DIY A Shabby Chic Bakery Display for Dolls

See the left, front and side views of our doll's Shabby Chic, bakery display cupboard.
A framed menu would look nice on the upper shelf.

       I refinished an ordinary doll cupboard into a Shabby Chic dream for our American Girl doll bakery. 

       In the future, I will display handmade chocolates, cakes and doll sweets on it's pink patina shelves. 

       Perhaps even more mouth, watering, sensations wrapped up in holiday ribbons and tissue could tumble from it's open drawer or be stacked inside charming baskets surrounding the perimeter of the turned wooden legs of our fashionably French, pink pâtisserie display!

Left is the cupboard before it was painted, decoupaged and sanded down to create a weathered,
 antique, looking patina.

       I first painted the surface of the cabinet using three coats of paint in three colors: white, red and then pink.       

       After the paint dried thoroughly, I scrapped down the surface with a sharp tool and also sanded areas to give the surface of the doll cupboard a "weathered" or "antiqued" look.

       Then I decoupaged a few random areas with some clippings of printed wood grain, and the inside wall with a decorative napkin. After that, I sealed all of the altered surfaces with an acrylic varnish.

Because the original cupboard was intended to hand on a wall, I had to add a pair of turned
wooden legs to help the cupboard stand upright on a flat surface. I also glued on an additional
back wall to give the structure balance.

More close up photos of the cupboard's surface paint and decoupage.

The drawer will come in handy for both storage and display of attractively wrapped cookies and
candies for the dolls. Left is what the drawer looked like prior to it's shabby chic transformation.
Right, I decoupaged the interior of the drawer with a decorative red and pink plaid paper.

Left, the original cabinet had two very charming glass-paneled wood-framed doors. I removed these for
our purposes and saved them for a future project. Right, then I decoupaged the back wall of our bakery
hutch with the perfect pink tissue napkins featuring the Eiffel tower using Mod Podge. The graphic fits
in perfectly with the bakery's theme.

More Altered Bakery Cases and Shabby Chic Furniture Ideas for Your Dolls:

• DIY Lighted Bakery Case for Dolls
• DIY Miniature Dollhouse Shabby Chic Bistro Chairs Table Set
• Shabby chic miniature living room
• Altered shabby chic goodies box + fabric French dolls