Decorating the Lounge

I used the free wallpaper samples again for this room on the flooring and one of the walls. I was slightly worried that the flower pattern for the wall would be too big as it was intended for an actual house however I carefully positioned it so the biggest flower would be cut out for the doorway and I think the result is very good. I pained the remaining walls a magnolia colour and installed a ceiling light left over from my previous dollhouse. The fireplace also contains a working red flickering light however is still to be installed. This room was smaller than the lounge in my previous house for a lot of the furniture, particularly the sofa, seem too big and so I will probably get a new one at some stage. Until then I decided to try some other options, such as a dressing room.

 

The Craft Room

(Bit of a poor quality photo)

I decided to start my interior decorating with a Craft Room in the Attic. I used the free wallpaper I got from the DIY stores last weekend for one of the sloping walls and for the flooring. The remaining walls are still to be painted a white/cream colour. I decorated the rest of the room with objects I had left over from my previous house, the sewing machine is my favourite!

Wallpapering

I have not yet managed to finish painting the outside and the windows of my house, a never ending task I fear, but I’m too excited by the possibilities of other aspects of my dollhouse so I’ll come back to those bits a bit later!

For my previous dollhouse I bought, or was bought as christmas and birthday gifts, ‘official’ dollhouse wallpaper however I found this to be quite limiting. Firstly, the patterns are printed simply onto paper, no textures are available unlike wallpapers for houses today. Secondly, the patterns offered are generally traditional or extremely modern, which I dont feel would work with the theme of my house. And finally, there’s the expense to consider.

Therefore this time I have decided to do things a little differently!

I have seen a lot of ideas which suggest the possibility of using free samples from DIY stores for flooring, roof tiles and other aspects of the dollhouse. The difficulty of these is often size discrepancies between textures and prints for an actual house compared to a miniature version. However if carefully selected, there are some smaller scale patterns and styles which would work without looking too overpowering.

So here it is, today’s successful free sample haul! Exciting!