Kid Kraft Modern Luxury Dollhouse

 

Got another project.

Picture from Internet 

This is the Modern Luxury dollhouse by Kid Kraft.  

Mine looks like this.

  That silver thing is what's left of the elevator.

It's got stickers and scribbles.

 

Side views for the sake of completion.

The back is blank except for an unhelpful manufacturer sticker.

Third floor has a serious sag issue and a stain.  

This isn't an issue for my plans., since it's not mold or mildew.

Second floor has a sag issue beside the elevator shaft.

On the work table for cleaning.

Yes, most of the third floor is gone now.

Contact paper for cinderblock walls.

Elevator shaft covered with strong cardboard.

Push pins and duct tape solve the sag problem. 

A bit of the ugly "linoleum" floor is visible.

And I forgot my camera existed.

One side of the first floor is papered with assorted scraps.

I left the pink side as it was.

My "bleachers" went on top.

It solved more of my storage issues than I expected. 

The classroom's bin and the playroom shelf are now free.

I need a few more desks for my classroom.

And some educational wall decor.

First floor is now a playroom.

Two playrooms if you wanna get technical.

All told, not bad for trash picking and an afternoon's work.

Clean up might take longer than the actual project did!

Did You Miss Me?

 I went to a wedding in Kansas.  Visited family and did the tourist thing on the way to and from.

I'm 60 years old now.

Got a Superhero Girls bus from Goodwill but the biggest keeper was this:

(Picture from internet.)  

The bus's driver can detach from the bus and zoom off after bad guys!  

Not sure what or where this will be.  Expect a future post or series on this project.

 

This is the sticker on the back.  There's also a serial number, but Google keeps finding me not-quite-this dollhouses.  Y'all know how it bugs me when I can't track down the origins.

The cast for my sequel to FRIENDS.  Can you guess who they are?

My second ily doll.  This one's a Hocus Pocus fangirl.  Loves the Sanderson sisters, so I'm calling her Sandy.  Did I mention in my post about Sally that the side-of-the-box art makes for good bookmarks?  Sandy's got some wild hair, but no worse than Willa or Belltrix.   

Please see the post titled "ily Forever" for the detailed review of Sally.  

Camper and Dollhouse Update

 I've not done much recently with the dolls.  I am still toying with a couple of story telling ideas, but the current political climate is playing hell with my psyche.  I think my muse may have run for the hills.  I am working around my stories, but not on my stories, if you can understand that.

You'll remember this camper. Those white sides, with indentations for stickers, bothered me.  So bland.

Peel and stick wallpaper to the rescue.

I've fallen in love with the Masterpieces from Zuru Mini Brands.  I'm not even sharing with the dolls!  This is my art gallery on the side of a bookshelf.  I don't care for the silly versions (like Mona Lisa in baseball gear) and I end up with doubles, like with any blind bag.

I have a plethora of easels and magnifying glasses.

And balls.  So many balls.

I'd like to get the dollhouse off the floor.  They could have a basement garage.

Ideally, I could set this up in the center of my Doll Room... it would be fun to have 360 degrees of play.  But I still haven't inherited a two bedroom house from long-lost Uncle Pennybags.

Anybody got a 62 inch long coffee table and a teleportation machine?

Rainbow High Color and Play House (Part Three)

 Oh, my aching back.  And knees.

But progress is being made.

I used a box flap to make a "door" for where the two houses meet.  You can see it better in the first picture... very in keeping with the whole rainbow theme.  I can't decide if I like that blue sectional or not. 

The kid room's "door" on the second floor.

On the dining room side, I taped a calendar picture to the back of the box flap.

The unopened kitchen set, two unopened bathroom sink & toilet sets, the second sectional, and the used pink kitchen.  These are available for adoption by my dolly friends.  First come, first served.

I spent most of the day sitting about where that rice cooker is, sorting through the pantry. Who put the floor so dang far down there?!  

Kitchen, complete with stocked cabinets and fridge.  I managed to keep most of the pantry.  That tall skinny shelf is from the Minibrands Books.  Most of the appliances are Minibrands Home - the scale is not consistent at all, but I can make it work. The food items are mostly Wacky Packages or Shopkins. Dishes are mostly Teeny Tinies or Minibrands Home.

Dining Room.  Each table came with only two chairs but I put all four around this table.  It's too small for the huge family I'm gonna have in this house, but how often does a whole family sit down and eat together nowadays?  I did keep the second table for things like Thanksgiving.  I have a whole bunch of dining chairs (mostly pink) on standby, too.

Living room.  I'm still undecided about the sectional.  

Library.  The tiny chair here and the one in the last picture are from the Minibrands Home collection - they work well for the babies.  The wall art says "I read banned books".  Can you guess where most of the books came from?

Bunkroom.  They can't fit much more in here! 

One of the teen or adult rooms.  Gage for scale.  (Not really.  He was just there.)

Little bunkroom.  The larger playthings I left on the bookcase as a basement playroom.

Second teen/adult room. 

Parents-of-baby's room.

Deck number one is for fooseball.  Also babies and kitties.

Quilter's room.

Deck number two is for the telescope. Jonathan is sitting on the "ball" from a Lord of the Rings Minibrand.  I just liked the look and decided it's a stool.  

Doll corner.  The plastic bins with sorted accessories are on top of the shelving unit. Three shelves and a tabletop full of people - and that's after I stopped the soap opera and thinned them out! Fourth shelf is the basement playroom. Bottom shelf holds my set pieces like the schoolroom. Clothes are in the big bin under the table. Standby furniture is in the purple bucket beside Hogwart's Express.

This dollhouse will be the primary set for storytelling.  Also, if you come over, you can play with it. 

Rainbow High Color and Play House (Part Two)

 

I noticed another creepy.  This is the back "window" of the room with the emerging faces!  I can't decide if these gals are the stalkers or the stalkees.  Anyway, it's up against my wall, so no biggie there.

Building the second house was quicker, mainly because I knew what I was doing this time.  No backward dividing walls this time, I promise!

The smaller first floor room is going to be a little library.  I had scrapbook paper that was books, but it wasn't big enough to do the whole area, so I went with this nice pink. I still need to secure the edges with clear tape. I sure wasn't going to try maneuvering around the trompe l'oeil plant again, but I kept the wainscoting on the side walls.  I do like wainscotting.

The larger first floor room will be the living room.

Gotta figure out what to do here.  My dolls do have some nice big shelving units that they might be able to hide it behind.  Curtains or a fake door are options, as well.

This is the second floor where the houses meet up.  Same solutions are being considered, even if this one might work as is.  Looks like a glass door!  

 This side of the first floor joining could be a pass-through.  Maybe I can find some low enough shelves to fill the bottom of the doorway on the other side. We shall see.

Fluffy cat moved in already.  Brought a candle and basket of playing cards.

I hoped to put the two attics together or the two decks.  Then I considered not using the center attic and having a really big deck.  But I decided to just have a weird looking house.  

These are the included  furniture, etc.  I have two of each because I got two houses.

Clockwise starting on Rusty's lap: Beds, kitchen appliances, bathroom sinks and toilets, couches, dining tables and chairs, markers, and assorted doodads.

I will definitely be replacing my current kitchen with the bigger and less pink set.

The bed that came with the house is just a teeny bit short.  The My First Barbie bed is much longer because My First Barbie is 14 inches tall.  I bought it because it's wide enough to be a double bed.  Note the trundle bed on the MFB. Since I'm going to have six bedrooms, they will all be used.

The blue sectional in the corner is the RH couch.  The other blue is Monster High and the pink/gray daybed is, of course, Barbie.  I have a lot of living room furniture to choose from.

This is how things looked when I stopped for supper.