Update: You can check out Part 2 of this project right here.
But let’s start at the beginning. When Sherry and I started talking about building a dollhouse for Clara, I was afraid. I know, I know – scared of a dollhouse? Get your laughs out. But that ominous word conjured up these elaborate images of perfectly crafted, to-scale replicas of Victorian mansions that seemed waaaaay beyond my skill / patience level. But once Sherry showed me some of her inspiration pictures on Pinterest (from Mousehouse, Natty Michelle and Under The Sycamore) my cold sweats dried up and I actually got a little excited. Yes, excited about a dollhouse. Now get those laughs out.
More accurately, those cold sweats turned into regular sweats since starting this project required a bit of basement cleaning first. Remember this mess?
I didn’t get rid of much of anything yet, but I did give it the ol’ “quick tidy” so I’d at least have a clean workspace to get a-dollhousing in. Here’s the “not-after-but-not-as-bad-as-the-before” result:
After giving myself a brief pat on the back for that, I moved on to dollhouse planning and material buying. Sherry loved the idea of priming/painting/decorating the dollhouse, so she called those parts of the task while leaving the entire design up to me except for very casually suggested a three-story house with seven rooms. After some thought I landed on something most similar to the Under The Sycamore’s version show above, except with a different room arrangement.
We decided on 1 x 8″ basic white wood as our building material. It was cheap and light, but sturdy and wide enough to make for easy play. We also opted for an 8″ room height on the first two floors and a sloped attic that’d go from 6″ to about 10.” So the finished dollhouse measures around 30″ tall and 30″ wide. Those 8 inches of room height with a sloped attic ceiling were a bit big for the scale of furniture that Sherry had found on eBay (more on that in her Part 2 post) but we wanted to err on the side of giving Clara plenty of room to move around rather than being sticklers for scale – and who doesn’t love a room with extra high ceilings?
My total for all of my building materials (just wood since I already had nails) was about $35 and I started off by cutting everything except the roof pieces to size, creating a box that was roughly 30″ wide and 24″ tall. I also cut the walls for my first two floors (not shown) to 8″ tall and used my table saw to shave a bit off the side so they were slightly narrower than the floors.
I wanted to affix the walls to the bottom and middle floors first, so I measured and marked where I wanted each divider to go. The two marks on the wood below represent each side of the wall board so I knew exactly where I wanted it to sit.
I’m usually a screw guy (that sounds weird, I realize) but I didn’t want Clara’s dollhouse to be riddled with screw holes and potentially split boards. So I opted instead to use a combination of wood glue and nails. I know lots of people swear by wood glue, but I just find it messy, time consuming and harder to reverse. But I put our differences aside and squeezed a line of it on each wall before putting in place. It actually worked really well.
I clamped two scrap pieces of wood (those two pieces of wood under the clamps weren’t part of the dollhouse, they were just pinching the perpendicular piece of wood to hold it up). This method helped keep things steady for a couple of minutes while the glue got a grip.
And since I’m impatient, I carefully tipped the whole thing over so I could drive a couple of nails into the wall board from the bottom. Now it’s hopefully more clear that the perpendicular piece of wood is the wall and the piece of wood on the bottom is the floor of the dollhouse (those two pieces of wood clamped above the base are just there to steady the wall I added while the glue dried and I banged in those nails).
So here’s what I was left with after putting up walls for the first two floors. I hadn’t tackled the third floor wall yet since I wanted to wait to finish the sloped roof to make sure my cut was accurate to a real roof, not my roughly sketched one. Oh and the first and second floors weren’t attached (hence them looking skewed in the pic below) – they were just both placed on the floor in a rough little layout of sorts.
Next I used the glue and nails method to affix the two sides, using another scrap board to help keep my corners at 90-degree angles. I also glued and nailed all of the walls into the floors above them.
One thing I didn’t point out earlier is that when I cut my side boards to length I actually did a slightly angled cut on the tops using my miter saw. The 15-degree choice was kind of an arbitrary “this looks like a nice shallow angle” decision, which I hoped would help my sloped roof rest evenly on the side boards.
I tried drawing some complex diagram of angles to figure out exactly how I needed to cut the peak of my roof, but I quickly realized how rough my 9th grade geometry was. So I figured I’d start with two 15-degree cuts butted up against each other and go from there. Luckily it worked out perfectly and I could scoff at Euclid as I glued the two pieces together.
Once my roof had dried enough I sat it in place to help measure the height of the center wall that would support it. Once that was cut (using two cuts of the miter saw to create a close-enough point at the tip) I glued and nailed it into place like the others.
With the roof also secured in place, this collection of boxes actually started to resemble a residence suitable for dolls.
But I still had to add a back side, which can be filed under the “two birds with one stone” column because I was able to take some thin plywood from my messy scrap pile (bird one) to make the back panel (bird two). I didn’t have a piece tall enough for the whole thing, but I was able to cut this one big piece so that the seam would be hidden behind the third floor board.
As for attaching it, you can probably guess the words about I’m about to type since I used the same method… I applied glue to the backside of the dollhouse frame, put the plywood down, and nailed it into place.
For the rest of the top I had to assemble a few scrap strips, which did create some seams. But we were already planning to caulk some other corners so it wasn’t a big deal to have a few other places to patch up before priming and painting it all to get a nice seamless end result.
Here’s the whole house after it was constructed. The last thing we wanted to do was affix the whole thing to a larger base to give it more stability. So this is a piece of 1 x 12″ that I cut to size and sanded so it had nice rounded edges.
A few more squirts of glue and swings of the hammer later, the construction phase of the d-o-l-l house (as we were calling it at this point to keep the secret from Little Miss Hears A Lot) was c-o-m-p-l-e-t-e.
It was actually surprisingly straightforward and took me about three hours in total (after about an hour of basement clearing out before I got down to business). And not that I’m gonna get all Victorian mansion on it, but it has given me the confidence to try to add some details like doors and windows (decorative, not functional) on the so-far blank backside at some point. But since all of this happened just a few days before Clara’s birthday, that’ll have to wait since the first priority was to get it all painted, decorated, and gifted by this past Monday (which was the bean’s big oh-two).
So Sherry will be back tomorrow with a giant breakdown of what she likes to call “the fun part.” You know, the priming, painting, furniture-ing, and decorating (there were too many pics/descriptions to squeeze it all into this post, but she’s working on it right now and can’t wait to share). Hilariously enough, I thought the fun part was building it, so I guess we’re a good pair. And in case you’re wondering, Clara is obsessed. As is Sherry. Even I want to play with it sometimes.
So it went over really well. And we all know that a happy wife/kiddo = a happy hubby. So… score! Has anyone else out there built a dollhouse? Or some other fun kid thing? Or been obsessed with hunting down eBay dollhouse furniture like the wife? Let’s chat… about dollhouses. Haha. Oh yeah, I’m man enough to say that.
Update: You can check out Part 2 of this project right here.
Update #2: We finally created this Shop Our House page to help you hunt down any furniture/accessories that you see in our house, along with all of our paint colors.
Breanna says
Can’t wait to see the finished product!
Leigh says
My three year old son wants you to know “it needs more things”
With my doll house growing up, I loved having it on a very very short table so the ground floor was easier to play with. The table was well under a foot high.
YoungHouseLove says
Haha- things are on the way!
xo,
s
Lena says
This is fantastic. I love it.
I’m a little confused about attaching the roof… Did you nail the two roof pieces together and also glue? It seems like an odd angle to get a tight seam using just glue, but a nail at the angle would be hard I think. Also, how did you attach to the support wall in the middle given the center is where the two roof pieces meet? This seems like the hardest step.
Thanks!!
YoungHouseLove says
I glued the two roof pieces together and held them while they dried, and when I attached them to the house, I nailed it into the side and middle wall beneath it to hold them steady. As for the support wall in the middle, I nailed that from below, where it meets the floor (and also nailed it through the roof, into the top of it once the roof was in place).
-John
Sam Q says
What timing, I was just discussing with my sister that I would love to build my niece a dollhouse! When my sister and I were little girls my mother made furniture out of clothespins for our dollhouse… she made rugs out of scrap material, curtains, everything we could imagine! This will certainly help when I decide to start the house :D Thanks!
Tracie says
Love it! My husband built our girls (2 and 5) a huge barbie dream house for christmas this year. It is open on all 4 sides (inspired by kidcraft so chic dollhouse) so that all 3 of our kids and more can play at once without stepping on one another. We painted the rooms the same colors as the rooms in our house (which are all pretty bright colors) and my husband made a shaker style roof. It is massive but the kids love it! And I love him for building me, I mean us, I mean THEM a dream barbie house ;)
YoungHouseLove says
Sounds awesome!!
xo,
s
Erin C. says
Adorbs!!! My grandfather built me a dollhouse when I was a little girl, and I treasure it… I’ll pass it on if I have a daughter in the future. Somehow he managed fancy details like fireplaces and doors and windows.. I didn’t get that handy gene passed onto me. One detail I do remember that might be easy to manage is the tips of tongue depressors painted green and arranged on the “roof” to make shingles.
YoungHouseLove says
SO cool!
xo,
s
Whitney Dupuis says
Oh my goodness, I love it! I can’t wait to see the finished product! I really want a daughter now so we can build one for her.
When I was little, my grandfather hand-made a dollhouse for me, complete with individually laid shingles on the roof. My grandmother sewed all of the curtains and bed linens and decorated it. It is still beautiful 25 years later, but I am afraid for my future daughter to play with it because it is pretty fragile.
Vanessa says
Clara is a lucky, lucky girl! What a sweet daddy (and sweet mommy, of course!) – she will always remember her dollhouse and kitchen. Thanks for the reminder that giving from the heart is always better than giving from the wallet. Something that’s easy to forget as they get older and want more “stuff”.
Jenni snyder says
We have a similar diy dollhouse. Now that my daughter is 11, she uses it for a bookshelf.
YoungHouseLove says
So sweet!
xo,
s
Debbie says
my mother started building me a dollhouse for xmas when i was 7 years old. it started out fairly reasonable in size, but my mom suddenly developed this zeal for wood working & soon it morphed into a monstrocity. my dad had to build a special table for her to work on it our basement. for years & years (seriously) she toiled on this thing. individually cut wood shingles, carpeting, italian marble & wallpaper, a hand carved banister (seriously!). it was over EIGHT feet long x SIX feet wide x i dont know how tall. every year it kept getting more out of hand. even getting her fingers almost sliced off in a band saw (the night before my brothers wedding) didnt slow her down. meanwhile i was getting older & the novelty of waiting for this thing really wore off. she gave up too when i was about a junior in high school (for those of you keeping score, she had worked on it for 10 years!). i thought maybe when i had my daughter she’d want to finish it, but now its buried under a sea of other things & layers of dust in my parents basement. they are in their 80’s, im in my 40’s & my daughter is in her 20’s & still no dollhouse. it was a really great effort though. lol
YoungHouseLove says
Aw man, that sounds like an epic project!
xo,
s
Shannon says
John, I’m in awe of your carpentry work — and that you do not have a woodworking background. You make it look simple, and I know its not!
Angela says
Adorable! Once she outgrows the dollhouse stage, it can just be a cut bookcase in her bedroom. I bought something similar from Pottery Barn for my granddaughter several years ago.
Becky says
I love this idea! How cool that you’ve made her something she can play with and hopefully treasure as she gets older.
Renee says
That’s so great you’re building Clara a dollhouse! My dad built me one when I was little and I remember it was endless hours of fun! The inside was just plain wood, but I did do some “landscaping” by drawing sidewalks and bushes on the floor around it. I can’t wait to pass my old dollhouse on to my own little girl someday. Keep up the great work S&J!
YoungHouseLove says
That sounds so cool!
xo,
s
Heather says
I dub the coolest parents ever! :)
YoungHouseLove says
Nah, that’s too sweet. You should have seen Clara’s meltdown last night at a restaurant with my mom. It was epic and I think lots of people thought we were bad parents. Haha.
xo,
s
Angela says
Oops – meant to attach a picture of the Pottery Barn Kids dollhouse bookcase!
http://www.potterybarnkids.com/products/dollhouse-bookcase/?pkey=e|bookcase|16|best|0|1|24||1&cm_src=PRODUCTSEARCH||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_-NoMerchRules-_-
YoungHouseLove says
So cute!
xo
s
Jennae says
Last year, for Mother’s Day, my daughter and I refinished the dollhouse my father and I had built together when I was a little girl. It is one of those Victorian beauties you speak of, and my father had kept it all these years gathering dust in his home office. Daddy and I put it together, but we never painted it, decorated, or anything else. Lucky for me, because my daughter and I got to do all that fun stuff together :) You can see the house and read about it here: http://www.greenyourdecor.com/8458/mothers-day-diy-fun-finishing-doll-house/
YoungHouseLove says
It’s amazing! SO sweet!
xo,
s
Jess G says
My Uncle made me a doll house for my 4th birthday, and it was my favorite toy until I was about 15, ha! It even has miniature Christmas decorations, battery operated lights, a tree, etc. Oh, and I have Thanksgiving, Easter, and 4th of July decorations too. I know, like Sherry needed more ideas :)
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, I love it!!
xo,
s
Katy @ The Non-Consumer Advocate says
I had an incredible electrified dollhouse as a kid that my father made in our basement. It had needlepoint rugs that my mother made, as well as tiny framed portraits of family members.
My friends and I would play “Earthquake” and shake the whole thing until all the furniture was askew. We would then happily set it all up again.
I suddenly want to go play with it today. Gotta go, I have some . . . umm . . . errands to run in my father’s neighborhood.
Katy
YoungHouseLove says
Hahaha, that’s so funny. Earthquake sounds like a fun little creative kid game.
xo,
s
shannon says
Can’t wait to see the rest! My dad built me a dollhouse and I got it from Santa when I was three. It was my favorite thing for many years. My parents still have it.
Kathleen says
Love it! Can’t wait to see the finished product! For Christmas this past year I found a 3 foot wooden house from a nice grammy whose grand kids had all grown up. Gave it a little tlc, some paint and some wood floors ( thanks to Michaels for carrying scrapbook paper that looks like a hardwood floor!) and also scored some great wood furniture from eBay ($20) that retails for about $50 in specialty toy stores! Needless to say I won the award for best gift this year! Even the boys were driving their playmobil cars over to drop off some visitors :)
YoungHouseLove says
So amazing!!! It sounds adorable!
xo,
s
Allyson says
Adorable! Growing up, my parents gave my sister and I a standard Fisher Price dollhouse for christmas one year. We absolutely loved it, probably for too long. It may or may not be in my parents basement as we speak (and both my sister and I are in college). Can’t wait to see the “fun part.” I can see some of your style in the little sneak peek already!
Krystal says
This is probably the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen! So much better than the store bought Barbie mansion that I had growing up…but when you’re five, the working elevator and jacuzzi tub seem pretty awesome as well. I remember walking down the stairs at 3 AM on Christmas morning and seeing my Barbie mansion wrapped up in a big red bow. My parents had a 6 AM rule about me waking them up to open presents, so I ran upstairs to get my Barbies and silently played with my new mansion for 3 to 4 hours until my parents woke up. My poor mother was pretty upset when she discovered what I was doing and realized she didn’t get to see my happy little face when I found it.
YoungHouseLove says
Aw, that’s cute and sad for your poor mom all at the same time. Haha. But I’m sure she knew you loved it!
xo,
s
Erin says
Yay! I just showed my husband and insisted we get moving to do this for our little girl’s 3rd birthday in August. I am so excited to make fairy gardens with her this summer and build a dream playhouse someday- but a beautiful dollhouse is the perfect combination for her bday present. I can’t wait to hear where you found the furniture and cute bits and how you did all the decorating. I love teeny tiny awesomeness!
erin says
love the dollhouse you made for Clara. great job! Makes me sentimental for the {victorian} one my dad built by hand for me and my sister. He even built all the furniture by hand! Such fun memories of that doll house, it’s now banished to the tool room in teh garage where I’m sure mice have taken up residence. this post makes me want to tell my mom to take it out of there so we can cherish it more.
Brenda says
My dad built me a dollhouse. I think it came from a kit, but he really personalized it. He glued down fabric for carpet and used wallpaper samples to wallpaper the rooms. He even painted the outside the same colors as our house, grey with red trim. I can’t recall if we had much in the way of furniture, but it was pretty small scale. Those little Barbie toys from Happy Meals were the perfect size, so over the years I ended up with quite a collection. The dollhouse needs a little bit of TLC currently (reglue the chimney on, fix the balcony door hinge), but I can’t wait to have kids so they can play with it.
Ashley says
I can’t wait for tomorrow! Looks great from what I can see. My grandpa built me a wood dollhouse from a kit and I loved it. I have a 15 month old and now my mom is making my dad bring the dollhouse up to us from 1200 miles away–she’s so excited to get it out of the house and I’ve been dreading this moment ever since I moved out. Why, you ask? Because its a 3-story L-shaped Victorian monster–I’m not even sure it will fit through the door! Like I said, I’ve always loved it, but why couldn’t I have the 2-story Colonial saltbox that my sister got?! Clara’s dollhouse is the perfect size! Love it!
Amy @ Lovely Nest says
how fun! I can’t wait to see the finished results because based on the teaser photo it looks awesome! And I’ll admit I wish I had a legit excuse to build/decorate a dollhouse!
cas says
john- ever think about making things out of your scrap wood?
i just made these and painted them a bright orange for the spare room, a lot easier then expected
http://lumberjocks.com/gfixler/blog/15779
they also have some good ideas for scrap wood saw horses.
YoungHouseLove says
Really cool! I was happy to use some of the scrap wood on the dollhouse (the back panel) but will have to think about what else I can tackle. Those shelves are awesome!
-John
N Shirley says
I absolutely think you should write a proposal and approach a few companies. I think your work is beautiful and you always consider the safety factor also. My husband and daughter worked on a dollhouse together for a few years, they never really finished it. But when she was older they restored an old Vespa scooter together so it was good practice for them right? She grew up to be a designer!
YoungHouseLove says
That’s so cute!
xo,
s
Kim W Rily says
I got a cardboard dollhouse from my grandfather, but since we didn’t have much room in our real house, we never ended up putting it together. That’s okay, I was more of a play in the woods with my dog/ride my bike type girl anyway. :)
And when I dragged my daughter with me to look at an open house one day, she found the little girl’s room with a big barbie dollhouse and all of a sudden I couldn’t get her to LEAVE the house! :)
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, so cute!
xo,
s
Elizabeth says
I am so glad you guys did this! My husband has all the materials in the garage to build our girls a dollhouse. I purchased some unfinished wooden peg dolls at Hobby Lobby to paint with the girls. I am curious about where to get furniture and stuff, but I have ideas. I am really looking forward to Part 2.
BTW – I decided to have my husband build this and then I am going to convert it to a dollhouse
http://ana-white.com/2010/07/plans/cutest-kid039s-cara-storage-console
Not sure why I didn’t go with a look like yours. Oh well!
Warmly,
Elizabeth
YoungHouseLove says
That one looks awesome too! Good luck with everything Elizabeth!
xo,
s
Amber Wallace says
So fun!! Nice work!
Kristin F. says
LOVE! My dad built me a doll house just like that when I was a little girl, although it wasn’t nearly as well decorated ;). Of course he had to one-up it and built this pretty awesome one for my daughter’s birthday a few years ago. Why do they always have better toys than we did??
http://www.thelittleprincessdiaries.com/2010/09/dollhouse.html
YoungHouseLove says
So cute! I love the pic of her in it! Haha.
xo,
s
Briel K. says
Ahh, I can’t wait to see it!
My grandfather built me a dollhouse when I was young. I loved it. I don’t think I have any photos of it which makes me sad and my parents got rid of it when I was a teenager (I think it was broken from when we moved or something) which is too bad. Would have been a good thing to keep for future generations!
Michelle @ Lifewithacrazypup says
I bet little Clara absolutely loves her new house! My dad built be a dollhouse when I was little. It was a kit from a cool hobby shop in town. It even have faux bricks and a wrap around porch. I still have it actually. It needs some re-glueing here and there but it’s in pretty good shape. Hopefully one day soon, we’ll have kids of our own to play with it!
Mary says
I absolutely can’t wait until tomorrow for the decorating details.
Kari says
This post is precisely why I think Dads and daughters are so precious. They have a way of bringing out things in their Daddies that surprise us all. So go play with that dollhouse, John. You rock! : ) Can’t wait to see how it turned out tomorrow.
YoungHouseLove says
Amen! Clara brings things out in John that I never knew existed, but it makes him an even better man than the awesome guy I married.
xo,
s
Cassie Helwig says
I had my dad build my daughter a doll house for Christmas with the intentions of having it be done by Thanksgiving and myself taking the next month to paint/decorate/furnish it… well, my part hasn’t happened yet (I know, I’m a horrible person) but to be fair it’s 3 stories AND an attic and for 12 inch dolls so the whole thing is about 5 feet tall, and required a truck to move it from his house to my house… Anyway, can’t wait for tomorrow’s post. I think it will give me the kick in the pants to actually get working on my daughter’s!
Emily F. says
Looks great! I can’t wait to see it finished and get the details! I’m hoping to do up my old dollhouse for my daughter in the next year or two (as she’s only 1 now). There’s some repair work to be done to some of the windows and front door but what I’m really excited for it the repainting and decorating! I’m may be stealing some of Sherry’s ideas!
Crystal @ 29 Rue House says
Very nice John – you make it look so easy! I actually won a dollhouse in a raffle (spent $20 on tickets) for a hospital group when Ruby was one but we haven’t gotten it out for her to play with yet. It was homemade and donated for the event by what I imagine is a dollhousemaker expert, so although it could use a bit of a style makeover, it’s pretty fancy.
YoungHouseLove says
That’s awesome! What an awesome thing to win!
xo,
s
Laura says
Nice. I am going to make one that looks like a tall, skinny cabinet with a door. We have all boys so it would be nice to have something for the little girls that come over to play with but is unobtrusive when not in use.
Colleen says
My dad did this for me when I was little! It was my favorite thing ever :) He used scraps from decorating our house (wallpaper, paint, a floor tile) to make the doll house a mini version of our own :)
Bboss says
My Dad and Mom built me a dollhouse for Christmas when I was around 4 years old (mid-1960’s). They had a ball doing it. They’d sneak down to the basement when I went to bed and work on it. It had two floors, front and back. It was open in the back and the front wall swung out to reveal the front rooms. My reaction on Christmas morning? Ehn. I wanted to play with everyone elses stuff. They didn’t care. They still talk about making that dollhouse.
YoungHouseLove says
Hah, that’s so cute that they had so much fun making it! The swinging wall sounds so fancy!
xo,
s
Lindsay B says
What a great daddy! Pinning this one so my hubby and I can embark on a similar dollhouse building adventure next year. I can’t wait to see “the fun part!”
Sherri says
AW! I’m a total Daddy’s Girl and this post makes me want to go have a Daddy-Daughter Date ASAP! Nothing sweeter than a Dad setting aside inhibitions and getting excited about something as girly as a dollhouse to make his baby girl happy.
Looks like yall did a wonderful job! Maybe as Clara gets older, she will come up with decorating ideas of her own and the three of you can DIY and update her house together. I have a feeling like you guys, her house will be an ever evolving project – that kid’s got some creative genes! :)
YoungHouseLove says
You have no idea how excited I am about the idea of Clara decorating this little house! Even decorating her big girl room with her someday (maybe in a year?) sounds like so much fun. She is the cutest. Haha. I’m a little biased of course.
xo,
s
Kristi says
I’ll take a parent who gushes and is biased any day.
I was at dinner with a few other couples the other week and the entire conversation was dominated about how stupid my kid is (these kids were in their 20s, but still…). I don’t know how it got started, but it became a ‘my kid does worse *$& than your kid showdown. awful.
So gush away. Epic meltdowns are part of it, I love that you focus on the good, not the bad.
YoungHouseLove says
Aw thanks Kristi!
xo,
s
Erika says
Great job, John! Now I want one!
I can’t wait until we get to see pics of all the “fun” part :)
Clara will always have such wonderful memories of her dollhouse built by her dad.
Sayward says
HAHA! I’m glad I’m not the only 30 year old who still plays with a dollhouse from time to time. My mom’s garage attic is a magical cornucopia of 80s toys from 4 kids’ childhoods… a cornucopia that exploded when some teens snuck up there last winter and stole/vandalized everything. Now it’s a big heap of of dirty, unsorted, trashed items.
It broke my mom’s heart, and the mess is truly overwhelming. Luckily I’m obsessed with cleaning and organizing so every Sunday after church I go to my mom’s house, haul a pile of stuff outside, and sit on the lawn lovingly sorting and cleaning our old toys.
This week I tackled me and my sister’s fisher price dollhouses and ALL the tiny furniture, which I had to scrub slate roof particle grime off of with a toothbrush. My mom came home to find me in the yard unashamedly playing dollhouse with all the wet soapy pieces.
Who can resist the magical siren’s call of a big pink dollhouse?! No one.
YoungHouseLove says
Haha- that’s so sweet!
xo,
s
molly says
AH! this is SO COOL!!! i love it.
Laura is Undeterrable says
I had a dollhouse very similar to that when I was growing up. My dad anchored it to the wall and tested it with his own body weight just in case yours truly decided to pull a king kong. We actually still have it – my mom uses it as a shelf in the guest room.