Greenleaf Willowcrest finished bathroom
Greenleaf Willowcrest renovation bathroom before and after
Greenleaf Willowcrest finished kitchen
Hello friends! Guess what? I finally finished the Willowcrest dollhouse I have been building. I have been doing a happy dance for a couple of days now. The last time I posted I promised to share the inside of the dollhouse. I am doing that today as well as sharing the newly completed landscaping. Below is a photo of the entire house interior. There are six rooms, an entryway, and a second floor landing. Unlike my last dollhouse, this one actually has stairs! I did not leave them out. Ha. I did, however, rearrange the floor plan. As I said, above is my version of the dollhouse interior. Below is a Pinterest photo of how the dollhouse was designed to look. (Note: Not my photograph) As you can see, I took several redesign liberties with the interior. Beginning with the first floor, I removed the wall dividing the original kitchen from the entryway. My thoughts were WHY put so much effort into the winding stairway and entry if it cannot be seen. I also removed the door between the kitchen and living room. The middle wall on the bottom is designed to have an angled wall beyond the door. I hated that angled wall. Not only did it make no sense, it was designed to have a fireplace on the backside, which really is not visible. So I not only removed the door, I built a completely new STRAIGHT-ish wall to divide the kitchen and living room. In my new design it made no sense to have the entryway lead into the kitchen so I switched the living and kitchen areas, and built a partial wall to add a dining room behind the kitchen. Come in and check it out. More of my living room and entryway. The open stairway. My blue and yellow kitchen and the pink dining room beyond. In the photo below the stove, oven hood, and shelf are on the newly built almost straight wall. You can also see the divider wall I added to create the dining room. The photograph below was taken from outside looking through the kitchen bay window. The dining room. All of the first floor windows feature decorative toppers on the molding. I made the decorative elements myself using clay and molds. A view of the dining room arched opening leading to the entryway. I made structural changes on the second floor as well. If you look at the photo of the house as designed (second floor image below) you will see a large visual impairment near the middle-left side of the second floor. I did not like that little wall at all. I felt like it closed the view of the house. By removing the little wall I took out the linen closet and the stairs to the third floor. I almost rebuilt the stairs, using a square design similar to the first floor, limiting them to the left front corner. Instead, I omitted the stairs. Above is my version of the master bedroom. The cranberry micro print wallpaper coordinates with the cherub mural on the ceiling. By deleting the stairs and the linen closet, my bathroom is larger than originally designed. I like it much better. I had to build a new wall to divide the bathroom from the landing. I moved the bathroom door further to the right to create more usable space on the bathroom wall. Above - a view though the bedroom window to the second floor landing. Below is the third floor of the house as originally designed. Again, I did not like it. I hated the chimney running up the middle of the room, eating up floor space, as well as the stairs opening and railings being in a awkward place. It left very little usable space in that large area. Not only did I ditch the chimney and stairs, I made three additions. I added three window seats. The third floor windows each had a small alcove, again that I thought of as wasted space. By building window seats the areas became more useful. My version of the third floor. At first I visualized this as the billiards room. And while that is still possible, it will be a decision made by the eventual owner. I did, after all, build this house to sell. My version of the room leaves a large open space that can have many uses. I am sure that as you looked at the rooms you noticed the ceilings. Each of the ceilings in the house is embellished on some way. I like the interest this adds to the interiors. I hope you liked the interior tour, including the descriptions of the changes I made to the house. Now let's move on to the landscaping. I mounted the house on a 19" x 23.5" board. I painted the board gray to match the house trim. Once the house was positioned, I added grass around the front foundation to create a small lawn. I also added a flowerbed to the front foundation. The right side of the house has ivy growing up the bay area. Each front windows has flowers, as does the balcony. I added two planters to the front porch and affixed flower arrangements in them. A small cart rests at the end of the porch. I added a few battery operated light fixtures to the house. The carriage lanterns flanking the front doors match the style of the house. The lights, like all but one on the inside, attach to the house via magnets. In the living room the sconces attach to magnets behind the wallpaper. The magnets were affixed to the walls and ceilings, making the lights removable for moving the house. Thanks for checking out my Willowcrest Estate dollhouse. If it does not sell before, I will be offering it for sale the first week of December at a Christmas craft show. I hope to have four houses and many Christmas miniatures to offer. Before you ask, yes, I do already have my next house planned. It will have a completely different look than anything I have done before. More on this later...
Today, I wanted to share the first dollhouse that I built. Mom and Dad got me the Willowcrest kit for Christmas when I was 14, which was way back in 1992. Mom helped me get it started. We really didn't have any idea what we were doing. We opened the box, wrote piece names on everything, punched out the pieces, and tried to follow the directions. It was a valuable learning experience. Here are some shots from Christmas 1992 through January 1993. We began the shell build. Mistake #1 We used hot glue at first. It was lumpy so I had to shave down the lumps with a utility knife. Then we used tacky glue for the rest. Mistake #2 We didn't sand everything like crazy or make sure that things fit together so they were square. Mistake #3 We assembled the shell and then realized we had to put up wallpaper. It has really awkward spaces that we couldn't reach at that point. However, it wasn't the end of the world. We figured things out. To make the best of the awkward staircase, I simply finished off the wood with polyurethane. I tried a funky paper flooring to look more contemporary than antique. Mom also showed me a fun wallpaper technique using torn up brown paper bags decoupaged right onto the walls that simulate leather. I also used a metallic gold paint on the door and window trim in the entry and upper hall. After a while, Mom got busy doing mom stuff. I was always busy doing teenager stuff. Somehow I'd find a little time here and there to do things. It took a long time to make noticeable progress. There was a long span where the house was pretty much just sitting in my room with no siding. One day I saw a show on PBS, New Yankee Workshop, I think. Yes, I used to watch home improvement shows on PBS as a teen. I was weird. Moving on. That episode of New Yankee Workshop showed this amazing sunburst siding pattern on a shed. I loved it! So that got me fired up to get the siding on the house, just so I could make the sunburst. After I put the pre-made trim on the barrel roof, it covered up part of the sunburst. I decided if I ever do go back and redo the house in the future, that trim is gone. This picture is from about 1995 or 1996. After I moved out for college, I found time to really get actively into miniatures. I finished the house when I was 20. It took me 6 years, start to finish. The thing is, I didn't want to rush. I still made mistakes, but then other things turned out beautifully. This is the house today. It normally lives on top of the tall chest of drawers in my bedroom, unfurnished. I used walnut flooring in the living room and the attic. I also trimmed out the inside of the little attic windows with the walnut flooring. In the kitchen, I used paper flooring, then used real bricks with cement to make the stove wall and trim around the window and doors. The bathroom got preformed pink vinyl sheeting that looks like tile. This was the first room I wallpapered. I was very pleased that I managed to get the size right. I still added baseboard and corner trim to give it a bit more detail. The bedroom was pretty basic with the its floral wallpaper and cream carpeting. I did that because the furniture stands out nicely when the house is furnished. The front door used to open and close. Eventually, the hinges pulled out and messed up the trim. I couldn't get them to really work right after that. Now the door is pinned shut. The front steps also fell apart a few years ago. We moved and they were a casualty of the move. I still have the pieces so I can repair them. Various pieces of window trim have also fallen off, but I managed to get them repaired quickly. Someday, I will get the house down and put furniture in it again. I think when that time comes, I will make some curtains. The windows could use a little character.
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Back in April of 2022, I made up a storyline for my Glencroft renovations, which went something like this... "After due consideration, the Dowager has decided to vacate her spacious Manor; and transfer the house and all its holdings, over to her son and his family. Prior to the Dowager's downsizing and permanent relocation, a vacant cottage within the ancestral property, was lightly renovated to suit the dowager's practical and aesthetic requirements. A number of sentimental favorites comprised of both personal memorabilia and antique furniture, were carefully transferred from the manor and over to her new home. Such items as her handsome Chippendale secretary and ancient tall case clock, shared the cottage space with a worn out leather sofa and a castaway wobbly tea table." SO- as you all know, the Living Room of the dowagers cottage, was the first room I tackled. I deliberately mixed old furniture with new, high end with low end and at the time, I liked the results! Shortly thereafter, I completed the second room in the Glencroft. The English cottage bedroom renos, became an Edwardian Explorer renovation, published as -"Midnight at the Oasis. 🌴🐫 The 3rd renovated room that I tackled, was its former cottage kitchen which became the dowager's Garden/dining room.🌷 The design of the Garden/dining Room was bold, contemporary and dramatic, which in conjunction with the Edwardian bedroom above, made the adjacent living room look kinda dowdy by comparison. By referring back again to my original storyline, some of the dowager's eccentric furniture choices, didn't ring true to me anymore especially "the worn out old leather sofa". Why would a woman with both resources and property, choose the WORST sofa she owned or decide to salvage a roadside tea table, simply for the sake of downsizing? This incongruity bugged me into a state of mind-numbing inertia. After Christmas, I could do nothing more with The Dower House except sit and stare at it. 😳 By mid-spring, I finally felt like working on the doll's house again, but since I still didn't know what to do about the sofa, I focused almost exclusively on the dowager's "previously completed" Bedroom. I made a few specific purchases to further emphasise its Edwardian Explorer theme and found that the more I tweaked it, the better I liked it! in my next blog installment I'll post an update Anyway, from the exaggerated theme in the bedroom, came the change in direction for the living room. The challenge I'd set for myself was to visually connect both the Edwardian and Contemporary themes without losing sight of my original story. Naturally, one thing led to another, which eventually became a total Living room - DO-OVER- it's the same- but different! The first thing changed were The solid pink WALLS To break them up I painted in a"faux"lower panel and added a chair rail. For the illusion of painted woodwork- I infilled the space between the new chair rail and baseboards, with 2 coats of white chalk paint applied directly over the vinyl coated wallpaper. Once dry, I lightly sanded the surface, followed by several top coats of white acrylic paint to complete the effect. Dividing the wall(s) into upper and lower sections made a HUGE difference in the formality of the room, not to mention continuity with the white wainscotting as in the bedroom above. As mentioned earlier, the "Edwardian Explorer" took on a more significant decor role in the living room, and reminded me of one of my favourite books- OUT OF AFRICA Thus, my dowager would have the same independent creative spirit as the real Karen Blixen along with a tiny copy of Karen's book, too! The dowager's next decor adventure was replacing the old draperies with NEW CURTAINS I photocopied an over-scaled magazine print of an exotic Persian rug, onto cotton sheets of Inkjet Fabric purchased on Amazon. Below-the old curtains↓ behold the new ↓ I backed each of the printed panels with a plain lightweight muslin fabric to bulk them up, then I added the fringe along the inside edge and brass curtain rings along the top, same as before. The pattern is subtle whilst the colour is rich: a pretty contrast against the pink and white walls. ❤️ THE LIGHTING The photo above is a silhouette of a new table lamp. I purchased this lamp from a vendor on Ebay https://www.ebay.com/usr/t.venneman The lamp is 3D printed; hand painted; and prewired with a 12 volt bulb. I covered the shade with the same rust/green Thai silk as on the chairs in the Garden/Dining room, I trimmed the top and bottom edges of the shade in old gold bullion trim that either Linda or Janine had previously given me. 4 brass ball feet were glued to the flat bottomed base and VOILA! A PRETTY NEW LAMP! 👍🏾👍🏾 Things were chugging along just fine by now, however, shortly after I'd installed the new table lamp above, a wire on the brass table lamp next to the grandfather clock, snapped off at its base. Since it was irreparable, I ordered another lamp from the same ebay vendor. The new lamp (the 3 graces) is taller than my first one. I customized it for the room, by changing the shade it came with, to one I already had. I covered the shade in the same iridescent Thai silk so it would match the other. I made a fringe by fraying a length of green grosgrain ribbon- and this is the end results!↓ The 2 lamp DO-OVERS DONE!✓ THE CHANDELIER In the very early days of the cottage renovations I had wanted to use this dainty brass fixture, but I'd changed my mind because only 2 of the bulbs worked and none were replaceable. Much Later on, I toyed with the idea again, and decided that it was far too pretty to entirely forfeit. So I cut the wires off and removed all of the chain in order to hang the fixture as high as I could. And although it doesn't light at all- it sure looks like it could! THE SECRETARY WALL Over the years, I've collected some lovely pieces of miniature fine china which continues to be a never ending passion of mine. I wanted to showcase more of it here on the wall, and include a few new photos to the mix. A few months back I found a pair of vintage, solid brass earrings at my local thrift store which became 2 rectangular picture frames for the living room wall. I wonder if either of these 2 dapper fellows are Denys Finch Hatton or Berkeley Cole? 🧐 Along with the Stokesay Ware china on the wall, I mounted a SMALL half round wooden shelf under the trumeau mirror, as a place for the dowager's keys. I staggered then glued 2 half circles together to make the shelf top, along with a pie shaped quarter round to act as a shelf support, all of which was stained using a dark brown felt-tipped furniture touch-up pen. I dressed the shelf with a metal tray and a tiny fob with car keys- and TA DAH! Bob's your uncle! UMBRELLA STAND A collection of umbrellas and walking sticks are to the right of the secretary directly beneath the English trumeau mirror. I bought the "Mary Poppins" parrot handled umbrella on Ebay because I LOVE birds and so does the Dowager! The olive green umbrella in the foreground below is by Fatima of Beauxminis The rest of the canes and walking sticks I either already had &/or made from scratch. ON THE DESKTOP A jumble of papers, ink, fountain pen, figurines, Royal mail and a leather journal chronicling the Dowager's daily activities; litter its surface. I used a couple of drops of UV resin, for the magnifying glass which actually magnifies. It sits on top of an open Book of Curiosities by Little Things of Interest love her store! A tiny owl clock (a repurposed novelty earring) is perched contentedly amid the dowagers collection of assorted writing materials which includes a gold fountain pen: a direct reference taken from the movie Out of Africa I was definitely enjoying the jumble of academic paraphernalia crowding the secretary desktop; and yet it still felt incomplete to me. I'd always wanted a task lamp on it so after some minor reshuffling I was actually able to squeeze one in. "LET THERE BE LIGHT! and there was light" ☺️ THE BAMBOO SIDE TABLE For continuity with the dowager's Arts and Craft bed, I purchased a matching bamboo side table for her Living Room. It's big enough to hold a Huge Plant, yet small enough to walk past without her bumping into it. Bamboo furniture made by ANTHONY DUNHAM MINIATURES Whilst rifling through my stash of long-forgotten accessories, I stumbled upon a carved wooden rhinoceros - WHO HOO!!! It fits in perfectly with my Out of Africa/ Edwardian Adventurer 🦏🌴🦏🌴 theme! 🌴🦏🌴🦏 The carved wood green ball in the photo above is a textured wooden bead. I liked the size and colour of it so it stayed on the table until... I replaced it with a "carved lidded pot" This was made by stacking 3 buttons one on top of the other: its base is a leather shank button its lid is a brass button and a smaller wood button serves as a knob. On the lower shelf of the table are stack of books on birds. And 2 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINES also made by Little Things Of Interest The magazines are stored inside a large carved wooden bowl (a very large and unusual button) that sits on the floor underneath the table. A really FUN detail! fyi These Nat.Geo. magazines are actually readable! THE FERN IN THE URN was contrived from a package of Michael's fern stems found in the "stickers & embellishments"asile. These scrapbooking fronds are actually too big for 12th scale, so I snipped off the greenery from their widest end, down to a more reasonable length. I painted both sides of the paper fronds with a water based green enamel followed by a thin brown chalk and water wash. I filled the urn with a blob of Museum Wax; stuck the wire ends into it; and called it- DONE! I also made the tall fretwork wastebasket from the cut sections of a sandalwood fan. I painted the wastebasket with black and red acrylic paints then randomly applied gold felt pen highlights over the red. Clear UV resin was carefully painted around each of the tiny cut-outs for a high shine, strength and durability. Lastly, I tossed several crumpled pieces of mini junk mail into it and called it a day! THE ART NOUVEAU CHAIR is a MINIATURES by Vio Etsy kit. I upholstered this chair in a "leather look" fabric which I'd stained with a dark brown felt pen, then sealed with a liquid floor wax. I've purchased several furniture kits from this vendor and I highly recommend them! To warm up the dowager's "senior shoulders", a native hand-woven wrap drapes gracefully over the arm of her chair. OTHER SIGNIFICANT UPGRADES are THE DOWAGER'S 4 NEW PUPS I hated saying goodbye to Churchill and Jenny the dowager's 2 previous dogs, but once she saw these 4 snoozing cuties on Ebay, madame insisted on adopting them all! These are in fact CORGI FRIDGE MAGNETS and from nose to tail they are 2 inches long with a 1 inch body width. They're the perfect scale for this small cottage however I must confess that it's their cute sleeping positions which are the main attraction for me and for milady dowager! 😄 Janine ( Minworks) told me that corgis are notorious for getting underfoot, and as you can see they are all huddled together like a lumpy scatter rug. When madame finally returns to the room, she'll have to tiptoe her way through the huddle as well as reclaim her precious petit-point slippers made by Linda Park. ❤️ Naughty Naughty Puppies! THE PERSIAN RUG is from the Etsy vendor STARBOC2 . It's always a gamble when you're trying to match colours online but I think that this rug works really well with the new drapes. I purchased it in 1/6th scale for the extra length and it fits PERFECTLY HIP HIP HOORAY! The rug is printed onto very thin canvas which I've glued onto a thicker piece of fabric for visual weight and underpadding. so what do you think? And now for "THE CONVERSATION PIECE" Using dried grape stems as an amature and the assorted birds, beads and nail gemstones, a whimsical "singing tree" sculpture was contrived. It's displayed inside a vintage iron (candle cup) urn and next to the dowager's front door. It's a OOAK Birthday GIFT from the dowager's daughter- The Artist of the family! She also made the quirky metal leaf sculpture (commissioned by her brother) for the wall in their mother's Garden/Dining room. I deliberately tried to make this piece look quirky and outrageous which of course, has all the dowagers friends gossiping about it over their tea. "But My Dear have you seen it!????" 🧐😱😳🤩😀 BEFORE the tree installation↓ And AFTER↓ I REALLY LIKE BIRDS! 🦅 The following photos are a few NEW ITEMS OF INTEREST This green vining plant was made using assorted hearts punched out of a painted metal coffee can freshness seal. It sits in the Living room window recess on a stack of old books behind a table, where nobody can see it! 😄 This vintage Paula Gilhooley miniature Orchid was purchased AS Is. It has definitely seen better days. Even so, I love the cloud effect of its tiny yellow blossoms! The Parrot Pot The Parrot Pot is the bird from the 2022 Christmas mantle garland showcased in my previous Post. I wanted to keep it in the Living Room so I glued it onto the thumbtack lid of my glass bead-jar. I decorated the lid with floral nail art and applied several thin coats of Testors clear parts cement & window maker over the parrot and the lid to imitate the look of porcelain. I Love this Parrot Pot! THE TEA in the teacup is removable. It's made of 2 coloured and punched acetate rounds stacked on top of each other inside the cup. This method maintains the integrity of the china whilst providing the illusion of a hot Cuppa Tea minus any spillage ☕️ The Next Phase of this Living Room Upgrade involved swapping out THE FORMAL WING CHAIR This was NOT part of the original plan but ONE THING USUALLY LEADS TO ANOTHER The soft furnishings in Karen Blixen's African Farmhouse were chintz covered and informal, so I decided to replace the upright Wing Chair with a more relaxed upholstered armchair. This chair was solid light yellow when I bought it, which didn't work with the drapes. so I painted it with assorted felt pens and random daubs of red ink a la BLOOMSBURY GROUP I added 4 brass casters to the legs and fringe around the base of the chair to match the fringe around the sofa. The doily on the back of the chair was cut from a piece of nylon lace. This new to old DO OVER reads more artsy and less formal than the its rigid predecessor therefore, more in keeping with its general theme. I've paired the chair with a resin ottoman: a discontinued sale item found at Michael's; originally covered in a dusty pink flocking. Using assorted green felt pens, I painted right on top of the pink flocking, and it worked like a charm! I trimmed the top and bottom circumference of the poof with 2 narrow bands of felt-painted picot trim then I glued 4 bead feet onto its base. THE FIREPLACE MANTLE The original mirror was replaced with a vintage portrait of a family flapper. Then an assortment of unrelated accessories have been carefully rearranged on either side of it. I tried several times to get a better photo of the portrait in situ but this was the best I could manage .... The china dog and a peacock blue and gold vase were both recent gifts from Fatima. I filled the vase with tall, iridescent feathers harvested from a ebay brooch pin. THE TEA TABLE has been changed so many times I've lost count! As of mid-July 2023 this is what it looks like. The Sovereign Blue luncheon plates, cups and saucers are by Stokesay Ware The bone handled Mike Sparrow butter knife is coupled with a mismatched sterling silver fork. A Pete Acquisto silver cake server is tucked under a slice of my own Studio E pound cake spilling over with mixed summer berries. I can't remember where or when I purchased the steele & china cake plate but how lucky for me that the shape of the handle echos the shapes of the mismatched tea service! A stroke of serendipity if ever there was one! ❤️ THE SILVER TEA SERVICE includes my FAVOURITE SILVER TEAPOT (signed by an unknown Artisan) and a Cream and Sugar bowl with tongs by U.K. Artisan GORDON BLACKLOCK. The round silver serving tray is by Ken Chellis U.S.A. The Exquisite fully lined petit point tea cosy, is by the Incomparable LINDA PARK fyi I'll be selling an exclusive selection of Linda's AMAZING Needlework Creations including her slippers, cushions, and teacosys at the 2023 VANCOUVER DOLLHOUSE AND MINIATURE SHOW this September I"M SO EXCITED! On the table is a single lace napkin in a sterling silver napkin ring. The other 3 napkins and rings are stored in the GARDEN ROOM's corner cupboard drawer. I mention this here to remind myself LATER when I'm tearing my Studio apart looking for them! 😜 The floral tablecloth started life as a thrift-store rayon scarf. It's very thin and was quite easy to wet, shape and drape. and now for THE SOFAI stripped off the old "ratty leather" using its original upholstery as my templates. I'd found a crumpled length of Steel Blue and Sage Green VELVET buried deep inside my fabrics stash drawer: a sleeve remnant from a thrift store jacket. To get an artsy "Bloomsbury Group" look I covered the sofa's front and back in the steel-blue velvet and used the sage green velvet for the rolled arms and bench seat. To give the sofa a bit of slouch I filled the seat cushion with glass beads. By following the existing pattern from the old template, I tufted the arms and back with iridescent blue-black seed beads/buttons. Unfortunately, my tufting efforts turned out MEH!👎🏽 I failed to get enough tension so the beads still look like- Beads! 😤 Oh Well-Never mind! Thankfully most of the "tufting" is hidden by the cushions👀 🙈🙉🙈 I stitched together 2 new carpet print sofa cushions to counterbalance the colour weight of the carpet print window curtains. You can't really see the cushions unless you are looking in from the cottage front door. To save you the effort of stepping outside, I've turned the sofa around. Janine (Minworks ) had given me a long length of fringed selvage in blues, browns and golds. which was CAREFULLY fitted around the base of the sofa. And it was either Linda or Janine who'd given me a bag of old-gold metallic cording which I glued end to end, along the top edge of the fringe. As you can see, the dowager's rescue kitten takes great pleasure in shredding it! The help comes in twice a week to "DO" for the dowager. She's just finished hoovering the living room carpet and will be back in a trice for the dusting and tidy up. Until she returns, here's another quick tour around the living room. so in conclusion- it's gone from THIS↓ To THIS↓ the Same but Different! Thanks so much to everyone for stopping by. I do hope you've enjoyed your visit and please come again! THE END 🇬🇧\🌴/🇬🇧 blessings- elizabeth As a reminder: I'm still having problems with the comment section. If you try to leave one before the sidebar finally appears, or before the whirly-thing in the tab stops twirling, then your comment won't register. This can take up to 60 seconds before the program stops loading and finally kicks in- Talk about frustrating!😩 oh well,... it IS what it is. 🤪
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As Director of Interiors at Christopher Architects and Interiors, Joanna Goodman is thoughtful, collaborative and client-focused as she creates her gorgeous spaces.
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Hello friends! Guess what? I finally finished the Willowcrest dollhouse I have been building. I have been doing a happy dance for a couple of days now. The last time I posted I promised to share the inside of the dollhouse. I am doing that today as well as sharing the newly completed landscaping. Below is a photo of the entire house interior. There are six rooms, an entryway, and a second floor landing. Unlike my last dollhouse, this one actually has stairs! I did not leave them out. Ha. I did, however, rearrange the floor plan. As I said, above is my version of the dollhouse interior. Below is a Pinterest photo of how the dollhouse was designed to look. (Note: Not my photograph) As you can see, I took several redesign liberties with the interior. Beginning with the first floor, I removed the wall dividing the original kitchen from the entryway. My thoughts were WHY put so much effort into the winding stairway and entry if it cannot be seen. I also removed the door between the kitchen and living room. The middle wall on the bottom is designed to have an angled wall beyond the door. I hated that angled wall. Not only did it make no sense, it was designed to have a fireplace on the backside, which really is not visible. So I not only removed the door, I built a completely new STRAIGHT-ish wall to divide the kitchen and living room. In my new design it made no sense to have the entryway lead into the kitchen so I switched the living and kitchen areas, and built a partial wall to add a dining room behind the kitchen. Come in and check it out. More of my living room and entryway. The open stairway. My blue and yellow kitchen and the pink dining room beyond. In the photo below the stove, oven hood, and shelf are on the newly built almost straight wall. You can also see the divider wall I added to create the dining room. The photograph below was taken from outside looking through the kitchen bay window. The dining room. All of the first floor windows feature decorative toppers on the molding. I made the decorative elements myself using clay and molds. A view of the dining room arched opening leading to the entryway. I made structural changes on the second floor as well. If you look at the photo of the house as designed (second floor image below) you will see a large visual impairment near the middle-left side of the second floor. I did not like that little wall at all. I felt like it closed the view of the house. By removing the little wall I took out the linen closet and the stairs to the third floor. I almost rebuilt the stairs, using a square design similar to the first floor, limiting them to the left front corner. Instead, I omitted the stairs. Above is my version of the master bedroom. The cranberry micro print wallpaper coordinates with the cherub mural on the ceiling. By deleting the stairs and the linen closet, my bathroom is larger than originally designed. I like it much better. I had to build a new wall to divide the bathroom from the landing. I moved the bathroom door further to the right to create more usable space on the bathroom wall. Above - a view though the bedroom window to the second floor landing. Below is the third floor of the house as originally designed. Again, I did not like it. I hated the chimney running up the middle of the room, eating up floor space, as well as the stairs opening and railings being in a awkward place. It left very little usable space in that large area. Not only did I ditch the chimney and stairs, I made three additions. I added three window seats. The third floor windows each had a small alcove, again that I thought of as wasted space. By building window seats the areas became more useful. My version of the third floor. At first I visualized this as the billiards room. And while that is still possible, it will be a decision made by the eventual owner. I did, after all, build this house to sell. My version of the room leaves a large open space that can have many uses. I am sure that as you looked at the rooms you noticed the ceilings. Each of the ceilings in the house is embellished on some way. I like the interest this adds to the interiors. I hope you liked the interior tour, including the descriptions of the changes I made to the house. Now let's move on to the landscaping. I mounted the house on a 19" x 23.5" board. I painted the board gray to match the house trim. Once the house was positioned, I added grass around the front foundation to create a small lawn. I also added a flowerbed to the front foundation. The right side of the house has ivy growing up the bay area. Each front windows has flowers, as does the balcony. I added two planters to the front porch and affixed flower arrangements in them. A small cart rests at the end of the porch. I added a few battery operated light fixtures to the house. The carriage lanterns flanking the front doors match the style of the house. The lights, like all but one on the inside, attach to the house via magnets. In the living room the sconces attach to magnets behind the wallpaper. The magnets were affixed to the walls and ceilings, making the lights removable for moving the house. Thanks for checking out my Willowcrest Estate dollhouse. If it does not sell before, I will be offering it for sale the first week of December at a Christmas craft show. I hope to have four houses and many Christmas miniatures to offer. Before you ask, yes, I do already have my next house planned. It will have a completely different look than anything I have done before. More on this later...
