That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 08, 2020

“It’s very nice but I believe it is suppose to 1000 times larger.”

“I can’t believe she fell for the old ‘Would you like to come up and see my Legos’ line!”

“Darling, I have news for you. We cannot even afford the guest house.”

“It’s way over budget. What if we did away with the self-flushing toilets and replaced them with honey buckets?”

well, you’ve made a good start with the servants’ quarters here. now, it’d be nice if you could get cracking on the house itself…

Showing “Home Alone’s” “Battle Plans” to Old Man Marley.

“Did you here who’s painting our portrait? Some guy named Frank Dicksee, Dicksee who has a name like that?”

What do you mean we won’t be able to afford a maid? And where is the swimming pool?

Marlow was a notorious miser (he preferred ‘thrifty’), but as retirement approached, he decided to get something nice for himself and his bride.

I think you need a squirxa, too… for the same reason.

27 year old daughter, tries to explain to dad with dementia, “I’m too old for dollhouses.”

The moment when they both realize the other doesn’t enjoy a: her drawing up plans for the models she thought he loved to build, and b: him building models of the plans he thought she loved to draw.

“Sheldon wants a choo-choo train running around the castle.”

No, I’m sorry – hardwood floors and granite countertops are my line in the sand.

Man: I am getting old, I need more than 1 bathroom in this place.

“We’ll call it Downtown Abbey!”

“Raquetball’? Who would give a sport a stupid name like that? Next you’re going to suggest that they’re going to invent something called ‘pickleball’!”

Mrs. Winchester changes the plans AGAIN!

“Why does the maid’s room have an access door into your bedroom Lord Horndog?”

Lady Jane believed that bodice modesty panels should be taken to the max.

It looks better on paper.

The presence of crenellations/ on pretentious habitations/ is an ominous omen/ that you’re planning crossbowmen/ to repel your poorer relations !

I keep checking the want ads and nobody’s looking for a Lego mansion.

The House Builders: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Dicksee_-_The_House_Builders.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this painting. The last under File history has the strip coloration.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/dicksee_sir_frank.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=88 

http://www.all-art.org/neoclasscism/anderson3.html 

http://www.avictorian.com/dicksee_frank.html 

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/dickseef/index.html 

http://www.avictorian.com/dicksee_family_artists.html 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/29 

http://hoocher.com/Sir_Francis_Dicksee/Sir_Francis_Dicksee.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 3 works (4 times, with 1 repeat) by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2018/03/22?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the last 6 artist info URLs.)

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2357 (January 7, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“Edith, my dear, I have asked you repeatedly not to play with my dollies!”

“O.K.! So much for the little summer cottage in the Cotswolds… so what about the house in Hamstead Heath, you promised me?”

Look dear, I’m building you your own private turret.

I dressed up in my best clothes for the grand presentation of the house … and this is it?

I’m glad I didn’t agree to a walk through.