Hello, it's nice little house, as to stairs, I would put false doors on the rear wall, it gives the illusion of more rooms and staircases without having them take up space inside the dolls house. The brickwork looks in good condition, you could make roof slates out of strips of card painted to look like slate, that way you can make the slates any shape you want. Do you know what make the house is ? If you can find the original specs it will show you if It originally had an opening roof, and maybe its just been glued shut. Best Wishes from Yorkshire 😊
Thank you for your ideas! Unfortunately I’m not sure what make the house is. I wonder if it’s handmade. It would be nice to discover that the roof does open!
It's such a lovely house. You could display minitures of your work so little mouse art gallery. You could have imaginary stairs to the apartments. Could you get into the roof as you are planning to retile it. It looks a very promising project and you could make a journal up as a keepsake of your work and ideas.
Thank you for sharing your ideas. I’m imagining miniature paintings and sculptures in the gallery - and perhaps a little stand of miniature greetings cards hehe! The roof seems to be really strongly in place so I think the easiest way would be to go up through the ceiling of the floor below - it seems risky though… I don’t want to make the house lose its strength!
@thelittlemouseshouse I still don't see how you would have much access to the loft/attic space. I guess I'm just not quite understanding what you are describing. But I'll just say, you do you because what you do is always great!
I like the idea of doing more with the brick work. I think the art gallery for the first floor is a great idea and the other floors for one family on 2 levels. I don't like the external staircase only because that could disturb the integrity of the structure. I would defintely add window boxes and enhance the roof. The outside of the house looks very worn while the inside looks vibrant and will be even moreso with an art gallery inside. Looking forward to seeing how it progresses!
So much to comment on! Art gallery and apartments sound good but the external staircase sounds a challenge. The brick paper looks in good nick so maybe you could keep that but do some work on the window lintels and the sides to make them look more 'stoney'. The art gallery name should of course be mouse related. You made me laugh with all the dollhouses on your piano. That's where I keep mine.... no room now though. I finished my Tudor house last year (it will never really be finished) and now have just completed a small one up one down house. It is now a Victorian mediums parlour. Looking forward to seeing your transformation
@@donnahollins5071 Thank you for sharing your thoughts! The staircase does sound a challenge doesn’t it! So many doll’s houses - I bought this one quite quickly after my first one! The third one and the little shop were both birthday presents! 🤭 I’d love to see your Tudor house. I agree - I don’t think they’ll ever be fully finished. I still have two attic rooms to fill in my Tudor doll’s house but they’re hard to access from the position where I keep the house. The house is a lot heavier that this apartment doll’s house so it’s not as easy to move to the table to work on. Your Victorian house sounds really interesting! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment.
I actually love the brick, but maybe to do some thing with the stone. Just to bring out a tiny bit more detail. I feel like a balcony in that missing window would not be the right scale. If you put French doors there I think they would just be too small.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the balcony and doors. I will have another think about what exactly to do with the missing window and measure it to try and consider the scale.
What a lovely house! I actually love the red brick paper and the chimney pots. I also like the idea of apartments, however, I am not sure about the outside staircase. However, I was not always sure about some of the ideas you had for the Tudor house (taking out most of the floor above the dining hall) but in the end your ideas worked and I was proved wrong! So go with what your gut is telling you!
You could always make an art gallery downstairs & the rest of the house 1 living space but on 2 or 3 levels, ie space for one family but on 3 levels ( including the loft)
This looks like so much fun, Little Mouse! Love the whole concept, with the gallery on the ground floor and the apartments above. It’s been so much fun watching you come up with ideas and handle everything so beautifully. I’ll try to make some suggestions since you are looking for input, but you’ve got so much creativity already! So perhaps you could call the gallery “LMH” ? Just that, maybe on a light grey field with cream trim and elegant blocky font in medium charcoal, or something like that? LOL .The trim on the exterior does seem prominent, so brick or stone sounds like a great idea unless you end up changing it. I like the exterior stairs, too, since the rooms are so small…have you thought about adding a box to raise it up about three inches? You could put in “basement” windows and add a half circle staircase with graduated steps to the entrance. And maybe bay windows for display on the gallery? Love the two different apartments and the mezzanine, this is going to be so much fun to watch!❤
Thank you! I love how you’ve described the art gallery sign! I’d love to have bay windows on the gallery but I’m not sure if I’m brave enough to make such a big change! 🤭
I like the idea of an art shop on the bottom level. Then leave the the second and third levels the artist home and studio. Perhaps on the first floor you could also put a small workshop where the artist could give lessons.
That is a lovely blank canvas of a house to work with. I used Stonelux paint on my doll house stone work ,it was really easy to apply and immediately transformed the wood into actually looking like stone . I was thinking ,watching this video ,how stairs up the outside might work too .I think it would look great . Cork tiles cut into brick slips work to give a real brick effect but it takes a lot of work to do that but to buy actual brick slips are quite expensive .I think weathering the chimney pots would work without removing personally ,some smoke ,moss etc and a couple of pigeons would lift them so no need to replace .I cannot wait to see what you do with this house ,I'm sure it's going to look wonderful
Lovely house oh how I would love to find a house like this.Please fix that chimney.A little nest with a bird in it 💕The attic space would be lovely to have, I have no idea how hard that would be .I know a hinge would be involved and you probably would have to unnail the roof to see how. If you want to make it more 3D is really up to you ,are you restoring or redoing this house? Slate tiles -use a thick card stock peel some layers away color then varnish should give you the look of slate. I think moving the stair cases from the inside out side is a great idea it would give you so much more space inside.The gallery is a great idea name it after the house . Suggestion ,Devonshire place 💕💕💕💕
Thank you for sharing your ideas. I love the idea of the little nest. I think I’m re-doing the house rather than restoring it. Thanks for your suggestion about the tiles. 🤗
An art gallery sounds ineresting. Have you thought of making just a large arch in the wall that way you'll hopefully jeep the strength of the house nut it would look like a walk through room. The outside looks fine but what about some ivy growing up and around. Window boxes for the apartments would be lovely.
@@anubisblueNK Thank you for your suggestions. I’ve actually now made the change the structure for the art gallery, but your arch idea would have been a good option! The next video is here if you’d like to see where I’m up to: th-cam.com/video/d2HjI1Bie0s/w-d-xo.html I love the idea of Ivy - I might save it for my third doll’s house because it would really suit it!
I like the idea of apartments, that way you can decorate them however you like, it doesn’t have to be a theme throughout the entire building. I’m not against an outside staircase. I think the art gallery would be cute but I’m not good at naming things
Although an innovative way to access the loft space; if you take out the ceiling of the upstairs room you're also obviously sacrificing your attic space floor; so there'll be a lot less things it can be.
@@misscatalina711 Thanks for sharing your thoughts. The paper is a little bit creased at the back. I feel like the 3D brickwork went well on my previous doll’s house, which is why I’m tempted to do the same again! I’ll keep having a think 🙃
I’m still really undecided on what to do with the brickwork! It worked well to make them 3D on my first doll’s house but I do think that the bricks on this doll’s house do look quite nice already.
Just found you, I’m at the same sort of stage I have at last stripped it all and am now going to paint it all white and then start again I have taken off paper bricks and plan to do something else not paper 🤪
Ooo - I’m hoping the wallpaper comes off easily! I made bricks on my last doll’s house so I’m considering doing something similar with this one! Have fun with your project. 🙂
@@thelittlemouseshouse paper is all off and windows are now all sanded, next job is inside the wallpaper is off then flooring has been a challenge to get up thank you for replying
Just a mad thought... if you're cutting access of some description into the loft from below; why not take the opportunity to make a 3d box, with a swinging door on the front, as a through-floor lift!
@thelittlemouseshouse oh right. Perfectly positioned to look like when back in the day architects would be so proud of the houses they designed that they would make it clear to everyone via thier initials, that they did it and what year.
I think you should think of the era.For example if your doing Victorian ,I would be inclined to put a shop at the bottom.Art galleries are quite modern really.The bathroom suite is more Victorian onwards..If you turn them into apartments ,there would be no room for a bathroom and kitchen unless they were very thin.I think just having the upstairs as a living space done out in the era. Although I paint and draw,and like gallery’s, I do think in a doll house it’s a bit of blank space.Hence I suggested a shop,could be anything from a cake shop to a hat or shoe shop etc..High end of course lol!..or a flower shop even..But with your talent it’s more up your street to fill a space with intricate things than just put paintings on the wall. Or even an antique shop that would be different,you can have pictures and mirrors gallon on the walls too…Anyhow that’s my thoughts.And of course the upstairs would have to be very posh too 🥰
Hi, thank you for your response. I’m considering having this doll’s house in the present era as a contrast to my first doll’s house. In terms of the art gallery, I was thinking of also doing miniature sculptures as well as paintings. ☺️
I think it'll start to get on your nerves that they are the only access points to get to do anything...I envisage you cutting the back out and reattaching on hinges at some point
Hello have you seen Smol World Workshop? This person has a wonderful technique for stonework. He uses Styrofoam xps. He textures it with crumpled up aluminum foil. Then paints it. You can adapt it for the slate roof. Can't wait to see what you come up with. 🏚❤
Love your balcony idea, and the external access plan.
Thank you!
Hello, it's nice little house, as to stairs, I would put false doors on the rear wall, it gives the illusion of more rooms and staircases without having them take up space inside the dolls house. The brickwork looks in good condition, you could make roof slates out of strips of card painted to look like slate, that way you can make the slates any shape you want. Do you know what make the house is ? If you can find the original specs it will show you if It originally had an opening roof, and maybe its just been glued shut.
Best Wishes from Yorkshire 😊
Thank you for your ideas! Unfortunately I’m not sure what make the house is. I wonder if it’s handmade. It would be nice to discover that the roof does open!
Go for it.
Thank you!
It's such a lovely house. You could display minitures of your work so little mouse art gallery. You could have imaginary stairs to the apartments. Could you get into the roof as you are planning to retile it. It looks a very promising project and you could make a journal up as a keepsake of your work and ideas.
Thank you for sharing your ideas. I’m imagining miniature paintings and sculptures in the gallery - and perhaps a little stand of miniature greetings cards hehe! The roof seems to be really strongly in place so I think the easiest way would be to go up through the ceiling of the floor below - it seems risky though… I don’t want to make the house lose its strength!
@thelittlemouseshouse I still don't see how you would have much access to the loft/attic space. I guess I'm just not quite understanding what you are describing. But I'll just say, you do you because what you do is always great!
@@marygatdula2744 I’m still not sure on the loft access either! It may be that I have to just leave the loft space as it is. 😕
I like the idea of doing more with the brick work. I think the art gallery for the first floor is a great idea and the other floors for one family on 2 levels. I don't like the external staircase only because that could disturb the integrity of the structure. I would defintely add window boxes and enhance the roof. The outside of the house looks very worn while the inside looks vibrant and will be even moreso with an art gallery inside. Looking forward to seeing how it progresses!
@@heathermartinez8640 Thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas!
So much to comment on! Art gallery and apartments sound good but the external staircase sounds a challenge. The brick paper looks in good nick so maybe you could keep that but do some work on the window lintels and the sides to make them look more 'stoney'. The art gallery name should of course be mouse related. You made me laugh with all the dollhouses on your piano. That's where I keep mine.... no room now though. I finished my Tudor house last year (it will never really be finished) and now have just completed a small one up one down house. It is now a Victorian mediums parlour. Looking forward to seeing your transformation
@@donnahollins5071 Thank you for sharing your thoughts! The staircase does sound a challenge doesn’t it! So many doll’s houses - I bought this one quite quickly after my first one! The third one and the little shop were both birthday presents! 🤭 I’d love to see your Tudor house. I agree - I don’t think they’ll ever be fully finished. I still have two attic rooms to fill in my Tudor doll’s house but they’re hard to access from the position where I keep the house. The house is a lot heavier that this apartment doll’s house so it’s not as easy to move to the table to work on. Your Victorian house sounds really interesting! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment.
I actually love the brick, but maybe to do some thing with the stone. Just to bring out a tiny bit more detail. I feel like a balcony in that missing window would not be the right scale. If you put French doors there I think they would just be too small.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the balcony and doors. I will have another think about what exactly to do with the missing window and measure it to try and consider the scale.
What a lovely house! I actually love the red brick paper and the chimney pots. I also like the idea of apartments, however, I am not sure about the outside staircase. However, I was not always sure about some of the ideas you had for the Tudor house (taking out most of the floor above the dining hall) but in the end your ideas worked and I was proved wrong! So go with what your gut is telling you!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I’ll continue to have a think about what to do with the loft area before making a definite decision!
You could always make an art gallery downstairs & the rest of the house 1 living space but on 2 or 3 levels, ie space for one family but on 3 levels ( including the loft)
@@CherylBarlow-sy5to Thank you - that’s an interesting idea which would mean leaving some of the stairs where they are.
This looks like so much fun, Little Mouse! Love the whole concept, with the gallery on the ground floor and the apartments above. It’s been so much fun watching you come up with ideas and handle everything so beautifully. I’ll try to make some suggestions since you are looking for input, but you’ve got so much creativity already!
So perhaps you could call the gallery “LMH” ? Just that, maybe on a light grey field with cream trim and elegant blocky font in medium charcoal, or something like that? LOL .The trim on the exterior does seem prominent, so brick or stone sounds like a great idea unless you end up changing it. I like the exterior stairs, too, since the rooms are so small…have you thought about adding a box to raise it up about three inches? You could put in “basement” windows and add a half circle staircase with graduated steps to the entrance. And maybe bay windows for display on the gallery? Love the two different apartments and the mezzanine, this is going to be so much fun to watch!❤
Thank you! I love how you’ve described the art gallery sign! I’d love to have bay windows on the gallery but I’m not sure if I’m brave enough to make such a big change! 🤭
@@thelittlemouseshouse Looking forward to whatever you decide to do!🩷
I like the idea of an art shop on the bottom level. Then leave the the second and third levels the artist home and studio. Perhaps on the first floor you could also put a small workshop where the artist could give lessons.
@@elizabethgrucelski3048 Thank you for your great suggestions! ☺️
That is a lovely blank canvas of a house to work with. I used Stonelux paint on my doll house stone work ,it was really easy to apply and immediately transformed the wood into actually looking like stone . I was thinking ,watching this video ,how stairs up the outside might work too .I think it would look great . Cork tiles cut into brick slips work to give a real brick effect but it takes a lot of work to do that but to buy actual brick slips are quite expensive .I think weathering the chimney pots would work without removing personally ,some smoke ,moss etc and a couple of pigeons would lift them so no need to replace .I cannot wait to see what you do with this house ,I'm sure it's going to look wonderful
@@66lonerider Thank you - they’re all brilliant ideas and suggestions. Really helpful! I haven’t heard of Stonelux paint before so I’ll look into it!
Sweet little house..Apartments & Gallery is a good idea.. on the rest i couldnt advise, as i cant decide on my own two new projects...❤❤
Thank you! I’d love to hear about your two projects!
Lovely house oh how I would love to find a house like this.Please fix that chimney.A little nest with a bird in it 💕The attic space would be lovely to have, I have no idea how hard that would be .I know a hinge would be involved and you probably would have to unnail the roof to see how. If you want to make it more 3D is really up to you ,are you restoring or redoing this house? Slate tiles -use a thick card stock peel some layers away color then varnish should give you the look of slate. I think moving the stair cases from the inside out side is a great idea it would give you so much more space inside.The gallery is a great idea name it after the house . Suggestion ,Devonshire place 💕💕💕💕
Thank you for sharing your ideas. I love the idea of the little nest. I think I’m re-doing the house rather than restoring it. Thanks for your suggestion about the tiles. 🤗
An art gallery sounds ineresting. Have you thought of making just a large arch in the wall that way you'll hopefully jeep the strength of the house nut it would look like a walk through room.
The outside looks fine but what about some ivy growing up and around. Window boxes for the apartments would be lovely.
@@anubisblueNK Thank you for your suggestions. I’ve actually now made the change the structure for the art gallery, but your arch idea would have been a good option! The next video is here if you’d like to see where I’m up to:
th-cam.com/video/d2HjI1Bie0s/w-d-xo.html
I love the idea of Ivy - I might save it for my third doll’s house because it would really suit it!
Lots of interesting questions. But I like the bent chimney pot, but faux metal, aged and weathered, like real life :)
That’s a great idea - thank you! It would go well with the tv aerials!
I like the idea of apartments, that way you can decorate them however you like, it doesn’t have to be a theme throughout the entire building. I’m not against an outside staircase. I think the art gallery would be cute but I’m not good at naming things
Thank you. I’m looking forward to different themes in each flat - it will add a bit of variety!
Cardboard egg cartons make great slate tiles
@@adenagaffney8280 Thank you for your suggestion! ⭐️
Although an innovative way to access the loft space; if you take out the ceiling of the upstairs room you're also obviously sacrificing your attic space floor; so there'll be a lot less things it can be.
Hmmm… I really don’t know what to do hehe!
I do agree that we need to switch out those chimney pots. I think I’ve lost track of the questions.😂 I like the idea of adding pigeons
Ye explore removing and repositioning the chimney stack... simply because if it was mine it'd bug me!
I think I need to do a bit of research to look at what real chimney stacks look like!
Leave the brickwork. It looks good.
@@misscatalina711 Thanks for sharing your thoughts. The paper is a little bit creased at the back. I feel like the 3D brickwork went well on my previous doll’s house, which is why I’m tempted to do the same again! I’ll keep having a think 🙃
Leave the brickwork; at most, maybe do a wash in black so it looks a bit lived in
I’m still really undecided on what to do with the brickwork! It worked well to make them 3D on my first doll’s house but I do think that the bricks on this doll’s house do look quite nice already.
Sorry that I'm about to suggest a whole heap of work; but I always think herringbone wooden flooring befits an art gallery or creative space
Ooo yes, I love that idea ☺️ Thank you.
Just found you, I’m at the same sort of stage I have at last stripped it all and am now going to paint it all white and then start again I have taken off paper bricks and plan to do something else not paper 🤪
Ooo - I’m hoping the wallpaper comes off easily! I made bricks on my last doll’s house so I’m considering doing something similar with this one! Have fun with your project. 🙂
@@thelittlemouseshouse paper is all off and windows are now all sanded, next job is inside the wallpaper is off then flooring has been a challenge to get up thank you for replying
@@louiseatkinson3044 Good luck with it all! Keep me updated on how it progresses ☺️
Just a mad thought... if you're cutting access of some description into the loft from below; why not take the opportunity to make a 3d box, with a swinging door on the front, as a through-floor lift!
That’s an interesting idea!
One final thing; is that a Date stone with architects or builders' initials on ??
Ooo… where abouts do you mean? I’ve had a look but I can’t see one!
@@thelittlemouseshouse above the front door
@@bonnieharris4538 Ah, no it’s a little sticker.
@thelittlemouseshouse oh right. Perfectly positioned to look like when back in the day architects would be so proud of the houses they designed that they would make it clear to everyone via thier initials, that they did it and what year.
I think you should think of the era.For example if your doing Victorian ,I would be inclined to put a shop at the bottom.Art galleries are quite modern really.The bathroom suite is more Victorian onwards..If you turn them into apartments ,there would be no room for a bathroom and kitchen unless they were very thin.I think just having the upstairs as a living space done out in the era. Although I paint and draw,and like gallery’s, I do think in a doll house it’s a bit of blank space.Hence I suggested a shop,could be anything from a cake shop to a hat or shoe shop etc..High end of course lol!..or a flower shop even..But with your talent it’s more up your street to fill a space with intricate things than just put paintings on the wall. Or even an antique shop that would be different,you can have pictures and mirrors gallon on the walls too…Anyhow that’s my thoughts.And of course the upstairs would have to be very posh too 🥰
Hi, thank you for your response. I’m considering having this doll’s house in the present era as a contrast to my first doll’s house. In terms of the art gallery, I was thinking of also doing miniature sculptures as well as paintings. ☺️
How are you going to include a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and sitting area in two rooms? A bit crowded I think.
@@patriciagraves752 Hello. I’m going to try to do a studio apartment I think. We’ll see how it goes!
Bed sits?
@@misscatalina711 Is a bedsit the same as a studio apartment? They’ll be separate flats with different styles. ☺️
I think it'll start to get on your nerves that they are the only access points to get to do anything...I envisage you cutting the back out and reattaching on hinges at some point
I’m still hoping I might find that the roof already lifts up and that I’ve just not yet found out how!
Hello have you seen Smol World Workshop? This person has a wonderful technique for stonework. He uses Styrofoam xps. He textures it with crumpled up aluminum foil. Then paints it. You can adapt it for the slate roof. Can't wait to see what you come up with. 🏚❤
@@celestee.garcia2571 Thank you for the recommendation - I will go and have a look!