I’ve worked on the various components of the Mouse House bathroom over time. Almost everything in the room was a piece I constructed with stuff around my own house.

The sink was made with half of a travel toothbrush holder as the base topped with a lid from a vaseline container for the sink. The knobs are pushpins topped with beads and the faucet is a wire and sewing rivets. I carved the toothbrush from a toothpick, and made the soap dish out of a button and sanded an Altoid into a rectangle for the soap.

The bathtub is simply a small, ceramic bread pan I spray painted white. The drain is a snap. I made the copper plumbing from scraps I found in Andy’s workshop, and added another pushpin, bead and snap for the water handle. The shower head was a button I found at an Estate Sale. It was in a bag with lots of other buttons that I didn’t want, and the seller kindly gave me this one.

I made the shower curtain with wire, jewelry rings and a piece of fabric from my stash.

The toilet was made with a small ceramic pot I found at the Salvation Army, topped with a black plastic lid from something in my workshop. I found the perfect button for the lid from a stash I inherited from my mother in-law. The toilet tank is actually a floss container I painted to match. I added a bead threaded with a white headed pin for the handle.

The storage dresser is from a garage sale: I roughed it up a bit and then added some stain to make it appear old. The items on it and the shelves above it were printed from the internet and then fashioned into boxes and bottles. I made the razor with wire, the toothpaste tube with foil and a rivet, and the toothbrushes from toothpicks and felt.

Other items in the bathroom include a shelving unit made with a miniature dresser drawer. I topped this shelf with “perfume” bottles made with beads and snaps. I also constructed simple towel hooks from sewing supplies, and a pile of paper goods from images printed from the internet.

Final additions included a scale I made with wood and a snap, a pail of toys, a basket with toilet paper, books and a People magazine, a curtain, bath salts and shampoo on the window frame, a waste basket, and a toilet plunger (made with a furniture foot and a dowel.)

Up next: The Laundry Room!