Two Doll's houses

When Doll's House was a hobby...

Doll's house - Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - Museum for Art and History

And our first doll's house

Card Board Doll's House - House of Davies

Gosh, look at how proud he is! Notice the knight in shining armor 

hanging from the peak of the house.

Dollhouse furniture lots

Here is a good reason to join the I'M A GIANT dollhouse challenge!

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LOVE!

Dollhouse challenge

Is it time to finish the dollhouse? I bought this bookshelf dollhouse several years ago in between owning homes. Something to create with my son and humor my decorating desires while I was renting an apartment.  Since living in our new home, I had set up the dollhouse, but my son had grown out of it and I had started decorating my own home. A couple times I rearranged furniture and looked at the supplies for finishing it.

And today, A GIANT Blog Challenge managed to find me (wink, I found them), HERE, here and here. (These gals are hilarious! Check out their blogs)

There are still things I want to do with the house: Paint inside white, Finish the shingles, Finish the 8 pieces of tile (we ran out 3 years ago and recently bought more - you see it has been on my mind). Grout. FIGURE OUT HOW TO make my Dremel (that was bought for this project) cut a side door and an attic hatch door. The first door I cut was impossibly difficult and time consuming. Add stairs. And a loft bathroom.

Or maybe I should just sit back, work on my own house, and enjoy the other dollhouse creations.

A modern home

That is, a Modern Dollhouse home.

The Emerson Doll House

And some modern furniture to go with it. (nice sectional :))

When my son was younger I was on the look out for a doll house, but I could never hand over the money for one of the uber cool ones. We ended up making one out of a bookshelf / peaked roof. We tiled the kitchen floor (red,black and white) and painted a wall yellow. We glued shingles on half of the roof (its a work in progress ;)) and painted one side of the house bright blue. I bought a small Dremel so we could cut out windows and doors...I managed one door opening. We found select furniture pieces and a family to move in. We were supposed to build a loft for a bathroom, add a stair case and another door into the upstairs room. And, of course, finish the roof and painting.

This morning I was in the toy room and went over to the dollhouse. I shook out a doily and moved some rugs around; small pieces of sample upholstery that I collected. I moved a tiny toy to another room in the doll house and straightened the chairs at the table. I moved a dollkid into the kitchen to keep gramma doll company. I left the two other dollkids sleeping in the beds, but changed the blankets around. I touched each object with love and care and thought that this home, although unfinished, was loved and will come to life again when Little Lucy becomes interested. Maybe we will get to the unfinished dollhouse plans after all.