How to Make a Doll Restaurant - The Furniture

The Furniture

The Chairs...
 I made the chairs our of cardboard and paper mache, but I didn't want to paper mache everything.

The Tables...
I made the patio tables with liqueur glasses I found at Value Village. I liked the stems, I thought they would be perfect for table legs.

And coasters for tabletops, see I'm not just about cardboard and paper mache. 

For the inside tables, I got some cardboard and wrapped wooden pieces around it, then stained the wood. Plus the toy blocks I found at a garage sale this past summer was used for the legs, I painted them silver.
I love how the tables turned out.

I will post more pictures of the finished restaurant tomorrow. I hope you don't mind all the postings, one after another, I should really post the pics as I go along, so I don't pile them up at the end... I kept putting it off, but I do want to start blogging on a more regular basis, at least three times a week would be perfect. I do have other projects on the go that I would love to share with you.

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How to Make a Doll Restaurant - The Decor

Here is a few decorating touches I added to Lola's Bistro...

I have a vase full of twigs and they always come in handy. I painted them white and hung them on the side walls. The back wall is for art from my viewers. We are accepting art from all ages and our viewers will vote for their favourite. We will use your art to hang in restaurant and in the new dorm rooms.

 I love how they turned out.

 I wanted the lighting to be special. I found these two Christmas ornaments at Value Village, as soon as I saw them I knew they would be perfect. To secure the lighting (ornaments) I made a hole on the ceiling and ran the string through and glued a piece of wood over it.

I found these wood piece at a garage sale this past summer. I stained them and glued them to the wall then added the mirror over it.

The doorway on the left is the door to the kitchen that doesn't exist. I wanted somewhere for the serving staff to come out of, plus that is where they get the drinks and the bill etc... I wanted the space for tables and seating.

To cover the doorway to the fake kitchen, I used these silver ball garlands I got from dollar store.

I love how the doorway turned out. The silver curtain balances the lighting.

I will be posting about the bench in the next post.

The Door...

Oops...time to change the blade...

Start gluing your popsicle sticks to the cardboard. I used hot glue...watch you fingers, hot glue is crazy hot... try following the same pattern on each side of door.

I glued a piece of plastic to mimic a window.

I Just finished the sign and address number.

The next post will be the final one, the furniture and the finished look.
There will be a video on our YouTube channel plus a little stop motion clip at the end.

Thank you for visiting my blog, tell me what you think of the new restaurant.

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How to Make a Doll Restaurant - the Floors

The Flooring...
I love how the floor turned out, I didn't want to do the giraffe print for the restaurant, because that is the schools flooring, and I wanted it too look elegant so I did a hardwood flooring, well more like soft wood, I used popsicle sticks.

After laying the floor down, I stained it.

Now that the floors and walls are done...time to start decorating, my favourite part. I will post the pictures tomorrow of the decor features I added, and a final video on our YouTube channel probably Sunday...with a little stop motion clip (I will post the video here to so its easier to get to).

I have only done a few videos in stop motion and it was done with me holding the camera and trying to stay in the same position taking the pictures, well that didn't work out very well.  I love how stop motion looks and want to do more of it but it has to look better, I didn't know why it wasn't looking very smooth, one of our YouTube viewers told me all I need was a tripod... duh... another duh moment. So I started looking for one on Kijiji and found a few, I also asked my brother because I know he has some good cameras and woohoo he had a tripod to give to me, now you can't get a much better deal than 'free'.
Thanks bro... you're awesome!

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