diy japanese interior design

start elaine: my aim is to bring doll's houses, right back into fashion. comm: this may look like something from the pages of an upmarket interior design magazine,but it's actually a room in a dolls house. the mipad, built at a scale of one in twelve,features floating stairs, sliding doors, mies van der rohe inspired chairs, a mini bar andentertainment console with plasma screen and surround sound. comm: the ultra modern dolls house is the

brainchild of designer elaine shaw, who handmadethe majority of the doll's houses mod cons. elaine: it all started when i was just a child, took of my uncles made two different dollshouses for me, and then in the 1970's my mum worked in a dolls house factory. when my daughterwas nine years old she saw a traditional dolls house that she got very excited about. i saidthat i'd make her one but it would be a little bit more modern. comm: the single mum from brockley, south london, is trying to raise money via crowdsourcing site kickstarter, to take the mipad to market. the modular design allows usersto buy one floor at a time. and while the

furniture in the mipad may be tiny, elaine'sultra-modern dolls house looks destined for big things. end