Pikes' Addition - Conclusion

WARNING NUDE DOLL CARNAGE AHEAD

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With the dollhouse done except for touches like wall art, the next step was reorganizing the bins.  This one even reached the closet where I keep things like wrapping paper and holiday window clings!

This set of drawers came out of the holiday closet.  It previously held flat wrap, scraps for padding, and to/from tags.  They've all moved to new homes to make room for (top to bottom): Beach, Sunburst, and Playground.  I had room in the bedroom closet for it because of all the free parking created elsewhere!

Bins for Shoes, Day Care, Food, and Work are smushing the Weapons!

Bins for Barn, Sports equipment, Cutie Reveal heads/hands, and one for Hats Bags Glasses Belts.  Beside them are a few empties.

Only that one wheelchair is really out of place, believe it or not. 

The Mother of The Boy gave me this nice sorting case for the shoes.  The Shoe bin is now the Boot bin.  This is great because, since my dolls rarely wear shoes, they tend to just get tossed in the bin and it takes me forever to find an actual pair.  (I pose the photos so y'all can't see their feet.)  This way, I can find pairs when needed and avoid having a surplus by sending extras to my dolly friends. 

The Mother of The Boy also gave me a doll.  Since I got some orphan heads for Christmas, it was time to sort through the donor bodies.  One of the donor bodies was a Rainbow High - which doesn't work with Barbie type noggins - and Carol Danvers stole the hands.  They're a little small, but she prefers them to the gloved fists she came with.

I managed two matches.  The Belle doll will be Paige, for the cartoon's voice actress. The other needs a name.  I keep trying to call her Gabrielle for some reason, but we have Gabriella Montez! One of these ladies will be an eye doctor, since I got appropriate equipment in the box from Goodwill. 

Not bad for a mere fortnight's work, if I do say so myself.

 

Pikes' Addition - Part Three

Time to put views in those rear windows.  I got out all my scenery pictures from magazines and books, sorted them all over my bed, and decided against all of them. 

I ended up using the sky posterboard.  It doesn't look much bluer than the wall would have, but I'm hoping when I do photo stories, the details will show up.

I decided to keep the big "hot tub" and put the telescope on the deck.  I also moved "wardrobe" and my laundry into the corner.  The big hot tub touches both houses and makes them feel more connected, somehow.  Nice view of the barn from the hot tub.  

The black shelves have been switched around a bit.  On top, the Smiths and Witch's Cove sets await their next curtain call.  Below it, we have Sarcastic Fringehead's studio (needs wallpaper).  Then Sulu's greenhouse with the whole fam damily in it.

The Eaton/Cooper clan hangs out in the new Medical Center space.  One side will serve as various exam rooms and the other as a waiting room.  Below it is the grocery's Aisle of Value and checkouts.  On bottom, the folding dollhouse sets and the sauna. 

The remainder of the sky posterboard will serve for daytime shots on the deck.  This is where I hit a stopping point - I needed "wallpaper" and human-size trash bags.

The wallpaper.  One is for the bathroom and studio, one for kitchen and bedroom. 

Starry sky!  Now they have something non-stalkerish to look at with the telescope!

The kitchen is done.  Trimming around those arched windows was hard.  Swearing happened.

Bedroom.  Clearly, Pike is secure in his masculinity.

Bathroom was easily the most difficult.  Built in fixtures, arched window.  That pattern does have a greenish cast to it, so it works with the teal window.  Added a marble border to hide a totally mismatched seam.

The studio.  Zenobia and Whitney wanted the flowers, but Tanner and Finnick vetoed that.  I guess they aren't as secure in their masculinity as their father.

The house is pretty much done.  But reorganizing the doll storage and cleaning the rest of my apartment after doing all this remains.  That should be fun.  NOT! 

 

Pikes' Addition - Part Two

The work continues.  The walls have been stripped down to the plastic.  Working around the built in plumbing was quite a challenge - at least I managed to swivel the shower!  

 I tried to do the bathroom with a tropical green leaf border, using some of the contact paper I used to redo Sulu's Greenhouse.  I'm not happy with it, but I'm letting it sit for now.  

The hearth room got white marble.  A television inside that fireplace pops up when I hit a button.  Seriously?!  I know people put TVs over the mantel, but not if there's a window there! 

I tried to make the bathroom look better by painting the window in a tropical green.  Definitely gonna have to find some "wallpaper" that features pink, burgundy, and green.  This is just hideous as is.

Work moves into the bedroom.  All the assorted things displaced by rearranging furniture get crammed into the big dollhouse.  I had to move the tall bookshelf that houses Sulu's Greenhouse, the barn, and the grocery store to fit the coffee table in there - I want height for my play, because the dollhouses aren't the only things affected by aging.

Coffee table provides the height and a nice parking garage beneath!  My doll clothes bin and laundry basket fit nicely in the space between, although I might move them over by the closet. The addition has a tiny hot tub on that deck, but I'm partial to the big one I repurposed from an LOL playset. 

Day three.  I tossed all that stuff onto the bed and started moving rooms around.  Just outside of the picture is the foot of my bed - you can see it in the earlier picture.  This means the height isn't really an issue, because I can use the bed to be up and down, but getting decent lighting is a challenge. 

Notice I removed the attic bathroom - which I think I've used in one story post this entire time.  Mace and the littles have a bedroom there now.  (In-universe, Joe just took down the wall between rooms and repainted.  The slope is totally the underside of basement stairs.) 

Since the parents will be moving into the (very small) bedroom in the addition, I moved the twins into the attic bedroom.  The girls moved into the former kitchen, but in-universe they just redecorated.  More garage space and storage will go into vacated spaces.  

With that all squared away, I started sorting.  Pike and Rose-Grace's bed didn't fit, so they traded with Mace.  At least for now.  Experimenting with the placement of furniture in these rooms.  In universe, they've just remodeled the kitchen. 

Gonna have to purge some of this furniture, even with my plans to make some more sets on the tall bookshelf.  My purple bin just can't hold all that!