4 Ways to Build Your Dollhouse Furniture

2024 Author: Samantha Chapman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 09:13

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!

• 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.