My doll house has been renovated!!!

[tigercat]

Back story: my SIL and my BIL (brother and sister) built a doll house for my kids when they were young, 33 yrs ago. They played with it for a long time and when they finished with it we stored it in the basement. When my oldest granddaughter was young 13 yrs ago we brought it out. It was in bad shape. My good friend who is a designer got really excited and took it home to renovate it. It was great. My other dgrdd who is now 11 also played with it. This past summer my dh decided that we had held it long enough and since my next dgrdd (who turns 5 in Jan) has never asked to play with it (at least I thought she hadn't) we put it outside and then decided to throw it away. The day before it was thrown away she came to me and told me that she was almost 5 and couldn't wait to play with it. I guess I had told her she had to be 5 in order to play with it. It was in horrible shape as it had been outside since last May. It took me 4 hours to take it back to the wood and clean it up and then my friend again took it to renovate it. It looks better than ever. It has carpets, tile, laminate flooring. It has wallpaper and she has put up another wall in the attic. She has even made a chandaler for the dining room. Homemade curtains complete the look. I can't wait for my dgrdd to come tomorrow and see it. She knows it is coming but thought it would be another week. I am so excited.
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[Tinijocaro]

How exciting that will be for your gdd. My mom had a dollhouse set up in our living room when us kids were teens and older and we used to love to pose the people in "compromising" positions. My mom would come along and I'd hear her yell my name. It was so much fun.

 

[nephthys43]

Where's the pics?!! I wanna see!

 

[tigercat]

I am going to take pictures tomorrow hopefully after I have a chance to set it up before she comes. I'll try and post it after that. I have playmobile furniture and people from their Victorian time. At this point I am more excited than she is. That house was in horrible shape. There was mold on the wallpaper and the flooring was coming up. One thing was that both coats of wallpaper were taken off and all the flooring had to go. She went around to flooring and wallpaper places and they gave her samples for it. They were all excited about it as well. It stands about 2' tall and is about
3' long.
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[PixieDustandEeyore]

Im in Ontario too I hope its inside now because we're getting mass amounts of snow!

 

[tigercat]

It has been completly renovated and is now up in the spare room waiting for my dgrdd. Actually we just started receiving a little snow tonight. Our town seems to miss a lot of the snow (usually knock on wood!!!) that the surrounding towns get. My dd in Kitchener was being hit today she said. I am closer to Toronto.
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