Game Room

Dolls get bored. They start wandering around the dollhouse thinking, "What next?" So we decided for those moments- they needed a little recreation area. Our main inspiration came from a magazine advertising a hotel with a game room, using that and then using a advertising catalog for paint and decorating tips- purloined from Lowes back home in Indiana- we cut out the items for the back wall. The circles that decorate the walls are also from paint chip samples- useful...and free.
We decided on a small window for this room with a nice scalloped valance. And then see that picture framed on the right hand wall? One day the cable/telephone came to check out our line and this oblong plastic piece was left behind. I hold it up and say to Shea, "Does this look like a doll-sized picture frame to you?" To which she shrugged and looked at me blankly. Interpreting this as an affirmative answer, it became a picture frame. I like it. It adds dimension.
What else? Pool table- covered mac and cheese box. Maybe we eat too much pasta.
Also pieced together cardboard put together to look like a skee ball table. Let me just go on record as saying those circles were a bear to glue.
There was, in this room, for about an hour, a nice glittery disco ball hanging from the room ceiling. Just a styrofoam ball covered in silver glitter. Not attached well, and the disco ball crashed to the floor quicker than you can say "Bee Gees."
A couple of vintage pieces are also artfully installed in this room. The small brown dresser in the middle of the back wall and the teeny, tiny little table over to the side. We have several mismatched vintage plastic pieces in our extra pieces collection, none of which really work with the sizes of our dolls- but Shea doesn't seem to care, and none of the dolls have mentioned it, so I guess it's all good.