Glue and Stain!

Today we glued our wallpaper on (most of it, anyway), and stained our floors and attic.


We used basic rubber cement that we knew would stick paper to wood without wrinkling. It's an acid-free adhesive, so our dollhouse will last longer. Here is a completed wall.


We picked up a light stain for the hardwood floors and staircase. You can find the glue and stain at any local craft store.



We made sure to paint in the direction of the grain.


We plan on picking up a sealant to give our floors a shiny top-coat.

We got excited and propped up our walls just to see how things would look...










<-- This red room will be the bedroom







<--Pretty floral room is the living space

Green leafy pattern makes the study -->







A bright yellow kitchen to complete the house-->

Next time, we'll start constructing the staircase, bay windows, and porch...we think.

Wallpaper Day!

So...it was advised that we apply all of our wallpaper and flooring before gluing our house together. We went to Michael's, and, like a happy couple, picked out the most complementary color palette we could find.

The first step was to locate our walls. Looking through our dollhouse kit, we visualized the best we could--at this point, the whole concept of a dollhouse is still a bit abstract and it took some imagination to see how our wallpaper should face. Next, we punched out our walls (front to back), carefully removed the "Discard" pieces, and sanded all of the edges. We used an X-Acto knife to remove some pieces when they proved stubborn:

Next, we traced our walls onto the wallpaper.


Here is an example of a finished cut-out against the wall it will one day paper.


We made sure to carefully cut around the slots that connected the two floors.


Since our house is two stories and we picked different wallpapers for each room, some of our walls will have two papers covering them. The second-story floorboard will cover up the seam. Here are some walls pre-glued.


Next time -- floor staining and gluing the wallpaper!

On its way...

Yay! We got a confirmation email that our dollhouse has been shipped. We'll have it soon... =]

Miniature Art Books

Since we don't have a dollhouse yet, we began creating accessories we know our residents will need in their house. Miniature books! Here are some pictures of what we created--we'll post a tutorial next time we do it.




We also decided on our first two residents of Green Grove!

Mark is a humanities professor at the nearby University. He is 32 and has been teaching for four years.

His wife, Delilah, works at home writing a newspaper column of gardening tips. She is 29 and makes an excellent homegrown strawberry rhubarb pie.

They have been living in an apartment in the inner city trying to save money for a starter house. They are planning to move into their new home in Green Grove shortly.

We have started a separate blog for documenting the lives of our Green Grove residents. Mayor Habrigberry will be posting a short introduction and welcome to our blog readers within the next week. Stay tuned!!

Hello World!

We just bought a dollhouse! No, we're not stuffy 60 year old women, and this won't be a $500 colonial monstrosity with handmade artisan furniture or waxy, lifeless dolls perpetually baking their grandchildren hot buns.

We are two twenty-something young women that like art and crafts, and were looking for a creative project to collaborate on. This is out first stab at a dollhouse, but it's going to kick ass. We are going to make everything ourselves, and document the process--because we found there weren't any cool, progressive dollhouse sites.

This blog will contain photos of our progress, biographies and stories about the people that will be living in our houses, how-to guides about how to create your own dollhouse furniture & accessories, and probably some stuff about us too.

Here is our dollhouse, which we just ordered today from the magical dollhouse:<3 Molly & Erin