Parents are creating strikingly realistic?and shockingly stylish?toy houses for toddlers Harper Martin?s house is small, stylish, and aggressively on trend. The gray roof tiles perfectly complement the stone detailing that arches around her pink front door, and fairy lights are strung from the trees on her front deck. Inside, the attention to detail continues?a lush green wreath sits above her stone fireplace, and a matte black pendant lampshade hangs from her kitchen ceiling. It?s easily the kind of house that could grace the pages of a glossy magazine or feature on a home renovation show, except for a few crucial differences. Harper Martin?s home is made entirely of plastic, it is four and a half feet tall, and its owner is three years old. Harper?s mom Jessica, a 33-year-old retail pharmacist from Illinois, is one of a growing number of ?playhouse flippers?. Over the summer, social media exploded with a wave of parents renovating their children?s plastic playhouses?covering bright blue and pink exteriors with black, white, and gray spray-paint before adorning the playhouses with cast iron house numbers, gold accents, and foliage-filled window boxes. The result" Strikingly realistic?and shockingly stylish?toy houses for toddlers.
?I had a vision?I have a certain aesthetic,? says Martin, who has three black walls in her family home. ?Neutral, basic, minimal, blacks and whites and greens are my preference, and of course being the little girl she is, she had to h...