Three guesses how I'm going to use this stuff... |
Barbie seems pretty pleased with this room... I'm sure it has nothing to do with it being pink. |
Barbie is used to luxury. This jacuzzi tub has 8 jets! |
This paint is also a primer. |
I planned to make the tub white, but it turns out I am out of white spray paint. I am also impatient. I had everything else I needed for the project, so I just went ahead and painted the tub brown inside and out as well as this canister which will be the vanity.
Painting by hand takes longer than spray paint, but it will do in a pinch. |
When the brown paint was dry, I painted the inside with white acrylic craft paint. It would have looked better with spray paint, but well... impatient. Meanwhile, when the paint was drying, I got to work on the sink for the vanity.
A bottle cap or a plastic egg would have worked as well, but since I couldn't find anything more suitable, I used a Wendy's cup for the basin of the sink. |
After cutting the cup to size, I traced the circle and cut the opening in the "vanity" lid. |
Aren't these some cool beads? Gabriel Brothers sells bags of broken jewelry pieces. |
Once all the paint was dry on both pieces I dug through my collection of mixed beads and found some pieces that would work for fixtures. It took a little mixing and matching, but I found some pieces that would work. I hot-glued a few beads together and then glued them on to the sink and tub. Next, I installed the pieces in the house, securing them with hot-glue.
The bathtub faucet and knobs are similar to the sink, but not identical. I found 2 little gold rings for the sink and tub drains. |
Pretty luxurious! |
We didn't put together a toilet for this bathroom, but the chair Barbie is sitting on was originally a candle holder and has a hole in the seat, so a few modifications (or a bit of imagination) and the room is complete. My daughters drew the pictures that we hung on the wall. I found the tiny frames at Goodwill a long time ago and kept them, intending to put them in a future dollhouse. This is the only room in the mansion with a skylight (my son's idea).
There is still room for a little more upgrading to this bathroom. I would like to hang a mirror over the vanity and put up curtains. There's room on the walls for more art. But at this point, the room's in pretty good shape. Chelsea seems to be enjoying her bath!
pretty nice blog, following :)
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