Artist turns abandoned home into human-sized dollhouse

Abandoned buildings tend to make a community feel sketchy, whether it’s an urban area or the town of Sinclair, Manitoba, Canada. So when artist Heather Benning found this dilapidated farmhouse in 2005, she set to work turning it into a 1 to 1 scale dollhouse. Here’s what the house looked like before … … and […]

Photos by Heather Benning.

Abandoned buildings tend to make a community feel sketchy, whether it’s an urban area or the town of Sinclair, Manitoba, Canada. So when artist Heather Benning found this dilapidated farmhouse in 2005, she set to work turning it into a 1 to 1 scale dollhouse.

Help Grist raise $25,000 by September 30 to further advance our climate reporting

One Time
Monthly

$10
$15
Other

Here’s what the house looked like before …

… and here’s what it looked like after being gutted, painted, reshingled, and filled with the artifacts of an imaginary dollhouse family.

You can see way more photos of the finished product and the work in progress on Benning’s site or at Toronto’s Telephone Booth Gallery.

All donations matched for a limited time!

Grist is the only award-winning newsroom focused on exploring equitable solutions to climate change. It’s vital reporting made entirely possible by loyal readers like you. At Grist, we don’t believe in paywalls. Instead, we rely on our readers to pitch in what they can so that we can continue bringing you our solution-based climate news. Donate now, and your gift has twice the impact. All donations matched for a limited time.

Grist is the only award-winning newsroom focused on exploring equitable solutions to climate change. It’s vital reporting made entirely possible by loyal readers like you. At Grist, we don’t believe in paywalls. Instead, we rely on our readers to pitch in what they can so that we can continue bringing you our solution-based climate news. All donations matched for a limited time.

10%

Donate Now Not Now