Help Needed

 A week or so ago I posted a wee short video showing my Greenleaf Mckinley  on my Youtube Channel.  The house is 'mostly' done.  It is fully furnished but while I am thrilled with it, I know that it is missing something!!!!!  I have learned something about myself.....somehow my eye for making the houses look lived in and 'real' has disappeared.   And I'm struggling with that!!!!  I asked for help on that youtube channel.....and I'm going to ask for help here too!!!  I am showing the rooms and adding in the ideas that I was given and that I already have or have come up with.....but HELP!!!!

So here goes......

The kitchen

The kitchen definitely needs something also!  It was suggested a tea towel, a rug and a table.  I had resisted the idea of a table simple because of space.  But I am planning on adding one (I have a wooden one I can paint).    Throw your ideas at me!!!!

The Living Room 

The suggestions:  A teacup, books or vases in the cabinet, logs in the fireplace, a rug.   I have added a pack of cigarettes beside the ashtray (hey, I don't smoke but it IS a 1950's era house!)  What else????

The Nursery

The nursery...probably my favorite room!  It was suggested mess it up with some toys on the floor, someone suggested a rocking horse.  (which I happened to have one).  I am in the process of adding books and a rug....the rocking horse and a rocking chair.   But I don't want a 'sterile' nursery....I want a lived in nursery....help!  

The Bathroom

I actually think that I have this room pretty well done.  I need something on the wall behind the toilet.  Someone suggested a fish or something...but I'm open to ideas!

The Master bedroom

I have added some small rugs beside the bed.....and someone suggested a full length mirror (which will replace the rocking chair that I moved to the nursery) and a trunk at the end of the bed.   

So that seems to be my weakness......turning the dollhouse from a sterile neat home to a lived in house.  I am looking for inspiration to help get my creative juices flowing.

I know that once the ideas start flying at me that my brain will kick in with all sorts of things.  I have also come up with an umbrella /cane stand by the front door, radiators, pillows for the couch and window seats, light switches, and lights around the house.     SO if you have any other suggestions.....

If you want to see the short video......

Welcome to the Kitchen : Mckinley Greenleaf 1950's

It is time to show off my kitchen......or at least the kitchen in the Greenleaf Mckinley miniature dollhouse!   How exciting to say that this room is mostly done!   It has undergone a huge shift since I began!

I wrote about my plans and progress on this dollhouse quite a long time ago in this post.   I was gung ho and loved what the kitchen was looking like. 

I was really happy.  The appliances and sink were great and vintage looking.  I was loving it.  But in the back of my mind I was always thinking, "it looks a bit 'play".   You see, my appliances WERE play items .....for the most part.  I wanted something more realistic!   So I splurged and bought a new kitchen set!!!

Ohhhh that made it absolutely perfect!   I put up some curtains and padded the window seat too!   Little touches that mean so much!

And I just started to add those little accessories that make the kitchen come to life!  

The kitchen is NOT done.  I have to put up some pictures and maybe add more accessories as I come across things that I would like to add.  But this room is absolutely perfect in my eyes!  (for the moment!)