Dollhouses in Maine

Seven Year Project

You will be awed by the time and detail put into this project. When their daughter fell in love with their historic home, Eve & Olof Anderson embarked on an amazing labor of love, recreating their home in miniature. This is not just a roombox or nice little cape, this is a huge Greek Revival, story-and-a-half home copied down to the color of the wallpaper and the contents of the cupboards! The web site is rather graphics heavy, so I hope you aren't on dial-up! Refresh your cup of coffee or tea, then click on the little house at left to be taken on a grand scale tour of the Captain George I. Robinson house in Thomaston, Maine.

Steve Harvey Miniatures

The Maine Yankee spent all of March and half of April in his basement workshop preparing a pair of new room box designs for a photo shoot so that he could make the new Steve Harvey Miniatures web site. The builder's blogs are HERE and HERE.

	The Christmas Tree Room It all started with the tree. I won the tree in a charity raffle thingie and just had to build a room for it. I already had the 8x10 frame and some foam core board, plus a few other items that would really make it special. Click on the image to see more photos, or go to the project blog to follow the stages of the project.
	L'il Bea's Log Home This is an L.L. Bean log cabin dollhouse, modeled on the cabins that Bean owns up in the Rangely Lakes region of Maine. The rustic, two-room houses are steps from the water and are named after fly-fishing lures like those you can make when you attend a fly tying course at their flagship store in Freeport. I don't have much info about who made the dollhouses, or when and how they were sold, but I hope to add more details as I discover them. This particular piece was a flea market find for me in early December of 2005. It made a little girl who loves log homes VERY happy on Christmas morning! Li'l Bea's face upon discovering it by the tree was a priceles picture. This cabin is very sturdily built, just the L.L. Bean style. The furniture that came with it includes the large bed, chair and dresser upstairs. They are not scaled or detailed well, but they are very sturdy play toys. I built the rustic kitchen Realife kit specifically for this house, but I will not be doing any more projects on this house for a few years. L'il Bea is having plenty of fun playing and accessorizing it herself for now.
	The Baron's Study, Miss Frobishers If I try really hard, I might get this good in another decade or so! Grazhina Kayhart is a talented miniatures enthusiast in southern Maine. She has done some really great pieces. She has a photo album on the Web at http://grazhe.googlepages.com/ where you can see more of her work.
	Miniature Scale Timberframe Downscale Designs makes 1/12 scale models of timber frame buildings. Starting with the same post and beam frame that is used when building a home, Andy Hoyt and company can create a cut-away model, an incredible roombox like the first photo above, or a truly unique dollhouse like the one framed out in the second photo. Their site has tons of pictures. Amazing.
	Real Good Toys (tm) Lighthouse Looksmore ha built a lot of character into this lighthouse, several of them! There's the keeper's wife, a couple of playful kitties a little dog and a happy seagull on the roof, too. I'm not sure where the keeper is hiding, but it might be that he is tending to the grounds because one of the cats is watching out the window, bottom floor right.