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Our Lives are too crazy right now to work on anything new, but I was thinking of a Mattel DIY redo bathroom that I worked on for the grand's Doll House, which is now in my basement waiting for another transformation.

Original house with planned furniture layout.



The bathroom I'm showing is on the lowest level on the right.



Great thing about thrifting is finding weird stuff.These bits were like $.99 cents each in 2015. I have bins full of odds and ends I've accumulated. I needed a compact bathroom for my grand's dollhouse. The top triangle flipped over and had a sink.

Here's a photo of the original product.



Lots of odds and ends were hinged attached, which I removed, and are probably in a bin somewhere. Cool thing was all the hinges and the hard plastic which was hard to saw off but then cleaned up great for painting. I tend to work on harder plastics and pass up on the softer stuff.


Hardest thing about bathrooms is making the fixtures--and look at this---has great fixtures, shelves, hoses, sprinkler, dials. This section was missing the attached tub...but not an issue as I only had room for a shower if I wanted the closet. And, this was the second bathroom in this house.



The shower piece came together quickly---the floor is a lid to a oleo container, and the sides hinged to fit perfectly. The sink fixture was taken apart and reassembled to fit the space---and give some storage. Eight years later, I'm still looking for the towel bar that goes in those holes on the sink, it's somewhere.


The whole bathroom in the downstairs of the Grand's house. Now, Midge and Alan are renting lower level, and bathroom at Ryan/Richelle's place. I haven't done much with it, but will soon.

The brown wardrobe was adapted from a thrifted cabinet, I added a closet pole..and the drawer is great for stashing shoes. Pretty much the entire house was thrifted stuff, adapted, or made from scratch. I did order a Gloria table and chairs, which immediately fell apart...lesson learned with kids.