The Dolls House Bathroom

It's always a pleasure and a relief when I finish a room, not just for the satisfaction of seeing my ideas and work come together, but also because it means I can start the next room! I seem to have been working on the bathroom forever. One of the reasons for it taking so long is because I couldn't decide on the flooring, first it was wood, then I ordered some marble tiles online, but my maths skills are appalling so I didn't order enough and.... I didn't like them! So finally I decided on a sample piece of wallpaper from a DIY store. 

The curtain was a nightmare, I put a flimsy gold spotted chiffon type material over some lovely white silk material, which meant it kept slipping all over the place. I pinned and tacked then sewed and gathered the heading for the pole to go through and made the tieback with tiny gold beads. My first attempt was too short because the material frayed like mad, so I made the second one much longer and trimmed off the excess. The brackets to hold the pole in place were difficult to fix because of the angle.

I had the same problem fixing the taps, they weren't level, trying to drill a drilled hole a bit bigger on the bottom edge is impossible so I had to gouge out bits of the wall with a craft knife then plug up the excess with kitchen paper and super glue, insert the tap and hold it until it set!

The basin is a shell. I tried a couple of basins but they were just a bit too big.

The shower curtain was quite plain so I put a nice piece of chiffon on the top of it.

One thing I was really pleased with was the make over of this chest of drawers. 

It started as bare wood and I covered it with this lovely white and gold wallpaper. 

It was fiddly and tricky, I could have used thinner decoupage paper but I really liked this paper.

I bought a plain toilet and painted gold lines around it

  

I found this gorgeous cabinet on Ebay, I think the starting price was £15, each time I put a bid in I was outbid so I thought "I can make one". I could buy a bare wood cabinet, I already had some white spray paint and I could buy some gold leaf paper. However I couldn't find a cabinet as nice as this one, and it came with all the soaps, bath products and pretty ornaments so I put in my top bid of £25 and I'm very pleased with it.

After making lots of towels for Miss Teen's en-suite I decided to do the same with the bathroom, plenty of spare towels are stored in the chest of drawers :-)

I made the bath mat by sticking some tiny pom poms onto a material backing.

Window sills made from wooden spatulas
Time to get cracking with the bedroom.

Meanwhile....

The house is a mess because we have had some new doors fitted, three more to go so it's not worth trying to clear all the dust, I've done upstairs.

I'm taking advantage of the beautiful sunny warm weather to tidy the garden.

Going to a 70th birthday party tonight. I will be celebrating my own in a few weeks time!!....

~Be well and enjoy the rest of your weekend ~

Polly x