My farmhouse kitchen has been finished!

Cleaning out and stripping an old dollhouse of it's wallpaper and old flooring is just as time consuming as doing a real house.....many of you probably already know this........

for me, it was a learning session,  but I got it done!

As I was stripping away the wallpaper , I discovered that it was just like an old house, there were layers of different wallpaper in the rooms. This one particular picture I loved

and as I mentioned in my previous post, I want to keep some things that were already there in the dollhouse. I carefully cut away from the picture and hope that I can find some wall paper to go around it or maybe I might paint around it.......

what do you think??

I already had a design for the kitchen in my head when I first discovered this dollhouse and decided that this would be the first room I would renovate. I still decided to keep the little curtain that is hanging between the cupboards. I  removed the vinyl from the cabinets and scrubbed the kitchen floor

which turned out to be a lovely red vinyl! I then printed off wallpaper that has the same design pattern as my favorite set of dishes I use and  the background to my embroidery blog. I only wanted to wallpaper the upper part of the room and I wanted the kitchen to have a bead board look at the bottom.........is that the right word ??......beadboard??  I used craft sticks and glued each one..........it took me forever............

and then I panted them white and placed red ones on the top and bottom of the boards.

I also framed the other window in red board and made a little curtain.

I  placed craft sticks on the cabinets and stained them a dark brown, and then I made the farm house sink with the top of a jewelry box, and then painted it.

I wanted to keep the whimsical lights set throughout the house, so I made a lamp shade for the kitchen one.

I hand crocheted a rug for the floor

I also made a little curtain for the bottom of the sink and a matching hand towel.

The hardest decision for me to make was whether or not to paint the cabinets, but I wanted a bright cheery kitchen........so goodbye drab brown .........

and hello .........cheery!!

 Now my farmhouse kitchen is finished.......except for the furniture, which I am either going to make or purchase. I want to get all of the rooms finished and then try to get furniture that matches with the whole house. 

 I am planning on starting to work on the large living room.........which I might make half into a dining room. 

What do you think??
Would you just make a large living room........or make a dining room on the side??