But now to the really important things :).

Do you remember my tiny bed room? I somehow forgot to continue working on it, but after I found a tiny lamp for the desk I thought it was time to do something with the room again.

The bed has a bed spread now. I am not sure if it isn’t too much of a color and pattern mix with the cushions and the rug. But I like how it looks, and Perdita seems to like it.

It’s getting dark early. Probably one of the things I hate most about this time of year. I found this little lamp in one of my prop boxes, very nice to brighten up the evening.

I will take more pictures of the tiny bed room soon, I am just waiting for the next sunny Sunday to show you all the details. Let there be light, and warmth and colorful bed spreads!

The bedroom is on the top floor, like the bath it has one slanted wall and a skylight. The window is between the bath and the bedroom, I just need to add some nice curtains and a background. Somewhere in my fabric stash there must be a light yellow cotton with tiny flowers, I just couldn’t find it. Or maybe just café curtains? I am not sure yet.

I made a tiny desk with fake drawers for the bed room. The white lamp is bought, and so is the notebook. The chair is one of the chairs I made for the kitchen table, but it looks nice with the desk as well.

I made the bed and a matching tiny nightstand to go with it. My girls like to read before they go to sleep. Who doesn’t like a good murder mystery and a cup of tea, tucked in and comfy?

And I found this red dollhouse alarm-clock that looks exactly like the one I had as a kid. One of those you just can’t ignore. I still remember the sound of the alarm.

The tiny shelf is painted in the same colors as the desk. And of course I made all the books. Apparently the tiny girls in the house like Harry Potter just as much as I do.

The little plants are bought as well. I think it’s quite enough furniture for this tiny room. Even if the future inhabitants won’t have a closet. Unfortunately the bed is so long that it’s hard to take pictures of the room without visible endings of the wall or floor in the picture. I am not sure where to put which picture, that’s why some of them still sit on the shelf. There will be a quilted bed spread as well. Some day.

I thought about adding fringes to the rug, but I actually quite like it without. What do you think?

Anyway, if I manage to finish the room this year, I will post lots of pictures of course. But for now this will have to do.

I painted it and added the counter, the tiny storage unit and the rest of the furniture. The tiny coffee maker, food items and the mugs are from Microworld Store (Aliexpress shop with loads of food and kitchen stuff). I found a lot of free printable food packaging images and created a board on Pinterest to collect them, just in case you are interested.

The tiny storage unit with trash and a couple of cook books (They are in the 1:6 scale armchair template)

The (almost) full view.

And now with dolls 🙂

And Barbie

I just need to find a way to illuminate both windows- the sky light and the big window. And I guess the small rooms need their own picture format- they just don’t fit well into my usual templates. A lot of the things in this room (and the room itself) are self made. The wash stand, towel racks, the tub fittings, towels, the window shade and bath mat are designed and made by my own (now chapped) hands. You’ll find a list of the bought props at the end of this post.

This room is supposed to be a quiet retreat for a relaxing bath, unhurried morning routines, sunlight and scents.

The floor boards creak a little. There’s a tree nearby, so add bird song to the ambient noise. It smells like warm wood, lavender, Laura’s favorite carnation scented soap and fresh towels.

And now pictures, please excuse the many similar looking ones- I have been playing with the light. I hope you like the tiny bath room as much as my girls 🙂

And since this is still a shared tiny home, the bath is shared as well.

And of course the tiny bath is nice and clean!

Bought props:

The (free) 3D toilet template from Badgerfashion on thingyverse, kindly printed by a friend. A bath tub (soap dish) and a tiny dollhouse lamp from Amazon. The basin is a “Lavabo clipbox”, this one as well as the tiny set of toiletries on the wash stand counter are from MICRO WORLD store on Aliexpress.

And I almost forgot to show you the painted wash stand. There will be a mirror (I am thinking oval) and the two little lights (see picture below) over it, but I have not made that yet. What I did make is a little mat. I have almost no experience with crocheting, but since I wanted this oval mat I needed to learn how to do that. A customer gave me a book on how to crochet, but I always preferred knitting and never really tried. It turned out okay-ish, and I will make a larger one for the bath tub. I am so excited about my plans for the bath, I can’t wait until I get to that.

And I shortened the faucet. It still looks old fashioned, but it isn’t that dominant now.

I also built and painted the walls of the first two rooms. There will be the bath room and a tiny bed room on top of this.

A double- Kallax from IKEA is on it’s way, and I will mount the house on top of it. It’s much easier to work on things in the ground floor room (the kitchen) if it’s a bit higher. And I will have storage room in the basement, so to speak.

Not sure yet if I will put curtains on all windows. My whole apartment is a construction area, everywhere are painted things that need to dry, parts I have not finished. It’s fun, but I will be glad when everything is nicely assembled as far as the rooms go. The top floor will get a sloped ceiling as well as skylights.

Speaking of lights: I want a bit of light in this house, and bought one actual dollhouse lamp (the golden one), and a bunch of balloon lights. I didn’t even know those existed. Thank god for “related products” ;). Those thingies are battery powered LED lamps you can put in a balloon or hang in trees for party decoration. They come in varieties of light colors, flickering or steady light, some can be turned on and off, some can’t. After reading through descriptions carefully I ordered two different sets. The white lamps with the string are perfect to create ceiling lights. There’s a little piece of plastic you need to pull to turn them on, pushing it back in turns them off. They are actually quite bright, all of them. The tiny golden lamp will go in the bathroom. The other lights could be wall lamps or bed side lamps, I’ll see what I can do with them. All of these are from Amazon. I put the pin in the picture as a size reference.

I added to the height and made a counter – cooking without some space to prepare food isn’t fun.

And I started with furniture for the bathroom. This is the carcass of my newly built wash stand. I have not decided yet if I’ll paint it white or use color- I was thinking of grey. What do you think? And maybe I’ll shorten the faucet, it looks more like a kitchen sink faucet than a bath faucet.

And speaking of faucets: I need fixtures for my bathtub. This weird contraption is going to be part of it. It’s a mixture of thingies I found in one of my odds and ends boxes. The bar is a part of a Blythe-hand gesture set. I added two eyelets and beads on top of them, and the tap is a cable. The white thing was on one of my clothes hangers. I have not decided yet if I add a shower. If I can find an old pair of in-ear earphones, I might use one of those as a shower head. Thank god for silver spray 🙂

I have made the walls and windows, but they are not painted yet, so you get to see them later.

And I just decided to paint the wash stand medium warm grey with a white counter. Yes.

I am working on so many things at the same time that I start to feel slightly confused. So you get bits of this and that, and I can keep track of the progress by posting what I have made.

First of all: Area rug. I wanted an area rug for my kitchen make-over, and since it’s really easy to make a small loom I decided to weave it.

It’s basically just a piece of cardboard, the warp is about 8 cm (3.15″) wide. My weaving shuttle is one of those face mask nose wires. I would have been able to work much quicker with a handloom with heddle bar, but I don’t have one, so over-under-over-under it is. I’ve never attempted weaving before, but I have seen how it works. I am quite happy how my area rug turned out. I just need to cut the fringes evenly. There are some slight irregularities in width, mostly because my warp lost tension after a while. I will apply what I have learnt next time.

I also finished a shirt for Roux.

And one of the dogs I ordered arrived. I saw this Husky on Kamelia’s blog and loved it. I still have a bulldog, a greyhound and a Shiba Inu on the way, all found here.

And look what I found! It’s a ceramic soap dish. It has “Bain de Paris” written on one side, but the other side is plain white. This will look very nice in my future bath room. It doesn’t have a hole (which is probably not that great if your soap gets soaked, and probably the reason why it came at a reduced price). So you can actually fill it with water. There was a really big one in plastic on Amazon, but this one has just the right size to fit nicely into a small room, even if this doll can only sit in it.

And last but not least: A paper clip holder from AliExpress that makes a perfect 1/6 washbasin (Google Lavabo clipbox) and the printed thingyverse– toilet made by badgerfashion. I asked the friend who kindly printed it to adjust the seat height to 7,5cm. I am not sure how that works, but apparently it wasn’t a problem. This is how it came, I just need to sand it a little bit and maybe paint it. Seat and lid can be opened separately, and the water tank is a separate piece as well.

Did I mention I wanted to pile the rooms on top of each other? Well… Here’s a start. I want to build this in a way that will allow me to take out the floor in the middle. Whatever room goes on the ground floor, I need light to take pictures, and taking out the story above will certainly add some light.

And I will leave one side open. I am not sure yet which diorama will go on what floor. One will be the kitchen and one will be a rebuild version of my existing shared tiny house diorama. I want to use the top shelf for a bedroom/bathroom combination, both just half the size of the other rooms.

I have bought a pack of DIN A 2 (420 x 594mm) poplar-plywood. It’s great for projects like this, almost soft enough to cut it with a cutter and still sturdy enough to support the weight of doll furniture. It’s a bout 4mm thick. I wanted a wooden plank flooring look for this tiny house. I carved 2cm wide floor boards into the plywood first. I used a metal knitting needle for this. After carving the planks I used wood glaze to paint the grain, because I wanted them to look like individual floor boards.

I bought some stuff as well. One of my favorite shops to buy miniature food on Aliexpress is Micro-world store, I already found the tiny waffle maker there, and ordered some more food and a coffee maker. But it will take a while to arrive, Chinese New Year holiday is just over, and they are not yet shipped. Another favorite shop is called VBS-hobby, it’s a German language shop selling all sorts of hobby stuff. I found some tiny furniture (or rather plain wood storage boxes and a tiny set of drawers). They are the perfect size for Barbie. The tiny storage box has a transparent lid, so I will be able to use it as a storage box when it’s not a book case.

And I made a couple of miniatures. This is so much fun! I will have to make more. The tiny spice jars are just pieces of a chopstick, with a button glued on top. I made the tiny oven mitten. The black plant pot is part of a nail polish bottle cap. And I made tiny rolls of toilet paper. I found a Barbie toilet on thingyverse. A friend will print it for me, and I am really curious how it will look.

This is the progress I made since I wrote the last post. I hope I’ll be able to finish the kitchen within the next week – the paint job, that is. It will take a while until I have finished the complete rooms.

With this room I decided to go for colorful and cute as far as the decoration is concerned. I hope the cute factor is not overwhelming, and it still looks like a room used by mature inhabitants. And this is actually the first room where my tiny china set looks in scale with the rest as well as the dolls.

But first things first:

Meet the inhabitants

Ancient Tales Rachel enjoys a cup of tea and a bit of afternoon quiet time.

The fashion dolls

My Kurhn, Xinyi and the Mengfan I recently added to the unstrung crowd. They still have their original faces, but I cut the Kurhn’s hair.

Blythe house

And Betty and Sylvie 🙂

I have to admit that I love how the Blythes look in this setting. That’s why you get to see loads of pictures with these little ladies. And I couldn’t resist the “Blythe house”. There actually is a real Blythe house, it’s a building in West Kensington that is used as an Archive for a couple of British Museums.

But since I acquired quite a couple of 1:6 scale dolls in the last three months I thought it’s time to make a new doll diorama in this scale. Thanks to previous woodworking endeavors I found all I needed in my box with small wood, dowels and left overs. My storage space is so limited that I decided to make just one wall, not a complete room box.

What I have in mind is wooden half-wall paneling in white, maybe with a shelf. Slate blue walls and white furniture. I want the basic colors to be neutral, so the couch will have slate blue or dark grey covers. To add some color there will be lots of pictures and cushions, flowers and all sorts of stuff. I will use wooden spatulas for the panels, they already have the perfect size and I have tons of them.

Of course I needed to build a couch, make the seats and covers, cushions and all sorts of props. Hours of work, two audiobooks and three pots of tea later the basics are finished. Please excuse the crappy pictures, it’s 12 am and so dark that I have to turn on the lights.

The seats are made of some foam pieces that were wrapped around one of the Raccoon doll boxes as additional padding. I am glad I kept it. I use to keep the original doll boxes, but not all the packaging material. I am really glad I made an exception for this stuff.

Lots of cushions. They are just about 6 x 6 cm, so I could repurpose some of my cabbage.

I finished the panels and the cushions.

I spent hours on making tiny picture frames. They are just cardboard, since they need to be lightweight. I went for a mix of cute and whimsical, most of the pictures are images I found on Pinterest.

I am almost done with all the props and furniture, and I can’t wait to start creating the room. I hope the weather will be a bit better the next couple of days to take pictures of the new room in 1:6 scale.

I wish all of you a wonderful time, merry Christmas and a bit of piece and quiet, delicious food and happiness.