I’ve finished up another room in the Christmas Cottage to share with you today.

This is the room that I ‘wallpapered’ in some October Afternoon scrapbook paper in a pretty red and mint green plaid (I shared a sneak peek of it last week).

I added the pine flooring from Hobby Lobby here too, but this time I gave it a white wash using watered down Dixie Belle Drop Cloth paint.  I used a a ratio of about 1 part paint to 3 parts water.  After brushing that on, I wiped away any excess until I got the look I wanted.

By the way, if you’re curious about the difference between white washing, pickling, lime waxing or cerusing, check out the post I wrote back in 2018 about these techniques …

Anyway, moving on.

Next up I decided to add some cushioned window seats.

I have to confess, I didn’t do the neatest of jobs on that, but I think they are good enough.  I simply cut out a piece of cardboard to fit and then covered it with some batting and fabric using Titebond Quick and Thick glue.  The fabric is a pretty vintage mint green linen tea towel that I cut up.  The little pillows came with some bedding that I ordered via Etsy, and you’ll see that bedding in a minute.

Next up I ordered a wardrobe from Miniature Crush.

I’ve painted up a few of these for my other dollhouses, but this time around I decided to go red!

I started with an undercoat of Dixie Belle’s Drop Cloth which you can see where I’ve distressed some of the edges.  Then I added three coats of their Barn Red.  I truly did not expect to love this look as much as I do!  But this is a Christmas Cottage, and that Barn Red is the perfect Christmas red.

After painting the cupboard inside and out, I sanded lightly using the Dixie Belle 220 grit sanding sponge.  I like to use the sponges when I need to use a bit of a delicate touch, like on miniatures.  Once dry, I added a coat of DB’s clear wax.  I swapped out the simple round knobs that came with the wardrobe for some drop handle style pulls from Miniature Crush.

I followed that up by lining the back wall of the interior in some red and white striped paper (coincidentally, also an October Afternoon scrapbook paper).

Next up I ordered a pair of twin beds from The Modern Dollhouse.

Sure, it was probably a silly added expense to add two beds to this room, but I just love the look of a matched pair of twin beds, don’t you?

I didn’t love the mattresses with their sloppy dust ruffles that came with these beds though …

but as you’ll see in a minute, I ended up tucking those out of sight.

To begin, I painted the beds in a base coat of Dixie Belle’s Pine Cone.

I originally ordered this color for a couple of other projects that I haven’t gotten to yet, but have since discovered that I really like it as a base color under Drop Cloth.

And that’s what I did on this pair of twin beds.

The Pine Cone is the perfect shade of ‘stained wood’ to distress back to under the Drop Cloth.

As you can sort of see in that photo above, I tucked the dust ruffle on the mattress underneath it and then I covered the mattress in some scrap fabric that I had on hand.

This time around I didn’t create my own miniature bedding.  I would have, except when I was searching for just the right Christmas themed fabric to use I ended up finding the perfect set of pre-made bedding on Etsy.

It’s mint green and red (to match the plaid wallpaper) with a little pink thrown in which ties into the pink bathroom that is on the floor above.  It has sweet reindeer and snow people on it, and it came with those adorable Merry Christmas pillows (plus those pillows that I put on the window seat).

I ordered it from Millie’s Mini Decor and I highly recommend her.  My order arrived super quickly and was exactly as pictured.

Next up, as I shared last week, I created some framed ‘art’ for the room.

I started with some unfinished frames that I purchased at Michael’s.

  I white washed the frames using the same technique that I used on the floor.  Then I cut some thin pieces of balsa wood to fit into the frames and painted them in a solid coat of Drop Cloth.  Once dry, I applied the two little snowman transfers shown above from the I.O.D. Kitschy Christmas transfer set.

They were perfect for this room!

With that, I’m calling this room finished!

What do you think?

Leave a comment and let me know!