Art Deco House -Undersized Urbanite Dollhouse Update

I have been slowly working on my Art Deco House entry for Christina O's Undersized Urbanite Dollhouse contest. The very best part of the work is exploring new ideas and trying to make the house, the furniture and the future inhabitants for the lowest cost possible. Almost everything I am using in the house, including the house itself, has been transformed from things purchased from a dollar store, a thrift store or eBay.

I previously showed you the ladies I am transforming to Jazz Age/Art Deco sophisticates. They started as these sad looking harlequins I purchased from eBay:


Then they were changed to these:


And here is one of them turned into a polished Art Deco lady:








Her dress is composed of the material from a dollar store fan with a piece of dollar store ribbon around her hips. The boa is borrowed from an Avon doll, but I also created a white "mink" stole from the white fake fur edging from a dollar store Christmas stocking:












My camera is not that great, but you should be able to see the material and ribbon better in this photo:





If my Art Deco lady turns out to be too big for the scale I finally settle on, I will be creating an Art Deco lady using the same process from one of these dollar store mermaids:


I have been experimenting with making stairs from domino beads purchased from the sale bin at Hobby Lobby:





The beads are taped to a dollar store clear acrylic napkin holder that I will be cutting up for window "glass" and the stair well. I will be filling in the bead holes, and I might make the stairs spiral:


Or use the all white side of the bead to make piano stairs:


(Photo from designscraps.com).

I will be furnishing the house with a combination of furniture I am making and vintage 1930s furniture I either have or will find. The room dividers and bookshelves are inexpensive clear acrylic bobbin cases:


Here is some furniture that I recently purchased off eBay that I will be restoring:





What has inspired me as I move forward with Art Deco radio house?
These:





And Hercule Poirot:












And Jeeves and Wooster:








And many others:





























Including these 1920s "people" created in the 1970s for a display of the 1920s Stettheimer dollhouse:




















Wishing you only good things, Neen

(I try to give credit to the photographer and/or source of photos I use. I have been collecting photos for use in my Art Deco house for a long time and the names of the photographer or source of many of the photos have been lost, if that information was available. If I used one of your photos, or you know the source, please let me know and I will be happy to give credit where credit is due.)