DOLLS HOUSE DO UP #3

This is part 3 of the dolls house project, if you read the other posts you will have seen that the inside was looking very pastely....

Well, I'm not really a pastel sort of girl, so a strong injection of colour was needed and I had just the thing in mind...

A bit of Orla.....

I had seen this fantastic Orla Kiely wrapping a few months ago in a local department store, I had in fact intended to buy some to make into bunting for my kitchen, it is quite thick and double sided.

I looked at wallpaper on a dolls house website and did actually buy some, but when it arrived it just did not seem right and was also quite thin, then I remembered the Orla wrapping paper, and being a bit of an Orla fan just knew that it would be perfect.

Also, as it is double sided, I bought three sheets, but had six designs.

Now I had to decide which design to put where....

Living room....

Playroom.... (think this is my favourite)

 

Main bedroom...

The landing..

Living room.....

Bathroom...

And that's about it, I am really pleased with it so far.....

This is the next stage, up cycling the old furniture, some of which was mine as a child and some has been given by the friend who gave me the dolls house....



DOLLS HOUSE DO UP #2

As you may remember from last time, I had painted the outside and after a lot of fiddling managed to get the roof papered with the slate paper...

Now for some colour to the inside...

A nice pale blue (which actually looks darker here than it is) for he hall, stairs and landing..

And more of the exterior sage green for the living room, on the left.

Just a minute, whats going on here ? SQUATTERS !! The cheek !, she has brought a particularly nice granny stripe blanket with her though, so maybe we will let her stay ?...

Moving on .....

I also used the sage green for the main bedroom ( top) and the playroom (right of the stairs), the kitchen has also been painted with the same blue as the stairs.

In the bathroom (top left) and the girls room (top right) I went for a pale peach colour, all very pretty pastely, Yes ?,  just you wait and see.......

With the inside ready for the next stage, I have been thinking about the intrior furnishings, I have a pile of furniture that I intend to upcycle into something lovely, and I have been busy sorting art work for the walls....

Do you see my itsy bitsy bunting at the top right of the above picture ?

Next time the wallpaper goes up ....

DOLLS HOUSE DO UP #1

I am not going to mention the ridiculous amount of time since I blogged with any sort of regularity ! I had such good intentions back in the New Year, but basically I have not felt that I had a lot to say.....

Anyway moving on ! Last Summer, or there abouts a friend asked if I would like a dolls house for #3 and #4  our two youngest girls, (she had been given it by a member of her family, her girls are both in their teens and were not interested in it, and she was too busy running her business to spend any time on it ), "Would I ever !", I said, so she popped it on a sack barrow and trundled it round to us in the next door street where we live.

I had intended to restore the dolls house as a Christmas present, but at the busiest time of the my year and craft fairs every weekend from October through December, it was not going to happen.

I looked at it again in the New Year, but was really quite unsure of how to decorate it, a lot of the doll's houses I saw on line on the specialist dolls house sites, were a little (dare I say it) twee, for my liking..

THEN, I spotted THIS...

on the Mollie Makes website, I was totally smitten and knew instantly just what I had to do....

This totally fantastic dolls house is the work of Max at Blackbird Has Spoken.

My house was a little worse for ware, peeling wallpaper, old carpets etc,

But after a lot of  filling, sanding and undercoating it started to show its true potential.

Its quite big really, six rooms plus stairs and landing...

Once it had been given its white base coat I stated thinking about the exterior walls. "Do I go with a 'brick' paper ?, and if so which type ?."  I think the house looks slightly Georgian in style, so decided against brick and plumped for paint instead, I thought I nice heritage colour would look good, and when searching through all the odd pots of paint in the garage, I came across a sagey green that we had used in our kitchen, perfect...

So with the outside decided upon I moved onto the roof, I went for a paper this time, a grey slate effect one, you can actually get strips of tiny wooden slates, but that looked altogether too fiddly, having said that papering the roof was not the easiest of jobs...

Argh ! torn it !, luckily this will be hidden...

Eventually managed to paper around those attic windows and chimney pot..

But should have bought more than one piece of roofing paper, not enough left to paper the roof ends !

That's all I am going to show you for now, have to show this in stages I think, interior decor next,,,