Storage

Someone asked how and where I store my vast collection of doll furniture and props, so I thought I'd take some photos.

​ First the furniture and bigger stuff.  It all started out on just two book shelf units in the basement, which it quickly outgrew, so Jan made extra shelf extensions in between.

 And that isn't even all of it. There's more horses and doll-size carpets along another wall, and the fireplace and main china cabinet are permanently stored in the dining room.

All my smaller props are sorted and stored in labelled photo boxes. The most often used ones are in plain sight on a main floor bookcase shelf....

..or stacked on my Mom's sewing table in the corner of the dining room...

..and there's more behind doors at the bottom of a living room bookcase. The clear compartmented boxes contain things like tiny dished, plates, cutlery, small food items, and one of the boxes contains extra hands and feet - all in labelled baggies....

There's a row of pets and other bigger props lined up above my contemporary BIDs and whatever dolls happen to be standing on the drop-down bar (which is full of patterns, laces and trims)

One of the top shelves in the book case has been taken over with stacks of doll books....

..and this dresser in the dining room is full of doll-related stuff too. The top big drawer is full of miscellaneous props. The next big drawer down, is full of bigger size 9 wigs, and the bottom drawer is full of bags of mohair for making wigs....

The fine china moved out of the dining room china cabinet years ago. Now it houses an old music box collection, some old dolls, my family of Victorian bjds, the smaller Kaye Wiggs bjds, all the Whispering Grass Forest Dwellers, and rows of birthday cakes, and miniature china tea sets, displayed on narrow shelves along the back wall...

So, technically, I'm living in a 'doll house'.  
​And yes, I do know exactly where everything is.