Have a look if you want to see how the rooms turned out. There are a few things still needed such as blinds and drapes (!) which are a pretty big omission and then fiddly things like the odd painting or mirror. Also I never did do the left hand window dressing - mea culpa.
It is no use trying to convince myself I will return to it and finish it off. Once I have moved on to the next thing (currently Chocolat) the previous project is defunct for me. Bentleys will actually be sold next summer to make way for the 2015 project - Starfish Cottage. My RL house only has room for two houses at a time and Chocolat will have moved into Bentleys place when Starfish Cottage is wheeled in. It happened this way with Wentworth Court and I find I am content to let them go.
It has been a process of discovering that I really love making an idea concrete and then I have no interest in continuing to collect things for it or 'playing' with the building. I build a frozen moment in time and when that's pretty much there I seem to be done with it. So, Bentleys will probably be partially stripped of its contents even before I leave this year as I can see one or two things that will move on to Chocolat. Stupid buying two of something?
It was the second dolls house I have done and I loved it all. The research was fascinating and I discovered so many things I would have thought I couldn't do along the way. No farewell is easy but many of them have to be done whether we like it or not.
