Slate, barnboard and a cover-up job.

 I’ve managed to do a little work on my fixer upper dollhouse.
This is the kitchen, which I want to look old fashioned and
“country rugged.”
I smashed an old roof slate from our previous home into pieces and grouted them into place 
on the kitchen floor.   Then I bought a package of dollhouse clapboard and stained it
a weathered grey to look like the old barn board we have on the walls in This Old House.
 Then it was glued to the walls.  I discovered that glue makes
these very thin clapboard pieces curl.  Learning experience! – and tip –
use very little glue when you work with supplies from the dollhouse homedepot.
Not bad for an amateur, right?
I think my husband should hire me as a sub, keep it in the family, don’t you?
Because the windows are in really bad shape in this particular old dollhouse,
and the house is kinda tentative in its sturdyness and they don’t MAKE it anymore,
I can’t really replace them. So I found cute curtains to cover them up some
without giving the rooms a heavy look.
(this is why my husband will NEVER hire me as a sub 🙂 
Next project… maybe.. barn board painted white in the living room?
What do you think? wallpaper or just paint or whitewashed barnboard?
Inquiring minds want your opinion or suggestions.

12 thoughts on “Slate, barnboard and a cover-up job.”

  9. paint…i love paint….or maybe cool scrapbook paper with modge podge for something different ???

  10. Is that a doll house? Like a little girl dollhouse? Looks like a fixer-upper of a normal house. Am I missing something here?
    Oh, and, paint.

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