Doreen Johnson with her electrified Victorian dollhouse. (Mariam Mesbah/CBC)
Doreen Johnson is renovating her living room to become a Victorian ballroom. It will have polished hardwood floors, antique furnishings, a chandelier and, in one corner, musical instruments.
But Johnson isn’t thinking big with these plans.
She’s thinking small.
“If you can’t have it in real life, make it in miniature,” she said in an interview.
For the last 40 years, Johnson has been doing exactly that. Her basement craft room is a tribute to all things measured in 1:12 scale.
Among her extensive collection — a display of tiny tea sets, a lady’s dressing
