The other day I decided I would “gut” the kitchen in my dollhouse, and well, I got a little carried away!
I have decided that since I am doing this as an old farmhouse, I am going to make what Dana’s Dad had as the kitchen the new parlor and the old living room the kitchen. In most farmhouses I was in as a kid the kitchen seems to be one of the largest rooms….
Most of the wallpaper was glued down to heavy cardboard and then tacked on the dollhouse walls with another kind of glue. Same with the flooring, so you can get to the wiring. Thank you Mr. Moore! This made taking 90% of it out really easy…and I kept the pieces to help with measurements.
This is the wallpaper from the entry hall stairway. It was cute and the right color, but he never finished the room.
This is some of the bedrooms.
Kitchen walls.
Old kitchen floor.
I am going to have to do a lot of scrapping in certain areas, and i want to paint all of the ceilings and dormers, and then I need to take this to a dollhouse expert and see if the lightning works…then I want to put in wood floors that look like old pine planking, I have been told they sell this in pieces made of like balsa wood with the indents to look like planks. But I guess I have to stain it…then I will see about walls. I know I want beadboard half way up in the kitchen at least. And I am thinking of making the whole upstairs the master retreat. ( Thanks for the idea Meri!)
As you can see, some of the wallpaper did not want to come off, so this will be time consuming.
and some of it, came down really easy….so it wasn’t a bad remodel day.
Where the blue wallpaper is, I am going to just paint the color of the ceilings….I will worry about finishing this last.
I cannot even imagine having to do this with a full size house….what a nightmare that would be! But boy, I would love to have a farmhouse to try it in!
