Does anyone renovate doll houses?

[insertsomethingwitty]

I have always been fascinated by miniature and when my daughter saw people were selling decorated Sylvanian houses on eBay I promised her I would do up one of her really old (mine) ones for her.

It is nearly finished now and looks pretty good and I really enjoyed doing it. I have re-done the roof that was all scuffed, put up 'wallpaper', put down flooring as the original floor was all scuffed and worn and made some tiny curtains so far. I think I would like to try and get hold of some more that needed a bit of attention and maybe try and sell them on.

Is there anyone out there who does this, or does it just as a hobby? I would love to hear from anyone that does.

[goodiegoodieyumyum]

I am planning on doing with the dolls house my daughter inherited from her great grandmother, just waiting until she is a bit older.Did you enjoy doing it?

[insertsomethingwitty]

Yes I loved it, it isn't a big house but I thought I would start off with something small, and something that wasn't a huge deal if I ruined.

The wallpaper especially was very fiddly as I wanted it to fit perfectly so took a while to make templates first.

But I think it looks great, much improved from how it was before.

[jennimoo]

I'm hoping to do up my childhood dollshouse for DD for Christmas. Any tips on where is good to buy the paper from? I really need to recover the outside and would love to keep it red brick as it is now.

[insertsomethingwitty]

For our wallpaer I just used Cath Kidston wrapping paper. You can get proper dolls house wallpaper though.

[Showtime]

jennifersprintables have huge amount of downloadable, free papers for interior/exterior dolls-house renovation, arranged by period and drawn to scale, wonderful.

[rockinhippy]

I can't answer your question OP as doing up DDs hpuse has just been a hobby project, but for those of you still intending to do up a dolls house & asking about paper etc THIS
is a great site for free printable period wallpapers, flooring tiles & more & look at some of the links, great little tutorials for making all kinds of things from furniture to pies :)