed will go in:

One of these (unmarked) chairs was broken so I snapped off the coil and am going to put new legs on it:

I have so so so so much of this stuff. It’s Dora Kuhn, (all stamped “Made in West Germany”). I am still trying to date the pieces, have found that some is from a set made in 1949, and some is from a set made in 1967? I have two of every piece. Armoire, table, dresser, bed, table, chair, sideboard, etc:

I think I would like to repaint this (unmarked) TV completely and then stick a new picture on the screen:

This (unmarked) table is missing a leg, so I am going to chop off the back leg and side stretchers, slice down half the table top and turn it into a French Directoire two-leg console. I’m going to make the legs look like columns, and do a faux marble top, like this. I will be painting it white though, to give it more of a Hollywood Regency feel:

Then I will be painting this piano (marked Made In Taiwan) white, to really go all out Hollywood Regency. I’m hoping to find really thin slivers shiny ivory & black seashell(?) in the bead section of Michael’s, and make a brand new keyboard from them:

I got a turkey:

And a set of pots & pans:

And an old kitchen set (marked Made In Taiwan) that needs a lot of cleaning. I am thinking about painting the refrigerator avocado green:

Here is a little unmarked canvas baby cradle:

Two out of these three (unmarked) chairs have broken legs, so I’m going to combine the legs of two to make a set of four for one, leaving the last chair without any legs and I will make replacements for it:

Cute wooden sofa and chair, no markings:

That’s not even everything. But as you can see from the above, there is more than enough to keep me busy for a long while. So keep watching this space! I will be posting progress of as much as I can.

Also… if anyone reading knows anything about any of these pieces, please don’t hesitate to let me know in the comments!