The front porch, complete with an urn of flowers, a place for the dolls to sit on a nice summer day, and a hanging basket of flowers. There's also a working metal mailbox under the house numbers -- considering where the house is going, I thought it best to file off the "US" over "Mail."

Urn, chairs, hanging basket and mailbox are from Through The Keyhole. House numbers are from Hobby Lobby.

The kitchen bay window, complete with cafe curtains. You can just about see the upper cabinets against the far wall.

And yes, the walls really are Pepto-Bismol pink. I am nothing if not sympathetic to the recipient's wishes.

The interior of the house.

• Top Floor -- daughter's room and family/playroom.
• Middle Floor -- hallway, master bedroom and bathroom.
• Bottom Floor -- living room and kitchen.

Each room has internal trim such as crown molding and baseboards. The living room, kitchen, master bedroom and hallway have hardwood floors, the bathroom has a tile floor, and the daughter's room and playroom are carpeted.

The kitchen, with Mom, Dad and Lad wondering what's for dinner. The walls are papered in a nice golden-beige paper with a leaf and berry print, and the windows have cafe curtains made from two different types of lace (God, I love Jo-Ann's at times).

A close-up of the stove and sink, plus the stove hood and upper cabinets. These were unfinished kits bought from Miniatures.com -- you can make an entire modular kitchen in whatever color you like using these kits, which is extremely cool. All the cabinet doors work, although the drawers under the stove and sink are display only.

The kitchen roll dispenser came from Through The Keyhole, and Lad came from Petco, of all places (he was originally a Christmas tree ornament).

The other side of the kitchen -- this hutch was originally purchased for Clara's dollhouse, but I didn't have enough room for it, so I used it here. The kit stove, sink and cabinets were painted and stained to match.

The tea set is from Through The Keyhole (a complete set of dishes, cups and saucers are in the cabinets across the room), the bottles from Hobby Lobby, and the Delft china is from a local antique store.

The kitchen dining area -- the table and chairs came from England, ironically (for the life of me I could NOT find a plain round table and chairs in oak from a Stateside source). I still want to put together some placemats and a centerpiece.

You also get a better view of the cafe curtains here -- I went with silver beads on the end of the rods to give it a more "real" look.

The living room. This is the same living room kit I used for Clara's house, but here I combined them with a lovely white fireplace and an elegant Art Deco rug. Underneath the stairs is a side table topped with marble and a mirror.

The finishing touches are the two shelves of treasures over the mantelpiece and the pictures on the wall -- all of the artwork in the house is Vermeer, Manet, Monet and a Texas artist who did lovely landscapes of bluebonnets in bloom. It's good to have a color printer.

The vase of flowers came from the Crafter's Gallery in Saratoga Springs, NY, and the rug came from Think Small in Chicago, IL.

The master bedroom, with bay window dressing area. You can blame the lacy room dividers on MY FAIR LADY -- I had it on the iMac while I was working on this room, and saw something similar in Eliza's bedroom. Serendipity works that way, you know.

The curtains and bedclothes are custom-made by me, and the shoes are charms from Hobby Lobby.

The upstairs hallway, with a Texas landscape on one wall and "Girl With a Pearl Earring" on the other.

The bathroom, also the first room done in the house. I made the curtains and bathmat, and will be making more towels. The left-side etagere and bathroom furniture is from Through The Keyhole, and the hanging etagere is from Think Small.

And since a bathroom isn't a bathroom unless it has lots of nice-smelling stuff, I also made a tray of perfume and bubble bath bottles from beads and other findings. The tray is from Through The Keyhole.

The teenager's room. Since Bethan is going on 11 or so, I didn't want to do a little girl's room -- instead, I went with cool fantasy posters (the one over the desk is compiled from mermaid pictures), a rolltop desk I made from scratch, a dresser painted white to match the other furniture, and a single bed with custom-made bbedding. Rolf the German Shepard is next to the bed, wondering if the teddy bear is tasty, and Jasmine the cat is snoozing on her cushion in the lower left corner.

And yes, that's a leather motorcycle jacket draped over the back of the chair. You'd be amazed what you can find in scrapbooking sections these days. Getting the gum off the back was a real PITA, too.

The playroom/family room. The entertainment unit on the right contains a TV, and the daughter's euphonium is in its case next to it (purchased from Chesterfield Market in Chesterfield, England). Because I like meta stuff, a dollhouse with eensy dollhouse furniture stands on the coffee table, and a fancy stuffed elephant stands on the other side of the entertainment unit. There isn't actually enough room for a sofa in here, so I'm thinking about doing beanbag chairs.

A close-up of the EU, euphonium case and elephant. The decorative mirror came from Through The Keyhole.