This dollhouse scene built by Buff Greaney is entitled, “Olé .” The miniature is on loan courtesy of the San Diego Miniature Crafters Association. This domed miniature was part of a club project in 1:12 scale.
Buff made the basic walls using Styrofoam and covered them with pitching plaster. Club members used different methods to create the flooring. Some of the floors were made with egg cartons cut in small squares made to look like tiles, some were coffee stirrers laid together to look like flooring, and some used purchased flooring from a miniature store. It all depended on what variation they were going to do with their corner of a room. Most everything in Buff’s display was made from scratch.
Buff is a Chicago native who came to San Diego via Naples, Italy and Sugarloaf Key, where she was busy as a Naval wife and mother–and owner of a pet monkey! Always imaginative and creative, Buff enjoyed a couple of art classes in college and later took interior decorating classes for fun. Her work life was detail oriented, and she retired as a technical writer for instructions/manuals on assembling computer components.
Buff has an unleashed imagination that embraces an expressive and often humorous spirit. She is a mentor to many miniaturists, and always encourages original ideas while embracing resourcefulness.