Decorate A Doll S House

This is the comprehensive guide to decorating your doll's house, inside and out. Expert instruction is provided on practical decorating techniques, the tools and materials required, along with safety tips for using paints and other finishes and advice on where to find decorating ideas. Step-by-step instructions and photographs lead you through processes such as antiquing miniature furniture, marbling, stencilling and tiling, making and hanging wallpaper, laying carpets, assembling and installing clapperboard exteriors, making pillars, creating unique brick facades, assembling roofs and trelliswork. The very best in contemporary doll's houses interiors are displayed, with examples of period interiors and a range of contemporary styles. Informative captions provide an insight into how the experts tackle different decorative effects and the photographs of finished interiors provide inspiration as you develop your own ideas and style.

“A fabulous book! . . . If you enjoy tiny, detailed projects that allow for lots of creativity and personal handiwork, I cannot recommend this book enough!” —Feeling Stitchy Salley Mavor’s book Felt Wee Folk inspired tens of thousands to handcraft dolls from simple materials. Now, she invites you to return to the wee world with Felt Wee Folk—New Adventures, starring 120 dolls to spark smiles and creativity. As requested by fans, this long-awaited follow-up shares more challenging projects. Explore fresh scenes and an array of new outfits, hairstyles, and accessories, with full-sized patterns. Make bendable dolls that resemble you, your family, or your favorite fairy-tale characters with wool felt, chenille stems, and decorative stitching. Display the figures in a dollhouse, atop a wedding cake, or in a holiday scene to be cherished year after year. From the pages of Mavor’s award-winning children’s books to your home, the enchanting wee folk dolls appeal to crafters of all ages and skill levels. More dolls, more scenes, and more outfits Use your stash—wool felt, chenille stems, and simple embellishments Delightful, challenging projects, as requested by fans Felt Wee Folk was a Foreword Reviews’ GOLD WINNER for Crafts & Hobbies “While the original book included projects beyond Wee Folk dolls, the new volume focuses on the dolls themselves. Fairies and families, kings and knights, and even some not-too-scary pirates all grace the pages of the book, beckoning readers to at least admire, if not try to create, Wee Folk of their own.” —The Enterprise (Cape Cod)

Pop out, fold and play! Discover this gorgeous paper doll house, just waiting for you to put together and fill with stylish furniture! My Designer Doll's House features six rooms, all with finished interiors. Each room features easy-to-fold funky furniture with simple instructions. There's no need for glue or scissors: just pop out a piece of paper furniture, fold it and it's ready to go! As you build the doll house, you can read about the dolls' adventures while they move into their very own home.

A room-by-room guide to decorating, furnishing and accessorising your 1/12 scale dolls' house in a range of period styles, complete with advice on materials and tools, tips on authentic period detail, full-size plans and complete instructions.

This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Maria Taylor lives in Plymouth, UK, where she lectures in illustration at Plymouth College of Art. She illustrated the children's ward at Plymouth Hospital and has illustrated books for Penguin.

A guide to decorating dolls' houses incorporating step-by-step instructions to creating different period styles from American country to Art Nouveau, Baroque to Biedermeier. The text outlines the basic principles of interior design in miniature and follows 20 specific projects.