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Redoing the Rosedale kitchen

On HGTV they’re always saying that kitchens and bathrooms are where you should spend your renovation money for good resale value. And that’s where I’m focusing my efforts on the Rosedale right now… not for resale or anything, just because I sort of hate doing miniature bathrooms, and the kitchen has been in limbo for two years after a bad backsplash decision.

We’ll start with the kitchen. Here’s how it looked when I last worked on it in early 2012.

The tiles came off the border a 1:12 tile sheet. I liked them by themselves, but once I got them in the colors seemed all wrong. I didn’t like how they competed with the floral wallpaper border at the top of the wall, either.

So… I ripped them out.

I got this green-hued tile paper from Itsy Bitsy Mini for the Rowhouse fireplaces, and had a ton leftover. I turned it to put the tiles on a diagonal.

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The Ingalls family at home

Back in October, I ordered a custom set of Ingalls family dolls from Prairie Crocus Studio on Etsy. These are for my half scale Little House in the Big Woods cabin, and the family came with beautifully detailed Ma, Pa, Laura, and Mary dolls… no Carrie, but I figured a half scale baby would be easy enough to find.

Lucky me, I was recently browsing Etsy and saw that the same seller now has a half scale baby available. The doll comes totally naked but Laurie was nice enough to add a face for me. Here’s the picture she sent me before shipping.

Baby Carrie arrived from Canada today, neatly wrapped in a blanket. She got in through the mail slot but I think there might have been a stork involved at some point during the journey.

I never actually posted pics of the dolls in the cabin, so here we go! First, here’s Ma snuggling with the new arrival.

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Rowhouse – finishing the hinged panels (stair side)

Back in November when my dad and I attached the hinged panels to the Rowhouse, the panel on the stair side wasn’t closing all the way so we decided to add a magnet to help keep it closed. My dad used a special drill bit to drill a hole in the back side of the second story landing.

Before gluing in the magnet, I ran the red oak stain pen around the edge so none of the raw wood would show through.

Then I glued in a ceramic magnet.

I needed something metallic to put on the panel to engage the magnet. I wanted it to be unobtrusive and possibly even look like it belonged there. I found these metallic stickers and brads at Michaels in the scrapbook section. (I tested them with a magnet while I was in the store… not everything they had that was metallic was also magnetic!)

The decorative sticker thingies engaged with the magnet, with the added benefit of looking sort of like a Victorian heating vent, so I decided to use one of those.

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