Alison Jr Dollhouse pretty much all done.

 I'm all finished with DD dollhouse except for the stairs (which are under way).  It looks so cute with its shingles and trim.  I added a little Christmas spirit on the front doors.  I also have to add some door handles to the interior doors.  But the end is in sight.  Excuse the mess behind the house.  My craft room is quite untidy right now.  I was hoping to finish up this dollhouse so that I could clean it up a little. 

The furniture isn't all permanent, but it's a general idea of what the setup will look like.  I think it turned out quite charming. 

Victoria's Farmhouse by Real Good Toys

And the final dollhouse that I own right now is the Victoria's Farmhouse by Real Good Toys. This is my baby. It's hard to have a dream dollhouse because I love so many styles, but this is my ultimate dollhouse. It's pretty big, for me anyway. I've seen lots of big dollhouses, but this is the biggest I think possible for me to undertake. I've been working on it for over a year in my spare time and I'm just about finished with the outside. The shingles still need to be added of course, and then I need to finish up the foundation (egg carton stones), and touch up paint and trim. I also need to stain the front door a wood color, and add the board and batten to the eaves.

Sorry for all the debris in the pictures. I'm messy when I work on my dollhouses.

My vision for this dollhouse is to finish it in current day interior design. That means I will have to make a Victorian dollhouse some day because I've always wanted one. However, it scares me to make things in period, since I don't know much about the Victorian era.

A family will live in this house. They have a mom and dad, a baby girl, a brother, and a sister.



As you can see, I have changed quite a bit from the original kit. There are certain things I like to include in my dollhouse and the original kit didn't allow for it. I think I secretly find pleasure in kit bashing also. I'm never satisfied with the original design.

I added windows to the attic rooms, and created more space in them by raising the back to be room height. I also added the whole side addition, which includes a formal dining room, a nursery, and then a craft/guest room (that's the plan right now anyway). A side panel towards the front opens to reveal the living room and the master bedroom. I also made the roof open on the front eave so I could have a room in there as well. That will be the boys room. I also put a roof where the upper porch was supposed to be, because it seemed more charming and farmhouse-y to not to have a balcony. I also added the roof (it's just taped in place for now) over the bay window because it seemed weird to just have a large flat area.


Some of the walls are missing (they're built, I just forgot to put them in for this photo because I was in a hurry), but I'll try to explain the floor plan as best I can. My daughter also put all the furniture in the house as well as some of her toys, so I will try to get a better picture of the house set up the way it's supposed to be asap. You'll have to use your imagination for now.

From left to right starting at the bottom, we have the laundry/mud room first. This is where you see the French door which opens into the side backyard. The other door opens to the porch. Next to the laundry room is the entry way with stairs. From the entry way, you can enter the living room (the door is behind the stairs next to the front door), or go into the kitchen at the back. There will be a wall separating the two. Next to the kitchen is the formal dining room, which can also be accessed through the living room by a single French door.

The second floor from left to right has a study/library. The door leading off of this room will enter a little hall that is only like 3" square. A door on the left will enter into the master bedroom in the front of the house, and a door on the right will enter into the bathroom. From the master bedroom, there is a door that leads into the nursery. I hope that all makes sense. I'll have to stage it better so that it does.

Anyway, the upper floor from left to right starts with the daughters bedroom. The lucky girl gets the large dormer and all the charming roof angles. Next to that is the family room, and next to that is the craft/hobby room and maybe guest room. In the front of the house (the door leading off of the family room) is the boys room. I may possibly make that the guest room and not have a boy, but I have some fun ideas for a boys room that I want to use. So we shall see. Maybe I'll make a room box for the boys room :).

So that's the tour at a glance. I've started the round wiring and am about half way done (it's a lot of work for a house this huge, especially since I've never wired a house before), but I think I may pause on that and just make the floors removable, so I can finish the lighting with each room, instead of doing it all at once.

Wow, it looks overwhelming. But if I just do a little at a time, it will slowly get done. I'm very pleased with the way it's turning out.

So that's my final house. I'm sure it won't be the last. I seem to switch from house to house as I work on things, so the posts are sure to be random as work progresses.


I feel like I have been so welcomed into the miniature world already with so many followers. Everyone has been so nice in their comments and I love all of your blogs. You are what inspires me to keep going. Thank you!

Alison Jr. by Real Good Toys

Dollhouse #5 is the Alison Jr. by Real Good Toys. I bought this dollhouse for my daughter just recently (she begged for pink). That's why it's a miracle that it's almost finished. I think I was able to get more done on it since it wasn't going to be for me, and that meant I didn't have to be Miss Perfectionist (which none of my stuff is perfect, but I wish it was). I've taped it together in the following pictures, so nothing is glued together yet except the foundation. I wanted to make sure the adjustments I made lined up and that the wallpaper was in the right place. I've learned that it's easier to wallpaper before things are glued in place. It took me three other dollhouses to learn this.

I had to kit bash, because it's just more fun that way. I thought centralizing the front door was better and it was also better since I moved the stairs. Moving the stairs allowed me to make the bathroom and nursery separate rooms with doors, as well as more appropriately sized for their use. I was able to make a bigger master bedroom as well on the third floor, which is also a bonus. I still need to make the walls a little less rough on the third floor hall. Measurements somehow changed when I put the house together again.

The nice thing about this house was that the floors came already finished. That's a good thing, but it also has it's problems. Since I moved the stairs, I need to figure out how to patch the old hole so it's not very noticeable. That will be easy on the ceilings, but I'm thinking I'll have to just cover the floor where the patch is in the bathroom and nursery. I might put tile in the bathroom and carpet in the nursery. That, or giant rugs. The other problem with the floors is I can't round wire the house very easily because I like running the wires through the floors. Since this is my daughters house, I might just makeshift lights that run on batteries or I'll have to try the tape wire method.

I also added a door on the second story balcony. What's the point of a balcony if you can't access it? And the tower will be a little reading library nook that you can access by a ladder through a small opening from the master bedroom.

What fun I have ahead of me! I need to glue the house together once I finalize everything, and then finish windows, add trim and moldings, and shingle it. Shouldn't be too hard, right? ;)

I wasn't very careful cutting out the door for the second floor. I'll have to patch that, as well as a few other things.




The wall divider fell over in the kitchen, but I'm debating whether I should put the two available in at all. They make the dining alcove feel a little more separate, but they also take up room in a small space.

From left to right, the first floor has the living room, small dining alcove at the front of the house, and then the kitchen. The second floor is the bathroom, hall, and spare room (I'll let DD figure out what she wants to do with it). The third floor is the nursery, hall, and master bedroom. And then the tower, which you can't see in this picture.

(Because of the houses location, it was hard to get a good picture)