#dollhouse remodel

[southernbelleminiatures]

Can you believe this is a miniature??

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Just look at this beautiful freshly restored 1882 Victorian with the mansard roof. It's in Stillwater, Minnesota, has 3bd 2ba, priced at $550K, and some lucky people already have a pending offer on it.

I thought that they painted the wood black, but that's its natural color and patina. Note the original bell on the door.

Enter directly into the living room and there're stairs, plus a cute alcove.

Isn't this a sweet little niche to sit with a book or needlework, and a cup of tea.

The living/dining room are an open concept layout.

The kitchen was completely remodeled and is super cute. Plus, it has a nice-sized everyday dining area.

Off the kitchen is a powder room with the cutest little sink.

Nice stairs to the 2nd fl. has the perfect choice of carpet.

Wow, this is a spacious main bd.

And, the interior reflects the shape of the mansard roof.

The secondary bedroom is just as lovely.

And, here's the smaller 3rd bd. that is also very nice.

What a sweet little claw foot tub.

Sunny little yellow Victorian is a dollhouse and it's know as "Grandma Bean's Playhouse," to the family.

There's a nice 2 car garage.

A small stone patio in the garden.

The cupola is the jewel in the crown.

Plus there's a great view of the St. Croix River.

[voidollz]

a bit crowded atm!! here’s a temporary set up i have inbetween organizing and displaying my collection! my current plan is to remodel the rainbow high house. i had to remove the top bedroom, so that space will be turning into a roof garden.

i think the rainbow high house is awesome, i just can’t stand the printed furniture, it was the one thing that annoyed me the most about barbie houses as a child. i can’t wait to get it covered up and to make better furniture. i’ve wanted to customize a dollhouse for so long!

[nicascurls]

Breaking the Dollhouse/Final Family AU

Andy had a panic room in the cabin. That is in past tense because it’s been basically remodeled into more of a “sensory room”.

Sometimes the kids, particularly Glen and Junior, get overstimulated by whatever’s going on or just overwhelmed, so Andy will take them to the sensory room instead. There’s fluffy blankets, pillows, multiple large stuffed animals, different fidget toys, and those glow in the dark stars that stick on the walls. It definitely helps the kids a lot get their bearings and Andy will stay with them or leave them alone in the room, whichever they prefer. It’s a room that now gets frequently used, much more compared to before.

Aww, I love that.

Andy bought so much stuff for that room and asked Glen loads of questions about the room them and Glenda found in Tiffany's house. Specifically, what they liked about it so that he could add similar things to the room.

Although, Andy definitely still has some security features in that room for emergencies.

[theoriginaleppieblack-blog]

My New Doll Project - Paradox House 1.0

Around 2005, the last time I was messing around with 1/6 scale (Barbie) dolls, I commissioned a local hobby miniaturist to make me a dollhouse. It has some issues, so it has actually spent the last 10 years as a small bookshelf, stacked on top of a larger bookshelf, holding me and Mal's series of collaged scrapbooks. Since I want a dollhouse to hold the exponentially expanding Led Zeppelin doll project, it is getting a remodel before I commit to commissioning a different one. So, it's a first draft!

If you'd like to see the before pictures, they are below the cut. I tried to make a little photostory out of them but it's not as good as the camper pics.

This is the wide view of the house. Sun damaged collage from when the house was displayed in a window. One of the major issues of course, is that the door is not the same scale as the windows.

The whole interior. The interior manages to be both too dark and dominated by overly large windows. Luckily, there a lot of new mini-LED light products on the market now.

Have a skeptical Tris and Alex for scale. Unfortunately those old HP stickers are covered in several layers of modpodge. The whole outside is getting painted. The lads are both wearing early-1960s Barbie jackets today. Wow are those early Mattel clothes high-quality. Alex may not be giving the red silk boucle jacket back to the Barbies.

And here we see the problem with this build. Creatable World dolls are shorter than Barbies so they actually fit in here better than the previous inhabitants but it's still tiny. And the interior is dark. And the door looks stupid. But, if I use what I've learned from the Barbie camper and from studying the Tiny House movement, I should be able to come up some kind of interior. First thing, I'm going to repair the door and put up a false wall at the back. Maybe, a fake window on one of the sides. This room will be styled as a kitchenette.

Center room. This room will be mostly instrument storage/display. If I put 1-2 dolls per room I can display all 4 of the guys in the house and most of the accessories that are specifically theirs.

Top floor, negotiating with Realtor!Barbie. This room will be a conversation pit-esque sitting room. It has a cathedral ceiling that I never bothered to finish the last time.

I would appreciate thoughts and suggestions. The general plan for now is to do a general repair and repaint of the whole doll house and replace the clear plastic windows with paper insert windows (urban scene on the inside, blinds on the outside). Then I can start working on the fun stuff.

[sarkos]

The project led him into a small but growing community of artists in China filling an increasingly urgent demand: miniature replicas of homes that have been demolished, remodeled or otherwise swept away by China’s modernization. Designing and collecting miniatures has long been a hobby in the West. In northern Europe during the 17th century, dollhouses were a way for the wealthy to show off their properties; nowadays aficionados cite reasons ranging from escapism to aspirational interior design. But in China, where artists say the form is relatively new, miniatures have become a way to reckon with a society that has changed at a dizzying pace. Over the past 40 years, China has transformed from one of the world’s poorest countries into its second-largest economy. The share of city residents has tripled, and vast numbers of Chinese have seen the structures of their childhoods disappear, often through government redevelopment campaigns. “Nobody would actually want to live in these houses again. Once people have gotten used to nice things, they can’t handle these shabby ones,” Mr. Shen said. But “the pace of life now is too fast. Just because you live in a high-rise doesn’t mean you’re happy.” The miniatures “offer a kind of spiritual enjoyment,” he said, “when all your material needs are satisfied.” [...]“When I was a teenager, I never thought about nostalgia,” Mr. Shen said. “But once you’re at a certain age, with generations above and below you and all kinds of pressure, the past feels more precious.”

In China, Artists Create Miniature Homes From Memories - The New York Times

[hand-made-sweater]

Saturday, August 19th

I'd like to have 4 children

August (Augie), River, Eden, Birdie

I consider all of them gender neutral names but Eden is more feminine I think, traditionally at least

Then again Cassidy is a more feminine gender neutral name and I do plan on being their father

Dad

Dada

I don't see myself as daddy

I want to fall asleep with all 4 of them in my arms and I want them to feel loved

I want to show them music

And I want to show them art

And read Moomin and Winnie the Pooh

And go to the beach and the forest

Ill make them banana pancakes

And chocolate pudding

Italian ice in the summer time when we sit in the inflatable pool together

Ill hose off our big dumb dog I'm sure we'll have and I'll grill corn for dinner

Ill be in a 3 bedroom, two kids per room

I'll go thrift sturdy old furniture and remodel beautiful dollhouses for them

Little chairs by big sprawling books shelves

In the dining area I'll have all their art framed in real frames from the thrift store

And their heights marked in the living room

A sun room full of books and a CD player and board games and dolls

Car tracks running from the top of the steps to the bottom

My bedroom will have a big bed covered in pillows and blankets so my babies can join me and the dogs will always sleep at the end of my bed

We'll have a big dog and maybe a little one

Maybe a little parakeet who can fly freely around the parlor

Bench with muddy boots and teeny little sandals spilling out the bottom

Ill have a pair of Mary Jane's for sunday's

On Sundays we'll do something special

Howl at the moon or talk to trees

When they have passions I'll take them out to explore them

Museums and obstacle courses and little diners where we can pool over their thoughts

Ill give them 5 dollars to get an iced tea and a bag of chips at the corner store in the summer

And always give them a Clementine before they leave the house

We could do little experiments in the kitchen

Growing strawberries out of the cans that once held our peach slices

Get one iced coffee and 4 slushies

Get 5 hot cocoas and 3 giant coffee rolls

They'll spend a weekend with their nana so I can visit the ocean with my friends

An week in the summer with their auntie on her farm

So i can visit the mountains and write

They'll have two uncles and three aunts, how amazing

And sometimes we'll wake up and just watch cartoons and eat cereal

And draw chalk and make slime

And paint all of our nails every color because someone is going through a phase

I'll write them little books and illustrate them

And I'll sew them costumes on Halloween

[thedaveandkimmershow]

All our birthdays are around the holidays so the holidays always color our birthdays.

Kimmer's birthday was yesterday and it had Christmas written all over it. With a touch of Halloween.

The day started with Halloween, interestingly, as the first order of my part of the day was to pick up a wood panel photo I ordered from Walgreens. Printing anything onto those laminated panels absolutely makes those things look better. In this case, a selfie Kimmer took of us at Linzy's gig at the Sunset Tavern, her Dream Patrol show the week before Halloween that she declared to be a costume event.

So we showed up as a vampire from Nevermore Academy (me, from that Netflix show, Wednesday) and some kind of shiny twinkly something topped off like a lampshade (Kimmer, getting creative with a Value Village Halloween department score).

After that, I picked up a dozen yellow roses after passing an abundance of Christmas shrubbery variations at Trader Joe's.

From there, I slipped over to QFC, Fred Meyer, actually, to see if I could score some Kimberly Cupcakes 'cause Kroger's owns both stores and Kimberly Cupcakes won't kill Kimmer whose body chemistry doesn't play well with any kind of nut. Talking to a bakery associate, I discovered Kroger's stopped carrying Kimberly's in favor of their own brand of cupcakes, made in a nut-free facility.

Sold!

Back home, I rummage through our gift bag bin, rummage through a lot of Christmas bags for a most appropriate gift bag for Kimmer's birthday presents that include the lovely bouquet of yellow roses and pulled out one cupcake, set it on a plate, placed a single lighted candle atop it, and walked into our bedroom with the bag 'o presents and a fine rendition of "Happy Birthday" sung by me.

After a lazy Birthday morning, we head out into the world with a brief stop at Sally's where Kimmer conducts research with a very knowledgeable associate, then we're into Hobby Lobby where Kimmer's on the hunt for craft pieces for the card she's making for Linzy's birthday... she's also looking for dollhouse pieces for a bit of a retrofit/remodel of the doll house she and her dad built together many years ago. It's wired for lights... and our honorary grandkids love the thing. Which is why she's polishing it up.

Christmas, by the way, hits you right BAM in the face soon as you walk through the doors and nearly down every aisle. So while Kimmer hunts, I embark on taking a series of Christmas Nutcracker photographs.

Hobby Lobby's lousy with those wooden figures. 

I grabbed something like twenty individual snaps. Totally got lost in the process. ☺️

After Hobby Lobby, Kimmer had Cactus on the brain since we hadn't really eaten anything all day... so we drove down to Seattle, to South Lake Union, and grabbed a coupla seats at a table for some time, just the two of us, over a lovely meal.

An hour and a half later, we walk over to that old Goodwill Boutique nearby and find out it's been closed so we drive up the hill to that other Goodwill that's always so nice during Christmas. Again, Kimmer goes hunting while I take another thirty Christmas photographs. ☺️

By the time we're done, it's a little after five... and dark like it's midnight.

So now we're getting into the part of the day when we're gonna connect up with Linzy. So we head for Ballard and, because traffic's fouled up in every direction, it takes us about fifty minutes to land at that GoodWill on 8th Avenue NW where we score a painted plywood elf with a face cutout into which kids can squeeze their own faces for funny yuletide snaps at our house with our soon-to-be Thanksgiving children visitors.

Kimmer does her hunting thing all over the store while I take a record number of pictures for the night totalling 41.

BAM.

Quarter to seven we swing down to Trader Joe's by the Ballard Bridge where we score frozen pizzas, spiced cider, straight seltzer, and a bag of Thanksgiving flavored popcorn.

No idea what that's gotta taste like... I'll let you know when we dig in.

730 we swing by Linzy's work, picking her up, and eventually dropping she and Kimmer at Linzy's place by eight while I end up parking a couple blocks south of Linzy's first apartment on the hill. 

A ten-minute walk later, I rejoin the girls in the midst of cooking, sharing videos on Linzy's iPad, and taking a look at the lovely birthday card Linzy hand-crafted for her mom. ☺️

After that we settle on the big, dark green comfy couch for dinner, drinks, and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice streaming on AppleTV. It was a lovely movie, not as great as the first, but fun to watch.

Somewhere in the middle of the movie, once we finished our pizzas, we took a moment to bring out the remaining three cupcakes (made in a nut-free facility), Linzy fashioned them each with a candle, lit each one, then we sang Kimmer a Happy Birthday followed right away with clapping and the Happy Happy Birthday song that ends with a very Russian "Hey!!!". 

We finished the movie whilst reveling in the deliciousness of triple chocolate super iced and injected with chocolate frosting.

We finished the movie around ten-thirty, cleaned up, packed up, with the three of us walking back to the car carrying conversations the whole way. 

Linzy's with us to catch a ride to the U-District from which it's a straight shot home. Which we reach at quarter to midnight.

In the end, it was a full and lovely day. We both agreed it was paced just right and, by the end, we had no problem slipping under the covers as well as slipping into a deep, deep sleep.

☺️

[diynest]

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[southernbelleminiatures]

I hope everyone had a lovely Valentine’s Day!

[dejatheeinnkeeper]

In a way, Deja had not been the average little girl and yet the older she became, the more she realized the average little girl was indeed strange in one way or another. Even as a kid, she had been obsessed with one day owning the inn, figuring out what she would change with it. How things ran, the decor, she had opinions very early on. Out of the womb she'd been ready to be put to work as far as she was concerned. Or at least that's what her parents, old patrons of theirs, that's what they had told her. But one of the few childish things she had that was often a staple in little girl's lives was a dollhouse. Not just any dollhouse, but one that had been made by her great, great grandfather and fashioned to look like The Stumble Inn. Of course with every remodel or addition to the actual building, the miniature was updated. It was something that was near and dear to her heart, a family project. After she'd died, after the inn had needed repairs, the miniature needed remodeling, too. It'd been damaged the night Deja had died and now she spent time trying to put it all back in order. It's a stressful hobby, but it is something that is technically has nothing to do with her job. "Deja." The woman approached as she was trying to determine which fabric matched the curtains of the inn more and she has to kind of force herself out of customer service mode. "It's for a family dollhouse, I've been fixing it up."

Who: @dejatheeinnkeeper When: Current in the timeline Where: Art supply shop Notes: Smooch!

Carys’ hands ached with years of disuse. There had been little opportunity to scratch any sort of creative itch in the Astorian prison save scratching crude drawings into dirt floors and spinning elaborate tales. The latter had been more rewarding, there had been a few fellow prisoners who had enjoyed her oration abilities. But for the most part, the days passed indistinguishably from one another with little light at the end of the tunnel. This might have been why the unseasonably warm day in Eterna was so welcome to the elvhen, the sun on her face was a positive change of pace and she doubted she’d ever take a sunburn for granted again. 

With a bit of sun under her belt now, she was ready to focus her time and attention on the other matter her soul so desperately craved–some sort of new project. Carys wasn’t in a rush to find new clients, there would be commissions down the road. For now, she wanted to make art for its own sake, for her own personal enjoyment. But what? She had perused the shelves of the art store examining oil pants and pastels, canvas and fabric, charcoals and ink, nothing jumping at her as the right place to start. She wished to do everything and nothing all at once–the choice paralysis was frustrating. 

When she noticed another woman who seemed to be in the perilous throws of making her own choice, she slowly approached. Carys knew it was nosey of her, but she craned her neck to see the two fabrics the woman was comparing, a bright smile crossing her face. “Those are beautiful textiles,” she complimented. “I’m having a bit of artist's block–could I beg you for a moment of time to hear about what you’re shopping for? I’m hoping a little inspiration from someone else might help set me on my own way.” She paused for a moment before her features reanimated and she remembered her manners. A thin hand was extended in an instant, “I’m Carys, by the way.”

[c0rpsedemon]

i think i'd like to build my own dollhouse. i think i'd make it a castle

[miniaturesanddollhouse-blog]

If you don’t paint your dollhouse ceilings, before you assemble, you’ll have to turn it up-side-down later.

[generaljinjur]

Playmobil dollhouse for Christmas? Okay, but we can do better! So orange. So boring.

Templates, foam core, scrapbook paper, and spray adhesive, here we go!

I love it when a plan comes together...

And it’s finished! There, that’s better

Add some fake grass to an IKEA Lack coffee table and we’re good to go!

Pieces used: Playmobil Modern House 9266, Modern House Floor Extension 6554, Modern Luxury Mansion Swimming Pool with Terrace 5575, and Housewarming Party Set 9272.

Furniture to be opened on Christmas ♥️

[seraphvie]

"Well, that would also explain how he was able to magically remodel my home despite all attempts made to prevent that: I turn my back for just a moment and he turns it into a dollhouse."

"Very well," Artemis nodded. "I'll remember to get you a pack next time I head out."

"Speaking of Eton, though: when Missi visits Nim, you two are able to interact better just because you're physically closer? Or is he also growing in strength, able to manifest himself more?"

[auntkayscrochet]

Dollhouse Makeover

Vintage and dated -> Modern Farmhouse