Upstairs, Downstairs

I've only shown a single photograph of the upstairs hall, and that post was in 2009.    It's not the easiest space to photograph: it's deep and narrow, with a bright window at the very back. I think I've mentioned that my house was built from plans which later became the Katherine kit. The front exterior of the house looks identical to the kit, but there are windows, and another entrance (into the dining room) on the back wall of the house. The layout of the center section (hall, nursery, and dining room) is a little different in my house as well.

The wallpaper in the hall was the first wallpaper I chose for the house. Actually, Mom and I had just begun talking about refurbishing my dollhouse when we stumbled across this wallpaper. Finding it cemented the decision that it was time to transition from a toy to more of an adult's dollhouse. I recently moved the ivy planter from the downstairs hall to the top of the stairs. Mom made the ivy many years ago, and unfortunately, it has shed a little. I need to do a bit of repair work to it when I get the chance. Also on the to-do list are curtains, and turning two crumbling pieces of antique petite point into carpets. Dolls are from The China Doll (the taller boy) and Wren's Nest (on the right). 

The table came from my mother's dollhouse. It drives me a little crazy, because the hall is clearly too narrow for furniture, but the mirror looks very bare without anything underneath. So until I figure out a better solution, the table stays!