Although she made most of the pieces in the house, this piece that should be obvious as made by dollmaker Thierus was not.

"The bust in the gable niche is a young lady that I found. She has some roses around her collar," she admitted.

She had always envisioned the structure as becoming a combination house and shop filled with used and new gifts, filled, of course, with roses of all kinds.

"La Vie en Rose" is a small house that I recovered with the idea to transform and to increase it including a store of secondhand trade and gifts. Oh, and I also wanted a beautiful frontage!" said Thierus.

So with the same careful attention to detail she pays when garbing her silk-gowned grande dames, she set about transforming the plain wooden shell into a structural grande dame worthy of inclusion in the finest of architectural tomes.

"For this house, I have made a lot of furniture and accessories and used a magazine which is called "Marianne Maison" for the decoration of it," said Thierus.

The house carries a basic white, pale pink and rich red color scheme with golden accents throughout its detailed rooms. Despite Thierus' "rush" of creation, not even the smallest detail has been overlooked.

In the bedroom, a lace coverlet tops the bed and is in turn the resting place of a squirming tabby cat, clearly happy in its luxurious surroundings. A red rose porcelain tea set sits on a golden tray beside the bed. In a pop of color, a stuffed blue floral chair - occupied by a yarn-enamored black cat - is separated from the bed by a rug of roses, half hidden by another languid black cat.

Even the bathroom received her special attentions. A red and white diamond tile pattern and accompanying oval rose rug anchors pale pink walls and pure white furnishings. The sink vanity, created from a beautiful white shell bowl atop a pristine bulbous legged console, sits below a delicate oval mirror edged in a froth of tiny lace. Fluffy towels hang from a golden bar on the front and a large bottle of - what else? - Chanel No. 5 sits on one corner.

"I made the hanging lamp of the bathroom. For the other rooms, I transformed those fixtures I had with beads, paints and fabrics," said Thierus.

These transformations stick to her color scheme but are tied to each specific room theme, like the kitchen, where the plain white candelabra chandelier is decorated in tiny country-look dried florals woven around its center base. The remainder of the room displays equal rustic charm, from its white painted stone entry wall, exposed whitewashed ceiling beams and lace café curtains to the gleaming copper pots on the stove. Continue the Article