Stars & Stripes House

This has been an ongoing project for quite some time. The idea started nearly two years ago, and I have colelcting since then, to get together what I want for the house.

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About the House

The house it's self is a simple georgian style house, which I am painting with a Stars & Stripes theme. The front is partly painted, but I am considering changing the colours, so they are darker & more vibrant.

The inside is decorated with stars & stripes wallpapers I have got from About Miniatures, and some which I have adapted myself.

The top room is the bedroom and nursery, together. The cot is an adapted piece from Townsquare Miniatures. I recovered the matress in checks, added checked sheets and suitable coloured blankets. Then I removed the canopy, took off the original baby print check & lace, and recovered it with a stars & strips print cotton, giving it a ruffle.

The bed is also mass produced, and originally featured a powder blue synthetic fabric with a raised flower design. I recovered this with the same stars & striped fabric as the cot. I also plan to repaint it, replacing the pink & green flower motifs with suitable flag designs.

The bed will be made up with a star quilt I made years ago, and various pillows & cushions in suitable fabrics.

The rest of the furniture is fairly simple, just plain white drawers, and a chair.

The middle level is the lounge, and features a couch made by moi! It was pretty simple to make, just out of sturdy card, padding & fabric. It still needs beads for the legs, but I havn't found anything suitable yet. :-)

I also have a gorgeous needle point eagle rug that mny sister made for me. And am desperately trying to drive a bargain with her so I get to have a pair of beautiful carved wooden eagle paques for the wall. But as yet it hasn't really worked!

The bottom floor I think will be a kitchen, with table set in red white & blue and various other "bits & pieces".

I have several ideas for window dressings, all using stars & striped fabrics collected on various trips to America.

Many of the accessories in the house have been collected while on holiday, or are pieces that I already had, in suitable shades of red white and blue. There are also little touches from holidays in America, such as the name mugs, with mine & my mum's names, which we bought on one of our trips.

I have also gleaned a lot off the internet. I made a lot of printies myself, as well as many from About Miniatures, and the MSAT printies list.

A lot of my inspiration for this has been from our collection of ountry Living Magazines, with gorgeous 4th of July decoration ideas. I translated a lot of them into dollshouse ideas and eventually decided that I needed a whole house for them.

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