Dollhouse Living Room Carpet

The dollhouse living room now has carpet and is complete as far as main decoration. I’ll be adding a few windows and making some dollhouse furniture for it later.

I’m very pleased with the colors in the living room. The carpet is a small piece of velvet like furniture fabric that I had in my stash of cloth that matched the wallpaper perfectly. e glare on the wallpaper isn’t a noticeable as it appears in the picture. The flash from my camera does make it look garish, but it’s really beautiful when viewed in real life.

I’ll be wallpapering the dining room and kitchen next, as well as adding ceilings and flooring. I do not want carpet in the kitchen, so I’ll probably be making polymer clay tiles for the kitchen and maybe hardwood flooring for the dining room but I have not decided for sure yet.

The dollhouse design is coming together slowly I know, but I’m wanting to take my time to make sure that I have it decorated like I would my dream home.

I hope that showing how I am using a combination of printables, scrap paneling and scrap cloth illustrates how a dollhouse can still be beautiful even if one has a very strict budget.

So far cost for the dollhouse is still less than $3.00 for the Elmer’s wood glue. I expect that it won’t go much higher than $3.00 either, because I am finding that there are so many different things one can use to decorate a dollhouse, lying around in a typical home that really glue may be all one needs to buy in order to have the dollhouse of their dreams!

For those who do not have spare lumber, access to tools or someone to help them build a dollhouse, a bookshelf with properly spaced shelves would be ideal to use as a dollhouse.

The shelves should be 9 to 14 inches high (14 would be for tall ceilings) and are at least 9 inches deep (10 or 11 is better). Thick cardboard or small pieces of thin paneling could be used to make dividers for walls easily using nothing more than a good pair of scissors.

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Dollhouse Living Room Ceiling

I’ve added the ceiling to my dollhouse.  To make it, I cut a piece of plastic paneling to fit the ceiling.

This paneling came from a piece of scrap plastic paneling that was designed for typical household bathrooms.

I then spread a thin layer of wood glue on the back and pressed the ceiling panel in place.

I did not have any clamps, so I stacked books at an angle at all four corners to keep the panel in place until the glue had dried.

The paneling makes a very attractive and realistic looking ceiling, and I’m very pleased with the results.

I’ll be carpeting the living room floor next.  I’m excited about how things are progressing; the living room in the dollhouse is starting to look absolutely gorgeous!

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My Current Dollhouse Decorations

To show that I am decorating my new dollhouse almost from scratch, I’d like to share the items I currently have on hand for decorating. 

This miniature bed was purchased about 2 years ago at the local Goodwill store.  I found it in the toy bin for only 25 cents.

It’s made of wood and has a foam mattress and represents a Queen sized bed.  It’s currently sitting in the master bedroom of the dollhouse.

I plan to recover the bed, but the current stain looks great so I probably won’t be refinishing it.

Here I have a miniature cloth Hitty doll that was made for me by Ms. Courtney Butler.  She stands just a tad over 5 inches tall (between the 1/16 and 1/8 marks.  I do not plan to purchase a dollhouse family; instead I’ll be using dolls that are handmade like this one is.

I’ll be crocheting some nice dresses and hats for this doll, and will be thinking of a good name for her.  She’ll be the wife and mommy in the house, but as of right now she’s a single woman who is proud to have purchased her new home and just thankful that she has a bed to sleep on.

And here is my collection of miniature bears.  These bears stand from 1 inch tall (the pink crocheted bear) to 3 1/2 inches tall (the large brown crocheted bear).  They currently sit in the attic.

Notice the lines on the attic ceiling?  That’s the nice piece of Birchwood paneling I found, it was perfect for creating a rustic look in the attic!

Courtney also made some of the bears and I made the rest.   Courtney made the bear on the far left as well as the bear with the open mouth right beside it.  She also made the crocheted brown bear and the brown bear that is sitting.

On hand I also have some scrapbook paper, cardboard, Elmer’s glue, a hot glue gun, some small mini craft sticks, furniture fabrics, vintage velvet rayon fabric pieces, crochet hooks and thread.

I’ll be using these as well as other items found around the house to do the majority of the dollhouse decorating.

With glue, cardboard and fabric, one can make virtually almost every piece of furniture one would want for a dollhouse.

I’ll be starting on the floors and walls first, as well as printing free printables I locate online for various odds and ends like food, books, magazines and other small items made for 1:12 scale dollhouses.

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My New Dollhouse

I just finished building my first dollhouse using scrap lumber.   This dollhouse was ALMOST completely free to build.  The only cost involved in building it was time, and a bottle of Elmer’s stainable wood glue.  Of course I used tools I already had on hand as well.

The tools I used were a hammer, jigsaw and sander.  Of course a hacksaw and regular sandpaper would have been sufficient as well for cutting and sanding the pieces.
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