The French Cottage Fairytale Custom Dollhouse is Complete!

The dollhouse is done! This started out as the Primrose kit. I just added some cozy touches!  And here are the pictures:

Rosemary revamped my "old"  front porch! Here's the before:

And after! She turned it into a shabby chic style.

The Old French Cottage Dollhouse

Here's an update on the progress.

I was going to go for a more shabby chic look. But the house decided it wanted to be French Country. So this is how it turned out inside!

French Style Dollhouse under Construction

I got the fireplace done this morning. I think it looks totally French!

 I also did all the plaster work on the inside walls. Those are probably going to have an aged finish. 

 I added beams in the attic.

Then I went shopping. I got these little sticks called Woodsies to make the attic's hard wood floor.

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hat's right, I'm laying them one by one! I loved doing the wood floor. It was fun!

Almost done....

 Done!

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Here's a close up. I want it very old and rustic. So far it has some cracks and holes.

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But it needs more. Tomorrow I'm scrapping them up!!

The hardest part is knowing what to do first! I don't want to make things harder by gluing things together and then finding out that I can't get to something. So far so good. Haven't made a huge boo boo yet!

French Cottage Dollhouse Begins

The dollhouse kit came this morning! I've cut out 2 dormer windows. The tape is there to make sure I don't do too much damage! 

 This is the front roof panel. It used to be a whole sheet.

 Here it is back on the house. (it's just "dry" assembled)

 This is the other window I've added. The one on top, for the attic.

 I cut out window frames for the dormers from the cut out of the window. I glued them on straight.

 I added sides to the dormers. And added  roofs.  The sides and roofs  are just  recycled cardboard shipping box pieces.  I flipped the door from the right to the left. I think I like it better there. That's also the side where the fireplace/chimney will go.
The kit is very easy. The pieces need very little sanding. There aren't too many pieces, so it's easy to assemble. It's a perfect way to start. Stay tuned!

A Dollhouse!

Here's what I've been up to lately: I've been asked several times if I could create dollhouses.I'm not getting in over my head. I'm starting small!

 

I'm probably going for a french cottage look.

Or maybe something like this one below:

I'll probably do a mix of these styles. You can't go wrong with a cottage! I want to make it a very romantic, shabby chic type. The kit is on its way and I'll keep you all posted on my progress!

OOPS!

I had totally forgotten the house numbers! And the support pieces on the column. When I looked at the pictures I thought: something's missing...

 

Bewitched Sitcom House Miniature Paper Model

I finally finished it ! This one took me a while! But I made it a priority and... VOILA!

The colors were tough to figure out. But after much research, I figured out that the bricks were much redder than the picture above. I checked out all sorts of blogs and found pictures of the house today, the sitcom set, and this picture above. With some creative license, I came up with this mini model.

The front porch has hand carved concrete bricks, 2 planters with hand dyed and cut leaves, porch light, a mailbox that opens and can hold mail, a metal hand made door knob on the door with cutouts and 2 sidelights.

This is the side view of the individual board siding. 

 The awnings are cardboard.

 Here's a good shot showing the texture of the roof.

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Alice in Wonderland House Miniature(Antony House)

Here's my latest! It's the house that was used in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. It's called Antony House in Cornwall.

 

This one is cardboard base entirely covered on all 4 sides with concrete. Each stone is hand carved and individually painted to achieve that old estate look.

I love the color ocre on the gray stone. It really added the character this old house needed.

 The roof is strips of individual shingles.

Back of house. 

 My version has 4 chimneys(instead of 8). They are hollow chimneys so you could stick cotton in to make it look like smoke.

 

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