Audrey Johnson 
How to Make Dolls’ Houses 

This vintage book is a comprehensive and accessible manual for the building of dolls houses and furniture.

How to Make Dolls’ Houses provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for building a variety of houses, beginning with a simple model schoolhouse that could be made cheaply and by children, and going on to more complicated tasks that eventually lead to the construction of a nineteenth century draper’s shop and flat.

The contents include:

– A School A Confectioner’s Shop and Café


– A Late Victorian Draper’s Shop


– A Westmorland Farmhouse


– A Tall Villa


– A Sweet Shop


– A Hunting Lodge


– A Miniature Doll’s House


– A Public House


– A Cabinet in the Form of a Doll’s House

Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on dolls.

Table of Content

Introduction


Section A: A School


Section B: A Confectioner’s Shop and Café, 1956


Section C: A Late Victorian Draper’s Shop


Section D: A Westmorland Farmhouse – A Tall Villa – ‘Sea View’ – A Sweet Shop – A Hunting Lodge – A Miniature Doll’s House – A Public House – A Cabinet in the Form of a Doll’s House


Photographs


The photographs appear between pages 40 and 41


1. The School. Outside


2. The School. Inside


3. The Confectioner’s Shop and Café


4. The Victorian Draper’s Shop. Outside


5. The Victorian Draper’s Shop. Inside


6. The Tall Villa. Outside


7. The Tall Villa. Inside


8. The Sweet Shop. Outside


9. The Sweet Shop. Inside