The dollhouse - Part I

Stories of building a doll-house...


The dollhouse is a project I have been thinking about for a long time! I came to realize that the more I idealized the "perfect" doll-house the less I wanted to build it.  Besides the main reason I thought of this project was to do something together with my children. So that is OUR project, not mine.

Using materials we had at home from many different objects and being creative we can spend quality time together. My children are 9 and 5 years old so i have of course to do some of the work.

I bought a old shelf on a second hand shop. We came home and had a good look at it and we spoke about what we wanted to do with it. WE draw a quick sketch so we had something to follow during our long term project:

  

           sketch 

sketch

I cleaned it very well (I'm peaky in that mather) and I put the kids to work making the surface smoother so we could paint it. Even my kids' friends wanted to help when they visited us!

The original shelf and some of the materials we used.

As you might imagine we did not made the dollhouse in one day. This is a long term project and WE will not get stressed about it. We work on it when we wish to do so.
Once again: quality time together being creative!

Paintjob going on! 

I chose water based paint because the children were doing the paintjob and I didn't want then to work with dangerous chemicals of any kind. That made it harder to paint it well and the surface is kind of transparent.

To do the wall paper downstairs I used some adhesive paper that I had left from that I used to wrap around the aquarium. The floors are too made of adhesive paper that we bought for other purposes.

                                 


The ramp/stairs are plain cardboard and the same adhesive paper we used to do the flooring.
Now we have a empty doll-house. Next step is to do furniture and bring in the small dolls that were too bought at a second hand shop!