Build a green dollhouse

Or just check out these photos. This is really pretty cool: In 2005, the Green Building Committee of Sustainable San Mateo County (geesh, what a mouthful) held a green dollhouse competition as a way to raise money for its programs. Seventeen dollhouses were built by folks from all over, sent to San Mateo, judged and then auctioned off. The dollhouses had to demonstrate green building principles like energy efficiency and passive solar design, plus they had to function as a dollhouse for a child (i.e. be fun).

The houses are so cool! I love the Monopoly Manor with that bathtub made from a Formula 409 bottle and the Wonder Bread bag shower curtain. Brilliant! It's all a bit too ambitious for me, fairy-house building is a bit more my speed, but I love that other folks have this kind of ingenuity and craftsmanship. These houses just make me happy.