"Take your hands off your doll house and step away!"

                                         "Take your hands off your doll house and step away!"

Ok, so you know I did that a couple of months ago, job unfinished, but as today is the official end date for Emily Henderson's "I'm a Giant" dollhouse challenge here is the final state-of-the-dollhouse nation up-date.
                             (There are one or two new additions for weekly up-date readers :0)

*Unless indicated otherwise, everything here was either rescued from landfill, op-shopped, second hand.

                                     
                                But before we begin, how about a little before-age to set the scene?

                                                                             Behold...

Grot and grossness,

you wouldn't want your kid to touch-ness. Bleugh, lurgy etc!

AFTER

'Cute' springs to mind. Peepo Claudine! The house too!

Exterior painted in Resene Athens Grey.

 "Ooh, I'm getting distracted, where's me manners! Come on in, let me take your coat, make yourself at home and have a gander!"

Grand Central Station doormat photocopied from my Eames House of Cards.

The Shaker hall.

Mini-map-made by moi.

Pew and peg rack from kit set. Mirror from a compact with a tortoise shell hair clip frame.

Lollipop stick/wooden skewer floor & tongue-in-groove panelling.

Scrapbook papered walls.

Satchel Op-shopped.

Panelling painted in Resene Moby blue. Quite possibly the most soothing colour in existence. Ahhh.

"Anyway, come through to the kitchen before I nod off and I'll put the kettle on."

"Grab a seat. Tea or coffee love?"

Tulip table from a spray painted plastic wine glass and a cork drinks coaster.

Map art inspired by Emily Henderson's original.

Picture frames ex-fridge magnets.

Cute-Craft-Cliche No 1. NZ map outline chalkboard 

(just painted by me. I'm not that good with a jigsaw, yet!)

"Righto, coffee's on. Yeah, it is a nice view"

Bench made from op-shopped bits of wood and plastic, sink from a second hand broken sink unit, the stove-top burners are stick-on Velcro dots. Sink curtain made from last remnant of my favourite ever vintage tea towel, which inspired the kitchen's colour scheme.

"yeah, it is a bit Festival of Britain innit"

Walls-Resene Laser. (Even though I love my real kitchen, I still wish this was my kitchen, sigh!).

Cute vintage radio from dollymo, and toaster from Tiger Lily in Oamaru (doll house stuff, antiques and vintage clothes all the in the same shop-you must go there, YES!!!). Fridge-made out of a broken op-shopped dollhouse wardrobe. Cabinet-second hand.

Cute-Craft-Cliche No. 2. Festive bunting!

"Right, lets go through and have a sit down."

Wallpaper-envelope inners. 

Rug-flocked scrapbook paper. 

Vase-macrame bead

Danish bowl-top off a wooden egg cup

Lamp-bottom off a wooden egg cup and an odd plastic jar

Shelves-projector slide boxes

                                                         Parquet floor-lollipop sticks.
                                        Sofa-kiddies foam squares and kebab skewers.

Cute-Craft-Cliche No3. Bus screen

Flat screen TV-Old-school calculator and the back of an advertising fridge magnet. 

Lego mantelpiece, dah!

Bird art by Michael Parakowhai. 

"Yeah course! The loo's just upstairs, then straight ahead".

Bath-fimo, op-shopped faux wood contact, bent wire, blood, sweat and tears.

Screen-pieces nicked from Clauds toy box.

Toilet and sink-op-shopped.

"Hey, while you're up here, let me show you what we did with Roz's room".

Eero Aarnio Ball Chair-Ball pool ball, teddy bear arm-joint, felt.

Wallpaper-op-shopped. 

Bed-Op-shopped letter rack chopped up, a piece of a packing crate and raw plugs.

Cute-Craft-Cliche No 4. Jan Constantine Union Jack Pillow.

Cute Craft Cliche No 5. Pom Pom string.

Cute Craft Cliche No.6. Yo Yo Quilt (TBCompleted)

Ball Lamp-macrame beads, wooden kebab skewer and a ping pong ball.

Circular shelves-free tester pottles from The Body Shop

Cute-Craft-Cliche No 7. Keep Calm (and ...Make Mini's!) poster

The doll's house doll house inspired the exterior colour scheme.

"Feel free to stay, here's the spare room"

Cute Craft Cliche No. 8 Blanket cushions, heart and cross, (made by Miriam).

Bed-made from the packaging on a set of novelty salt and pepper pots!

The sky blue wall Resene Moby again.

Cute-Craft-Cliche No. 9. Silhouette Picture.

Chest of Drawers-all op-shopped: broken jewellery box, twig, macrame beads, faux flower fronds, mirror-contact-covered drinks coaster. 

Wallpaper-op-shopped contact paper. 

Tree-like wall and ceiling wallpaper-washi paper from my stash.

This room is unfinished and I'm not that excited by it. Might have to turn it into a craft room. Yes!

"Anyways, we best go if we gonna get to crochet class on time".

Slam!

"Thank goodness they're gone, what is this, an open home?! Phew!

Righto, time for a cuppa and a mag..."

(Cute-craft-cliche No. 10-Mollie Makes magazine)

Just enough Cute-Craft-Cliches to date the doll house, so that when Claud (age 2) finally gets her hands on it (age 5, maybe) she's stick 'em on her hips, sigh and say "I've got to redecorate this dated old place"!

and I'm not done yet either...so watch this space!

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*****   UPDATE! Here is the doll house craft room completed *****

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In the meantime, do you want to see what the other contenders (mainly interior designers and professional doll-housers) did? Look here.

...and here's my weekly posts on the topic too if you just can' get enough x

(be careful though, it's addictive...)

http://blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.co.nz/2011/09/doll-house-do-up-1.html

http://blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.co.nz/2011/09/doll-house-do-up-2.html#!http://blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.com/2011/09/doll-house-do-up-2.html

http://blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.co.nz/2011/10/doll-house-do-up-3.html

http://blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.co.nz/2011/10/dolls-house-do-up-4.html

http://blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.co.nz/2011/10/doll-house-do-up-5.html

http://blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.co.nz/2011/10/im-giant-challenge-doll-house-do-up-6.html

http://blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.co.nz/2011/10/im-giant-challenge-doll-house-do-up-7.html#!http://blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.com/2011/10/im-giant-challenge-doll-house-do-up-7.html

http://blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.co.nz/2011/11/im-giant-challenge-dolls-house-do-up-8.html

http://blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.co.nz/2011/11/im-giant-challenge-doll-house-do-up-9.html#!http://blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.com/2011/11/im-giant-challenge-doll-house-do-up-9.html

http://blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.co.nz/2011/11/im-giant-challenge-doll-house-do-up-10.html

http://blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.co.nz/2011/12/im-giant-challenge-doll-house-do-up-11.html#

http://blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.co.nz/2011/12/doll-house-do-up-7-trillion-and-13.html