First up, the daisy rug and matching cushions I bought from Victorian dolls houses a couple of weekends ago to mark the return of the Kaleidoscope House to it's rightful place behind my sofa:
Secondly, the cleaned and furnished Triang S house.Hallway,
kitchen,
lounge
and bedroom
(I knew I'd find a home for that Czech kitchen and lounge furniture and the Kage bedroom setting eventually! And recognise the upstairs rug?)Thirdly, I may have just found the perfect way to blend my love of scooters, my desire to own a caravan and my need to travel frugally into one perfect package:
(Photograph by Thierry Bouët, spotted in AU marie claire)Fourthly and finally: (this has nothing to do with beds except for the tenuous link that I knitted a lot of it while sitting in bed.) I can reveal photos of Dad's birthday vest now that it's arrived safely in New Zealand:
Bendigo 8 ply from their back room. A lovely tweedy purpley-bluey wool
and a very easy knit.I've started the ribbing on this year's winter jumper for myself but have ground to a screeching halt until I make some decisions about what the finished design is actually going to entail...
I believe it's a Triang S, produced between 1958 and 1961, based on some basic internet trawling. It's missing the chimneys and two of the windows, so the hunt for replacements is on (can you help at all?)
with built ins glued into the bathroom
and kitchen
(no idea if these are original or added later. I don't recognise them which doesn't help much. Maybe it's time to finally buy a copy of Marion Osborne's book on Lines and Triang dolls' houses...)
and here's a version which was .jpg)
also from eBay, a larger version (the "R"? The "T"?) which has been remuddled (those look like .jpg)
and back:
I didn't need to create any replacement window panes as I discovered I had them all tucked safely away. And I decided to remove the lights completely. I've popped them up in the attic in case I (or the next owner) decide to put them back in place.
Secondly, having furniture printed onto the walls is cute but makes placement of actual furniture quite challenging (see basin above which doesn't quite cover the picture of the basin on the wall...)
Thirdly, the Triang furniture seems a bit small for the house:
I'm missing a few vital bits from the house at the moment. My Triang fridge is currently in the kitchen of my 
and will stay that way until 
It was in better nick than I'd feared and there were some added bonuses that I either hadn't read properly in the listing (like the original box, assembly instructions and a price list of other Triang items available at the time) or they hadn't mentioned (the chimney! All the missing broken doors and windows!)
isn't it fabulous?
Fixing the roof.
Sorting out a few structural repairs, both inside
and out
and, before anything else, giving the whole thing a jolly good clean!
Not really a house at all. The Irwin Interior Decorator Set was produced in the USA for Christmas 1964.
You clip the walls onto the edges of the flooring sheets, chose which side of the double-sided wall panels you wish to display and then attach the legs of your choice to the seat of your choice.
(The front of mine is quite faded. I've since obtained a new front) 
I found this an incredibly frustrating house after the design ease of my Scandinavian houses.
Trying to place the furniture in logical places without covering the various windows and doorways was a puzzle and a half.
The kitchen was a particular challenge. In the end I had to place several bits of furniture with their backs to the viewer, including the oven and microwave combo which itself provided a puzzle: why is this piece so rare when it's a staple of any kitchen?
Why, also, when a family of four was produced for the house is there only one bedroom?
And although a range of (very rare) nursery furniture was produced, beds for the children were never sold....
