Mystery House Family

I had to pick up a few things in town today. I made a pass through the toy department just for fun and found a Polly Pocket couple with extra clothes. They work well for the parents in the Mystery House. Since the teenage daughter is already named Polly, I'm calling the mom Paula. The dad's name is Todd. He's relaxing with the newspaper in the living room.
Paula is heading out to get some groceries to fill those bare cupboards.
Polly is just glad to have some casual clothes. She was getting really tired of wearing that dress all the time. :-)

It's the details that really count

Teenage daughter, Polly, and the family dog, Georgi, are enjoying the newly completed exterior. A colonial style antique brass hanging lamp lights the front porch. "Concrete" benches add seating under the windows and the planter full of flowers adds a touch of color.
The bathroom is now complete with art, towels, lighting, and the all essential toilet paper.
The kitchen has an overhead light fixture, a green clock, and artwork over the table. I also made a small sink for the cabinets on the right. You've got to have running water!
It looks like Georgi needs to go back to obedience school. He's certainly not paying much attention to Polly. The living room got a new area rug, overhead lighting, a table lamp, artwork, and a really cool wall clock. There's a newspaper on the coffee table for when Dad gets home from work.

When hubby's away...

...I don't have enough sense to stop the play, lol. I was up until 3 am finishing the wallpaper and curtains. Luckily for me, school was closed due to a sewer line break so I could sleep in. This room is the master bedroom. I added a mirror to the vanity, turned one of the end tables into an upholstered vanity bench, added new bedding (and feet to the bed to raise it a little), and added the rocking chair (purchased at an antique/resale shop). The picture over the bed is the only artwork in the house so far. It's a photo from Katie at Katie's Clay Corner. The wallpaper in this room is actual dollhouse paper.
The little girl's room is definitely girly. :) The "chenille" bedspreads were cut from a very thin waffle weave fabric. Now I just need to add some personality via toys, artwork, etc.
The mirror over the double sinks is a scrapbook sticker. This room needs toilet paper, towels, etc.

I promised my mother-in-law that the house would look much different the next time she saw it. That is definitely the case. :-D

And now for some progress on the interior...

I love the blue door so I didn't repaint it even though it has that rub on transfer on it. I figure it looks kind of 1970s-ish anyway, lol. Other than adding accessories and maybe a rug, this room is finished. Because I want it to be child-safe, I went for ultra easy window treatments. The funny windows would make more extravagant curtains look out of place anyway.
The kitchen looks great, too. The wallpapers all came from Jennifer's Printables online. This stripe has all the colors I needed to make the furniture and appliances look "right" in the room.

Mystery House Improvements

After an afternoon's work, the exterior is finished. It's been gessoed, painted, and sealed. The shutters were made from leftover logs from the cabin.
Here's the way it used to look, in case you didn't see the previous post. I love the final result. It looks elegant even for a clunky little house, lol.

Let the remodeling begin!

Ok, so it's more like redecorating than remodeling but I spent some time on the living room furniture on Friday. The cushions have all been recovered in a retro looking print with turquoise, olive and dark purple on cream. The tables were all given a "brass" finish. The credenza on the back wall has had its legs shortened since the photo was taken. I'm pretending it's a combination TV and stereo like my aunt had in the 70s. It was originally just a white plastic dresser.
The yellow and green cabinet came with the house. I think it's really cool. :-)
The range and refrigerator have been accented with paint to look more realistic. They are some inexpensive pieces I had on hand.
I had the bathroom set on hand, too. It works very nicely for this house.

I've downloaded some wallpaper I am hoping to use and later this week I will start on that. First I need to paint the exterior of the house. I'm thinking a crisp white will be pretty with the columns on the front porch.

Some of the furniture that came with it

But first, here's a one inch scale sandcastle that I made today from various "found" objects - a wine cork, 4 wooden spools, a wire nut, and 4 glue caps all glued together on a cardboard base. I painted it all a sandy brown color and sprayed it with spray adhesive and then sprinkled sand all over it. The path is lined with seashells.
This living room set came with the house. I will recover the cushions on the couch and chairs and I might repaint the table frames -either black or brass.
All of the drawers open on the nightstands and the dresser. I need to replace the mirror on the dresser and make new bedding. I dug through my stash of 1:16 extra furniture and found enough stuff to furnish the whole house. The finished house will be child safe for visiting children (and grandkids whenever I get some, :-D.)

The mystery house and a welcome!

Well, here's the mystery house. It's a two story homemade house in roughly 1:16 inch scale.
It was extremely dirty. This is after the first two cleaning, lol. It came with some plastic furniture that looks to be 1970s era. I think I'm going to use that theme in the clunky little house. Should be fun! More pics will follow. Hubby will be out of town the end of next week and this will be my project for then.

Also, please help me welcome Carey of Chicory Nits. She blogs about many things but be sure to check out her Easter Bunny house. It's adorable!