All THREE of my American Girl Doll Houses! (a long-awaited tour)
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- This has been requested by several people and I always love doll house tour videos, so I'm happy to share our doll houses with you.
Please let me know in the comments if there is anything you want to see in more detail or if you want to know where I got/how I made something. Also, if you want to see my other doll house tours, here are the links:
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Christmas : • Dollhouse Tour: Decora...
Valentine's Day: • Dollhouse Tour: Decora...
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As always, thank you for spending some time with me and thanks for all your kind comments and support. It means a ton!
-Kristie
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Thank you for feeding my addiction to American Girl dollhouses!! I cant wait to have one of my own!! Awesome dollhouses😊
I remember you mentioning the "theme"of your future dollhouse and I can't wait for you to have one of your own either!
I love the idea of your third doll house, having a space you can decorate and move around pretty much everything is so cool! When I have the space for a doll house I think I want to have mine like that.
Thanks! It's definitely my favorite. Partly because my friend and I made it and I feel proud of it, and partly because it has the most detail like the molding and the wainscoting. And also because I just love the open concept :-)
As always…interesting information. I love how you always have your daughter in the “front” of your thinking.
In our house, the adults were collectors first. But she's a toddler. We absolutely want her to enjoy these dolls and to have spaces where she can play the way toddlers do without mommas stressing :-)
You can never have to many doll houses. I've got so many doll room- house in my bedroom that I've thought about nicking down the wall between my bedroom and the living room. I'm a widow, so I can do what I want 😏. My late husband didn't want me to have the doll things. He couldn't understand why our adult children kept buying me stuff for my collection. Oh well. I love your doll room and your other doll houses. Happy doll hunting!
My criteria for deciding whether a hobby has "gone too far" are basically: Is it negatively impacting their ability to handle their financial responsibilities? Is it compulsive? Is it inhibiting or damaging their ability to contribute to the relationships they have with others? If the answer to any of those is 'yes' then it might be time to pause and consider some adjustments. If the answer to all of those is 'no', then I don't see a problem. And if it's not a problem, I see no reason for anyone else to criticize. They don't have to understand to be supportive :-)
You can never be over the top! I have the dollhouse you but with 6 rooms. I’m looking to redesign it so, thanks for the inspiration!
Which one that I have? Trying to figure out which one, so I can imagine it with 6 rooms :-)
@@agtakesover I’m sorry! I forgot you had several houses lol.. I have the 6 room my girls dollhouse. Yours have the attic and mine has all square rooms. I love having the room space. I don’t think I could be able to make the attic look like I would want it.
@@luv4all43 Gotcha. I've seen people just take the roof off so they can either add back walls and make regular square rooms or make a rooftop terrace. I bet yours looks great!
@@agtakesover oh wow! I would love to see someone who has remodeled theirs. You inspired me to redecorate. It’s long overdue😞
This inspires me so much! I can’t wait to have a place of my own and space to build a dollhouse of my own. Thank you for sharing this was such a fun watch!
Thanks! I experimented with building a collapsible room out of foam board recently and I really love the results. I made a tutorial about it and will post it soonish. Maybe that'll be a good option until you do have your own space :-)
Over the top? There's no such thing when it comes to doll houses.
Lol. I would LOVE to see a long video if your doll setup. I absolutely love all of your doll room shots on Instagram, but I don't have a sense of how big your setup is or where things are in relation to each other. Your dollroom aesthetics are 😍😍😍😍
@@agtakesover Aw, thanks. I keep telling myself I'll make a video once everything is "done," but we all know a doll house is never done. Most of my stuff is in an 8'x16' shed. But a lot of it migrates into the house.
@@sillymonkey5533 Is the shed climate controlled? I feel like Ohio weather gets such highs and lows that we wouldn't spend much time in it if it weren't temperature controlled lol. Not that we will be getting a shed any time soon regardless, but now I'm just trying even harder to picture your setup.
@@agtakesover It has a window AC but no heat. We're in southern California, so that's not a big deal most of the time. It WOULD be a big deal in Ohio! Brrrr... Having everything in a shed is much less convenient than having it in the house, and I find I don't post as often as I'd like just because I don't feel like going outside.
@@sillymonkey5533 that makes complete sense!
Cool! Thanks for sharing! I'm planning on building a doll house once we move into a bigger place. This is a great video for getting ideas on how I want mine to look. Especially love the contact paper tip
Are you more likely to go the route of our basement dollhouse or the upstairs one?
@@agtakesover I don't know! I like both. I think it'll depend on the space we move into, which is hopefully in June/July. I'll likely customize it to the room it'll be in. I'm leaning more towards using vertical space though, so it'll probably be more like your basement one
Absolute perfection !! I’m jealous of everything it’s soo amazing 😍😍😍😍Thank you so much for sharing ❤️❤️
Oh, thank you so much!! I think having a dollhouse has definitely changed the way I see things when I'm out and about in stores - there's a part of my brain that's always assessing smaller things to see if they'd work in a dollhouse lol.
@@agtakesover yesss !! This is exactly how my brain works everywhere I go lol
I have 2 PAX wardrobes for my 6 room dollhouse. They were bought for my daughter and she played dolls in them for a few years. She’s outgrown her dolls for now. She’s in college and is very focused on her premed career.
My dollhouse is in our unfinished basement so lighting is a challenge. Also, it’s near my husbands at home office, so is unusable when he works from home.
One day, my son will hopefully get a job and then he and his girlfriend will move out and I can move my dolls and sewing room into a bedroom with light.
Your comment about your son cracked me up! 🤣🤣 I would love to see your dollhouse.
We just moved and I"m working on getting things fitted in so really apprecaited your video. LOVED that you have the 3 spread out and really looking forward to the swimming pool video when you make it!
Ooh, that's exciting! Are you going to have a room for dolls? Or a wall in a room? Some shelves or a closet? I'm always interested to see how ppl use the space they have for their dolls. And I'm not sure when I'll recreate the pool so that I can film a tutorial but definitely sometime before it gets too hot :-)
My options are limited, as i am in Europe and 18 inch dolls aren't as big of a thing here. The first dollhouse that's bigger than Barbie sized that's available here is the Our Generation dollhouse. So that is my dream setup, but I would probably use it with my 13 - 15 inch sized dolls.
Awesome! I am impressed! My setup? Well…a bunk bed and a My Life As living room set on the floor of my office 😂. But, I am inspired by collectors like you! Thanks and blessings!
Aww, thanks! I don't know if you watched my tutorial about doing a collapsible room, but that is a really good option for small budgets and/or small spaces. It's on the tutorial/DIY playlist on my channel if you want to check it out.
I just thrifted the 1st dollhouse for $25 with some furniture included! My 6yr old daughter is a new American Girl Doll fan & has ditched her barbies lol I honestly thought I wouldn't be able to ever afford to upgrade her from a barbie sized dollhouse. Thankful for FB marketplace ❤🤣
I find this so relatable. I have two daughters 18 years apart. With the second one I admittedly have less energy. But I do have a bit more financial stability. Especially with the first one, second-hand markets (yard sales and craigslist mainly in that time) made a huge difference to me. Congrats on that AMAZING find!
SO COOL!
Thanks so much! We are super lucky to have the space for three dollhouses. I sometimes daydream of having a larger place to have EVERYTHING centralized but unless we finish our basement, that won't happen. For now, I love the set-up we have :-)
Love the doll house I'd use the top part as kits tree house attic
The top part would be perfect for her attic bedroom. If my little one reads Kit's books in the future and wants to do that, I'll gladly help make it happen!
i love it! love the details on the wall in the third one!
Thanks - the third one is the one we use most and it's the one I see all day when I'm working (our doll room doubles as my office, or vice versa).
so jealous it’s ginormous! love your dollhouse so much
Thanks! I really love the one my friend and I made the most because we got to pick exactly the measurements that we wanted. Custom was definitely the way to go.
oooo plz do a complete doll room tour !!! that sounds awesome
Have you watched any of my other dollhouse tour videos? There is a whole playlist of them on my channel :-)
I really wish that I had a "doll room" - I've always shared my studio (I'm an artist) space with it. When I lived on the east coast, that wasn't so bad because my studio space was truly enormous - I also had a whole livingroom/snack area as well - and I had three custom made houses - one which was wider and only two shelves (my historicals on each storey, Kaya's 'outside' area on top), and two taller, narrower ones for my modern dolls. I think the rooms each were 2ft deep, by 2ft tall, and 3ft wide, with the historicals being 4ft wide, but it wasn't modular, they were solid pieces.
But since moving to SoCal, house-money just doesn't get you the same amount of space out here. My studio as well as holding my dolls now also holds my adult kiddo's dolls, AND my studio, and our guest room - and is a smaller space as well. We didn't bring those custom built doll houses with, so I ended up purchasing some Ikea closet shelving, I forget the name, but the ones that are *just* shy of being 2ft deep. They're definitely the least hassle out of every option that I considered, and with wood prices being what they are after covid, the most cost efficient.
Yeah, I know cost of living and the square footage your money will get you vary so much based on location. I know ppl (often with very good reason) talk crap about the midwest, but I am definitely grateful that -even in a crap housing market where affordable living is harder to come by than honest politicians- we were able to find a home that gives us some extra room. I've mentioned before that my doll room doubles as my office and the whole thing is only 10' or 11' x 13'. So it's pretty small. Still...it's ours and we don't anticipate moving any time soon, so it's nice to know we have this dedicated space.
Re: those Ikea shelves, are they the Pax ones? Those are the ones I see doll collectors use most frequently. I'd love to see pics of your dollhouses (present and former). Do you have pics of them on your agig?
@@agtakesover I do have photos of the Ikea ones - yep, they're PAX, I had to go back and check in my IG. I've pics of the planning process, and then after they were just put in, but no wide shots since because I'm still working on decorating it, but there are of individual rooms as I've been working on or finishing them. (I'm SO slow.) Hoping to be able to take an updated wider angle shot of them all during spring break.
Hah, the only thing I worry about with the mid-west historically has been safety - you and Grace haven't found that to be an issue? I imagine it is as much there as anywhere really... there was a decent turn out at a recent rally involving grown men in white sheets in my city, which everyone always thinks of being quite liberal, so *whatcha gonna do*?
@@fthurman I think Grace and I generally feel safe. Columbus is pretty queer-friendly and even our red voting small town has a pride festival every year. Our bigger concern at this point is the school system and not wanting the conservative board to push for even more whitewashing of history and censorship of books, etc. There are significant pros and cons to any educational option we consider, so that's up in the air still.
@@agtakesover 11" x 13" IS pretty small, once you take up 4sq ft of that with a doll house - you've done a really great job, I think! Certainly watching your videos has been an encourage to me to keep plodding along on mine.
@@fthurman we are currently reevaluating other spaces for additional doll display (and in there process eing reminded that dusting is one of my least favorite chores).
That was great. I loved the story of how you got the doll house home on the top of the car. :) And I loved the magnetic lamp with the thumb tacks in the ceiling. That was brilliant!! And I don't think you're over the top at all. I think you have plenty of room and each house has it's own purpose and it works for you. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks - the story of getting that dollhouse home is one of my favorite personal doll stories lol. And yeah - on paper it seems extreme to have three houses but a) we've gotten all three for WAY less than that overpriced KidKraft/AG house and b) as long as the house doesn't feel too cluttered as a result, it's hurting nothing and no one for us to be a little extra ;-)
@@agtakesover Very good point about getting 3 for a LOT less than 1 AG. :)
My question is where do you store your big ticket items when they aren’t on display? I just got my first, Lea’s rainforest house, for an incredible steal. It’s huge, and I can’t imagine having multiple BTIs. I guess having a basement comes in handy. I don’t have a basement!
I love your big dollhouse with the removable door and windows. The wainscoting looks so nice! It looks like a real house. The locker light on the ceiling is a genius idea.
I have the OG sweet kitchen as well - OG gifted it to me! I had no idea it existed before I got it. It’s my favorite of all the kitchens OG has made. I just need to find a new space for it as I moved Lea’s house to where it used to be. I wish I had three floors of doll space! You are fortunate.
That story about driving the dollhouse home is hilarious - I bet your neighbors had a good laugh! But we doll collectors will do what we need to do! 😆
Yes - it's absolutely thanks to the basement. If we didn't have a basement we'd probably only have or two BTIs. We just got the AG cafe and opened it tonight. We put it next to Grace's bakery and holy crap - the cafe looks downright tiny next to her bakery. Some BTIs are def bigger than others lol.
@@agtakesover the cafe is so tiny! I wish it was a little bigger to be more proportionate. It’s cute, though!
Looking forward to seeing the new one with the pax system.
It's coming along SO well and I can't wait to share it with you all!
Love your dollhouses!! Unfortunately we don’t have a basement but I do have an extra guest room that is now my doll room. I plan on making a doll house (hopefully this year) with 6 rooms. I have a general idea but I need to do a lot of getting rid of furniture, moving things and painting. You’ve given me some great ideas! For right now, I have a living room for my dolls in an old entertainment center in our great room. It’s in the center where the tv used to go. It is 24 inches deep, 42 inches high and 30 inches wide. I love that I can close the doors to hide it away or open the doors and slide them in as walls if I want to leave them open. I enjoy decorating it for each season/holiday.
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That's so smart! I love that you can open or shut the doors depending on when you want them on display. That probably helps with dust, too. (and bonus entry recorded)
I was going to say that having those big ticket items like Grace’s bakery is very heavy and could leave to the middle of the doll house bending but then I saw that you switch it seasonally or whenever you do. Really nice doll houses I think you can never have enough 😅 I have 2 and I definitely need more space for my dolls
Also, having that spindle in the middle is really helpful. I think even if we left a big-ticket item up there for a long time we wouldn't see much bowing because of that support in the middle of the dollhouse. Have you done a full tour video of both of your doll houses? If so, I'll have to go back and find that and watch it! I really love seeing how other people approach storage, display, and doll houses.
@@agtakesover I’ve done a full tour of the our generation doll house but not an updated one ! I also just do like seasonal decor so that’s on my channel, I just uploaded the valentines one ❤️
@@agmuneca2507 ooh, good - I've been waiting for your Valentine's Day one :-)
Lovely spaces, thanks for showing the process too :)
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Thanks - doll houses are so much fun We've decided to expand the one in the basement, so expect an update video in the next couple of months :-)
Loved loved loved every one of your dollhouses!
I currently have an OG Sweet Home dollhouse set up in my bedroom. I also have a KidKraft dollhouse that has yet to be set up (because I don’t have the room for it yet in my apt). Accidentally ended up with two of them because I settled for KidKraft first & bought it when I really wanted the OG one! The OG kept going out of stock and so I had to constantly be on the lookout for it being In Stock! Once it became available again I snatched one up! But since I had already taken the KidKraft house out of the packaging and tossed the box, I couldn’t return it! (I also need to do a paint job on the KidKraft dollhouse because I don’t like how busy the backdrop is on that one). But being DB, I’m not totally sure how I can go about doing that. I struggled for a few days -alone- trying to put the OG one together… for fear of friends or family judgment.
I'm so sorry that worry about judgy family and friends meant you didn't feel comfortable asking for help. Putting these dollhouses together is no joke! Do you like the OG one? I know the rooms are a little small but I generally hear good things about it.
@@agtakesover I was was concerned about the judgment factor. Only now have I found Adult AG RUclips community, a couple of friends who don’t judge me for liking dolls. My therapist is also a great encouragement as well! Yes it was rough trying to see the instructions and the correct parts! I had some of the tools needed for the construction but I had to purchase an electric screwdriver/drill to finish it off! (The experience of drilling was an awesome Tactical experience for me as DB)! That part I did enjoy!
I do like the OG dollhouse! It even matches nicely with the theme/decor of my bedroom. It comes with decent furniture (except the bed). In my opinion, they could have added some feet or something else to it instead of making it a floor bed. The kitchen is unique, in that I haven’t seen that one in any other OG set.
The furniture that comes with the KidKraft house is childish and VERY CHEAP looking! I definitely would not want to use it in the KidKraft house but would swap it out for AG or OG furniture! (If/when it gets set up).
@@prettypioneer 100% agreed about the KidKraft furniture. I'm glad you like the OG stuff for the most part. Also, yay for getting some power tools! A drill/screwdriver comes in so handy!!
@@agtakesover so am I! I also love the skylight roofing on the OG dollhouse! I overall feel of it, is more conducive to Adult Doll collector’s, I believe. Now, I just need to find a place to set up a KidKraft one, (once it’s painted that is).
@@prettypioneer yes! Of all the prefab dollhouses I have seen, that one catches my item up for exactly the reason you said. The color scheme and design feels more appropriate for an adult collector. I just know it wouldn't be anywhere near big enough for us LOL
Does anybody remember the our generation kitchen everyone on agtube had it one was red and another was a white or silver colored. Either way just thought about it while seeing the doll house with the my life as kitchen setup
Yep - I still see that OG kitchen all the time on agtube!
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Thanks!
I love the last set up!! The sound disappeared right after you started giving the specs for it, so I couldn't hear the Ikea Pax info.
There weren't any Ikea Pax shelves in this one. I didn't add them till later. The upstairs one that's an open floor plan - that's the one I *made*.
@@agtakesover ohh okay!! Cool. Thank you!!
Thank you for this video, it was TOTALLY WORTH the wait. I have 3 My Girl's Dollhouses ,5 Ikea Stuva Frames (3 medium and 2 cubes), a TV Armoire(divided into two rooms)and a Wardrobe (divided into 5 rooms on the 2 shelves) housed in my back bedroom that I call my Dollcave. I have a two room Dollhouse I bought from a Cabinet company (it arrived broken and got more broken when I moved ). So it sits on top of the TV Armoire divided into 3 rooms. On top of the wardrobe is another make shift room (total of 32 rooms [mini room for my Glitter Girls dolls(cheap version of Wellie Wisher)]. Two of the dollhouses don't have a roof(movers threw one away, and the other one, I like it without it. For the windows in the My Girl's Dollhouses, I use 3M hooks, 2 pencils(curtain rods[held together with rubber bands]), bandanas, or old curtains cut up for the curtains. The walls in the dollhouse ,I use Postal boxes, covered in wrapping paper, or contact paper (without the backing taken off ,just tape it to the Postal box with packing tape). I do this so when I want to change a room,all I need is more Postal boxes whatever I'm using and packaging tape. I tried putting the contact paper on the walls major headache. I used Duct Tape Sheets, also a pain in the butt. I TOTALLY PREFER my Postal boxes (the tallest ones, Our Post office, the boxes are free). If you ever decide to change up your My Girl's Dollhouse, here are the dimensions of the rooms: Back: 22"H x 28" L ,Side: 22"H x 20" L, Window sides: 22"H x 5 1/2" L( left and right side
Wow - that sounds like quite a setup!! Thank you so much for sharing your creative solution and I'm glad the video was worth the wait!
@@agtakesover I do enjoy it. I've always wanted a room just for my dolls and now I have one.
I am hopeful that in the future I will be able to have a doll house I am saving furniture pieces I find at goodwill for cheap but good and stuff from Walmart but right now I am focused on not letting the dolls take over my limited space completely and I would also like to have a area to make my videos while having my dolls as my background which would be great
I really like your doll house and ur ideas to make them look more realistic is awesome love the curtains never would have thought about it
Thank you for the tour I appreciate it alot
It's smart to get things that you find great deals on. I find it helpful to keep a running list on my phone of what I have already. This was especially important in the beginning. I also think you are wise to hold off on it until you figure out the size that you want your collection and how you want to manage your space. Thanks for the compliments about our dollhouses... I am glad you enjoyed getting to see them!
Thank you for the tour. I wish I could have one but I don't see it in the cards.
I'm going to post a video sometime soonish about making a collapsible rom out of foam board. Super affordable and they don't take up much room. Maybe that would be more doable?
Did u custom build the walls/house? If so do u have a tutorial/video of u making them, and if not where do u buy them???
I built the 3rd dollhouse with a friend. If you watch that section, I give all the specs for it. I don't have a separate tutorial for it because I made this long before starting my channel. But I do cover the measurements and thickness of wood, et cetera in this video.
Ok tyy!!
I have the same dollhouse you showed first. I got it for $25 from a family that was moving. How did you paint the walls? They have a glossy finish. Did it take paint well? Did you need to do any special prep?
What a steal!! I initially tried the wallpaper and spray adhesive trick (that was a fail in most of the rooms). That might have helped the paint stick. I didn't have any trouble with the pain not sticking. In the end, one wall was returned to its original state, one was covered with wrapping paper, one was covered with contact paper, and two were painted.
I think your houses are great....I am getting ready to redo my dollhouse room.. it does not work how I wanted...
Thanks so much! I wish you the best of luck with your dollhouse room! It can be a lot of work initially, but once you're happy with the walls and floor, it seems to be much smoother sailing.
Do you happen to know the dimensions of the yellow bunkbed set? Do you recommend it? I’m thinking of bunk beds and the desk set for a Nicki and Isabel room. I don’t want to spend $300 on their beds. I’m not opposed to spending $ (seeing as I’ve spent too much as it is) but it needs to be for something I really like. I also don’t have a lot a lot of space since Courtney’s room takes up almost the whole third story of the doll house.
I just went down and measured them. 20.5" long, a little over 12" wide, and almost 17.5" tall (so a hair smaller than Courtney's bed). I would totally recommend them. They're a space saver, they're legitimately from the 90s, and you can usually find them easily enough on FB Marketplace (for WAY cheaper than the twins' beds).
@@agtakesover awesome. Thank you so much.
I’m an adult collector and I want to make a dollhouse because the ag one is terrible quality and the stickers look so bad! This gave me some tips on how so thank you
Yeah...the fact that all three of my dollhouses together cost less than that AG one is nuts!
Loving your channel and content! I really appreciate your how to’s, any time you get an outfit you share what it looks like on the dolls and you are always sharing where you get your items. I also love your voice… there’s just something about it, it’s professional and calming at the same time 😊. Anyway l’m looking to have my husband build a house for me, I mean my girls and I love the sofa set in your upstairs 1 level house. Do you by chance remember where it’s from?
I'm so glad you're enjoying the channel. It's been a lot of fun to have this additional way to enjoy the dolls, learn some new tech skills, have a creative outlet just for myself, and connect with others :-) And yes, the sofa set is from QTPie Doll Clothing on Etsy and we love it!
My oldest neices has the my life toilet,shower and vanity set she puts her baby dolls on the potty all the time. She's 2, and she potty training, so everything right now is potty
I am so glad that MLA made the bathroom set with the toilet. To my knowledge OG doesn't offer a toilet and I know AG doesn't. For companies that make so many fake foods you'd think they'd connect the dots and make a fake commode lol.
me i would love a whole room for my dolls atm there in my bedroom
How large is your collection? Do you have a dollhouse or primarily the dolls?
Hi I love you houses ! Where did you get the crib from ?
The grey one in the second house I showed? It's a brand Target carries - I think it's Perfectly Cute. I think it was originally light teal, but I spray painted it grey.