IKEA style mini doll house!

 I've been wanting the IKEA bookshelf/dollhouse for a while. When I finally decided to go purchase one I find out they are discontinued!

Luckily my husband said he could make one for me! We found very similar wood planks and made the height a bit taller and wider than IKEA's to suit the American Girl mini dolls better. Ours is 24" by 24".

 It's not fully decorated yet, but I LOVE IT!!

The Dolls' Room is ready!

It took several months to get the Dolls' Houses put back together and all of the dolls and their things back out of storage and into their new room at the new house, but here they are!!

 The Dolls' House takes up one side of their new room. 

Many of the mini-dolls live on top of the Dolls' House.

Kaya and her things, as well as Kendall and the 

Bitty Babies are situated on the next wall of the Dolls' Room.

The built in closet in the Dolls' Room was just the right size to hold 

their wardrobes as well as many other pieces.

The Dolls' Treehouse is on the next wall of the Dolls' Room.

And finally as we complete the 360 in the Dolls' Room we have the mini-doll houses.

It's so great to finally have all of the girls & boys out and about in their new room at AmericanGirlRescue!!

Girls (& boys) move upstairs!

So as one son gets married and the youngest son moves downstairs, that leaves the garret (upstairs area) for the dolls to be relocated!

The Dolls' House cannot stack upright upstairs since the ceiling is angled. But we did the best we could and they have the entire upstairs of our small farm house!

Dolls' House Update

I've been asked to post some more updated photos of our Dolls' House. These were actually taken last year, but they're newer than the ones I posted when it was new (HERE). This one is a little newer:

The Dolls' Room still has the TREE HOUSE on one wall and this wardrobe on one wall.

Here are the separate room photos only I don't have one of the first room now. Kaya and Julie share a room now, so here's a photo of Kaya's side and Julie's side separately.

The next room on the top is the Girl of the Year's Room (more or less):

Next room on the left is the Historical girls' room.

Beside that room, on the right is the Modern Girls' Bedroom:

On the bottom left is Josefina's Room. Her piano doesn't fit in her room. :-)

The last room on the bottom, is a Modern girl living room. Many haphazard items are in it. Now with Kit's Desk and Josefina's Piano too!

That's somewhat of how it looks. It changes a lot since we actually play with it! If you're our new friends from Atlanta, please comment. You can comment even if you don't have an account. Thanks for the fun time at AG-Atlanta!

Dolls' Tree House

Thinking that our girls needed some more room, and that a tree house would be fun, last weekend we created our doll sized tree-house.

The rooms are each 24" long by 20" tall by 18" deep. They stand on a real tree stump and have real limbs branching out each side. There is a swing on the left side for the girls to swing and a play yard for the pets on each section near the top.

This sits in the same room as the Dolls' House so it's kind of hard to get far enough away to take a good picture. Anyway, the girls seem to love it.

Mini-Girls' House

A couple of months ago we bought an unassembled, fully wooden doll house kit at a yard sale. There must have been 1000 pieces! After several days, 40 some hours, lots of glue, paint and wallpaper, we completed the house. You can see the front of the house in Kealoha's last entry here.

And here's a picture of the PC glass-eyed mini-girls in their new house:

As you can see we don't have much furniture yet. And really the girls are a bit off scale to the 1"=1' doll house. We made them their own bunk beds because they wouldn't be able to lie down in a scale, store-bought bed. We bought the fire place, sofa and ottoman at an antique store in Indiana. The house is still a work in progress, but we (and they) love it.

The Dolls' House

My sweet husband has constructed our girls a home to live in. Each 'room' is 4 feet long, by 2 feet deep and 2 feet high. That's a total of 8' x 6' of Doll House! We still need to get some interior decorating done and the attic finished, but here's a photo of how it looks in our 10'x11' den.