Buying furniture for your dollhouse can be quite expensive nowadays! Read this article to learn how to build a small piece of furniture yourself and save some money. The article in question offers advice on how to build a bed, a table, chairs and a TV for small and medium-sized dolls.
Steps
Method 1 of 4: Table
Step 1. Take a circular piece of cardboard and paint it white
Let it dry.
Step 2. Cut 4 pieces of straw (5 to 7.5 cm long, depending on the height of your dolls)
Step 3. Glue the 4 pieces of straw to the cardboard circle
Make sure they are equidistant and each is 2.5cm from the edge.
Step 4. Paint the coffee table with a white base, then let it dry
Step 5. Refine the coffee table using the colors you prefer, to give it a touch of originality
Method 2 of 4: 3 Chairs
Step 1. Take an empty soap dish and cut out the top of the box with scissors
Step 2. Cut out the side walls of the soap dish so that when placed sideways they form a sort of 'L'
Step 3. Paint the 'L's white
Let it dry.
Step 4. Just like you did for the table, get four sections of straw each 5cm long
Step 5. Glue the four straws under the short side of the 'L', one in each corner
Step 6. Paint the legs of the chair white
Let it dry.
Step 7. Once dry, paint the chair using your favorite colors
Method 3 of 4: Read
Step 1. Take a piece of cardboard and paint it white
Let it dry.
Step 2. Now get 5 pieces of straw that are 5 cm long each
Step 3. Glue them to the cardboard piece, one in each corner and one in the center
Step 4. Make sure the outer straws are at least 2.5 from the edge
Step 5. Paint the legs of the bed white
Step 6. Refine the bed using the colors of your choice
Step 7. Take two cotton balls and glue them together to make a pillow
Step 8. To get a more sophisticated pillow, take a piece of fabric and stuff it with cotton, then close it along the edges
Step 9. Put your doll to bed, with her head on the pillow, and use another piece of fabric as a blanket
Method 4 of 4: TV
Step 1. Take a soap dish and cut out the top face of the box to make a rectangular window in the center
Step 2. Paint the soap dish white
Let it dry.
Step 3. Take a paper clip and straighten it
Step 4. Fold it into a 'V' shape
Step 5. Put the 'V' inside the box and puncture the wrapper to make it come out almost entirely; make sure that the vertex of the 'V' remains hidden
Step 6. Use some glue to make it stay in place
You just made your TV antennas!
Step 7. Get an image from your favorite cartoon and glue it to the window you cut out earlier (on the inside of the box)
Where before there was a hole, now we have a TV screen!
Step 8. Paint the TV the color of your choice
Be careful not to color the screen (the image) and the antennas.
Step 9. Good
Now glue some beads near the image, so that they look like the buttons on the TV.
Step 10. Place the furniture inside your doll's house, they will surely be to her liking
Advice
- Be creative! They are your furniture, make them as you like!
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Once emptied, pill jars are great for building small pieces of furniture.
- To make a table, glue several lids of different sizes together so that the largest always stays underneath. The top of the lids can face up or down.
- Use a small jar as a waste bin.
- To obtain paintings or mirrors, take small covers and, after inserting images or reflective material inside them, glue them to the walls.
Warnings
- Don't use too much paint, or the cardboard will get too soft.
- Before proceeding, let the object you are working on dry thoroughly.
