Dollhouse Remodel

After

Before

In August of 2018

my daughter was given a dollhouse that had been started, but never finished. I thought "Cool! This can be a homeschool project for the two of us!" Just like it is a lot of time, time just got away from us and the dollhouse sat in her room, played with lots but never finished. So finally in January of 2020 I decided it was time!

We started off with white paint and covered the outside and the inside walls. Originally we started painting the floors but then decided since we were covering them they didn't need to be painted.

It is AMAZING what some white paint can do!

Since dollhouse flooring is so expensive we went another route for the flooring.

I decided to use contact paper for the flooring, a lot cheaper than dollhouse flooring.

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Just those two change made it look so different!

I picked up some coordinating scrapbook paper from Hobby Lobby and let the little lady pick the ones she liked for two rooms and we mod podged them on the walls.

I added more shingles and that left putting the window frames and shutters on the house. She was adamant that she wanted gold shutters for the outside, I tried to convince her of another color but she was persistent and I have to admit the gold turned out wonderful.

I also went to Lowes and had a precut piece of plywood cut a little smaller to screw the dollhouse onto and attached these wheels to the plywood so it could be rolled in and out of her closet.

We didn't have a frame for that triangle window and I couldn't find one so I improvised, a stained glass window! Vellum paper from Hobby Lobby did the job! I also picked up some moss mats while at Hobby Lobby. Its moss on sticky sheets and just cut it to size to make a front yard. We also had to do a little cutting at the bottom right window frame to get the opening wide enough for the frame. Last step was to attach the stairs to the inside and she's done!

This was such a fun little project for the two of us and she even has more ideas for it! Imagine a piece of plywood attached to the side with hinges and a eye hook so it can be folded up. On that plywood she wants to create a backyard for the dolls with a pool include!