What do you do when your husband prefers Halloween and you prefer Christmas in your doll’s houses? Simple – you go for Halloween of course! That surprised you didn’t it, but it’s easy really as Tara Buck admits that she goes overboard at Christmas anyway, so it sounds like a pretty good arrangement to me.
To satisfy her husband’s preference Tara bought a second hand Fisher Price happy family house from 1997 which she found in a charity shop. Unfortunately, it was missing the front and balcony doors and was covered in stickers and crayon marks from previous young owners. Undaunted, Tara took it all apart when she got home and washed everything to get a good clean surface.
Originally, she was just going to paint it black and add it to her Halloween collection but, during her research for ideas, she found some great examples of other witchy houses and realised that there was so much more she could do. To start with Tara added primer to all the pieces so that the paint would stick to the plastic.