The Seaview Miniature House, #12, 1976

by Noel & Pat Thomas

The Seaview miniature house is built to the scale of 1”=1’, and measures  29”w X 40”l X 57”h.  It was built and first sold in 1976 at a NAME show in So. California, prompting orders for six more houses, and launching our long-running career of building aged houses for collectors and museums. The house was sold by its first owner a few years later for three times the original price. Until now it has remained in the collection of one of the top collectors in the US.

Over a period of 25 years we have built 60 structures--houses,  commercial buildings, and roadside stands--emulating varying periods and types of architecture. Our houses reside in the best private collections and miniature museums in the country.  In 2000, due to health concerns, we cancelled all outstanding orders for commissioned work, and now build new pieces only as prototypes for our classes. While we continue to teach, we are no longer building custom structures.

The Seaview is a 3-story tower house with an open widow’s walk, and a small second story balcony off a bedroom. It is painted deep red with white trim, has a wraparound front porch, hand-milled siding, scalloped shingles, and gingerbread. Other distinctive features include stained glass and copper-foiled windows, vintage wallpapers, inlaid oak floors on the first floor, and  fir planks for the second and third floors. Lighting is by Marie Friedman, Lighting Bug, and Joe Voorhees (Colleen Moore’s lighting designer).

The first floor includes an entry hall with stained glass window, stairs, with a coat closet under the stairs. The room opens through pocket doors into the living room with fireplace and beamed ceilings.  The dining room is also accessed through a pocket door, and features a fan window built of clear, copper-foiled panes. wainscoted walls with vintage papers above, inlaid , hand-milled oak floors, pockets doors to LR from entry hall, entry hall, staircase with closet beneath, oak fireplace in LR. Beamed ceilings. The kitchen features a beamed ceiling aged fir plank floors, pie safe, a re-worked Bonnie-Glo wood-burning cookstove, built-in sink and wall cabinets.

Upstairs includes a large 2nd story bathroom with oak-stained, wainscoted walls with cream-colored walls above, a built in tub, etched mirror on door, window over tub. The master bedroom has French doors leading to a small balcony. A second bedroom here is papered in antique pink, cream and gold, and includes a closet. Stairs to the third floor lead from another closet in this room.

The third floor includes a large landing area for a sewing room, plus two more bedrooms and a small attic. A ladder leads from the tower room to the open widow’s walk above.

The price of the Seaview is $30,000, plus shipping (approx. $2600).

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