Studio 27 - By Jennifer Adams: 2025

Friday, December 19, 2025

Playhouse Shed Decor

Last week I shared my playhouse shed's interior and furniture, this week I'm showing you the decor. Check it out:

Note - this is my last post for 2025. I'll be taking my holiday break for the next couple of weeks, but you can expect a new post January 9th!

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Here is how the shed looked at 'move in' time. I had the furniture in place and the walls painted, but didn't yet have the appliances. While I was looking for those I decided that I could at least bring in and organize some of my toy collection, as well as decorate.

In case you missed last week's interior and furniture post, you can find it here.

I purchased Dollar Tree bins and printed labels with my computer to sort dishes. The floor covering is a thrifted table cloth that I found for $4.

Using E6000 industrial strength glue, I attached hooks to the walls to hang picture frames. The pictures on this side are laundry themed because that's where the washer and dryer will go 😊

The back wall, above the cubbies, is where the refrigerator, sink and stove will go. Above here I hung a framed seed packet and a couple of food themed prints. Again I used the E6000 and picture frame hooks.

The right side of the playhouse will be the baby care center, here is how it looked at first.

I used my Cricut to add a decorative sticker to the bathtub so that it wasn't so plain looking, and braided twine rope for hanging the cradle. Again, all picture frame hooks and E6000. I used the tiny ledge at the top to store some small doll accessories. A bit of double stick tape on the bottom of each item keeps them in place.

I want to point out that this 'playhouse' is not intended for kids. It's really just a glorified storage cabinet for my toy collection and not a safe area for unsupervised play. Having ropes like this could pose a strangulation hazard, so it's best not to do the same if you will be having actual children around!

And that's the playhouse shed decor so far!

If you are interested in any of my other toy posts, you can check out these links;

eBay Haul: Vintage Fisher Price Fun With Food Toys

My Collection of Vintage Food Toys

Thrift Store Toys Turned Home Decor

Cleaning Vintage Toys

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I hope you enjoyed this playhouse tour post, thanks for stopping by!

-Jennifer

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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Wednesdays in the Studio - Link Party 48

Welcome to Wednesdays in the Studio, a weekly link party focusing on designing everyday life.

Thank you to everyone who joined last week! This week's features include:

A Christmas Hutch from Selep Imaging

Simple holiday kitchen decor from Thrifting Wonderland

A Scrabble tile ornament from The Apple Street Cottage

One bowl muffin pan scones from Esme Salon

*This will be the last link party of 2025. Parties will resume Jan 9th after the holidays*

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Friday, December 12, 2025

Playhouse Shed Interior & Furniture

If you've been hanging around here for awhile, you know I love to collect vintage toys. My favorites are Cabbage Patch dolls, Magic Nursery dolls and Fisher Price food toys, and the collection has grown quite a bit! I needed a place to store my collection that would be cute and fun but also understated...so another shed it was. Read on to see how I turned a simple metal shed into a playhouse:

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Here is the 6X4 metal shed that I purchased from Amazon. Once you get done peeling all of the protective plastic from every sheet of metal paneling, it's actually pretty easy to put together. I like this shed so much that I have one as my decorative garden shed as well (this post shows you both sheds together).

This photo shows you how the shed looks once constructed. No problem if you are actually using it as a shed, but since it's a playhouse I wanted to make things cuter. I didn't like the color or how a black stripe showed through each section where the panels overlapped.

I first repainted everything in a simple gray.

Notice the cap covered screws though? Something needed to be done about those...

...so I pulled out some leftover trim. The adhesive backed was enough for both sides while the plastic molding would cover the back wall.

I attached all of the trim with e600 industrial strength glue, even the adhesive backed trim that was already sticky.

Once dry I painted the trim with more wall color.

And then added a bit of gold ribbon trim just for fun.

Note - It seems like overkill to use the industrial strength glue for ribbon, but go ahead and do it this way the first time. I thought I could get away with hot glue here, but the ribbon fell down as soon as summer temps increased!

The shed comes with a metal frame floor kit, but no actual floor.

So my husband used a couple pieces of scrap wood that I then painted a contrasting shade of gray.

A wider length of gold ribbon made a nice baseboard.

With the interior settled, I needed to move on to how the furniture would be arranged. I knew that I would be putting some toy kitchen appliances inside, but wanted them to be higher than ground level.

A quick trip to the thrift store and I found two upright closet organizers and one shoe rack, $7.99 each. Though still in their original packaging, they had been in storage for a long time, look at the colors of the clothing in the photos!

I positioned the two uprights on their sides to make cubbies along the back. Notice that the far cubby has no support on the end.

A few bricks from the backyard gave stability.

Turning the upright organizers sideways meant that the unfinished surfaces were visible, so I painted them white.

Here is how the pieces look together, with the show rack hiding the brick supports.

Because the floor was two pieces of scrap wood, there is a seem along the middle. Just to be safe, I ran Gorilla waterproof tape along the seem to prevent any moisture from coming up. The floor will have a rug so the tape will be covered up.

And that is the playhouse interior and furniture. I'll have future posts with the decor and toys!

If you are interested in any of my other toy posts, you can check out these links;

eBay Haul: Vintage Fisher Price Fun With Food Toys

My Collection of Vintage Food Toys

Thrift Store Toys Turned Home Decor

Cleaning Vintage Toys

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I hope you enjoyed this how-to post, thanks for stopping by!

-Jennifer

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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Wednesdays in the Studio - Link Party 47

Welcome to Wednesdays in the Studio, a weekly link party focusing on designing everyday life.

Thank you to everyone who joined last week! This week's features include:

Whole wheat self rising flour from Scratch Made Food

A crustless mushroom and bacon quiche from Esme Salon

Upcycled winter decor from Crazy Little Lovebirds

A Christmas gift guide from An Artful Mom

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*Please link to a specific post and not your homepage.

*Link only your own posts, not someone else's.

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*Party runs from Wednesday until Monday each week, Central Standard Time.

*A link back to this party isn't required but is appreciated!

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-Jennifer

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Friday, December 5, 2025

Fake Bake Stacked Burger

I had an idea for a faux stacked burger and wanted to give it a try. Here is how it turned out:

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I kept things really simple and only used two cookie cutters to create all of my shapes with Crayola Model Magic.

For the burger patties I poked little holes all over the place using a Dollar Tree clay tool.

For the lettuce I cut the sides in jagged lines and then ran over the whole piece with a Wilton fondant tool.

Here is how the lettuce looked afterward. I focused on the edges because that's what will be visible when constructed.

Here are the shapes that I ended up with; square cheese, round smooth for the buns, round distressed for the patties, and round cut/ distressed for the lettuce.

Using acrylic paint I colored my pieces like this:

Classic Caramel - Buns

Apricot - Cheese

Chocolate Bar - Burger Patties

Kelly Green - Lettuce

When everything was dry (I used two coats) I hot glued the stack together like this. Now the faux burger is part of my snack cabinet, which you can see in this post.

And that's how I made my faux burger!

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I hope you enjoyed this how-to post, thanks for stopping by!

-Jennifer

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