Doll House do-up #3

 

Oh it's been a grand week on the doll house do-up front. It feels like it's all coming together nicely, mainly because it she's got some slap on her face now; some colour!

I washi papered the 'grown-ups' room in one fell swoop-just the one wall, and the ceiling. It looks right that way, kind of like a tree grown up and over. I spent an age measuring and cutting it exactly to size, and modge-podged (a kind of glue/sealer) it on. Fortunatly the washi paper, despite it's delicate appearance, withstood several removals and squidging and slidings to get it into the just right position and the glue dried perfectly clear. There is still a few millimeters of gap at bottom left left bare. It's bugging me so I will patch it up at some stage, and add a further coat of sealer to protect it from Claud mauling.

The kitchen colour is resene 'laser', with some white chucked in.  The shoe box-sized room is appreciably smaller now I've painted so many coats trying to get the 'dead daffodil' colour just-so!

Resene 'Moby', is just the blue I wanted, to paint tall tongue-in-groove panelling for the 'shaker-style' hall I have planned! Think pegged coat rack, church pew, dark stained floor boards. Funnily enough I don't have the skill or tools sufficient to just rustle up some miniature panelling, real or painted on, so I just ordered some off a website. It arrived and it's beautiful, if short, plastic and not ammenable to painting-over. So blue walls it is!

Also, in a departure from shaker-minimalism, I think I'm gonna slap a bit of this on the ceiling.

You can't get to much of a good thing aye!

I found this curly-wurly letter rack down the oppy today, it screamed fancy Breakfast at Tiffany's bed head. Can you hear it too?! It's a bit wide so I'm sending the hubby off round his mates to saw it in half and de-weld (?) bits off to make it a narrower but hopefully but no less fabulous bed head and foot board.

Coincidentally the bed base is also an old letter holder I sawed up. I actually could do with a letter holder, and this one is so pretty, but, oh well, there have to be sacrifices in the pursuit of doll-house beauty!

And hey, the parquay is in!

I won't bore you with the trial that laying it was. It looks goooooood, that is all you need to know.

I still haven't decided on what colour I'm going to stain it.

This room is going to be the mid-century-lounge-cum-dusty-victorian-library. Heh!

I'm going to make all my own fixtures and fittings. Double heh!

All I have so far is the fabric I'm going to upholster the sofa (I make!) with

$2 from the oddments bin at the local curtain place for a massive piece.

Handy for if when I go wrong!

The bits are from a 'kit set' pew I bought. Yikes!

Making your own HAS to be easier than putting that together!

There are 4 pages of instructions. Double yikes!!!

And finally, this is the vague plan I have for the bathroom.

                          I'd love to use one of these shells for a lampshade but they're so fragile.
         If any clever crafty folk have a clue how I might (easily!) cast or coat or copy this to make
                                          it impervious to child bashing please let me know!

                                                      Get me, I'm an (giant) interior decorator!

Until next week...