The Little Blue House

My boyfriend has been very patient with my growing obsession for dollhouses.  He has wandered through dollhouse stores and scanned the shelves of dollhouse bits and pieces like a good sport.  He has asked for progress reports on the Log Cabin and has listened to me babble on about my ideas, thoughts and plans.  So when he was helping his parents clean out a basement in preparation for a move he thought of me when they came across an old dollhouse that belonged to his sister.  He checked with her about her continued ownership of the house.  She was not interested so ownership was transferred to me.  

I know next to nothing about the house other than the fact that it was put together by my boyfriend's parents as a Christmas present for his sister.   The house is an estimated 25 years old.

I stared into the house and started to dream.....   

My first thought was to do a kitchen in the room with the steps and a living room in the adjoining downstairs room.  But then I started thinking that an eat in kitchen would probably take a bit more room so maybe I should switch.  I went back and forth, listing the pros and cons for each option in my head.

I immediately began to ponder where to put a bathroom.  Within no time at all, I came upon the idea to put in a wall in the upstairs room where the steps come up.  I would have a little sitting area in the open area and I would have an open door with a glimpse into a bathroom in the closed off section. That would leave me a nice sized bedroom in the room with the dormer.   I was actually happy with my plans for the upstairs.

I couldn't wait to tear into my project.  I knew that the steps had to be carefully pulled out and some wall paper stripped as the first steps for the inside.  So I began to work on that tonight.

The steps came out very easily!

That room looked so much bigger and more manageable without the steps!  And then I started to play around a bit.  And another idea began to form.  What if I turned the steps around and put it into the long room on the right?

That really didn't kill too much of that room.  But if I do that it totally affects my plans for the upstairs.   Well, maybe not totally.  I could still partition off that room on the left and do a 'hint of a' bathroom and a sitting/sewing/kids room in the other portion.   Of course, I have a cookstove that i am itching to use somewhere.  I could do another house with no bathroom and get more chamber pots.

Meanwhile, I have to finish up the log cabin so I can work on the little blue house with a free and clear mindset. (Although will any dollhouse ever really be totally done?)