Dance Studio

We finished our new American Girl doll dance studio.  Our studio started as an empty plywood box. We've been building our dollhouse as a series of empty boxes so we could stack and connect them as we completed them. Our dance studio started out the same way as all of our other rooms did.

After we finished building the box, we added paint. The outside of the box is painted white as is the ceiling inside the room.  We added a lavender purple to the walls of the dance studio.  Next we put down a wooden dance floor. Our floor is actually vinyl flooring that looks like wood. You can purchase it from home centers like Lowe's or Home Depot. It took three pieces of flooring to cover our floor. The flooring is sold as individual pieces (you can buy large boxes if you're covering the floor of a real room in your home) so it cost around $7 total.

After the paint was dry and the floor was down, we looked online for some dance posters and printed off a few of our favorites. We hung these to our walls with scrapbook squares.  We also added a dance bar to studio. This is a simple wooden dowel that we cut to the length we wanted. I added Scotch Command hooks to our walls to hold the bar up. I love the Scotch Command products because they really hold things up and come off when you want to remodel your dollhouse.

What dance studio would be complete without a mirror. I found a square one that looked like the right size at Joann's. I placed this on the wall of our dollhouse using the Scotch Command strips. I used six of the strips to ensure that it held in place.

Wendy is ready to dance in her new dance studio. There is plenty of room to practice her turns and leaps.

Time to start choreographing this fall's dance show!