The 3rd floor of my dollhouse has three rooms if you count the hallway as a room.  In addition to that U.K. hallway that I shared with you last week, there is a very large rec room on one side and a small-ish attic space on the other, because everybody needs a little storage space, right?

I remember my dad being particularly pleased with how the little attic room turned out.  He loved the newspaper on the walls and the exposed studs.

He also added exposed electrical conduit pipes and boxes leading to the bare bulb that hangs from the ceiling.

Now, you might be wondering, what is that elephant in the room?  That chunk of mechanical looking stuff that is bolted to the floor?

Well, that is the mechanism that makes the ceiling fan in the room below actually work.  Well, it did work anyway.  Now that I have some sort of short in the wiring, it no longer works.  But it did work in the beginning.

My dad was pretty tickled about that ceiling fan too.

But of course we didn’t want to look at those fan workings, so he made a little box to go over them.

I doctored up the box a bit recently using more of those Tim Holtz Curator Snippets that I used on my suitcases.

I thought this attic space would be a good place to stash some of the left over bits and pieces that I have accumulated throughout this project … well, and from farther back in time as well.

For example, I originally purchased a pair of shutters from Hobby Lobby to see if I wanted to use them to replace the missing shutter on the dollhouse I painted back in 2023.  In the end it was easier to have Ken make me a matching shutter rather than replacing all of the shutters with the Hobby Lobby version, so I’ve had a spare pair of shutters lying around since then.

The shutters came unfinished, so I gave them a paint job.

After a base coat of Dixie Belle’s Coffee Bean, I then used my foolproof technique for getting a perfect chippy finish with milk paint … just in miniature.

Basically that just involves applying a little wax in strategic locations, like along the edges, before brushing on your milk paint.  You can do this over a base coat of chalk paint, or over a previously stained finish.  Then apply your milk paint.  In this case, I used the same mix of Sweet Pickins milk paint that I used on my hallway table (approx. 25% Birdie/75% Sweetwater).  I applied two coats of the paint and once dry I sanded the shutters with 220 grit sandpaper.

A pair of chippy painted shutters is just the sort of thing you’d find lying around in an attic.

I also painted up a couple of crates for the attic.  I purchased them unfinished from Miniature Crush.

The crates also received a base coat of Dixie Belle’s Coffee Bean.  This time I followed that up with a coat of Dixie Belle’s Dried Sage.  After sanding to distress them, I added a couple of re.design with prima knob transfers to the ends.

Then I rolled up a couple of strips of leftover dollhouse wallpaper to tuck into the crates.

From there it was quite easy to fill up the attic.  I added my fiddly suitcases, and put my painting supplies in one of them.

My ladder is tucked away back behind my dress form.

I’ve also stashed my Shiny Brite boxes in the attic for now.

I’m leaving some space in the back for a cast off piece of furniture, and possibly a Christmas tree down the road.

But for now I’m calling the attic ‘done’.

What do you think?  Leave a comment and let me know.