Phase Two is lighting. I looked for more pound shop battery operated LEDs - but because this is Christmas, the only ones are either in funky colors, which is not what I want, icicle shaped -hmm.. - or mains powered, not suitable for a cardboard-walled-dolls house.
So I coughed up £6.99 for the nice white ones I liked at our local garden centre (and Christmas light emporium). They had clear wire too, which is handy as I won't be able to hide it all.
Here's the plan: the bookcase, which has seen a bit of life, has a bowed-out back leaving a gap between the back wall of the dolls house and the floors, or shelves. I could fix this but instead I'm going to use it to run lights between floors. The lights themselves will poke through holes in the cardboard-box room dividers. Again, I could have drilled into the back of the bookcase for this.. but that would involve actual work.
I placed the battery pack on the ground floor, then ran lights up to the top. I kind of had to do this in reverse to check that the tops ones could reach, before doing the middle floor. I had to untape the room dividers but I'd only lightly taped them in to start with.
Then I poked holes in the cardboard and stuck the lights through. I taped them slightly into place, predicting three-year-old fun with pushing them into the (soon to be wallpapered) walls and vanishing forever.
Steps:
1. Get LED battery operated lights on a string.
2. Untape room dividers and feed lights inside and up the gap between the shelves and the bookcase back.
3. Stab holes where you would like lights to appear. I did 2 on each side of the room dividers.
4. Poke lights through.
5. Tape room dividers back down. Tape lights into position to prevent them being pushed in by 'accident', ie by children.
6. Work out where to hide the battery pack later. (!)
7. Have fun switching on lights and then switching them off at doll bedtime.
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