Showing posts with label cardboard dollhouses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cardboard dollhouses. Show all posts

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Undersized Urbanite 2013: My Entry... Polly House

Whew...finally finished and with only two and a half hours left till deadline.

I started this house a couple of  years ago and thought I would never get it done, I want to thank Christina for having this contest, it gave me the push to finish it finally. I hope you enjoy the pictures and the video below. Please vote for my dollho...I mean my niece's dollhouse... :)



Look there's Polly arriving at her new home.


The house is split in half so it has a lid...
everything on second floor is glued down.


The house is made with cardboard and paper mache.
The roof is blocks of styrofoam, they are the second floor's legs.


Let go inside...

The Kitchen


The fridge is kids building blogs, I painted black and silver and added a handel (old earring). 
The Island is made with cardboard and paper mache. The faucet is a picture hook, the
hot and cold water taps are earring backings. The vase is a bead. The
stove is styrofoam and paper mache. The cupboard, I know I know, I didn't
cut it to straight or hand it straight, and I ran out of material, the black is
from a plastic basket. The back countertops are covered with
shelf paper.




The Dining Room


The dining table and chairs are cardboard and paper mache. 
The wall on the top right had side of picture is a stone wall, 
made with pepples and painted white.






The Living Room


The sofa is made with cardboard and leather from an old purse.
The chair is made with cardboard and paper mache.
The coffee table and table under tv is made with pieces of wood
I bought from garage sale and wooden beads for legs.



The shelves are also made with pieces of wood blocks and 
beads, I painted them black and silver.

The Office


The office furniture was the first pieces I made for the house,
the sofa is a miniature replica of George Nelson's Marshmallow sofa.
The desk made with skewers and wooden sticks. The Chair with
cardboard and not real leather .




Storage


There is lots of storage under the stairs and rooms have
closets for storage as well.



The Second Floor

When the two piece's are together the entryway for the second floor
lines up with the stairs.



Let's see whats upstairs...

The Master Bedroom


The base of the bed is made with cardboard and paper mache.
The headboard is a piece of cardboard and I glued some coffee stir
sticks and piece of wood and made a pattern.
The dresser is a kids building block and I added some handles. 


The night table is a piece of wood on top of some legos.
The lamp is made with a nail, beads and ribbon.



The little bench is made with some wood pieces from a dinner placemat.
The legs are wooden beads.


The mattress is a piece of sponge covered with fabric.
The wallpaper is from a gift bag.

The Teenagers Room


The bed base is made with cardboard and paper mache.
The headboard is made with coffee stir sticks. The shelves are also made
with coffee stir stick. The dresser is made with building blocks. The
desk chair is a wooden dresser handle.



The lamp is made with three different beads.
The desk is made with cardboard and coffee stir sticks.

The Little Girls Room




The Baby's Room


The chair is styrofoam and paper mache, the seat cushion
is a piece of cardboard covered with jeans materials.
Yes those are buttons on the wall.


The crib I think is my favourite piece.
I made it with cardboard, paper mache and skewers.


The dresser was made quickly using big craft sticks.


The Bathroom

 

The vanity is made with pieces of wood. The sink is a
bottle water lid painted white. The toilet is a big wooden bead
and a thing a majing... I don't remember where I got the toilet lid
piece from. The tub was made when the house was made...its
stuck to the house. 






Well that's it...the house I started making for my niece
is finally finished...I hope you have all enjoyed the pictures
and that you will give us one of your votes.

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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Only 3 Days Left Dollhouse Contest Deadline

Only 3 days and 19 hours left before deadline...should I panic.
I keep adding items to the to do list, like painting the whole house.
I started this house a couple of years ago so the walls definitely
needed another coat. Don't have much time left so I have to remove
some items off the to do list like the closet doors, I'm going to 
have to do something temporary, maybe magnets...or
if I have to, I'll glue them to closet then work on it another day.
I would like to show the closet space and that
the doors will slide open...:( but no time now.



I also had to build more furniture.


Ok, what the hec am I doing here now, I should be working on it...
or going to bed, too many late night this week working on the house, 
but I want to finish the paper mache on these chairs because they have to dry
before I paint them tomorrow night....yikes only 2 more 
nights left to go...ok got to go, wish me luck.








Monday, April 29, 2013

Only 6 days until deadline...yikes!

Uh oh, only 6 days until the dollhouse contest deadline...I'm starting to panic. I did make some progress this weekend but not enough I think. I am still kicking myself for leaving this for the last minute. Below are pictures of what the rooms look like now, I have dressed them up a bit but still not sure how to finish them off. I pulled all my supplies from my shelf and laid it in front of me to figure out what to do.


I got a lot of these items from garage sales, the building blocks in the tray has be my
my favourite find...I made a lot of doll stuff using the blocks and now my supply is running low.


The kitchen is still not done, but at least I figured out what to do about
the fridge, I got a few building blocks and it works perfectly...whew, I thought
I was going to have to make something scratch. I'm think black cabinets, I have
a black plastic basket that is broken and I thought these would be
perfect for cabinets...I just hope its easy to cut and won't crack. I want to magnetize the
back so the cabinets can open, using the black plastic will hide the magnet.


I made shelves, table under tv, tv used to be the coffee table
but I wasn't happy with it, it was too dark with the couch, so I made another one
and I love it. I think there is too much birch-like furniture so I'm thinking
of painting shelves black with silver feet.  I definitely need an area rug too.


My favourite piece this weekend has to be the baby crib...it's still not finished, I have
to paper mache the bottom, paint it, then add some feet to it.


The bathroom...mmm...have no idea what to do with it...
not sure if I should paint the vanity...but then there will be too much white...
should I add wallpaper, I don't have anything right now that will look 
good in there...not sure what colour to paint it...urgh, oh yah and
I still need to make a toilet....lots of late nights this week.


All the furniture for the bedrooms is built, I just have to paint it, except the beds, 
I need to paper mache the bottoms. 


I love how the headboard turned out.

I would love to have curtains too but not sure if I'll have time.

Please tell me what you think so far.