We hope this page
will lead you to visit the shop in the beautiful surroundings of
Cheddar Gorge, situated in the Mendip Hills in the heart of Somerset.
This small business was
set up in March 1999 when Terry's woodcarving business closed after
fourteen years of fairground carving, and it is still growing
steadily. Now moving into a third unit.
Doll's Houses have been
Chris's interest for many years, and when nothing more could be added
to her collection, she decided to start this business to continue her
hobby.
The shop is small but it's
packed to the ceiling with over ten thousand different items from more
than one hundred and forty different suppliers, with new stock coming
in all the time. Their regular customers are often amazed at how
the shop changes all the time.
Apart from stocking Doll's
House Workshop and Emporium doll's house kits, there are sometimes
unusual houses which Terry makes himself. There are also sixty
properly set up room boxes displaying hundreds of items in their
natural setting, which again are changed from week to week.
When the shop is quiet
Chris can be seen making sets of bedding or curtains and Terry enjoys
producing very realistic exteriors, with mahogany double roman tiles
and brick slips, grey hairwood slates, roughcast, simulated stone and
real lead flashings.
They stock most of the
materials required for the building of doll's houses, including doors
and windows, wood mouldings, roofing, lighting and transformers,
glues, papers and Swann Morton modelling knives.
Visitors to the shop will
receive all the information and advice they may need on any aspect of
construction along with practical demonstrations when necessary.
Just a few of their
suppliers are:- Danny Shotton, fine implements and tools in steel and
ebony, Suvan handmade hats, Glasscraft, cranbury glass, Reuters
porcelain from Germany, Julies handmade flowers, Janet Granger,
needlecraft rugs and samplers. D.M.C flower threads and needles,
etc, etc, as well as all the major suppliers, Aztec, Dijon, Schmieder,
Emporium, Blackwells, Streets Ahead, Sylshire, J.L.B.Stewart Ross,
Delph, Miniature Scene and Glenowen.
A few of their sidelines
include one sixteenth scale motorbikes, Kodak films, batteries and fun
cameras, and now they are going deeply into crystals and minerals,
geology for the discerning collector, and for the crystal healing
fraternity.
The shop is open every day
from Easter to Christmas, and later during the tourist season, but
closed on Mondays from Christmas to Easter. Still open six days
a week even in the winter.
Unfortunately they don't
have a catalogue available to send out as their stock is changing all
the time, but they will be happy to receive telephone calls to enquire
as to the availability of any item.
Chris & Terry look
forward to meeting you in the shop, in the meantime,
