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The house that got Stephanie Sabbe one of her best clients was 3 feet tall. It was the peak of the pandemic, and the Nashville designer was applying her obsessive energy—as she is wont to do—to a personal project: in this case, a dollhouse for her daughter’s Barbies. But this was not just any dollhouse.

“I started it casually, and it turned into this all-consuming home renovation,” she recalls with a laugh. “Barbie is 1:6 scale, but all of the really fancy dolls are scaled 1:12. People aren’t making classy doll furniture for Barbie, so I had to do all custom furniture, ripping things out and putting them back in—this took weeks.”