Dollhouse Part One: Inspiration

Last year, my mom and I went to a warehouse where a few companies stored and displayed interior design things. They were emptying out last years samples (of carpet, window treatments, tile, wood flooring, linoleum, and upholstery) to make room for new stuff. We grabbed three boxes of stuff thinking to ourselves that we could use these tiny samples in a tiny dollhouse.

 
We have/had this old blue case and it was in the baby's room with some toys on it, but I really wanted to do something else with it. It looked pretty rough: the scratches on the side are from adjusting the shelves to be more even for the dollhouse and realizing that whoever painted it before didn't paint under the shelf holders. 

I went online and looked at some various projects to do with old bookcases. There are a lot of pictures of people turning dressers and bookshelves into dollhouses. What's really interesting to me is you can buy a bookshelf/dollhouse from the store for a hundred bucks...or you can just paint one and slap on some wallpaper and do it for pennies.Granted the final project will cost me about 80 dollars (when you count all the wood for furniture and fixtures and the dolls themselves) it's still a lot cheaper than buying a plastic one in the store.

And so, we begin the journey.