For the pink bedroom I will be using a variety of materials. The pink-striped paper shown in the photo above is 12"x12" scrapbooking paper purchased on sale. The purple and pink pattern is a printable butterfly wallpaper border. The pink fabric shown above is a felt square I originally planned to use for carpeting. It was the right color but I also thought it was a little thin for carpeting. When I saw some plush fleece on sale, I thought it would work much better as it was thicker, with more pile. You can see it in finished room below.
The first step was painting the room bubblegum pink. I just used craft paint for this. One coat was enough because the walls had been primed first.
Next I used thinned Elmer's Glue as wallpaper paste to attach the striped scrapbook paper as wainscoting. By only covering half the wall, one sheet was enough for the whole room.
After wallpaper dried, I added the border. Multiple copies of the border were printed out as a full page (using good quality paper) and sprayed with a matte sealer before using (otherwise the ink may bleed). Then borders were carefully cut out and glued to top of wainscoting, which, as planned, lined up with bottom of window. No cutting around window was needed.
For the carpet, I made a paper pattern first, to make sure I got the size correct the first time. Because this is a recycled dollhouse, I suspected all walls weren't perfectly square....and they weren't! The center wall was a bit off-square, but not too noticeable to be concerned with. Below is the finished pink bedroom.
The carpet was glued down, but only a few spots of glue in corners and along front edge. I used fabric glue for this because other glues might bleed through the carpet and leave a dark spot!
I didn't make any curtains for the windows. I may do that later....or just wait until the kids get older before adding those kind of details. So far, so good! ;-) Next we'll tackle the bathroom.
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