The Remodel of My Childhood Doll House

When I was expecting my first daughter, I began remodelling my childhood doll house!

It was quite late 80's/early 90's in style. Here are some before photos...

I decided to leave the exterior alone, but I painted the inside walls & trim and redid the fireplace...

I painted the table and painted a design on the wall with a stencil...

I painted and added new fabric onto the furniture & sewed little cushions.

I painted mini canvases and added photos of both my daughters at the same age to look like artwork.

I still have yet to re-do the couch in the living room. 

I made the curtains and curtain rod. I made the little white table and the books. The books were made with paper and mod podge. The are stiff and likely can't be destroyed by my kids.

I got the pink mini chalkboard in the dollar section at Michael's. I made the little rug when I was little at a church activity I believe.

In the frame above the couch I added a photo of my 3 kids.

Upstairs I made some bedding for the bed and made the little nightstand and painted the lamp.

I went through my scrapbook stash and added some items onto the wall for decorations.

I sewed more little cushions. My MIL made the little pink rug. The doily-type rugs are doilies I picked up in the dollar section at Michael's.

I really enjoyed decorating up my old doll house for my girls to have! My older daughter is turning 5 in the spring and really wants a big plastic Barbie Dream House and I am all for getting her one cause I think it would be cool for Barbie to have neighbors. lol She is quite obsessed with Barbies- like mother, like daughter!

Anyone else pass on their childhood doll house to their daughter(s)??

kid's craft idea- fall leaves canvas

Here's a fall craft that my son (who is almost 4) & I made together....

I bought the canvas from the dollar store for 2 bucks, used Mod Podge & a foam brush I had on hand, and used some leaves that we collected together outside.

He & I placed the leaves in the vicinity of where we wanted them to be at the end, then I glued them on with Mod Podge & let me son try to help a bit with that.

We added some scrapbook letters to spell "FALL" in the blank spot we left. Then I added a couple coats of Mod Podge to seal the leaves.

He loves crafting with me when we have our learning time each day. And I love seeing him explore his creative side and spending time together.

{Thanks to One Pretty Thing, Thrifty Decorating, and Katie's Nesting Spot for featuring this project!}

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our baby girl's room

Here's a tour of my daughter's room.

My husband painted the walls grey. We put our comfy leather couch in the room with a tv and dvd player. Those 3 things were awesome to have during those first few weeks especially! [The cushions on the couch are from Ikea.]


I wanted the wall with the crib to be an accent wall, so he painted stripes in a grey that's darker than the color used in the rest of the room. I love how it turned out! The dark grey curtains and the white curtain rod are both from Ikea. [The little handmade toys that are by the tv can be found here and here.]

I covered canvases using pretty paper to hang above the crib. I didn't want anything heavy on that wall, just in case.

The lamp came was one of four that my parents gave us last Christmas. I fell in love with that mirror when I saw it at Home Sense and thought the $24.99 price was reasonable!

This white floating shelf was from Ikea. I added some accessories that I thought would coordinate with the other things in her room. The pink mdf "M" came from a dollar store and I painted it hot pink. The white one I picked up from Michael's. [Here's a post about the small oval frame]

My husband replaced the old shelving that was in the closet with some new wire shelves like the ones he's installed in all the other closets in out home. All the clothes she has yet to grow into, as well as her dresses, are in there. I made these dividers to organize the closet.

The rest are in her dresser/ change table. [You can read about the bird that's on the wall in this post.]

We put lots of work into her room and are happy with the result!!