Graymont Kitchen

The Dolls (and a lot of helpers) have made a couple of Graymont rooms usable, but it was hard work. The south wing originally consisted of three floors of tiny rooms and narrow hallways, with a cupola on top.

They created the kitchen by knocking out one wall of an old butler's pantry that adjoined the dining room in the main house. It had a sink with a water pump and leaky faucet, and a whole wall of empty shelves. They repaired the floor as well as they could, then painted it white, and brought the wood stove from the attic at home, also the lead-lined icebox.

The girls keep finding what they consider treasures, a lot of copper and brass, even a silver tea set missing its sugar bowl. Mama only wants to find a long table and enough chairs to seat everyone around it.

While the work was going on, a little brown-and-white cow kept wandering in every time someone left the back door open. The girls decided to name her Buttercup.