Mini Kitchen Makeover

Doing the kitchen has not been as easy as I thought it would be but has been rewarding to see finished!

I sat and measured out my grey and blue foam and cut them into small tiles and set about placing them in the kitchen before realising it was going to take me a donkey's age before I would be finished. 

So I had to sit back and think about what I could do instead then remembered I bought some large wooden lolly sticks and decided to go twenty first century and make some shiny laminate for my mini kitchen. Annoyingly enough I had to cut down all the sticks, get rid of the rounded edge and cut them to different lengths so it didn't look so 'straight', if that makes sense? 

Then throughout last night and today I painstakingly pieced them all together over the whole of my make shift mat, which was measured out to the dimensions of my mini kitchen. 

So now the kitchen deco is finito and it is all ready for furniture - that is, if Ava stops thinking the kitchen furni goes in the living room - which is next on the list of rooms to decorate. 

Last night I also sat and made stencil shapes of the tiles on my mini house roof so that I can draw round them by the gallon and it makes it easier to cut and paste. Unfortunately though, not all the tiles are the same size and shape so I had to make 6!!! Different tile stencils. They took forever!

I would take a picture of the finished.kitche deco but my cat has decided he's going to sit in there for tonight. Hence my blog name, House of Gracie Cat :) 

House the Grace Built

So, when I was 16 I told my mum I wanted a dolls house for Christmas. She thought I was mad but I wanted it to be one of those things that stays in the family for generations. More lived in than just looked at. Then at Christmas and a lot of money spent later that's exactly what I got. I'm now 26 and my dolls house was stuck at my mums for a few years then at my sisters for a few months and finally, I had a car big enough to hold my house as well as all our luggage. So here we are. House in my living room.

My daughter thinks it's amazing fun, I however, am slowly going to do it up and make it pretty again instead of falling apart and in bits. I am not a professional at all with the dolls house thing. I don't really know what I'm doing. All I know is I want it to look pretty.

Last night I painted the whole front of the house in white and today I rescued the window frame by making a window frame out of bbq skewers!

I also took a trip to HobbyCraft, my new favourite place I think, and bought some felt to make carpet and some foam to make squares for a kitchen floor. See, I told you it's not really professional but it'll be pretty and be family friendly. I also bought some lovely wrapping paper that will be my wallpaper. I picked the foam for tiles after I picked the wallpaper and didn't realise until later that they'd look so good together. For now, this blog will show my progress. 

I almost forgot to mention, but, I also re-upholstered one of the dolls double beds because the old fabric was grotty and discoloured.