I'm finished with the dollhouse I was working on, A beautiful canopy bed, countertop/stove homemade from a trophy piece. Gazebo in the making.

In this photo is a cheap wooden box that I purchased from Michaels craft store.  I will be making the bottom of the bed with the bottom of this box ( which I already painted the bottom red).

In this picture is some square pieces of balsa wood that I cut down for the canopy top piece.,  As you can see in the picture I put some holes in the top areas on the sticks, I will be putting some small round shape wooden sticks in the holes as you will see.

This is what the bottom of the box looks like.

In this photo I added the wooden sticks in the holes, I also put some holes on the sides which I need for other sticks.  I hot glued the sticks into place.  You will see where they get installed on the box bottom for the beds canopy.

This is what it looks like with the canopy in place.

Another photo of the canopy.

A closer view of the side.  You also can see I added a piece of foam board cut to size for a mattress.  I also put felt on the top of it.  To hold up the foam board I put some wooden sticks across on the inside of the box to hold up the mattress.

I then painted the whole bed.  I then added some christmas looking lights on the tops of the canopy poles to give it a nice look.

In this photo you can see what the bed looks like from the bottom looking up.  I also added some trim work on the sticks on the sides.  I also took two decorative hair combs and cut off the teeth and hot glued them to the top and bottom of the bed for a footboard and headboard.

In this photo you can see the decorative hair combs better, and the trim.  Any hair piece looks great as a foot board or headboard.  Now to show you how I made a countertop/ stove for the kitchen area in the house.

This is a piece off a trophy that I took apart for another one of my projects.

I added some white foam board to the sides and top of this piece to hide the colors.

This is what it looked like after I added the foam board to it.

In this photo the gray item in the back is a metal plate from a switch plate which I will cut a piece off to make the window for the oven area.  You can also see popsicle sticks which I'm making a wainscotting out of.

In this photo you will see the gray piece of metal I added to look like the window of the oven area.  You can also see the popsicle sticks as the siding around the piece.  I also added some plastic fake tile sheets to the top to look like a tiled counter.

This is what the project turned out to look like after adding some beads, pictures on the cabinets.  I also painted it a brown color.

Here is what the top turned out to look like. I added some small wooden circles and painted them black with a white dot in the middle of the circle to look like the burners.

This is two top pieces off another wood piece I bought from michaels, I put them both together and added some wooden hearts in the middle of them.

This is how the little girls bedroom turned out to look like.  The mirror in the background was from a birds cage which I painted black and gold.  

I also made a country looking bed which I started out exactly like all the beds I make ( the bottom part of a wooden box) 

This is the parlour area of the house, as all of my houses I made a TV which lights up at night with a solar light.  I also made a fireplace.  The bottom of the fireplace is the marble base off a trophy.

This is what the kitchen looks like.  The refrigerator is made of the same type of wooden box I make the beds out of.  I painted on the details to make it look like a refrigerator.

This is the bathroom area.  The sink is made of a martini glass painted cameo color.  The toilet is made of clay.

This is what the little boys room looks like.

I made curtains for all the windows out of pieces of a window topper I bought from a garage sale.  You can make alot of different items for a dollhouse from things you will find at the dollar store etc.  Use your imagination.

Keep checking my blog you will see me transform this candle holder into a gazebo for another one of my dollhouses.  In this picture I have already taken out the glass panels on the sides.  Don't miss seeing this one it will give you some good ideas of your own.

A beautiful dollhouse I'm working on right now. A ship bed with an ocean theme.

In this photo you can see the front of the dollhouse.  I painted it red, blue and a tan color.  I added some details to the front to make it look pretty.  On the top porch you can see two of the dolls standing there.  This dollhouse opens from the front.

I wanted to make a different looking crib for the babies room.  This used to be a cart on wheels.  I first took off the wheels and added two pieces of wood for the leg part.  I then added two pieces of shaped wood to the front and back of the crib which in the picture I painted them yellow.  I also added two little circles one to the front and one on the back, you can see it in the photo its painted red and yellow.  I then added a piece off a ship on the bed as you can see.  I made a mattress out of a piece of foam wrapped in a baby blanket material.  I made a pillow out of foam wrapped in material.  You can see that I painted it red and yellow.

this is the babies room.  I also put a hanging item hanging off the ceiling above the crib.  This has birds which hang from it.  Babies like things hanging over the crib so I added it.  I added shells on the wall, the bedroom is painted a coral color.  I went with an ocean theme for this room.  

this is a closeup of the hanging bird item I made over the crib.  On the wall by the crib you can see a boat anchor in a frame.  What I did was go to the dollar store and purchased large hoop earrings, these are what I used for frames.  I also added an anchor picture in the middle of it.

This is another one of the hoop earrings which I added a picture of a sea captain in the middle.  Earrings make great frames for in a dollhouse.  All you need to do is add a picture in the middle.

This is the bathroom area in this dollhouse.  I put wallpaper on the walls and fake tiles on the bottom.  the tiles come in sheets for dollhouses.  I also added a little hook on the wall that holds a towel.  I put some butterflies on the wall, little minature sconces with little candles in them.  Over the tub I added some rectangular mirrors with a flower in the middle of them.  The bathtub used to be a ashtray. I put contact paper on the floor which looks like a marble flooring material.

This is the sink which used to be a little martini glass and a piece off another project I took apart for the sink area.  I added two pieces of plastic for knobs and faucet.  I spray painted the base cameo color and the faucets silver.  As you can see you can use small glasses to make a sink for a bathroom in a dollhouse.

This is a closeup of the area over the sink.

Everyone calls this my trade mark, This is the solar TV for this dollhouse.  It lights up at night, it really looks like someone is watching TV.

This is another one of the bedrooms in this dollhouse, I painted the room a dark purple color and put some trim around the top.  You can use decorative ribbon trim for the top of the walls in a dollhouse, it gives it a different look.  Keep watching my blog I will be adding more picture from this dollhouse as I'm doing the rooms.