TUTORIAL - MAKE AN IDEAL PETITIE PRINCESS VANITY SHABBY CHIC!!

MAKE A SHABBY CHIC VANITY
FROM A
IDEAL PRINCESS PETITE VANITY
FOR YOUR MINI DOLL

Thank you to my new followers.
 

I hope you find my ideas from my blog
helpful and easy to use.

 

Thank you all for the lovely comments

that you have left me.
You are all so sweet!!

 

Please bear with me as I have been sick again.

I thought that all was finished with shots but apparently not!

However I am still feeling

sickly with nausea and headache!
But still I have managed

to finish this vanity that I wanted to show you.

This is the 2nd vanity that I have made with
one of these Ideal Petit Princess Vanity's.
The First one being for the witch Permelia.

When looking for one of these to buy
look for ones with a good mirror!

When I started doing this, these
vanity's were cheap. The price has
gone up some since this posting.
 

Shabby Chic can be
all white, an off-white, ruffles or colors
or tattered, torn or aged. It is up to you.

As you can

see I have another apartment building
and this apartment will be

on the top floor.
 
I will show you the

new building in another posting.

I am looking for colors other than white to mix with the

clean white walls.
I need some perfumes and other

stuff to go on top of the vanity so I am looking to see

what I might have that will work.

This is the front.

 

 Sometimes ago I bought from the thrift
shop a pair

of baby shorts that had sewn
fabric pieces into a

shabby look. I feel in love with the muted colors.

However, the shorts were tiny and so there was not

much fabric to work with.
The little fabric I have left

I want to make a stool cover and make for a top for

the bed cover.
So as you can see I stopped at the back

but it does not matter - this piece will be to the back of the

wall.

This is what the back of mine looks like.
I ran out of fabric.
It is okay cause the back will be against the wall.
I just might add a strip of another fabric to hide
the white.

 

What to do first - is to strip off

the bad smelly skirt and toss it!

They can be ugly, smelly, or holy.

Wash the pieces if they are dirty.

 

Remove the mirror and I peeled

off the strip of plastic that was on the

top of the vanity cause mine was

in bad shape. It showed glue too.

Peeling that off of yours, is up to you.

I do not want this vanity to look old.

 

I painted  the mirror frame

white and that took several coats

to get the whiteness that I wanted.
 

This picture  below shows you what the vanity
top looks like after I peeled off that
plastic. The glue kind of looks good and I
contemplated keeping it like that,
but in the end I opted to paint it.
The vanity top took up to 10 coats of white

to hide the glue.
The top is very shiny now, much more to my liking!
Do not bother painting the legs.

 

Paint the back of the mirror frame like the front.

 

 Next, I dapped some pale pink paint
on a paper towel, wiped it on the mirror
frame and wiped off the excess.

After that had dried, I started on the vanity.

I cut corrugated cardboard

(sizes are shown below), to the height
that I wanted.
(SEE THE DIRECTIONS BELOW FOR THE CARDBOARD)
(USEGOOD STURDY CORRUGATED CARDBOARD)

Then painted the cardboard white with 2 coats
as shown below.

 

This is the back and I also painted it

with 2 coats of white paint. 

It kind of looks nice just like this!

You can glue lace on over this corrugated cardboard

for a different effect and it will look pretty.

My next one might be lacy!

 

Once I made the cardboard tube

I slipped the legs of the vanity inside of

the cardboard and glued the cardboard

to the edge of the vanity.

The legs help to stabilize the vanity so

leave them in there.
This is what it should look like with the legs inside.

 

You can see my measurement

written on the inside of the cardboard.

 This is the measurement that I used for the width.

You can go smaller but I would not recommend going

any higher than 2.5 inches in height.

 

For the circumference of the cardboard

tube - you will have to measure it,

but it should be about 10 inches.

  You will need some cardboard to overlap
so you can glue it together as you
see I have done already.

 

This is all there was to making these vanity

useful for our miniature dollhouse dolls.

I still have to make a stool to match because

I never got the matching Petit Princess stool.

Hope you decide to try this!

Thank you for visiting me!

Hopblogger