bighouse

This, the largest house I have built so far, was described as a "small Tudor" when I chose to make it on a dollshouse holiday. Once home, it seemed far from small, and it languished in my studio for many months, before I finally decided what I wanted to do with it.

I had no hankering after a period Tudor house, so I decided that mine would be a "surviving" Tudor. A house that had survived since Tudor times, and suffered a bit in the process! What had started life as a substantial, prosperous merchant's house was now converted into a bookshop on the ground floor, a tearoom on the first floor, and a bedsit in the attic.

As each floor needed a separate entrance, I solved the problem by putting an outside staircase up to the tearoom, and the attic bedsit is accessed via the side door, and a hidden staircase. (Hidden because the first floor houses the large transformer required for all the lights!)

With such a big house, it was not practical to have the usual opening front, so I opted for removable panels on each floor, and a section of the roof hinges up.

The back and right hand side are completely blank, as they are intended to butt up to two (or 3) other houses that are in the planning stage. My long term plan is to have a town centre development, with more shops and a pub. (The barmaid at the pub lives in the attic bedsit)