A most ambitious project, since blueberry wood does not easily lend itself to precise joinery. The concept was simple; visualization and design turned out to be downright challenging. Construction turned into a most arduous and yet, a very rewarding task.  

The log cabin style frame is augmented by four corner posts. The roof is book matched, the chimney is functional, and the electrician did a fine job. 

Six handmade blueberry wood floor lamps and sixteen recessed lights create an interesting and homey nighttime effect. The six frosted plexiglass lampshades each feature a blueberry finnial. Thank you Glass Studio of Cape Cod. The incandescent lighting has an amazing effect in accentuating the blueberry wood’s beautiful natural rich colors. 

The dollhouse has antique wide pine floor boards. Not many dollhouses feature wide pine floor boards, but this one does. The first floor is twenty one inches wide and the second floor is sixteen inches wide. The attic floor consists of blueberry wood planking.

Blueberry wood stairways, furniture, and fixtures help beautify the house. Built to standard dollhouse scale, one inch equals one foot.The dollhouse measures twenty nine inches wide, twenty five and one half inches deep and thirty two inches tall. It weighs in at a healthy sixty eight pounds, not including the mechanical room. 

Hidden fasteners provide more than adequate structural stability. The finish is wipe-on polyurethane, applied by brush.

For more information, please email: TomJohnsonWoodworking@gmail.com