Windows

 I'm a bit of an architecture buff.  It bugs me to watch TV shows where the exterior and interior do not match up.  I always have a floorplan in mind for the places in my fiction.  

 Most dollhouses have an unseen area, where stairs and closets exist. They are usually set up so it can be assumed you are standing in that area as you play.  There are windows on at least one existing wall, even if they're just printed on.

My current bookshelf dollhouse has been bothering me.  There are no windows on any of the three existing walls. Do my dolls live in an underground bunker?! 

I picked up these decorations at the after-holiday sales, but only managed to find three.  The third one isn't pictured, but it had a pointier top and the word down the center was "MERRY".  I hoped to find more, to put doors on the back of each room and move the unseen area into my apartment wall.  No luck there.  So I figured out a way to give my dolls a window in each room.

First order of business was to take off the words and greenery. 

Then I marked in black the areas not needed and broke the "wood" apart.  This created nine windows that don't match each other and aren't symmetrical unto themselves.  If you followed my soap opera and remember Joe's job, you know building with reclaimed materials is nothing new to my dolls. 

The bookshelf house is continuing that tradition.

I glued calendar pictures to them so the dolls would have a nice view.

Here's the pantry and dining room with their new windows!  Each room got a window and they're far from perfect, but my inner pedant has quit fussing.  Honestly, I'd prefer to stick fake doors on the back wall and pretend the unseen rooms are inside my apartment wall, but this works.

Always a work in progress.