In coming up with a wish list for Paris, I put random furniture in the house to get a better sense of the function of each room, but a far cry from the designs I envision. The more I think about all of the things I'd like Paris to help me with on the Atrim dollhouse, the longer the list grows. My dear husband surprised me with increasing the budget for this project, so instead of my original plan to just do the flooring, I'll be able to pimp out this pad more than expected. So here it is, the "Ultimate Paris Wish List". It may not all happen right away, but it's going to happen as budget and time allow.
Flooring Throughout
Ground Floor: Dark wide plank hardwood floors throughout,
2nd Floor Bathroom: tile,
2nd Floor Office with stairs: carpet,
2nd Floor Master bedroom with bathroom: natural birch,
3rd Floor Lounge: carpet,
3rd Floor Bedroom: carpet,
Spiral Staircase 2 flights
Windows
Living room window: 21/2 x 141/8,
Bathroom window: 2 x 31/2
Doors
4 small doors: 3 1/16 x 7 1/16 (3 interior, 1 from lounge to patio),
2 large doors: 3 1/16 x 7 9/16 (front door and master bedroom to patio door)
I hadn't thought much about the exterior, but Paris had this great idea for the windows. He also suggested adding some paneling to give the house more architectural details instead of just being a plain white box.
Paris found this incredible idea for the staircase. I LOVE it! Mine will probably be white with walnut treads to match the furniture on the ground floor. Paris has actually been looking to make spiral staircases, as he's had requests for them for his pods, and there just aren't any modern spiral staircases on the market.
I love the doors Paris made for the
FR8 House, I totally want those.
Dining room
fireplace,
6-8 top dining table,
chairs,
buffetKitchen
Kitchen wall unit,
Island with room for barstoolsWe went with the kitchen and dining room combo with the fireplace instead of the front door, mainly because you're just not going to find a modern house in real life where the front door opens to the kitchen. Plus bad feng shui. I want a big dining table to make this the perfect house for entertaining. I love these dark wood floors and the two-tone table and buffet I found
online here. I LOVE this kitchen, and not just because it's green, but combined with the white and dark it just has that wow factor. I can't wait to see what Paris comes up. We're looking to do walnut and white to match all of the furniture.
Paris had a great idea to extend the fireplace, creating a bigger focal point at the end of the dining table. Here is a sample he sent of a cool option. Paris also sent this shelving unit from Ligne Roset that would look cool on the partition wall.
Living room
Entertainment unit,
PRD sectional couch,
PRD metallic tribal cubes,
shelving unitI'm still trying to decide what to do with this space, so I'm not certain what I want yet. The blue circle is wear the spiral staircase will go. Paris sent this cool idea for an entertainment unit. I'm going to keep playing around with the layout to see what feels right.
Master Bedroom & Bath
Platform bed,
Exposed cabinets/open closet,
Semi open room divider/sink/counter top,
Single vanity with tub/shower and toiletFor the master bedroom, I found this incredible open bathroom design, that I simply must have. Paris suggested putting and a flat screen TV on the opposite side of the suspended mirror. Genius! He thinks of all the great details. Poorly constructed cardboard mock up was just for me to see if there was enough space.
Office
TBD
Lounge
Bar,
Entertainment Unit,
seating TBDI'm also still trying to figure out what to do with these rooms. The hallway office, will probably have a shelving unit for a library and computer desk and chair. The third floor lounge / man cave / bar is also still undefined for now. Suggestions?
Bedroom
Bed with M.U.T.T. headboard and night stands,
maybe a tan leather chaise,
Walk in closet or wardrobe unit,
maybe a pine vanity and matching wood cube (depends on space plan)I currently have the M.U.T.T. floor mirror and M.U.T.T. bench with angle leg, so I asked Paris for a bed to match and he suggested making a bed with a M.U.T.T. headboard so there would be three matching elements in the room. M.U.T.T. stands for Made Using Tossed Trimmings.
Bathroom
cool vanity,
separate tub,
stand up shower,
toilet,
recessed lightingApparently, I really like black and white bathrooms. I haven't talked to Paris about this room yet, so there are a lot of ideas here and I'll need his help to reign them in and use what works best. The biggest thing I like, is
the large picture with the recessed lighting coming from the dropped ceiling. Pretty cool, right? I also love the bathtub in this pic, especially if I left the back wall white and the side walls dark.
In the
photo with a bit of red and the pool, I really love the long black rectangular tiles on the walls. Next to that, I like how the stand up shower and tub are on the far wall separated by the bench/storage unit perpendicular to the vanity.
I pretty much want the roof top to look like the pool area from the
FR8 House.
Roof top
M112 Pod Pool
M112 Pod deck
2 Ribb Chaise in white
a couple of the tall white and shorter ribbed ceramic pots with plants
David Lee sent me a sneak peek of the final designs of his mid century modern dollhouse co-developed with Matias Ocana. The mini modern dollhouse is for 3.5" dolls and is close to 1:18 scale. It is made out of eco-friendly woods, durable fastening methods for structural strength, and they softened the edges to make it child safe. It features an integrated carrying handle so it can be transportable and the open-roof design allows play in the open or closed position.
