People with pack-rat tendencies can have a heydey when it comes to furnish Ing a dollhouse. Suddenly there's a use for those beads stashed away in a junk- jewelry drawer, for the plastic boxes and hottles so cleverly shaped you ‘couldn't bear to throw them out, even for scraps of gift wrap too small to use for most gifts but caxelully guarded anyway. They become decanters, drawer pulls, stools, wall and floor coverings and myriad other things. Washers, nuts, paper dips, container tops, bits of petit point canvas, wooden swab sticks—al: ‘most everything, that is small, slim, cw table or stackable is raw material for chairs, lamps, tables, bookends You can have just as much fan with interior decoration. For wall paintings cat color reproductions from art magi zines (museum posteards are also suit able) and glue them to Bristol board. Ir you wish, frame with balsa wood. Just as in our own homes, real plants add warmth and vitality. Gut snippets from large plants or seleet long-lasting suc- ceulents in a scale that suits your doll house. As you look at the different rooms on these two pages, note espe cially the wall and floor treatments, 1 Garage, Deck, Stairs, Gallery Garage doubles as a garden center. Floor sur face is latex paint mixed with sand. Carpet for stairs and gallery is felt, 2 Living Room We cut oak-veneer tape to look like floor tiles and shellacked them for a polished “parquet” floor 3 Dining Room, Powder Room Chim ney is coated with paint mixed with sand. Gift wrap covers powder-voom ‘walls, If you look through to the living room, you'll see a magazine rack with needlepoint cover. 4 Pantry/Bar, Kitch- en Kitchen floor is oak tag (available in ‘colors in stationery stores) scored with 2 mat knife to look like floor tiles. 5 Mas- ter Bedroom The reading lamps are made of caps from felr-sipped pens, springs and wood. 6 Bathroom Floor is ‘a smail-print kerchief mounted on Bris tol hoard and covered with clear self stick vinyl, (Gift wrap covered. with clear vinyl also makes a fine floor.) Rug {and towels, not shown) is a terry knit Shower head is a pushpin and a metal ‘washer. All the fixtures, which we ought, are ceramic. more>