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I looked back at old photos and the farmhouse red gives this house so much more character, esp. it makes the porch - pop.   Curious as to how this will be furnished.  

I like the red very much too, thank you! It will be furnished very much like how I remember my great-grandparents' home in northern Colorado. Most people will probably hate the mish-mosh, but that is how homes evolved through multiple generations.

The kitchen has the original 1890s cabinetry but a 1950s enameled gas stove, an ugly 1970s Harvest Gold refrigerator, and a 1950s chrome & vinyl chair / enameled-top table breakfast set.

The law office is all barrister bookcases and filing cabinets, a rolltop desk, a 1940s typewriter, oak swivel chair.

One bedroom will have a Fantastic Merchandise bedroom set, very 1880s-1890s Victorian, and much like the one that was actually in the house.

Another bedroom has a white iron bed, globby from being repainted numerous times over the years. The other has a Lynnfield or Block House set that looks more 1940s Sheraton/Federal Revival than actual Colonial antique, which is what was actually in that room.

I haven't decided on the dining room. I vaguely remember it as hideous, over-carved, dark wood 1930s Tudor Revival, but I hate that so much I'm not sure I can live with it just for the sake of authenticity, haha.

Oh, and the off-limits formal front parlor is Eastlake. I have just a couple artisan created pieces and Bespaq's cameo set, which looks pretty authentically John Jelliff, so I'm excited about that.

There will also be a few 1905-ish Mission Style pieces mixed in and some 1915-ish Golden Oak by Reminiscence that looks straight out of an early 20th Century Sears catalog!

The basement is getting a 1950s-era Colonial Revival living room set. Wingback sofa, comfy and ratty upholstered chairs in brown plaid upholstery. The kind of furniture you stuffed down into the basement after it went seriously out of style, which was exactly the case IRL.

Like I said, a total mish-mosh, but so was the interior of the real house!

I loved your very descriptive itemizing of the furnishings of the house.  Looking forward greatly  to seeing it all.  Also made me remember my own grandparents' homes and the hodge podge of furniture.  I have a few of my grandparents'  RL pieces.  The table I am sitting at with my computer is a  Tudor revival with pineapple carvings on the legs from 1910.  My own home is eclectic ( hopefully not hodge podge)!!!!

4 hours ago, sage minis said:

I loved your very descriptive itemizing of the furnishings of the house.  Looking forward greatly to seeing it all.  Also made me remember my own grandparents' homes and the hodge podge of furniture.  I have a few of my grandparents' RL pieces.  The table I am sitting at with my computer is a  Tudor revival with pineapple carvings on the legs from 1910.  My own home is eclectic ( hopefully not hodge podge)!!!!

If you are ever looking for a table like that, Reminiscence had a Tudor line and made a couple tables with pineapple carvings. I have an octagonal one with a pineapple carved center pedestal. They also made a rectangular dining table that had that pineapple post on each of the four corners. I saw one on Ebay not long ago. Either it's been de-listed or it sold because I can no longer find it.

Mostly what I know about the furniture in the house is from antiquing with my mother, because what 10-year old pays attention to furniture styles, haha. She'd comment things like, "That's just like the bedroom furniture in the room I slept in at my grandparents' house;" "My grandparents had a bedroom set just like that;" and, "Why, that's exactly like my grandparents' dining room set!" That sort of thing.

My mother was not into antiques.  Most of the furniture in the 50's was Danish Modern and then an abrupt change in 1965 to Ethan Allen colonial - either Federal or Queen Anne.  That overall preference stayed with her the rest of her life.   I've done a Lundby house that reminds me a little  bit of the Danish Modern period.  I've done a Colonial 1700's style interior with a keeping room etc.  That's as close as I've gotten to incorporating family furnishings in dollhouses. 

Love everything.  That special porch is amazing,  It is quite lovely and all the windows as well