Paint, Paper, Stain, and Stairs
I haven't forgotten the
dollhouse. Haven't even stopped working on it. Just had so much going
on I haven't blogged about it. So for you dollhousers out there, here
ya go!
First floor stairs
stained, painted, assembled and put into place. I have glued them
down, I am not sure that I want too because if I ever chose to redo
the hallway wallpaper, it will be much easier to remove the stairs
and do it that way. They fit in tightly so I don't have to worry
about them slipping out. I love the way they came out. This is not
your ordinary stair case, it twists and turns with two landings on
the first floor, has beautiful banisters and cut outs and add ons and
oh, I just love them! The instructions were a little hard on how to
put them together, so there was a LOT of comparing the pictures in
the instructions and on the box to what I was doing, and then there
was the fact that I wanted the part you stepped on to be stained
while most of the rest is painted white... THAT was a chore, I had to
put them together, with tape,to see what part would be what color,
but I finally got it and am super pleased with how it turned out.
I pulled out the pieces
for the 2 floor staircase last night, but wont start on it until
after I get home from helping my sister and my niece this week. The
niece is having her baby Wed. morning,and the sister is having back
surgery on Friday morning. Someone is gonna have to stay at the
hospital with Toni and then go home with them and take care of both
of them for a few days. That gets to be me. I can finally pay them
back for all the help they gave me while I was down with my surgery!
Did I mention that they came over just to wash dishes and vacuum one
day? My family rocks! And of course, don't let me forget to mention
Savannah, my youngest son's lady friend. She stayed over and watched
me bathe so I didn't fall, cooked and cleaned and babied me!
Okay, back to the
dollhouse, I papered the walls of the first and second floor (as much
as possible.) Jason took me to Hobby Lobby whee I looked around at
the dollhouse wallpaper and said, “Pfft!” It was too expensive
for my tastes and I didn't even LIKE them! So I moseyed over to the
scrapbook paper and found something to use for the hallways. I have 3
in this house, one on each floor. And because I decided against
lights in this house, I knew I needed to go with light colors
whenever possible, so I decided on a golden tan color with white in
them, but in 3 different designs, one for each floor. They match, but
they are not exact. One floor has stripes, one has a sponge painted
look and one has some kind of floursishy design. I also got a pink
plaid and a pink and white scene type wallpaper (think Blue Willow
dishes in pink... something like that) for the second floor bathroom.
LOVE the way that turned out!
And, I then went to
walmart and picked up a pack of scrapbook paper in teals and blacks
and whites and golden tans. The entire pack goes well with hallway
colors, and don't worry, (I see you cringing over the word black, I
did use a little in the living room, but its a very, very small
amount and looks great. So, the living room now has 3 walls done, one
is the golden tan and white stripes with teal colored fluer-de-lei's
one has a white with teal colored birds (tiny, tiny birds, so
freaking CUTE!) and one has the black and teal. BUT the black and
teal is about 1/8th the room size. This room has 2 bay
windows that will be installed at a later point and I plan on making
the insides of those in the golden tan I used in the hallways, I
think....
The master bedroom is also
located on the second floor. It is being done with one wall papered
in royal blue and white, with that fancy blue willow type of
design.... why can I not recall what those are called right now?
Probably will after I post this! The other walls will be painted
white. And this will be the only room where I paint the trim in
another color (gonna use the royal blue for this room) the rest will
have white trim.
The kitchen (on the first
floor) is painted yellow at the moment. I planned on doing it in
yellow and white and using blue accents in it, like blue plates and
curtains etc. I am thinking that if I can find a pretty yellow and
white wallpaper with a little blue in it, I may do one wall but not
sure yet as I haven't found anything I like yet.
Now, let me remind you
guys that I am the Queen of Good Enough around here. I don't care it
people tell me that I should ONLY use dollhouse wallpaper for my
walls, because HONESTLY, its MY dollhouse and I like saving money and
the scrapbook paper is adorable, way cheaper and much easier for me
to work with. I have long been a scrapbooker and I can work with
scrapbook paper easily. Also, I ONLY glued the edges of the paper
down. I may change my mind about the colors or the paper at some
point and want to redo them, having glue just on the edges will make
this easier for me.
Okay, so there you go,
what I have done on my dollhouse so far....
On another note, we found
another dollhouse kit for the eldest granddaughter to do. Its
slightly small (okay, WAY smaller than mine) and is a Tennyson
dollhouse kit. The plan is to help her put it together. Let her do
most of the work and have some fun doing the same thing that Memaw
(that's me, is doing). LeiLei is 7 years old, but is the smartest
person I know in this world. If she shows the slightest bit of
interest in this thing, she will make it very nice! She has a horse
barn and the little horses she go for Christmas, I think I will
suggest making this into a farm house to go with the horse ranch. It
would be adorable with a tin roof! Anyway, let you know how THAT
comes out too! We may end up with an entire city before this is over! Here's a look at her house, as done by the manufacturer.
Oh, and sorry to my Nanny, I know you wanted me to count the hours this doll house is taking me, but I lost count somewhere between day one and hour 3....
On another note, I have decided to do our living room floor in pennies.... Yes, the real living room, not the dollhouse house one.... It will take about $6 per square foot and will look awesome! I have started gluing pennies to some tiles, and when we have enough tiles, we will lay them on the new living room floor and then use some super think polyurithane over it. Hey, it will will be awesome because:
- my name is Penny
- it will be pretty
- it will up the value of my little house :)
- it gives me a new crafty project to do
So feel free to send me your pennies. I could use them!
Until next time.... keep crafting!
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