I'm continuing the tour of my childhood dollhouse today. For my first post see here. This is the parents' bedroom. I didn't make too much in this room but I did make all the bedding for the canopy bed.
Again, I made a yoyo coverlet. Apparently I really liked how they looked and thought that they suited the time period of the house.
The mother has her sewing area set up in her bedroom. I remember making and staining this tiny little balsa wood box and filling it with cards of notions. I glued beads on cards for buttons and wrapped thread around cards for twine or ribbon.
The bathroom is in the upstairs hall, between the bedrooms. It's a little bit tiny and the furniture doesn't quite fit. That didn't stop me from putting in this bathroom set though. It was love at first sight. Look at that pull chain toilet!
In this room, I embroidered little flowers on some wide ribbon to serve as a rug. I also made cross stitch towels.
I should take this opportunity to tell you about the supposed time period of the house. When I was 11, I decided that I wanted to decorate the doll house from "the time period when people didn't have electricity but the people in the house would be wealthy, like the Olsen family in Little House on the Prairie, so that they could have some fancy things." The Little House on the Prairie books were, and still are, my favorites.
So adorable. I always wanted a doll house when I was growing up. We actually bought a kit for my daughter when she was little, but we never built it :-( Very sad, cause I probably would have played with it more then she would have.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting these. I am planning to do at least one dollhouse with my daughters. Now that you have posted these pictures, I am contemplating one for each of my daughters so they can keep them when they are grown.
ReplyDeleteMy dad bought and made me one when I was very young. He never finished but I still remember fondly playing with it. And the pull chain toilet. :)
I think my mom still has mine somewhere...
OMG I can't believe that mini sewing machine & form!!!!!
ReplyDeleteUhm, I was wondering if I could move in to your doll house? ;0)
ReplyDeleteLove your doll house!!!!! and I too was a huge Little house fan! I remember discovering Little House in the Big Woods and systematically reading and rereading the series.
ReplyDeleteLove the wallpaper....um....my dollhouse didn't have a bathroom....they are still holding it!;P
ReplyDeleteOh, but Nellie Olesen was such a pain in the ass! Man, I wanted to hack off her perfect ringlets, and then smack her for being so mean to Laura.
ReplyDeleteUhm, did I just type that in my outside voice?
Agreed, though, the pull chain toilet is the bees knees.
Lovely thanks for showing the second episode from Walnut Grove.
ReplyDeleteSo fun seeing your dollhouse! I had one my dad made me (and then remade after I sat in it) and my mom and I decorated. Hubs and I just got it on our last trip home and it took up most of the car... It was pretty funny.
ReplyDeleteHello! I'm glad I found your blog. And what a beautiful little dollhouse. I loved mine when I was younger, it brings back such fond memories!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, this is totally awesome!! My daughter still loves Little House too and now my granddaughters!
ReplyDeleteYou were good at decorating even as a child.hah.ah.a.aa.
Loving it all!! The sewing room corner is just grand. How do you find these tiny things?
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