In with the old, in with the new

I don't have any modern Lundby dollhouses (yet!), but I've been unable to resist some of the modern furniture. I especially love the stainless steel kitchen with island, which has found a home in the Lundby garage extension of my Lisa dollhouse:

I've also acquired a pink sectional sofa (the corduroy floral cushions are to die for!) that I'm not sure where to place yet. My original idea was to add it to my pink loft bedroom, but as you'll see it's a bit of a tight squeeze (and does it really make sense to have lounge furniture in the bedroom?!):

The IKEA-look garden table and chairs are also bigger than I expected. They take up almost all the room on my 90s Gothenburg balcony:

The fourth chair wouldn't fit on the balcony, so I added it to my blue bedroom:

One vintage/modern room that I'm happy with is a little space I partitioned off in one of my extensions. I like how the plain wood staircase coordinates with the modern wood bookcase. And I think the vintage curtains and rug look pretty good with the modern red chairs:

Maybe it's okay to decorate with a hodge podge of old and new. After all, that's what my real house looks like (with more of an emphasis on the old and decrepit)!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Wishing you a day full of

love and fun treats, big and small.

The joy of rediscovery

Lots of people have told me how much fun they're having rediscovering Lundby or recreating their childhood Lundby collections as adults. Here is one of those stories....

Once upon a time, a little girl named Melanie had a Lundby dollhouse that she loved. She and her sister Melissa spent many happy hours playing with it together. Years later, Melanie dug it out from storage. To her dismay it was damaged beyond repair, and the contents were lost. She was very sad.

Melanie's mother, Barbara, wanted to give her daughter back her Lundby childhood treasures. She set out to find and furnish a house just like Melanie's. She remembered each little room and its tiny little contents.

It took some time and a little help from me, a couple kind eBay sellers, and two Lundby experts in Sweden... And voilà! Melanie's Christmas surprise was born:

On Christmas Day, Melanie arrived at her mother's house and the first thing she saw was the dollhouse, all lit up with its own little tree. How could it be... Was it really? She thought her original dollhouse had been miraculously fixed up, and all the furniture found!

It was exactly as she remembered it--hard to believe it was a recreation! Melanie shed many tears of joy that day, sitting by the house and remembering exactly how she used to rearrange things, moving the fireplace here and the china cabinet there.

Now Melanie and her young daughter enjoy playing with the house together, sharing old memories and creating new ones.