I've been having lots of fun decorating Avery's new dollhouse. Dollhouse furniture is surprisingly very expensive, so I decided to make my own. This dollhouse is very addicting If you love making things, you could spend hours crafting stuff for a dollhouse. Below I made the sofa, lamp, side chair and pouf. The rug is a piece of fur that I cut to size and the coffee table is a small table that I found at Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree does sell cheap dollhouse furniture, but it is the wrong scale. My dollhouse is 1:12, but the Dollar Tree/Dollar General dollhouse furniture is 1:18 scale I think. So the coffee table was suppose to be a dining table, but since it was too small I cut the legs shorter and made it into a coffee table. The pieces I cut off I actually used for the legs of the sofa.
I'm still experimenting with layout of the house.
I also purchased a kitchen from Hobby Lobby for the dollhouse. I love this dollhouse modern kitchen, it has a french door refrigerator! All the cabinet doors open and its pretty well made. The modern kitchen was on the pricey side, $44.99 (in store), but they had a 40% off coupon (which you can just show them on your mobile phone), so it came out ot 30 dollars. Thirty dollars is still pricey but cheaper than any other dollhouse kitchen set I found. Ebay has some sets from China, but with shipping all the sets were over 40 dollars.
Hobby Lobby modern kitchen. Pots, pans and baskets were not part of the set.
All of the cabinets open which is pretty cool.
I will publish tutorials (when I have time) on the furniture, which can be scaled for Barbie also.
I've been building a dollhouse. Not a premade easy assembly Costco dollhouse. This is a real dollhouse, one where you have to paint every wall, stain the floors and shingle the roof. I have to admit when I first saw this dollhouse online I was super excited. Then when I received it and opened the box I felt overwhelmed. The dollhouse sat in the corner of our room for months (8 months to be exact) before I opened the box again and decided that I had the confidence to build it. The dollhouse had what felt like a million pieces all which needed to be primed, sanded, painted, assembled, sanded again, and touched up. The interior needed to be wallpapered and all the moldings needed to be put together. The floor sanded, stained, sanded again, cleaned off for a top coat. This was a real serious dollhouse. It was just as much work as my real house (except I couldn't hire a contractor to do the work).
Here is timelapse video of all the work. It isn't a tutorial, but it will give you an idea of how much work goes into building this house, if you ever decided you want to build one.
Finished dollhouse. I picked colors like the Disney movie "Up" house.
Each shingle needed to be hand cut to get the angle on the roof!
The house isn't furnished yet. The current furniture is too small a scale for the house.
Purple room for my Avery who loves purple.
I still need to wallpaper one last room with the crazy angles. I'm saving that for another day.
I found this free paper doll printable online and thought it was adorable. I loved playing with paper dolls as a child and decided to print some out for my daughter Avery is getting to the age where she is starting to enjoy toys like this. To make the paper dolls sturdier and easier to play with I decided to back them with magnetic paper. This magnetic paper has adhesive so no gluing is needed. You could also get printable magnetic paper and print the dolls right on. The printable had a lot of white space so I decided to cut out the dolls and position them to utilize the paper better.
