A Dawn Doll Townhouse

As you may recall from a previous post, 

one of my collecting rules is:

"Every doll needs a place to live"

Well, this carboard book box

is going to become my Dawn Doll House!

It will also serve as a storage box for my Dawn 

dolls and their accessories.

I started by looking up images of

1970s rooms to get ideas.  Very pink!

This room was my favorite.  

I like how all these colors

are mixed. Pink, purple, 

yellow and green.

These embroidered flowers have similar

color combinations, so they are

inspiration for my Dawn room.

I looked around my sewing table and saw this

little green jewelry box.  I will make this into 

a dresser. I lightly drew the drawers in pencil.

Then went over these lines with the 

green pencil.

I selected this purple fabric for the chairs.

See my tutorial below.  These are made slightly 

smaller, but the technique is the same.

Doll furniture tutorial

For the sofa I used another box and cut into the 

center sides  and folded it.  Then its just covered 

in batting and fabric. I use my hotglue gun to

attach fabric to my small doll furniture.

Here is the back of the finished sofa.

You can see where I cut the box

and folded it over for a sofa.

The cofee table is just a wooden cutout from

the craft store, hot glued to a wood spool.

The table kept tipping over, so I 

glued a big metal washer to the bottom.

My house needed a view from the window.

I wanted it to be a New York street.

I found this frame online.  I used my

 editing program to cut it out.

Put them together and VOILA!

I printed this out after adjusting the green hue.

After printing I cut out my image.

I cut out the craft paper I decided to use 

in my house, for art and wallpaper and...

Using a glue stick to prevent ripples....

I attached the paper cutout wallpaper, wall art and my window.

For the heavier items, like the white rabbit

and the flower wreath I use this putty.

To finish my dresser, I used pearl pins

for knobs and hot glued them in the back.

Then snipped off the excess pin.

Voila! 

Want to see the finished house?

HERE

IT

IS!

The girls love their townhouse!

OH!

And here is my latest Dawn dress that I made.

I also made these tiny go-go boots.

Thanks for stopping by!!!