Comments on: How to Decorate a Barbie House

on 10/16/2008 I went to a wallpaper store and asked if they had any outdated books. They asked what I wanted it for and I told them to make a doll house for my daughter. They just gave me 3 wall paper books. PLENTY of wall paper (and floor covering) material for free!

on 9/16/2006 I find that scrapbooking paper is scaled perfectly for Barbie's house. To apply it to the wall I use spray-on adhesive. Balsa wood strips available at craft stores make great chair rail trim and baseboards. A lot of the velor type upholstery fabrics are great for carpeting Barbie's house, again I use the spray adhesive to get it into place. I found inexpensive picture frames, painted them, removed the cardboard backing and used them for window frames.

on 9/13/2006 I used to have a doll's house, which was decorated entirely for free, by going to a decorating shop and getting paint and fabric samples. Mostly there will be enough paint or fabric in a sample for at least one room (and my doll's house was fairly big). Sometimes there is a charge, but usually there isn't and it's never very much anyway.

on 6/30/2006 I once decorated a Barbie house for my daughter for Christmas by making it a replica of our full size house. I used leftover paint to paint her bedroom and scanned and shrunk her border and wallpaper so that it matched perfectly. I did the same for each room. We have since moved, and although she misses the old house, she still has a piece of it.

on 1/16/2006 I made a great rug for my Barbie house with plastic canvas. I found a pattern book, but it would be easy to design your own. The size was perfect. It has fringe and everything. The yarn comes in all colors, so there is no limit to the rugs you can make.

on 11/22/2005 You can clip pictures of the dolls from the box they came in and use them as photos for the walls using toothpick frames or metal photo album frames.

on 11/22/2005 I bought a little miniature Scrabble game (meant for use in scrap-booking) to use in a vintage Barbie dream house.

on 11/22/2005 I use fleece and felt glued to the floors for a thinner carpet. It works well.

on 11/22/2005 You can take thick thread or knitting yarn and make rug out of it by simply by knotting it together. The broader you want it be, the more thread you utilize. It's just like braiding your hair.

on 11/22/2005 As dollhouse wallpaper can be expensive and sometimes under-scaled for Barbie-size houses, I use contact paper with small prints for wallpaper and checkered contact paper for tile flooring. It is fairly cheap, easy to apply, easy to fit to scale, and very easy to clean.