The before: I know, just a plain toy house...
I got lazy and I'm behind so am working on a couple posts.... I wanted to make some progress before I showed this in the so-far stage.
I've seen people repainting those large kid's plastic houses for Halloween, but never thought about doing something like that. Then I found this cute little plastic toy house at Goodwill. Well, for $1.99 I couldn't pass it up. Do you see what I see?
Looking at it, I thought this would be a great little Christmas house as it was perfect for half-scale size at 9" h and 9" w (inside). The two floors are 4" h on the first floor and 4.5" h on the second floor.
I know, it doesn't look like much, but imagine...
First the repainting. Still working on that but so far, quite an improvement!
Everything is first painted with a base coat of the FolkArt MultiSurface vintage white acrylic paint. Works great on plastic.
The roof leaves became snow! Everything white, including the windows, is being glittered, too. (I'll sparkle for months! 😆) There was no door so the wood will probably be covered with green paper and glued in with a shiny rhinestone doorknob and a wreath. The roof was painted with Milk Chocolate for a kind of Gingerbread-like color. I am far from done. Still have to add the "icing" paint lines yet and probably another coat on the green. The ground will probably be fake snow. I'll add more snow on the moss yet and have to put plastic in the window and curtains inside, too.
I love how the paper poinsettias turned out!
The stone fireplace and chimney already look tons better with an undercoat of the white multi-surface FolkArt acrylic paint and then adding spots of regular gray acrylic paint over that. I'll add more snow spots here, too. Those leaves have since become snow as well.
I'm using whatever furnishings I have on hand and it's small so it won't need much. I may make a couple slipper chairs (Using a 3/4" square wood block base and a cardboard or mat board back) in a Christmas print since they're easy to do.
The bed was just a simple plastic toy before. The walls are being covered with scrapbook papers.
I like using plastic and vintage toy furniture as it turns out well once you cover it with fabric. And it's very forgiving. With the right pattern, any piecing won't show.
Here's the bed after and the walls so far. I got the side walls papered light green and the floor painted in another light green since this pic was taken. Imagine it done with curtains and tiny Christmas figures on the windowsills! I'm thinking of gluing in a string of Christmas lights too. And have to add a lit tree!
It's kind of fun. I figured it's something I can bring out and set up without much effort. This is a fun, easy project that kids can work on, too, so don't overlook those cheap little houses at your local thrift store. You could probably spray prime the whole house first before painting which might be easier.
I'll share more as I go along and hopefully will finish it, at least before New Year's! By then, I'll be bored working on it anyway. ha!
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