Hello folks,
I had a nice 4 day weekend. (I took an extra day off after the holiday). I was very productive.
My husband, on his own birthday no less, took me to the dollhouse shop! It's about a 30 minute journey which doesn't sound long when I'm driving to work but somehow this seemed to take forever.
It's a great shop with lots of ridiculously overpriced beautiful things. Here's my haul:
A little lantern, ceiling medallions (wait, are they medallions if they are square?), moulding, velvet carpet, ceiling material, wood flooring, white plastic tile and little stickable paper tiles. And I spent like $100. Huh?
Anyway, I wasted no time! You guys remember the Versailles sitting room, right? Why on earth did I stick on the panels, THEN paint? I painted them white, then tried to do blue around it. Oh it was just a mess.
So I removed the panels and cleaned them up. I was just depressed at all the work, all the measuring, wasted:
So anyway I painted it all. Oh god, it looked terrible:
But then a few coats later... Eh, not so bad:
I'm not crazy about how the paneling looks, since all my little wood stirrers have warped, but it will have to do. (The painters' tape is holding down the warped edges):
But my projects did not end there!:
I put down the marble floor in Josephine's kitchen:
I put up the marble walls and floor in the Spanish house, which is no longer Spanish.
And I got my husband to spray paint the bed in the Spanish house with that "hammered" spray paint. Ignore my crooked windows. I sure do!
I managed to totally ignore the gypsy caravan, which I will post pictures of soon.
So next weekend is all about hardwood floors. Sigh!
I had a nice 4 day weekend. (I took an extra day off after the holiday). I was very productive.
My husband, on his own birthday no less, took me to the dollhouse shop! It's about a 30 minute journey which doesn't sound long when I'm driving to work but somehow this seemed to take forever.
It's a great shop with lots of ridiculously overpriced beautiful things. Here's my haul:
A little lantern, ceiling medallions (wait, are they medallions if they are square?), moulding, velvet carpet, ceiling material, wood flooring, white plastic tile and little stickable paper tiles. And I spent like $100. Huh?
Anyway, I wasted no time! You guys remember the Versailles sitting room, right? Why on earth did I stick on the panels, THEN paint? I painted them white, then tried to do blue around it. Oh it was just a mess.
So I removed the panels and cleaned them up. I was just depressed at all the work, all the measuring, wasted:
So anyway I painted it all. Oh god, it looked terrible:
But then a few coats later... Eh, not so bad:
I'm not crazy about how the paneling looks, since all my little wood stirrers have warped, but it will have to do. (The painters' tape is holding down the warped edges):
But my projects did not end there!:
I put down the marble floor in Josephine's kitchen:
I put up the marble walls and floor in the Spanish house, which is no longer Spanish.
And I got my husband to spray paint the bed in the Spanish house with that "hammered" spray paint. Ignore my crooked windows. I sure do!
I managed to totally ignore the gypsy caravan, which I will post pictures of soon.
So next weekend is all about hardwood floors. Sigh!
Isn't it crazy how quickly all those tiny pieces and up in $$ so quickly? LOL! I adore the blue, and the marble tile looks fab! I absolutely hate to spray paint-- wish I could get my boyfriend to do it for me! You're so productive, I can't stand it!
ReplyDeleteOh by the way my husband is only spray painting because I'm pregnant. I usually wear a surgical mask anyway but after my last paint job, even with the mask on, my nose hair was actually white. Yikes. Scared us straight.
ReplyDeleteI love your "sets". Very cool. Amazing furniture etc. Really talented and a totally obsessed collector. I love it!
ReplyDeleteThanks Duke! I needed that today!
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