1:9 Scale Barn/Mellisa and Doug Folding Barn Review

One of my favorite Christmas presents this year was my barn. This year I got four medium gifts and two small things instead of several different gifts. If you are interested, the things were a new drawing tablet, an Echo Dot, the barn, and a new saddle. :)

The barn I received was the Mellisa and Doug two stall folding barn. It runs about $60 - and holy cow, is it worth the price.

I was a bit afraid it would be too small... But on the label, it even said it was scaled to 1:9 horses!

As said in the name, the barn can fold. You can keep it folded together and it stays pretty small. However, you can't access the small loft when it is in this configuration.

The stall on the left is pretty small. There is enough room for the horse to fit straight in, but they can't turn. The only door accessible when folded are the dutch doors.

The other stall is a different story. It's a good size - more than enough room for a large horse to fully turn around.

I wasn't totally satisfied keeping it folded up so decided to go with the other configuration, which is a corner shape!

This gives a large area for photography and gives access to all the doors. The small stall has a hinged door on the side to give more access. It makes me think it might have been intended to be a tack room...?

You can also see the loft in the photo. It's very small. Very. I just have a few random things and some blankets to fill up the space. It's not very practical, a rider can't even fit up there.

Of course after I set it up I had to decorate! :P First I laid down some grass scrapbook paper to give the footing a bit more realism.

Then I made a simple sign in Picmonkey. I really recommend Picmonkey for basic edits. I use it instead of photoshop if it's a small thing!

I also made a corkboard. It's a printout with some paperboard on the back with some volume, then separate printout for flyers!

I was watching barn tours on Youtube and found that a lot of barns had giant rule lists... So I had to make mine to opposite! Just don't be an idiot! :P

There's a liability sign, a horse sale thing, and a show flyer as well.

In the large stall I hung up a feed bucket with some 'baling twine' ;)

On each stall I used a pictureframe hanger as a halter rack as well as made a nameplate. 

In the next couple days, I'll post some barn photography. Hope everyone had a great Christmas or holiday!