Wood Barbie House Ideas

Painting Ideas

• Painting a wooden Barbie dollhouse is the quickest and easiest way to personalize it. Is also the most easily reversible change one can make. From painting the house plain white to creating elaborate decorations and designs, a wooden dollhouse is a blank canvas.

  Painting individual rooms gives personality to the dollhouse. It also provides bonding time between siblings or parents/guardians and children. Styling each room with various painted-on details like wainscoting and murals gives children the ability to express themselves creatively.

  Painting the exterior of the house allows for plenty of artistic expression with the addition of green ivy growing up a wall, brick designs and the option to add texture through faux stucco or grit to simulate stone.

Decoupage

• Using decoupage to add detail to a wooden Barbie dollhouse is simple and fun. From using scrapbook paper to simulate wallpaper to printing pictures from the Internet as wall hangings for the house, decoupage adds emotional texture to the house and is another way to make the house look less like the cookie-cutter, off-the-shelf item.

  Decoupaged layers will not always be easy to remove from the dollhouse, but do add more life to a house than simple paint. Depending on how the wallpaper or decorations are attached to the walls, removal can be as simple as peeling off the layers off of the house, or as complex as using a straightedge razor to scrape the residue from the walls.

Decor

• A world of opportunity exists beyond traditional dollhouse furniture. Fashioning shingles from the rounded edges of craft sticks, creating trellises and balconies from toothpicks or pipe cleaners and using felt and pom poms to make plants for the garden are simple (and temporary) decorations for the wooden Barbie dollhouse.

  More complex design ideas can include creating furniture (as some dollhouse furniture can be expensive), using scraps of fabric for upholstery or bedding, and creating sculptures, fences, bird baths and more for the periphery of the wooden Barbie dollhouse.