Arrival of the Gothenburg

Yesterday I received a Gothenburg house + extension, it's not in the best condition & needs a lot of work, but despite this, I'm completely smitten with it.

After buying the Småland (on sale, 40%ish off, at Amazon UK!) I admittedly felt a little disappointed. Though the Småland has some positives (being able to take it apart will make it so much easier to redecorate for one!) I definitely didn't feel smitten with it, though I think I will grow to like it more once I have redecorated & furnished it to my liking.

I'm not sure if my Gothenburg is from 1972 or 1973, it has the plain wooden frame, lovely wooden stair rails & banister, beige plastic doors, white brick paper on the outside, but has a red floor on the downstairs level of the main house, rather than the blue floors I've seen in the Gothenburgs in the 1972 & 1973 catalogues.

My favourite Gothenberg is just a little earlier than this, I think it's the 1971 version with the light blue floors, lighter abstract wallpapers + the plastic doors, wooden stair rail & banister, & I think when I redecorate my Gothenburg it will be closer to that style.

I have no idea how best to remove the wallpaper, or redecorate yet.  Doing up an old dollhouse is totally new to me, I have lots to learn.

My Gothenburgs Issues: 

• there's a small split in the front of the frame above the bathroom which needs fixing.
• most of the floors have stains & the felt carpet in the small bedroom was in very bad shape.
• most of wallpapers have stains & damaged sections.     
• the handles on either side of the door to the bathroom are broken.
• it has one missing window frame & 2 missing plastic window panes.

also I'm not sure if the wiring is functional, I don't have a transformer yet, so I will have to wait to test that out.

Lots of quick photos.  I'd already taken out the windows so I could clean them (they were very very dirty) - that's them piled up & waiting to be washed in the larger extension room. They cleaned up really well.

I've since removed the phone, clock, mirror & light, + removed the broken handles from the bathroom door.  There's no way of taking the door & doorframe out without taking the house apart, & as well as a replacement window frame, I'm hoping I can find a replacement door that I can take the handles off (hopefully without breaking them, they are very fragile) & attach to the now handle-less bathroom door.