Another Lundby farewell...

Last but not least I ´m parting with my Lundby Gothenburg from 1970 and all the nice funiture and accessories... So it´s time to say Bye-bye to Greta & Konrad...

and Christine & Hans-Hermann! I really had a nice time with you but now someone else will be happy to play with you ;)

If you like to adopt them or some furniture or maybe the house please follow this link :) Thank you!

And if you like to see more pictures of this fabulous 1970 Lundby Göteborg/Gothenburg please visit my flickr stream!

Happy Saint Nicholas´ day, yours Nicola

Lundby Göteborg/Gothenburg 1975 - Part 4.

Last not least I want to show you the basement floor with the hobby room & the garage. The Lundboms will have to decorate the den a bit more :) - It looks a bit empty so far... What do you mean?

And they have a car - yeah!! I always wanted a car :)

Have a nice week yours (still very busy) Nicola

Credits: All furniture and other things are Lundby except the big red candle and the Cognac bottle (so very 70s!!), they are from Bodo Hennig

Two "old women" playing... :)

Yesterday Petra (Oese) came for a short visit and as you can see: WE HAD A LOT FUN ;D

Petra brought Grey, her husband and little Greta with her and so Christine and Hans-Hermann had some nice company, too!

Piff and Paff were so happy Greta played with them!!

Two silly doll´s house addicts together - We could have chat the whole day, but Petra had to leave to soon, because she was on her way to holidays.

I hope we will meet again! So nice to have you here, Petra!

Have a nice weekend, yours Nicola

Lundby Göteborg/Gothenburg 1975 - Part 3.

Today I´ll show you the Lundbom´s bedroom & livingroom - Enjoy!

The beds are from my childhood (they belonged to the Lundbys before they had the "Blue heaven" bedroom.) All furniture, the carpet, the picture and the alarm clock are Lundby - but I think the lamps are from other companies (any information is welcome). The little perfume bottles are made by Bodo Hennig.

Most of the other furniture and accessoires came with the house, accept the (unknown) kitty on the vanity (she is a fleamarket find) and the bedside table lamp, it was in my stash...

I LOVE this "belling deer" paintig - so very cool and kind of retro-stylish :)

The livingroom was exactly furnished this way when I bought it - It shows a big range of items Lundby showed in the 1975 catalogue some of them as "NEW", like the sofa, armchair, the white glass cabinet & table called "Salon Elegance" (# 9518) and i really adore everything!

Only the little (unknown) bird cage, the phone (unknown) and the frog on the fireplace (kinder surprice egg)  and the TV set (Lisa) aren´t Lundby things.

And look the Lundboms have some cute litte puppies, their boxer Perdita just gave birth to two tiny boxer ladies called "Pippa" & Polly"... And the kids love them!

I hope you liked the 3. part of the house tour :) ?? Yours Nicola

Lundby Göteborg/Gothenburg 1975 - Part 2.

Today i´ll show you the second part of the Lundbom´s home - But sorry you will see nothing really new, if you know my Gotheburg/Göteburg fronm 1972/73 :) Both houses are to close to each other. Lundby changed the wallpaper during the three years and changed the blank coloured floors into floors with carpet. And they made some new items, but not so many... When I bought the house it included the same kitchen as Mrs. Lundby´s kitchen, decorated with some lovely Hennig & Lundby accessoires and an additional cool kitchen cupboard and i didn´t want to change anything:

Awwwww - i love, love, love the orange-70s-look of this kitchen!

Also the so called "Leksand diningroom" looks like the one in red you allready know... except the green lamp, which sure is not Lundby but I like it!

And like the Lundbys the Lundboms are real swedish people and they also have a Dala horse - Of course!!

Bertil loves to sit on the parlor bench at the evening, just thinking about this and that and to drink a good hot coffee in his special coffee mug!

And even the bathroom looks the same - Yellow with teak panels. But with a lovely mat Amy send to me as a christmas present :) (Thanks again my dear!!)

I hope you nonethe less enjoyed the little house tour?! The part with the bedroom and livingroom will be a bit more rich in variety - promised!

Have a nice weekend, yours Nicola

Lundby collectors meeting in the Netherlands

Last weekend i visited my collector-friend E. in the Netherlands. We know each other via the internet and i don´t live that far away, so it was easy to go there and to admire all her treasures. I´m still impressed by her lovely collection, mostly Lundby and also some other great houses like Lisa or Hanse. It was sooo great to see (and touch :) ) all these tiny things i only knew from catalogues and from the internet. Here is a small range of her collection:

This house is so cute - It looks like a shrunken Lundby Gothenburg :) If anybody knows something about it - every info is welcome! Supplement: I recently discovered this Okwa house (a dutch company) and i guess E.´s house must be an Okwa house, too! Awww - I want one, too!!! :)

Dear E., thank you so much for your guest-friendship and for all the time we spend together! I had so much fun and i´m in love with your collection :)

*Nicola

Lundby Göteborg/Gothenburg 1975 - Part 1.

Come and meet the Lundboms (Gunilla & Bertil) :) They are the new owners of the Lundby Gothenburg doll´s house from 1975. They bought the house because they needed more space for their fast-growing family...

Mrs Lundbom is a child care worker and after the birth of their first daughter Kerstin they decided to have some foster children and also a private little day care, so she could work at home.

Here you can see Kerstin´s new foster siblings; Tilda & Linnea playing doll´s at the children´s bedroom.

I decided to furnish the children´s floor not just with Lundby furniture, because the range of Lundby nusery furniture wasn´t really big in the past! They always had bunk beds, a wooden play table and stools or later little armchairs (you can see both variations here) and (yes indeed) the blackboard!

So I mixed it with these cool green (typical 70s) plastic furniture made by "modella" and i really like the result! Gunilla´s visitor is a mother who wants to bring her baby girl to Gunilla´s day care...

Some more children playing with "playmobil toys".

Kerstin together with a cute Caco baby in adorable yellow terry cloth rompers :)

 These rooms are not furnished like "pressed into a time frame" as you know it from my other Lundby doll´s houses, because i wanted a real "day-care-look" for them. So it became something more free-style - Oops ;D

Credits: The furniture are Lundby and modella. The desk and chair is Playmobil. I guess the baby bed is Caco as baby´s bed at the Lundby´s house (it still needs some bedding). The lamps are Lundby and most of the pictures, too. I put some typical 70s illustrations into some Lundby frames at the bedroom. The round picture is made by "nutella" (a very well known german chocolate spread). In the 70s they put different kinds of naive art pictures into a small space between the glas and the cap, to make the children collect them all. The little toys are wooden ore mountains toys (erzgebirgs spielzeug) from my granny´s treasure chest and also from the 1:12 at Soest. The mini matrjoschka dolls are the smallest baby-matrjoschkas form some bigger ones i got. The plastic baby dolls are from my childhood - one is from a "kinder surprise egg". The books and blue cans are Bodo Hennig. Unfortunately i don´t know anything about these "Sesame Street" puppets Bert and Cookie Monster i found at a fleamarket - any informations are welcome! All dolls are Caco from the 70s.

I hope you like the little house tour?! To be continued!

*Nicola



Let there be a spring cleaning...

Do you remember this Lundby Gothenburg house from last year?! I do :) Since last year there lives a lovely family in the house, called the Lundboms. I´ll tell you more later... Aaaand as you all know (because i told you a thousand times) all my Lundby houses still need to be dusted!

So i told Mrs. Lundbom that she needs to do this for me, because I´m so busy all the time - AND LOOK WHAT HAPPEND! She is so great, isn´t she ;D

 

Here you can get a sneak peek into the Lundbom´s home... More pictures will follow, when Mrs Lundbom has finished :))) Promised! (And *pssst* - don´t tell her there are visitors upstairs at the children´s floor - maybe she stops to clean promptly...)

Have a nice weekend, yours Nicola

The Lundbys become famous...

Last winter some students of architecture from the university of Weimar discovered my picture of the Lundby´s home at flickr.

They asked me if they could use it for the cover of a magazine they make, called "Horizonte" (Horizons). Yes, sure :)  - I was so proud they asked me! And don´t ask Mrs Lundby! She is still speechless being on a magazine cover! 

It´s a very interesting and special magazine and i didn´t read everything, but a bit of this and that... The layout and design is very stylish and there are a lot cool pictures and illustrations inside:

They used diffent kinds of paper and there are parts with folded pages - All in all the magazine is design at itself!

I really like the idea of this livingroom in a suitcase - maybe ít´ll be an inspiration to make one...

*Nicola

A blurry picture and blurry memories ...

When I recently sorted a bunch of pictures i found through my sisters things, i discovered another picture of me with my Lundby doll´s house...

And after i starred a while on it (and smiled a lot because i look so funny and also about Maria lying on the windowsill) i was really surprised about the fact, that my Gothenburg was not the well known one, i thought it was... no, it was a so called: economy or plain Lundby Gothenburg... My memories seem to be kind of unreliable :)

(This house is not mine - sold on eb** in 2010)

And because i didn´t find any pictures or informations in the old Lundby catalogues, i surched in the www and found a lot to show and explain the differences between the Lundby Gothenburg and the economy Lundby Gothenburg - if somebody is interested :). I think it was produced from the beginning of the 60s to the end of the 70s - but I´m not sure about that...

(Also not mine, but furnished with some funiture you sure know from the Lundby´s house!)
To tell the truth: If something is called economy it´s meant to be cheap :) So the plein Gothenburg is missing some details you can find at it´s more expensive sisters. First the roof:

It´s bright red like all the other Gothenburg´s roofs from that period, but without a chimney!

The back is made from just a simple hardboard and without a Lundby sticker or anything else.

The "bricks" at the sidewalls are directly printed on the hardboard.

The wooden edging at the front, is painted beige. It has nor windows neither doors - just white window sills and doorframes.

All floors are blue... And what makes the real difference: You can find no stairs and the bathroom is at the first level in the middle! And because there is no stair and no little space for a transformer underneath, you can´t find any electricity in the house... :(

At all the economies i saw at different sources (like this one from add_knitter here at flickr - Awwww, I love this picture!) they used light and simple wallpapers and you can find always this yellow-white patterned wallpaper in the upper left room, you can see here.

Funny is, i really can´t remember my "Economy" i played with for years! I was sooo sure how it must have looked and i guess "my memories" were influenced by some "little girl´s dreams" i had in my brain, from the past...

If you know something more about the economy Lundby Gothenburg (Das günstige/schlichte Lundby Göteborg) - all informations are welcome!!

*Nicola, who is wishing you the best for 2011!!!

Thanks to the eb** seller fiete106 who gave me the permission to show her/his pictures!