The Doll House
Ahh the cliché and every architecture school admission councilors worst nightmare. The Legos and architecture essay. I once heard that the essays at a select school were perused for the Lego introduction and the applications were tossed. Well lucky for me I hated Legos I gave up early on them after a few frustrated attempts to separate two identical pieces. Later they introduced a “separating tool” but by then I was over it.
I also had some great distractions; I found one of them in the attic last week. My grandmother built me a massive dollhouse for Christmas when I was young. I spent the following ten years thumbing through catalogs, tearing out pages, and begging for different types of furniture and accessories. I’ve decorated, moved and wallpapered it a number of times over. My parents gave me full creative freedom even when I insisted on yellow curtains and a giant gothic bed in the living room.
I discovered it in the attic a few weeks ago I’ve been thinking about it more and more. Do little girls still play with dollhouses? What’s the shinny new modern version of a doll house? Am I wrong to be nostalgic about something that was meant to train little girls to make good homes? Granted I am over thinking it a bit. I also wonder what is going to happen to my 5,000 square inch colonial. Little girls and their dollhouses are cute, grown women and dollhouses is just creepy.
Perhaps the new modern dollhouse is the Sims or some other related video game? I know there’s a growing market for girl-centered video games, and I’m pretty sure some of them relate to cooking and housekeeping. Personally, I still love dollhouses because of the scale….I love miniature things. And I think you’ll get a kick out of this: http://icanhasinternets.com/2010/04/fan-created-minature-hobbit-house/
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