The Great Dollhouse Reveal - Part 2

A few months ago, we started putting together the Beacon Hill dollhouse kit for Grace's 4th birthday.  The process was much more time consuming than we could have imagined.   

The pictures, the kit provided, of the dollhouse looked exactly like this...

Yesterday, you got a tour of the outside of Grace's dollhouse.  I'd say, we came as close to their version as possible, with a few of our own extra touches {like the stained glass copula window}.

Today, we {Grace and I} would like to invite you to come on in and take a look around the inside, and you can let me know what you think of our version.

So, let's start the tour in the foyer.  Feel free to hang your coat up on the coat rack. 

Care for a quick snack?  We prepared a cake for your visit.  

Perhaps you want to play a tune on the piano.  We could have a sing-a-long, though, neither Grace nor I have very good voices and these days we like to sing Princess songs.

Shhh.  There's a baby sleeping in the nursery.  You may notice, this is a nearly exact replica of  Grace's room.

From the crescent moon, to the molding, to the crocheted baby blanket, to the Guess How Much I Love You prints. we tried to capture every detail of the room we brought Grace home to.

We tried to capture every detail of the room we brought Grace home to.  

While we are on the landing, you can help yourself to a gumball, if you would like.

The living room is still a bit bare but feel free to come on in and take a peek.

We are continuing our search for the perfect living room set.  For now, we'll just enjoy the unobstructed view of the gorgeous molding.

Need to freshen up a bit?

I'll give you a minute in the bathroom.

Watch out for the wagon as we head over to the bedroom.

And, last but not least, the bedroom.  The furniture given to us by Hopeful One, from the dollhouse she had when she was a child.  Seriously, how sweet is that?

 
The most recent addition to the dollhouse, a gift for Grace's 5th birthday, a bunny hutch filled with bunnies, which is fitting since she had a bunny themed birthday party.

All the details for the inside of the dollhouse {the crown molding, the board and batten, the baseboard, the paneling} all thought of and executed by my husband, as in, they were NOT part of the kit.

He completed this dollhouse with such care for detail, I can't wait to say:  if you can build a dollhouse from a kit, you certainly can build an exact replica in life size form for me to live in.

*And, if the humor of that last part is lost on you, this post will clear it up for you.

Thanks for stopping by and visiting Grace's dollhouse.  

Dollhouse Progres: Big Picture, little picture

While my handsome husband is busy with the big picture, constructing Grace's dollhouse...

I am busy with the little picture, literally.

When I envisioned Grace's dollhouse, I wanted a room to look as much like her room {the nursery we lovingly decorated when I was pregnant}.  Since we decided to be surprised about the sex of our bundle of joy, we painted her room yellow and went with the theme Guess How Much I Love You {from the book by Anita Jeram}.

Grace's Room

So, it seemed fitting we have these prints represented in her dollhouse room.  I did a Google search and shrunk down the images.  My handy husband made the frames and I used some of the plastic to cover the prints {it gave it the look of glass}.

Honestly, when I first looked at the picture below, I thought it was her actual room.

Grace's Dollhouse Room

Believe it or not, there was something missing.  The first thing I bought, when I found out I was pregnant, was this Friendly Farms Moon.

Grace's Room

So I sewed a little version of this moon and hung a star button from it.  I think this is the perfect finishing touch.

Grace's Dollhouse Room

From the yellow on the walls, to the paneling, to the pictures, to the moon...this room will now live on not only in my memories but also in this dollhouse.

Ok, enough with the sentimental stuff. Time is a ticking. One week left to go so I better get back to painting!