Today, I would like to share my German Red Roof Gottschalk Dollhouse with Rare Pull-Out Garden from circa 1921
It is a lovely little dollhouse with a big bay window in the front and a side veranda.
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| Inside there are four rooms if you can count the entry hall and upstairs hall as rooms |
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| The garden slides out from beneath the house like a drawer. Steps to the garden are in the drawer as well |
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| I wonder if the green areas were for specific pieces of furniture. There are other styles of Gottschalk houses with pull out gardens. Some have different shapes painted on them |
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| Here is the furnished garden complete with trellis, fountain and sundial. |
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| The house looks very good with the garden extended. |
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| Here is the upper hall. I have used Gottschalk furniture form the same period as the house in most of the rooms |
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| Since I don't have an appropriate bed for this house I made this room on the second floor into a study |
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| Most Gottschalk houses of this period have a water closet under the stairs. This one retains it's original toilet. The door into the house from the veranda is on the maids right. |
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| I was excited to find this wonderful green pressed paper furniture suite for the parlour of this house. It is the same type of furniture that is in the garden and meant to represent wicker. The garden furniture is quite common, but I have never seen these pieces before except for the table. The sofa and chairs are of a different design and the large piece in the back of the room and the sewing stand are unique in my experience. |
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| Two more pieces of the suite are in the bay window. I have seen the plant stand in a different colour, but not the little bench. Can you see the little white feet of the peeping tom in the window? She is not actually a tom, but she is curious. Lily was trying to figure out what I was doing during the photo shoot. |
