Hobbies 793 Regency Dolls house to Longbourn - home of the Bennets in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
I've had this house for some time. When I got it the previous owners had decorated it as a 1980s house complete with fitted homemade kitchen and bathroom and modern style wall paper. For some reason, it stopped me from seeing the house's potential straight away. But then I read an article in one of the dolls house magazines about a lady who had created LongBourne, the home of the Bennets from Pride and Prejudice and I knew right away I wanted to copy her. This involved a lot of internet searching for the house they used in filming the Colin Firth Version and close examination of pictures of the house I saw in the dolls house magazine. I am sorry, I have searched everywhere for the name of the lady who created the original but I can't find it. As you can see, it took a huge leap of imagination. The Hobbies 793 is a lovely house, very solidly made with windows all round - lots of plastic windows that were yellowed with age, and nasty plastic doors. Inside, it was tidy and i...