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)??

doll house art canvas

I am slowly making over the doll house I had as a child for my daughter. I just do a little something here or there as inspiration hits. It's in the basement and I want to have it in her room by the time she turns 3... so I have a couple years! :)

Anyways, I found a cute miniature wood art canvas at the dollar store a couple months ago for $1.00. So I painted the wood part of the canvas pink, then added on a picture of my daughter from back in November. I used a sketch action in a photo program to make it look like an artist sketch...





Here are the supplies I used. (Because the photo wasn't as wide as my canvas, I decided to use a little grey paint on the canvas before adding my photo with Mod Podge.)





I love the personal touch this adds. I will probably put it near the doll cradle in the house.You could easily add a regular photo, some patterned scrapbook paper, or just about anything on the canvas!!

You can see all the wood trim and yellow walls that I have yet to make-over in this doll house. It's about 20 years old and it survived me and my 2 younger sisters. I have big plans for it!!