Derelict farmhouse turned into massive doll's house

A Canadian artist called Heather Benning converted a derelict farmhouse into a giant doll's house, open on one side. Her photo gallery includes several making-of images that are quite marvellous. She created it while serving as artist-in-residence for the town of Redvers, Sask, and notes that she found the house in 2005.

heatherbenning.ca | Dollhouse (via Geekologie)

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Ready for use as a set for a Wes Anderson movie!
http://lubke.net Flashman

That’s really beautiful. What a great idea.
I wonder how she’s stopping the house from falling down?
- malindrome
  
  Or keeps it from getting wet, mildewed, etc. Or keeps the animals out … Real houses have walls for a reason.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/ZPG7NM6ZNUV5JSNVLJN73U2LGI LisaF
    
    Per the faint caption under one of the photos, plexiglass was installed where it appears to be open.
- xzzy
  
  Glancing at the “before” pictures, the house appears it was already in a relatively stable condition, so I’m guessing a few new boards nailed here and there was all it took to prop the thing up for a while longer.
  
  There are a lot of old barns or houses out there that are definitely death traps. Leaning at sharp angles, roofs bowing in, trees poking out holes.. fun stuff like that. This house wasn’t one of those.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1634691682 Bruce Padget

Cool as this is, what really intrigues me is that a town of fewer than 900 people (2006, latest I could find on a quick search) has an artist-in-residence.
- abstract_reg
  
  What? You don’t have those in the States?
  - Gary61
    
    Nope – we have ‘fools-in-residence’, even some ‘idiots-in-residence’, and nowadays even ‘cannibals-in-residence’, but artists? Not so much, sadly ….
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/ZPG7NM6ZNUV5JSNVLJN73U2LGI LisaF
    
    Yes, absolutely we have artists-in-residence. It’s not unusual. The arts may struggle for support, but it’s not rare nor unheard of.
- levendis
  
  The residency was funded by an artist in residence program through the Saskatchewan Arts Board. http://www.artsboard.sk.ca
http://www.kmoser.com kmoser

And the difference between a house with one wall missing and a full-size dollhouse is…?
- http://vincenzoravina.tumblr.com/ Vincenzo Ravina
  
  I guess nothing but the bright colours of the furniture inside. But how many houses do you see with one wall missing, anyway?
- http://twitter.com/bookmobility Derek Attig
  
  It seems like that might be part of the point. It’s a house made into a “dollhouse” that looks like a house–it’s mimicking something that mimics what this was to begin with. And then size/scale enters into it all in fascinating ways. That weird tension is one of the issues I took up in my post about it here: http://bookmobility.org/post/26145495476/dollhouse
Susan Carley Oliver

I love that the surrounding lawn had been mown in circles around it.