Kitchen rehab!

Katie is gobsmacked at having a dining chair with a proper back.

Now if I could find the lids for the cannisters, I'd have something!

When last seen (or, really, not seen, since I haven't posted in a couple months), the eggshell stools from the patio project had moved into the new kitchen in the Billy tower, as the new layout eliminated the garden floor.

It looks pretty, until you're slumping over a cup of coffee and fall off.

Feeling a bit inundated by how big the 1:6 party had gotten, I rearranged my storage, and put about half of the dolls away temporarily (they'll be back!) so that I'd have the blank space, both mental and physical, to focus on doll projects I needed and wanted to make progress on. One big project was getting Katie and Hayden's house in order.

After thinking hard about DIY chair and table projects involving simple dollar-store finds, I cracked and ordered a proper dining set on eBay for all of $11 with free shipping.

Words to live by: It's funny to living in a modern life.

My Fancy Life is a product from Well Success Toys Ltd. of Fujian, which promises a well-equipped 5000-square-meter factory and explains that:

Our brand "My Fancy Life", “Rose Palace” and "City Girl" play set series was established a good reputation in the worldwide.

Rose Palace turns out to be terrifyingly pink and baroque, which I guess is foreshadowed by the name. My table set, however, is part of the Trendy Sweetie line, in which everything except the bedroom is a soothing mint green.

In this case, it is much easier being green.

Should I ever want to replace my hand-built kitchen, there are green appliances to do it with. However, I feel kind of attached to my boondoggle fixtures, and they fit one side of the Billy corner unit perfectly.

The top shelf clearly needs to be straightened --
it's at an angle where I have to place it by feel.

Here's a chair. It's plenty sturdy for normal fashion dolls, which was not something I was sure about with some of the models I saw.

No Barbie profile anywhere to be seen.

The dishes are a tasteful vintage pink diner design. The set comes with both wine and water glasses (or with wine glasses and champagne flutes, depending how high a life your dolls are living).

What Katie really wants right now is a napkin.

Classic silverware includes two sizes of spoons.

But no worries about which fork to use -- there's only one kind of fork.

The cabinet thing way behind Katie is the bottom half of a very cheap Walmart craft-supply container, done over with aluminum-colored spray paint, with a "granite" top made by covering foamcore with dollar-store contact paper. It's intended to look like industrial salvage -- and achieves, at least, the "salvage" part.

The owl "cheese board" has been hanging around so long that I've forgotten whether it's from Michael's, Joann, or Hobby Lobby, and it's probably been discontinued anyway.

Don't take more than your share -- the owl is LOOKING at you!

Toaster! It's one of the $1.99 charms from the end racks at Michael's. These charms are now marked down to 99 cents on clearance and going fast. (The marble texture is the vinyl-tile floor because I needed a clear close-up.)

Sometimes this modern style is very whitebread!

With the kitchen at least sort of furnished, it's time to proceed to some minor bathroom improvements (mostly a dividing wall and a new room!), plus... Bratzillaz spa day and new 'Zilla outfits. But wait... Fitzroy...

No paws on the table!