A Modern Farmhouse Living Room

Our 18" dollhouse living room is decorated with miniature accessories and furnishings
crafted to look like the things you might find in a real modern farmhouse.

       Our American Girl dolls, Journey Girls, My Generation Dolls and 18" dolls by Madame Alexander all live and share playtime inside a giant, nine room dollhouse! Six rooms inside the doll's home measure 48" long, 24" wide and at least 29" from floor to ceiling. The upper story rooms have much higher ceilings. Little ones do not play inside these rooms because they are out of reach, obviously. However, these are decorated just as elaborately as the lower rooms and our dolls rest there whenever they are not entertaining little visitors below.

A modern clock above the T.V.

The Modern Farmhouse Accessories and Furnishings:

1. Quatrefoils alternated with stylized octagons in this patterned white and grey wall covering from a dollar store. The printed fabric was first made into pillow cases before I cut them apart for our eighteen inch dollhouse living room walls.
2. A small silver-plate photo frame from resale; inside it is a picture of an American Girl Doll friend. (picture was cut from a catalogue.)
3. An old-fashioned window with tracery, backed with a faux mirror. I used a shiny silver nail polish to enhance the antique 'mirror' effect. This was crafted for the modern farmhouse from a pattern with cardboard and paper.
4. A doll sized terrarium, complete with a desert themed vignette: fox figurine, sand, polished pebbles and grey/green mosses. It was purchased from Goodwill store.
5. A faux metal curtain rod and hand-sewn canvas duct curtains; these are handmade.
6. A tap light, battery operated from the dollar store or Dollar General is used to light up the doll's living room at night.
7. A window made from cardboard and a magazine photo. (see the project here)
8. A recycled hanging wooden shelf, decoupaged and sanded to give it a rustic, farmhouse flavor. On this shelf at the top sits the word "Blessed," a laser cut sign from balsa wood. This came in a fall pack of six from the Dollar Store. Underneath the top shelf , sitting on the second shelf is a tin pail for displaying collections of things or storing blankets and pillows.
9. A modern, industrial clock made from a recycled tape roll, faux wooden shelf paper, big numbers and a lid.
10. A cardboard television screen made to display postcard sized pictures. We switch these out with the change of seasons or holidays.
11. The T.V. stand made to coordinate with the sofa table, is crafted to look like distressed wood furniture. We also store doll sized board games and puzzles inside of it.
12. A paper lamp with scrapbooking decoupage surfaces. (see the project here)
13. An 18" doll sized card table. I made this using cardboard and unique, old textured papers. I then sponge painted it using: ivory, white, and pale green acrylic paints. 
14. The wood plank floors were decoupaged and drawn to resemble reclaimed wood flooring.
15. Cozy knit pillows have button and ribbon trims. All three of these plus and afghan were sewn from old sweaters.
16. A faux, pale grey, fur rug was cut from a scrap found among our fabric remnants.
17. The decoupaged and white washed sofa table, T.V. stand and television were designed for our modern farmhouse living room. The craft instructions for all three are here.
18. I made a fold-out doll sofa bed, upholstered with tweed wool scraps is the focal point of the room. It includes a tufted back pillow and folds out from the bottom to accommodate sleeping for three 18" dolls!
19. A stone-faced fire place with a tiled hearth and removable wooden logs also has a generous wooden mantel. (see project here)
20. And finally, the grey distressed wooden rocker. Decoupaged with knit patterned scrapbook paper can be seen under this additional post here.

The faux, black metal curtain rod above is actually made from a cardboard tube and has wooden
 beads glued on to each end. These have been painted to look like cast iron. The curtains are very
simply made using off-white canvas. Left, you can see how the curtains look when these are
tied up or left loose to cover the windows. Right, is a detail of the curtain rod.

The cozy knit pillows sewn from old sweaters are color coordinated with our modern
farmhouse furnishings in grey, tan and sage green colors. I love the cable knit patterns;
these add texture and variety to the sofa display.

Left, is the silver plate frame, the antique faux mirror with tracery and our doll's terrarium
 displayed on top of the fireplace mantel. Right, is a photo of the left-hand corner
of this doll living space.

The terrarium up-close. You can see that we have layered sand, pebbles, a small fox figurine
and two different mosses to make the scene. We can change this to different
scenes during the holidays.

Left, is the right-hand corner of the doll's farmhouse living room. It has a large shelf for knick-
knacks, a card table, lamp and television stand. Right, is a close-up picture of the card table. The
 black surfaces here are decoupaged to make them look like either metal or black wood and the
rustic top is painted to look like tin. This combination is frequently found among furnishings
inside of modern country homes in the United States.

Left, the stone-front fireplace. Center, the modern industrial looking clock. Right, the tweed,
 fold-out couch directly in front of the window.

A distressed, wooden shelf that I sanded down for the dollhouse. The back half of it is decoupaged
 with faux wood surfaces printed on scrapbook papers. The dolls can display all kinds of trinkets
 on the shelves.

The modern farmhouse living room is finished inside the 18" dollhouse. Only the shelf and rocker
are purchased and altered, the rest of the furnishings are hand-built from scratch. 

More Links to Modern Farmhouse Interiors:

• See elements of Farmhouse style at YouTube by The Kinwoven Home
• Eight ways to add farmhouse style to any home by She Holds Dearly
• See this same dollhouse room decorated for Halloween...

More Links to Doll Farmhouse Accessories and Furniture:

• Dollhouse Doll Bed and Quilt by qisforquilter
• DIY Farmhouse Table for American Girl Dolls by WoodChuck Creations
• Modern Farmhouse Tinyhouse Basement Playhouse Toy Room Tour by Hertoolbelt