Welcome to the Doll House.
No, not Dawn Wiener. I took pictures of the first six rooms! Yay!! And discovered most of it will have to be redone! Boo!! A lot of the wallpaper is coming off, I need to use something other than school glue (though it worked so beautifully in the first shelf I had it refused to come off and now I’m using it as a regular bookshelf with one overly fancy shelf inside). But I’m a perfectionist, and wallpaper that’s already coming up and showing seams etc will never do. Which is why I never upload. I have a whole series of Mercy sitting in my picture folder because I decided I could do better. Hrmph.
Anyway, without further ado, let’s get into the pictures!
The Parlor
Lenore, in the other corner.
Right now it’s just wallpaper, all the rooms are. I have a nice silver frame I’m setting against the back wall over the couch as soon as I settle on a picture. The furniture also has a little decoration that’s supposed to be put into the two holes on the back of the chairs and on the tables, but I’ll be damned if I can find them. Have to figure something out about that. The bust there, I don’t remember who it is, I bought it at the thrift store. I’m not sure if he’ll even stay in that room, but I think he’s cool. This room, in my opinion, turned out the best, and is the only one I don’t have on my list to redo.
The Dining Room
Magdalene haunting in the corner...
This room I’ll redo just because of the caption on the wall in the second picture. “OFF ON AN ADVENTURE” I didn’t think it would be so visible. It’s from a pack of fairy/fantasy/renaissance scrapbook paper, as is the rest of the room, and I think it looks cool but I’ll redo it to get rid of the words. This was one of the first rooms I did, and I got a little better each time so I think if I just do a few rooms over again they’ll be many times better than they are. I do like the very old world feel of the paper though, like the room hasn’t been redecorated in eons. I have visions of very uncomfortable, stiff dinners happening in this room.
Mercy's Bedroom
She doesn’t have any bedding yet because I haven’t decided where I’m going with it. I think I’ll paint her furniture brown (except for the wheelchair, that’s done with) and do a kind of dusty-rose thing. Like the bedroom you had when you were a kid that was still pink no matter how old you got and your mom wouldn’t change it from little girl style until you were about to explode? Wait, was that just me? 
On one wall it says “Far, Far Away” and on the other “There lived a beautiful princess” It’s another selection from the same pack as the dining room. I think it fits Mercy’s dynamic in the family as the coddled youngster.
The Bedroom of Oryx
Ah, Oryx. I love her name. This is her room. The rug isn’t glued down or anything, so it wrinkled and I didn’t notice til now. :/ Her room will always be a mess. She fancies herself an artist, and has absolutely no patience for cleaning up after herself. Julia often takes care of it on her breaks from Mercy because Julia is all starry eyed when it comes to her beloved Oryx. The spots on the wallpaper are designed that way.
Ofelia and Lenore's Bedroom
Shh…Ofelia’s napping. I’m going to add wall decor and such just like the other rooms need, but this room will be largely lacking in personality for a while. Ofelia and Lenore are supposed to be sudden guests, and mildly uncomfortable in their surroundings so a plainer room fits with that. Their bedding is made of velvet though, so they can’t be THAT uncomfortable. And as soon as I finish this blog I’ll be stuffing their mattresses and they’ll be slightly more comfortable, even if they are living in the bedroom from Sister Act. I also need to add another coat of silver to the beds so they match the vanity a little better.
Yeah, it appears everything’s in the rough-draft stage, but the rough draft is better than no draft. I’ll touch everything up after I get all the rooms though at least the initial placement and everything has wallpaper. One step at a time, right?
