My Attic room box shape was inspired by the Mansard roofed attic in my dollhouse-scaled Greenleaf “Beacon Hill” dollhouse. The attic space in the Greenleaf kit is designed to be completely closed off(!)…which should be a crime. I opened mine up on one side so there was a place to stash all that old broken junk that tends to gather in attics. That and things with eyes…but I am getting ahead of myself.

My Attic room box frame was made from inexpensive Dollar-Tree black foam-core board. I put in a real wood (Popsicle stick) floor, and used more Popsicle sticks for the unfinished walls. I broke the Popsicle sticks in 1/2 for a rough look and used dimensional-ish 2×4 looking lumber from a bag of misc. bits of basswood from Midwest Product (Basswood Economy Bag–found mine at JoAnn). The window was made from cardboard and a bit of recycled clear sheet plastic. The shingles are Greenleaf shingles that I had left over from other projects.

Once thing I did that worked out really well was I also used more foam-core board and built a little closed room around the outside of the window. You can’t see it in the picture but it looks like a little black box sticking out of the back of the display. Inside the box I put a white flickering LED light that gave the look of lightening outside and upped the creepy feel! The room itself is lit with one of my 6-light black light LED strips. And the thing with eyes? We’ll she has her own UV spotlight as she is tucked so far back into the corner the LED strip just wasn’t doing her justice.

Other items in this attic have had a bit of fluorescent paint added to help “light them up” as well. It is really important to always paint fluorescent paint under UV/Black Lights so you know exactly what you will get. It often doesn’t take much paint at all, so little that sometimes you don’t notice it under regular light.