I drove a three hour round trip for this beauty. Or at least it's a potential beauty, as somewhere in its past it's had a really bad paint job.
Which is a shame as it's a very early Lundby Stockholm. I won't bore you with how you can tell the age but if you really are interested then you can take a look here and here for starters.
This particular model had white carpets upstairs and guess what... even they've been painted over. As has the original back with the vines and flowers, such a shame. But hey, I decided I needed something to get stuck into, and I think this will be that thing. The silver paint on the internal doors may prove hard to shift, though.
I love Lundby houses, they're so no nonsense and the furniture is all mid-century and up. No Victorian frou frou, just Scandinavian simplicity. I will admit here that this isn't my only house, but the other(s...ahem) are smaller models. One of them is also a wreck.
Thing is with certain on-line auctions you just have to buy it when it's available, reasonably priced and near enough to collect without being silly.
I couldn't resist a bit of a scrape at the paint as soon as I got it home, but I think parts of it are beyond renovating and may just have to be changed. I suppose one shouldn't be too precious over old things, there's only so far you can re-create what has been buggered up by someone else, but it's better than throwing it away. I think.
So, I have ideas for fiddling about and decorating and will be sharing this with you. Don't expect to see people in my houses; as with my photos I prefer my houses sans peeps. I may relent, you never know. And I have a distinct preference for certain furniture, don't be surprised to find very odd houses.
Lundby is a funny scale, somewhere between 1/16th and 1/18th (like Triang) so furniture can't be bought from the usual dolls house places. Another minus I suppose. Now I have a mini doer-upper to go with the one I live in!
Thank you all for the positive comments on yesterday's post. I feel so bad to have got out of the groove of commenting but hope to be back in the swing soon. I think Sarah hit the nail on the head regarding setting up a new blog, in that it'd probably end up the same as this one anyway so stick with it!
Back to work tomorrow.
