Besides the usual question Don’t You Get Bored?, the next question “What do you do on a lighthouse?” also needs to be answered.

What do you do in your house? TV, video games, go to a show, eat out?

We did not have those luxuries, so we worked with our hands as they did in the early days.

Some people liked knitting, crocheting, or sewing; drawing, painting, or designing; writing; photography; and . . . woodwork! Now there was one I liked. 

When beachcombing we used to find many short lengths of exotic woods – woods such as Mahogany, Teak, Balsa, Apple, Cherry, Tigerwood, etc. and my wife liked doll houses and their accesories, and I liked small tools such as Dremel and Unimat, so put them all together and you get what you see below. These are all in a doll house scale of 1″ = 1 foot.

In the first gallery below is a series of photos of household furnishings I made. Remember, these were not kits. We found the wood on the beach, washed the salt out, dried it, cut it into slabs with a small table or band saw and then cut, filed or turned the wood to shape. Patterns were drawn on graph paper, and traced onto the wood.

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This second gallery shows actual doll house settings.

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