Our Little House
Acting as Mary Ingalls means I have to do a lot of cleaning. First I helped take the unwanted stuff out of the little house; next I took all the carpets to the trailer for the skip (T11 had to unscrew the little house ladder so we could get the carpet up!) and afterwards we all did some dusting and sweeping. Here is the house empty and clean, ready to be painted:
Already it looks much better!
I also helped whitewash the inside and it was hard work. But it was worth it because it`ll be great to play in and I’m hoping it will help teach me to keep house. Whilst I white washed the inside, T11 painted the outside brown and A4 painted her planter the same brown, with a little help from mummy. In fact, we all got help from Mummy!!
Here are L10 and I painting away
We needed to make the bedroom comfortable, which we did by making a mattress . We used a ripped sheet and some sofa stuffing mummy had kept from an old sofa, although in the 1800`s they used straw. We didn’t use straw because we were afraid we would get rats. We will post a photo of our mattress once the house is finished. We got rather messy painting the little house but nevertheless had a lot of fun.
We didn’t quite finish the house the week. We still have to treat the floor, the ladder and the upstairs framework before it is finished enough to start filling up. We will post a photo of the house so far on Friday, hopefully you will all see the difference!
A Summer of Little House Living 
It does look beautiful already. Thank you for sharing your steps along the way.
Thanks. We’re going to make it even more beautiful by adding furniture and quilts. Thanks for reading along!
Great job! It looks like so much fun…and what a wonderful learning opportunity!
Thank you! It was a lot of fun! And it is a great learning opportunity. Mummy is even going to teach me to sew.
You’re doing such a great job, well done!
Thank you
You’re working very hard, I’m sure it will look really special when you have finished!
Thank you. I hope it will look lovely!
I can’t wait to see your little house when it is finished. You are inspiring me to do something similar with my kids!
Thank you. I encourage you to do this with your own kids, it is sooo much fun!
We would love to see more pictures of the inside, it looks wonderful! Will you be making the quilts yourself?
We will be posting some pictures of the inside on Friday. And yes we hope to make the quilts ourselves. Thank you so much for leaving a comment!
Oh well done girls! I can see that your little house is going to be SO beautiful! I am really looking forward to the end project! So excited!!
Thank you. We hope it will be beautiful, although we are looking forward to the painting being finished!
Good job. The house looks really well. You will make a great wife and mother some day. Are you going to try out the house once it is finished?
Thanks Daddy, although I can’t take all the credit, because you helped! We might try out the house. Mummy says we can sleep in it if you are there also! Love you!
Great job so far! It’s looking good. I’m really jealous of your little house.
Thank you. Don’t be too jealous. It was in a really bad state before we got our hands on it!
Was it very, very hard work cleaning the whole house? Will you make a bedstead for the mattress, like Pa did in the books?
Reese
Hi Reese, thank you so much for visiting and leaving a message. It was very hard work but no we won’t be making a bed stead because there is no room to fit it in.
Oh my goodness, the house looks great! You’ve done so much work already – what a great start. The whitewashing looks great and I can’t wait to see the mattress.
Thank you. We are looking forward to finishing the painting and getting on with decorating the inside with homemade bits and bobs.
Wow! Your house is bigger than I thought. How do you feel about Mary having to do so much more than the others? Good job by the way!!
Thanks! This Mary doesn’t really do more than the rest, we are sharing the work equally!
Wow, you worked hard! You’ve made such a difference to the house already, it looks great. We have a playhouse too and you have inspired my 9 year old daughter to want to paint it and make curtains too!
Thank you! We are making curtains too, next week. We’ve almost finished the painting, it will be done by the end of today.