Elizaveta Rumyantseva
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Adults want the best for their children. For their sake, parents are ready to make any purchases so that their children do not get bored while the adults earn money. Boys love cars, girls love dolls. Every daughter dreams of having everything for toys, especially housing. Its cost sometimes goes beyond the limits, so the question arises, how to make a house for dolls yourself and at the same time save a little? Please your daughter, take into account all her preferences when creating a dollhouse.
How to make a dollhouse with your own hands
Children's stores offer different models toy houses, but it is more profitable for parents to create such a structure themselves. Show your imagination, use your imagination, while taking into account the girl’s wishes. Do-it-yourself children's houses:
- from cardboard;
- wood;
- paper;
- plywood.
Decide where you can allocate space in the room to put a homemade house. Its construction will depend on this: vertical, one-, two-story, on a stand, number of rooms, height and width. Don't forget about the aesthetic side of the issue. The brighter and more beautiful design, the more interesting the game will be. So how to make a dream house for dolls?
To decorate a doll's home you will need:
- scissors;
- textile;
- glue;
- colored paper/wallpaper;
- cardboard;
- simple pencil/ruler;
- decorations to suit your taste.
From plywood
If your daughter plays with toys that have captivated children over the past two years with their unusual appearance, then you are interested in how to make a house for monster high. Perhaps, in order to create a house for monster high dolls, there will be some peculiarities in the designs and selection of materials. To make crafts for dolls with your own hands from such material, follow a certain diagram and instructions:
- Select a shape/design.
- Calculate the dimensions of each part.
- Cut out the plywood walls, partitions, and other parts.
Look at the house creation template below:
- House assembly plan
- The side walls (D), front (E), back (A) are attached to the base (B). The windows measure 9" x 6.25, except for the triangular window.
- Prime and paint.
- Cover the inside of the walls, creating wallpaper in the room.
- Decorate the floor.
- Furnish the house with furniture.
From cardboard
Are you interested in how to make a dollhouse out of a box? For this craft you will need several boxes secured together with tape or glue.
- Make roof blanks from cardboard and secure with tape.
- If the box is large, divide it in half, creating a second floor. They are divided by vertical partitions to separate rooms.
- Proceed to the interior decoration of your home at your discretion.
- Once you are done with decorating and arranging the furniture, your home is ready.
From paper
How to make a house out of paper? This is a fragile material that is easy to tear and get wet, but everything is not so sad. To build a doll house from paper, take a drawing as a basis.
- Draw a diagram or print the finished one on a printer.
- Cut it out with scissors.
- Cut out the doorway, leaving one door open.
- Glue each wall piece.
- Attach the roof.
- Decorate and populate the dolls.
Wooden
The dollhouse for Barbie is decorated in pink and white colors. It is better to create it from solid materials: plywood or wood, because Barbie is not a flexible doll, stable materials are needed here. Use for decoration Christmas garland, which will add more innovation and originality. How to make a barbie house with your own hands? Use the same pattern as when creating from plywood, only this time you will be working with wood.
- Make preparations and calculations.
- Carefully cut out each part.
- Connect with each other.
- Furnish the house for Monster High with your own hands (purchase or create all the things for furnishing a toy house yourself).
- You already know what you can do out of the box.
Video: DIY doll house
Is it important to know what materials to use when creating crafts? How to decorate, arrange furniture, divide rooms and create comfort in a small Barbie or Monster High home? Each toy wants to have its own home, a separate bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, because in the girl’s mind, Barbie and the Hai doll are her friends. How to make a house in the shape of a doll book? Compact, DIY housing for Barbie will not take up much space, but will bring a lot of joy to your daughter and her friends. Bright colors, unusual shape, a variety of rooms will keep the child occupied and lead into the world of play.
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Found an error in the text? Select it, press Ctrl + Enter and we will fix everything!Making a dollhouse with your own hands is an exciting activity for the whole family, where children, by watching and helping, gain skills in working with tools, planning, decorating, and develop a sense of harmony. Adults can fully realize their creative potential, involve the whole family in teamwork.
Impressions from the process and the result will remain in the memory for a long time, even from transforming an ordinary box.
Features of material selection
The choice of materials for building a house with your own hands should coincide with financial capabilities, the amount of free time and the level of skill.
- Paper. Scrapbooking paper is suitable for these purposes: it is thick, does not fade, and has a wide selection of textures and prints. Ready-made diagrams can be printed on regular office paper.
- Cardboard. Ideal options would be binding, beer, corrugated three-layer. The latter is more difficult to cut, but more affordable (for example, household appliances or weighted candies are usually packaged in it). The rigidity of cardboard allows you to add more floors to the project.
- Boxes. Their characteristics do not differ from the previous material. One large or several medium-sized ones, always whole boxes, are suitable for work.
- Plywood. It is characterized by accessibility, ease of processing, and the ability to implement complex projects, price-quality ratio. At the same time, it requires certain skills in working with sawing tools and precise design. The recommended plywood thickness is at least 6-7 mm. Be sure to pay attention to the E0 marking - its presence confirms low content formaldehyde.
- Tree. The material is more expensive and difficult to work with, requiring expensive tools. Suitable for making large multifunctional shelving houses.
Comparative characteristics of materials:
| Material | Price | Durability | Complexity |
| Paper house | Very cheap | Low | Very easy |
| Cardboard house | Cheap | Low | Easy but requires patience |
| House made of boxes | Very cheap | Low | Very easy |
| Plywood house | Moderately expensive | High | Medium difficulty, requires tool skills |
| Wooden house | More expensive than average, but cheaper than store bought | Very high | Complex, cutting on professional equipment is advisable |
Drawings and dimensions of a paper house
The dimensions of a paper house are limited only by the size and density of the material used. Large models made from thin paper will not hold their shape. In cases where the material is dense but small in size, the house is assembled from individual parts.
The peculiarity of the paper house drawing is that it is made up of a single canvas.
At the junctions of the walls, as well as on the roof slopes, additional narrow strips are provided for applying glue or double-sided tape. In the finished printouts, the houses are drawn in detail; all that remains is to cut them out and glue them together. Creating a sketch yourself leaves room for creativity and layering when decorating.
Paper house option:
- 4 open rooms separated by two sheets of paper.
- The basic drawing consists of 2 rectangular parts with transverse slots in the middle. The depth of the cuts is up to half the width of the elements.
- The dimensions of the blanks correspond to the height and double length of the future rooms.
Paper house for dolls
To work you will need a drawing, scissors and glue.
With their help you need:
- Carefully cut the workpiece along the contour.
- Fold along the dotted lines, giving the model volume.
- Apply glue to the special valves provided in the drawing.
- Glue the house together.
- Decorate with textured printed paper.
Such models do not imply interior decoration and act as decoration around which the game takes place.
The disadvantage of the model is that it can be conventionally called a dollhouse, since the entire structure is very schematic. But this house provides a play space. The child has the opportunity to create an interior in each room and freely move the doll inside. At the same time, the design takes up little space and can be easily disassembled or folded for storage.
The work comes down to two steps:
- Cut both elements taking into account the windows, doors and central slots.
- Connect the parts with cuts facing each other.
Next, you should decorate each room as you wish. Based on this drawing, you can create more complex models. For example, if you lengthen one of the elements and make 2 slots instead of 1, inserting one base part into each of them, you will get a 6-room house.
Drawings of a cardboard house
You can outline the details right away on cardboard, but it is much more convenient to have before your eyes the entire list of necessary elements, their quantity and sizes.
A schematic representation of the component parts of the house is enough, the main thing is to take them all into account:
- Side wall(2 pcs.): a rectangle, the height of which is equal to the uppermost interfloor ceiling, and the width is equal to the desired depth of the rooms.
- Rear wall(1 pc.): a rectangle with a width equal to the length of the house and same height with side walls.
- Gable(2 pcs.): isosceles right triangle, the hypotenuse of which is equal to the width of the side wall.
- 1st floor floor(1 pc.): a rectangle with a height equal to the width of the side walls, and a length equal to the width of the back wall.
- Interfloor ceiling(1 pc.): floor part of the same dimensions, but with a cut-out staircase opening.
- Interior partition(1 pc.): U-shaped figure with a width equal to the depth of the house and a height corresponding to the height of one floor.
- Roof(1 pc.): a large rectangle, the height of which is slightly greater than the sum of the 2 legs of the pediment, and the length is slightly greater than the length of the house.
If you have a large piece of cardboard, the number of individual elements can be reduced, combining the side walls, gables, floor of the 1st floor and rear wall into one part in the drawing. Doorways will not be needed if the interior partitions are made one third narrower than the width of the house.
Connecting rooms
It is more convenient to connect the walls with wide masking tape. It does not damage the cardboard when removed, does not make the work sloppy and does not interfere with decoration. Adhesive Moment Crystal will help fix cardboard walls relative to each other: it sets quickly and leaves no marks.
To connect the walls to each other you should:
- Coat the cut of the side wall with glue and press it tightly against the edge of the rear wall, trying to maintain an angle of 90 degrees.
- Cover the resulting corner masking tape from the outside and inside, so that the middle of the adhesive tape falls on the junction of the walls.
- Similarly, attach the second side wall, forming a U-shaped frame for the future house.
- Coat the cut of the floor part with glue on three sides, press it to the edges of the walls, while simultaneously adjusting the internal corners of the house.
- Reinforce each joint between the floor and the wall with adhesive tape on the outside and inside.
- Apply glue to those sections of the inner wall that will be attached to the floor and the back of the house.
- Press the part strictly perpendicular to the floor and parallel to the side walls of the house (check the distance between the walls below and above with a ruler, adjust if necessary).
- Cover the resulting corners on both sides of the partition with masking tape.
Taping the corners on both sides will make the structure stronger, will fix the shape more rigidly. To ensure a tighter fit of the tape to the surface, it is recommended to forcefully iron the gluing areas with the edge of a ruler or plastic card.
Connecting ceilings to floors
The ceiling of one floor is the floor of the next. To prevent peeling and sagging, the interfloor ceiling is secured to a support.
- For accuracy, it is recommended to draw a line along the perimeter of the frame at the level of the upper boundaries interior walls parallel to the floor of the floor.
- Cut out long strips of cardboard no more than 1 cm wide. If the material is not thick enough, the strips can be cut twice as large and glued together.
- Glue the resulting parts with the wide side around the perimeter of the house, aligning with the control line. There should be a uniform protrusion that encircles the outer walls from the inside.
- Apply glue to the sections of all the parts on which the ceiling will lie, as well as the sections of the ceiling itself.
- Lay the ceiling piece, making sure the internal walls are perpendicular.
- Apply masking tape to the joints of the walls and floor of the upper floor, making sure that the tape goes all the way to the corner without deforming it.
DIY dollhouse from a box
It is easier and faster to build a dollhouse from boxes with your own hands than from individual sheets of cardboard.
For work you will need the following materials and tools:
- carton from large household appliances;
- marker;
- scissors, stationery knife;
- masking tape, glue;
- colored paper, braid, pieces of fabric - everything that can be useful in decorating a finished house.
Before starting work, you need to make sure there are no defects on the cardboard, cut off excess tape and remove the staples from the stapler.
- Mark the middle of the box with a marker. It is convenient to take the connection line of the folding parts of the box as a guide.
- Cut along the line into 2 equal parts. One half will serve as the basis for the house.
- One of the folding parts will become the floor of the first floor. It should be secured to the side walls of the box using tape.
- Cut off the corners of the opposite flap to form a roof gable
- At this stage, until additional volumetric parts are glued in, it is more convenient to cut through windows and doors. First you need to mark the future location with a marker interfloor ceilings. This will allow you to choose the correct location of the windows. It is more convenient to cut them with a stationery knife. Cut the front door on one of the side walls of the house.
- Cut off both opening parts from the second half of the box. They will serve as floors for the second floor and attic. Make an opening for the stairs for each part: cut the upper left part in the shape of a small square or rectangle.
- Using tape, attach the ceilings along the previously marked lines. Openings for stairs should be in opposite directions, internal corners house.
- Cut the roof slopes from the side walls of the remaining part of the box. Use tape to glue them to the pediment and walls. Cover the top corner of the roof with tape.
- Attach cardboard ladders to the openings in the floor.
A doll house made from boxes can be furnished with homemade furniture The construction of the dollhouse from the box is completed. All that remains is to decorate it and arrange the furniture.
Features of working with plywood
Dollhouses made of plywood are lightweight, environmentally friendly, and relatively low in cost. But, unlike houses made of boxes, plywood ones are stronger, withstand heavy loads and last longer. When choosing this material, you need to take into account the features of its processing.
- The tool for cutting parts must be very sharp and selected in accordance with the thickness of the sheet: up to 1.5 mm - can be cut with a knife, 1.5-6 mm - with a hand jigsaw, over 6 mm - with a jigsaw.
- It is advisable to saw the sheet along the grain. In the case of a transverse direction, it is recommended to make several cuts along the entire length of the future cut, which will reduce the likelihood of cracks and chips.
- Finished parts should be carefully sanded.
- It is better to connect parts using wood glue. The connection will be stronger if the fibers of the bonded surfaces are in the same direction.
- For nails and screws, you need to pre-drill holes and place washers under the heads.
Compliance with these rules will make the work easier and protect against unnecessary consumption of material.
Required tools and materials
Making a dollhouse from plywood is possible for anyone with minimal skills in working with tools, desire and patience.
To build a house you will need the following tools and materials:
- plywood 6-7 mm thick;
- narrow wooden slats;
- small nails or a construction stapler;
- jigsaw (can be replaced with a manual one);
- drill with a thin drill bit;
- sandpaper for processing the edges of parts;
- wood glue;
- mounting tape;
- a simple pencil and tape measure;
- decor for decorating a finished house.
The amount of material is calculated according to the drawing and depends on the size of the project.
For example, for a small tabletop house you will need 4-6 main parts, while for the construction of a floor house multi-storey building 4-6 sheets of plywood can be used. For accurate calculation, the finished sketch is disassembled into components, and for each element a detailed drawing.
After the parts are completely laid out on paper, the total area of the required material is calculated.
Drawings for a plywood house
A do-it-yourself doll house made from boxes can serve as a model for self-creation drawing. A visual model, no matter how complex it may be, will allow you to evaluate the scale of the idea, the actual dimensions of the product, identify the features of the main parts and possible weak points of the design.
Story about creating a dollhouse from plywood:
For the most simple house with a pitched roof you will need drawings of the basic elements.
- Side walls with opening for front door. The difference in the height of the walls will determine the angle of the roof.
- Rear wall including pediment. The height differences on opposite sides must correspond to the side parts.
- Shed roof.
- The base should extend beyond the house for better stability.
- Interfloor ceilings with staircase openings, which are located in opposite corners so that they do not end up under the stairs leading to the floor above.
- Interior partitions with arched doorways.
Window openings are located on the rear wall, side elements and roof according to the sketch. A front opening cover can be added if desired. In this case, it is more appropriate to place windows on it. The dimensions of the parts depend on the available space where the house according to individual wishes will stand.
The height of the floors should be comfortable for playing - this is 40-50 cm.
It is recommended to install the uppermost ceiling (attic or loft) no higher than the child’s eye level. Rooms that are too deep are not convenient for playing, especially on the extreme floors. Under the folding roof you can place a hidden attic box, where doll outfits will be stored.
Step-by-step instructions for a plywood house
A do-it-yourself doll house from boxes can be assembled in a couple of hours without a preliminary drawing, unlike a plywood house, where precision and accuracy are very important, which require time. Carefully double-checking all dimensions will make it easier to fit and assemble the elements.
- Carefully and accurately transfer the image of the elements onto a sheet of plywood using a template and a pencil.
- By using electric jigsaw It will be possible to cut parts faster and with better quality.
- For sawing window openings Make auxiliary holes using a narrow drill bit. Cut along the contour of the window and door.
- All cuts of each element must be sanded to avoid splinters and scratches.
- On the prepared parts, mark with a simple pencil the location of interfloor ceilings and internal partitions.
- It is more convenient to start assembly by gluing external walls, strengthening the outer corners with mounting tape.
- Glue internal elements according to the markings.
- Connect both pieces. For more reliable fastening of the ceilings, it is recommended to attach ceiling moldings made of lath or narrow strips of plywood around the perimeter of each room.
- Glue the roof slope to the gable and side walls.
- Glue the finished house to the base.
- Reinforce all joints of parts with mounting tape. Leave the house for a day for the glue to dry completely.
- For facade decoration, acrylic paint on wood is used as one of the options.
- When decorating the interior, choose available materials that do not create large loads: paper, fabric, pieces of fur.
- To make the stairs you will need rectangular pieces of plywood with a width equal to the openings prepared in the floors. The steps are made from cut narrow slats with a triangular cross-section, thin wooden blocks sawn diagonally or strips of corrugated cardboard.
Stairs are installed after the internal ones finishing works so as not to create hard-to-reach areas.
Wooden house master class
A do-it-yourself dollhouse made from boxes or plywood has one significant drawback: fragility of the structure. Large models that combine the functions of a chest of drawers or a rack require reliable fastenings and are made of wood.
Upon purchase sheet material It makes sense to immediately order cutting of parts.
This will reduce labor costs and compensate for the lack of expensive tools. The cut line made with professional equipment is more accurate and even, which will significantly facilitate further processing of the wood. But, even in this case, the process of making a house remains quite difficult for inexperienced craftsmen.
You can simplify the task by using the old wooden furniture as a finished base.
To work, you need to prepare materials and tools according to the list:
- Wooden rack.
- Wood putty.
- A sheet of plywood 20-25 mm thick.
- Fiberboard sheet for interior partitions and the back wall of the house.
- Drill-driver, set of drills and screws.
- Wood glue, masking tape, liquid nails
- Sandpaper.
- Primer and white acrylic paint, universal colors of orange and brown colors, varnish
- Decoration materials.
- Scissors, pencil, ruler, tape measure.
- Thick cardboard.
- Brush and roller.
- Construction stapler or small nails and hammer.
- Hand jigsaw.
The list may vary slightly depending on the condition of the furniture being remodeled and the choice of finishing.
Every little girl dreams of her own dollhouse. Nowadays you can find a lot of them in stores, but they are all of the same type and expensive. From this article you will learn how you can make an original dollhouse without spending big money. Such a house will become unique, the child will be able to furnish it the way he wants. Your whole family can have a great time creating their own masterpiece.
Popular master classes
There are many different workshops on making dollhouses. The materials used are very different: wood, plywood, drywall, laminate, boxes, bookshelves, folders for documents. It's not far yet full list offered materials.
The front wall of the house is either not made at all, or made in the shape of an opening door. This is necessary for the convenience of the game. We invite you to choose what suits you and get to work.
From plywood, laminate
The option of making a dollhouse for girls from wood is one of the most popular. The undoubted advantages of such a house are its strength and durability. It is easy to decorate both from the outside and from the outside. inside. However, for making wooden house will need male help.
If the house is built with high quality, it will be indistinguishable from the one purchased. You can make the drawings for building such a house yourself, or you can use ready-made ones. You can attach wheels to such a house and then it will become mobile.
What will be needed:
- Laminate or plywood, it is better to choose a thickness of at least 7 mm;
- jigsaw;
- glue – wood glue, PVA;
- self-adhesive film, which we will use to cover the floor in our house;
- wallpaper, they are useful for covering walls in rooms;
- a simple pencil;
- roulette.
Approximate drawing of a plywood house
- We cut out the walls of the house from sheets of plywood, according to the dimensions in the drawing.
- We mark where the windows and doors will be located and cut them out.
- Using wood glue, we assemble the structure as shown in the figure. You can use small nails to secure the structure.
- Make a roof. Cover it with corrugated cardboard and paint it to imitate tiles.
- Glue ready house on a piece of plywood larger in size than the floors in the house. This will give it more stability. You can make a lawn on the plywood that remains on the sides of the house.
- Now we cover the walls in the rooms with wallpaper, and the floors with film.
- We arrange the furniture.
- We decorate the interior with textiles: curtains for windows, rugs, tablecloths for furniture.
Watch the next video for a master class on making a dollhouse from plywood.
See the necessary drawings from the video below.
From plasterboard
Many of us, after renovations, are left with pieces of drywall that are no longer needed. Why not put them to work and please your little princess? You can make a wonderful dollhouse out of it.
A house made of plasterboard has a lot of advantages, including: ease of working with it, its lightness. Even if you don't paint the walls of the house after assembly, they will still look neat thanks to its white color. A significant disadvantage of such a house is its fragility. As soon as you put a little pressure on any part of the house, it will immediately break.
In order to make a house from plasterboard, you can use the diagram given above, or you can simply make cross-shaped partitions to save space in the nursery. These partitions will separate the rooms from each other; there will be no external walls or roof.
From large sheets using plasterboard you can make a full-fledged beautiful house. Watch the master class in the next video.
From foam plastic
If you have sheets of packing foam lying around the house, you can build a house out of them. To work you will need:
- foam sheets;
- glue gun;
- toothpicks;
- wooden rulers;
- bamboo sticks;
- corrugated cardboard;
- pieces of wallpaper;
- acrylic paint;
- foam sponge;
- pieces of ceiling plinths;
- necessary accessories for the interior: pieces of carpet, curtains, furniture and everything that your imagination is capable of.
House frame made of thin foam plastic
Step by step instructions:
- First you need to think about what your house will be like and make a drawing. To save space in the apartment, the house can be built in height.
- We cut the foam according to the drawing. It is convenient to do this with a hot knife, so the foam does not crumble.
- We are thinking about where you will have windows and doors, you can make a staircase between floors. We cut out the necessary openings.
- We begin assembling the house. Z We break the cleaners in half. We will need them to create more robust construction. Glue the foam sheets together using glue gun, having previously connected them using toothpick halves.
- To strengthen the floor and ceiling we use bamboo sticks from Chinese napkins. We glue the sticks to foam sheets as beams. After this, the sheets intended for the floor-ceiling can be glued to the side walls.
- We glue the interfloor stairs separately. It can be made from polystyrene foam or wooden rulers. We use toothpicks as railings. After this we glue in the finished staircase.
- The roof can be glued together from foam plastic or corrugated cardboard. Shingles can be imitated by cutting cardboard into small pieces and gluing it, then painting it.
- On external wall you can make a balcony. We glue it together from polystyrene foam and use bamboo sticks as railings.
- Outside paint the house acrylic paints using a regular sponge.
- We cover the walls of the rooms with wallpaper and cover the floors with carpet. We cut out skirting boards and window sills from the ceiling plinth and glue them. We create coziness with the help of curtains on the windows.
- We arrange the furniture, which can also be glued together from foam plastic, and we invite new residents.
You can invite your daughter to come up with a design for the interior decoration of the house.
Home decoration can be very diverse. You can use a clear plastic box, make prints of the underwater world and place an aquarium in your home. You can print out pictures, lay tablecloths on tables, add toys to dolls. Let your imagination run wild and you will have the most wonderful dollhouse for girls.
From a bookshelf/rack
You can make an excellent dollhouse from a bookshelf or shelving unit. It’s very easy to make, because you already have a ready-made base. To decorate the house, use cardboard, wallpaper, self-adhesive paper, and wrapping paper will also work.
Involve your daughter in this creative process. She will be able to act as a designer for her dollhouse.
If the house is located permanently against the wall, then you can make the roof of the house using black electrical tape, gluing the contours. Glue it in the same way chimney. If you need to move the house to another location, you can easily peel off the tape without damaging the wallpaper in the room. You can purchase furniture for dolls ready-made or use your imagination and make it yourself.
By placing the house against the wall, the free space in the nursery will increase
From an old cabinet or chest of drawers
Is your daughter asking for a dollhouse, but is there an old chest of drawers collecting dust in the garage? To the old one already unnecessary furniture you can breathe a second life. Delight your child by making a dollhouse from an old cabinet or chest of drawers . Such houses are very convenient for those whose children play with large or tall dolls.
First of all, you need to know the height of the dolls. This is necessary so that the dolls can be placed in rooms in full height. You may have to combine 2 shelves by removing unnecessary partitions. Work carefully, being careful not to break the inside walls of the cabinet or chest of drawers. In place of the partitions that we removed, a void we do not need will appear. It can be sealed with thin slats that fit in size.
After waiting for the glue to dry completely, treat the walls of the chest with putty thin layer. After this, the chest of drawers must be sanded, then it will become even and smooth. You can use a jigsaw to cut out windows.
House from old furniture will look very solid and reliable
The last step will be decorating your house. The outside can be painted. You will most likely have to paint it in several layers to cover the old color of the dresser. The walls inside can be covered with wallpaper, colored, packaging or self-adhesive paper. Or you can just paint them too. We arrange furniture, hang pictures and mirrors on the walls, curtains, lay out carpets and invite dolls to a housewarming party. Now your daughter's room will always have dolls tidy!
From cardboard
Budget option Making a dollhouse is corrugated cardboard. With its help, you can create a wonderful toy that will delight your girl for a long time.
We will need:
- corrugated cardboard for the frame of the house;
- decorative cardboard for decorating a house;
- templates for parts that will depend on the size of your future house; sweeps;
- stationery: pencil, ruler, eraser, scissors;
- knife, paints, brushes, felt-tip pens;
- glue gun;
- colored, packaging and self-adhesive paper;
- textile;
- decorative elements - beads, rhinestones, stones, artificial flowers.
A girl can independently “make repairs” in her dolls’ new house
Let's start making the house:
- If you have a large sheet of corrugated cardboard, you can apply a reamer to it. Select the dimensions based on the size of the house. If there are no large sheets, then each part needs to be cut out separately. There is no need to do the front wall.
- To make the cardboard easy to bend, you need to make a groove at the bend by running a ruler along it. If all your parts are cut out, glue them at the junctions of the cardboard.
- We cut out and glue the interior partitions. In such a house they are simply necessary. They will perform a load-bearing function.
The structure is assembled. You can start decorating.
It is better to cover the inside walls with decorative paper or fabric. This way you will hide the seams in the gluing areas. The outside walls can be decorated to your taste: painted, pasted over. Decorate your home with beads, rhinestones, stones or other elements of your choice. Make sure that the decorative elements adhere well to the cardboard, otherwise the house will lose its attractiveness during the games.
Arrange the furniture and invite your child to play.
In a house made of cardboard, you can easily re-glue the wallpaper if you get tired of the old ones
See below for master classes on making a dollhouse from cardboard.
From boxes
A very easy to make dollhouse from boxes. For it you will need to choose boxes of suitable size. The size will depend on the height of the dolls for which this house is being made. The number of boxes will depend on the number of rooms you are going to make. One box - one room. Such a house can be made multi-story by gluing boxes on top of one another. This will save space in the room.
It is necessary to fasten the boxes together so that its top is on its side, revealing interior space rooms. This can be done in various ways: using a stapler, glue, double sided tape. We cut out the windows. We decorate the house according to your taste. We furnish the furniture and delight the girl with a new toy, on which you spent a minimum of money and effort.
A cardboard house is one of the most simple options please my daughter
Watch the following master class, which shows in detail the process of making a beautiful dollhouse from a box.
It’s quite easy to make a great house out of boxes! See the following videos for more details.
From document folders
If there is very little space in the children's room, you can make a folding dollhouse.
For such a house we will need 4 document folders. We tape each folder inside beautiful paper– this will be wallpaper for the walls. Decorate the folder clip with fabric, making it into a kind of curtain. Print out interior items and stick them on the walls. The house is ready. All that remains is to open the folders and place them vertically. Add the necessary furniture.
You can make a separate room from each folder of folders.
Just like boys dream of a tree house, girls also dream of a dollhouse for their favorite toys. Of course, you can buy it, but a good house costs very indecent money, and bad child you won't buy it. It's another thing to do it yourself, but be prepared for it to take a lot of time. Especially if you don't have much experience. On average, it will take at least a week to make a doll house with your own hands.
Choosing material
You can make a doll house with your own hands from any sheet building material. The thickness of the material for a house about a meter high (on two floors) is 9-15 mm, for one-story houses it can be thinner. Let's look at the most common materials used in the construction of a dollhouse:
- . An excellent choice, as it is durable, holds its shape well, can be glued, connected using nails and self-tapping screws. Cut plywood with a metal saw (with a fine tooth) or a jigsaw (manual or electric). The ends will need to be sanded well so that there is no possibility of driving in a splinter. Upon completion of the work, you can varnish or stain, paint, wallpaper, etc.
- Drywall. After the repair, there are scraps left that can be used. To fasten the sheets together you will need tin corners (you can - perforated corner). You will have to attach it with special screws, but they will stick out from the back, so this is not the best option. You can try to “plant” it with glue, but you will have to align the cut lines to reduce glue consumption.
A dollhouse made of plasterboard is one of the possible options
- . The properties of the material are similar to plywood, the only difference being that it is moisture resistant and made from wood chips. Working with it is approximately the same as with plywood.
OSB is also a good material
- Cardboard. The most inexpensive and most delicate material that does not hold loads very well. The situation is better with cardboard for scrapbooking (you can buy it in craft stores). It is denser and more durable; it can be made into one-story houses or used for roofing. Connect using glue or staples from a stapler. To make the dollhouse more reliable, it is better to assemble a frame from planks and then cover it with cardboard.
- Chipboard: regular or laminated (). The advantage of this material is that it can already be finishing. If you wish, you can order sawing of the entire “box” of the house with gluing of the edges from some furniture company. Then all that remains is to assemble. Moreover, it will be possible to use screws or furniture fittings. There are three disadvantages - the material is too thick, which increases weight, formaldehyde emissions and fragility under lateral loads. If you can put up with the thickness and weight, then the release of formaldehyde should not be ignored. You need to look for ones with emission class E0-E1. Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do about fragility. Unless you use corners to connect parts, and this is not very beautiful.
- Furniture panels. Made from wooden planks, glued with wood glue. An ideal option for making a dollhouse: environmentally friendly, durable, easy to process. But furniture panels You can’t call them cheap, although they are not as expensive as an array. In any case, it can be used to make a box - the bottom, side walls and ceiling. The roof and back wall can be made from other materials (for example, fiberboard, plastic, etc.).
Furniture board is an environmentally friendly and beautiful material
There are also options such as laminate, wooden lining, thin planed board. But they don't work with them that often. In any case, the minimum thickness of materials is 6-7 mm. Then the dollhouse will be reliable and will even support your child.
Features of working with plywood
Most often, plywood is used to make a dollhouse. As you probably know, she may be different brands. It is better to make a dollhouse with your own hands from sanded furniture plywood. Can I have them? coniferous species, but preferably from birch. It’s better not to take a construction one, even though it costs twice as much.
In general, working with plywood is not difficult. If you have a jigsaw and a jigsaw, cutting and preparing the parts will take a couple of hours. The only difficulty that may arise when making a two-story plywood doll house is the installation of the second floor ceiling. T-fastening plywood is not the easiest task.
The glue is not very reliable, and trying to install screw-type fasteners into the end with a thickness of 6 mm is difficult - the material can split, even with pre-drilled holes (the thinnest self-tapping screw is 1.8 mm). There are several options:
- do it on nails (not very reliable, unless you coat it with additional glue);
- install corners at the bottom (not very nice);
- install a bead around the perimeter that will both support the floor and “work” ceiling plinth(the best option).
After cutting out the parts, all joints must be sanded well. First, use medium-grain wood sandpaper and gradually move on to fine sandpaper. Once the edge is smooth, you can begin assembly.
Dollhouse project
The first thing to start building a dollhouse is creating a project. You need to decide on the height and number of floors, the width of the room, the type of roof, and whether or not there will be a basement floor. Choose the number of floors as desired. This is arbitrary, but all other parameters must be calculated.
The size of the dollhouse depends on the size of the doll inhabitants. To make playing comfortable, the height of the ceilings in the rooms must be at least twice the height of the doll. For example, with a doll height of 22 cm, ceilings of 40-45 cm will provide enough space for them to move freely, but if the ceilings are even higher, it will be even more convenient to play. But you also need to take into account the child’s growth. Height itself top floor should be slightly below eye level. In this case, it will be convenient to play, and the dollhouse will be “growth-able” - its height will be enough for a couple of years.
The depth of doll rooms also depends on the height of the dolls, but also on the availability of free space. On average, the depth is 30-45 cm. This is enough to accommodate the entire furnishings. But it could be deeper.
The width of the dollhouse depends on the number of rooms in it. Here you decide depending on the available free space. In shape, the frame of a doll's house usually looks like a rectangle, but whether it is extended in length or in height - this is determined by each person. If the structure turns out to be rather large, you can attach furniture wheels to the bottom. This is very convenient - the toy turns out to be mobile.
You can draw the project itself in any design program, but if you don’t own them, it’s easier to do it on paper. Why do you need a dollhouse project? To calculate the amount of materials needed for its manufacture, and without the dimensions and number of walls, you will definitely be mistaken.
Finishing features
Decorating a dollhouse with your own hands raises no less questions than building it. In principle, you can use the same finishing methods as in apartments or houses. For example, in doll rooms, walls can be decorated in the following ways:
If you have chosen the option to “hang wallpaper”, it is easier to do this before the assembly stage. Even if there are several floors, the blanks are drawn out and wallpaper is glued. This is much easier than trying to cover the corners later.
The exterior decoration is not much different. Painting is most often used. This best option in terms of practicality and labor costs. If you want you can do something similar to decorative plaster. It can be imitated using gray toilet paper. You just need to choose thicker. It is torn into pieces, glued with PVA diluted with water (1 to 1), laid out on the walls, forming the desired relief. After drying, you can paint using acrylic paints. This and it can be used with colored or regular napkins.
Window and door decoration
Cutting windows in plywood, OSB, or any other material is not such a problem. First, using a drill and a drill bit, make a hole into which you can pass the saw blade. Next is a matter of technology. The cut hole is sanded until it is smooth, and then it is necessary to make the holes look like windows. For this you need frames and curtains. If desired, you can also make glass from transparent plastic bottles.
Frames with bindings can be made from cardboard white. They are glued on after finishing the “finishing work”. Children love to open/close doors, so it’s better to make them from thin plywood. Fasteners can be found - there are piano hinges or small furniture hinges. You can make deadbolts from wire and thin tubes.
Let there be light!
A house for dolls with lighting is aerobatics. Moreover, there is no need to fence the system with wires, converters, light bulbs and other electrical “stuffing”. There is a very simple effective solution. Any more or less large lighting store has small LED lamps that run on batteries. Moreover, they are mounted with Velcro. Each lamp is equipped with its own switch and operates on a voltage of several volts. In general, a very good solution.
These are non-volatile LED lamps
If you still want to make real light in a dollhouse, you need a 220/12 V converter or a battery with the appropriate voltage. You will also need light bulbs or an LED strip of the appropriate value, and a bunch of wires. In general, this path is much more difficult and requires much more time, but it is also a possible option.
How to make a roof
If the roof is planned to be ordinary - gable, the layout attic space or attic floor it is necessary to make sure that there is a partition in the center that will support the roof at the junction of the two halves of the roof. This is the easiest way. There are also more complex ones.
If you need a roof complex shape, we cut out several rafters from plywood that will define the shape. We attach them to the walls and cover them with some flexible material. It can be cardboard, fiberboard. The ends of the rafters are coated with glue (preferably carpentry glue), after which the material is laid. If the bend is too steep, additional fasteners may be needed. Usually thin small nails, like shoe nails, are used.
Photo options of different doll houses
Building a doll house is a creative process. You can make it the way you dream of your home, or recreate a house from a fairy tale or fantasy. And there are no restrictions here. Everything you want and how you want.
A one-story house is not so bad either. But you can put it on the table and play while sitting
So different...
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In children's stores you can find a wide range of toys, including doll houses. various sizes. This toy is every girl's dream. You can not only purchase such a house, but also build it yourself. An original plywood dollhouse can be made in just a few days. This will not only save money, but also make a toy that will fully comply with the baby’s wishes. After all, a child can take active participation in production, express your wishes and help decorate. To make it you will need sheets of plywood, a diagram and sketches, as well as simple materials and tools.
A plywood house for dolls is a great toy for every girl.
Toy stores offer a wide range of doll houses. However, making such a toy from plywood yourself has a number of significant advantages:
- Manufacturing according to individual project. Main advantage self-made– this is an opportunity to make the house the way the girl sees it. In this case, you can take into account the desired size, number and design of rooms, layout, furniture features and additional decorative elements. This toy will be unique.
- Possibility to make a house of any size. Its dimensions depend only on the wishes of the child and the availability of free space in the room.
- The benefits of working together with your child. If you build a house together with your child, you can not only make a truly beautiful and unique toy, but also have a good time with your baby and strengthen the family bond.
- Development creativity and skill in working with plywood. The whole family can start making a house. If your daughter can express her wishes and decorate the rooms, then her brother may well help in assembling the structure itself.
Dollhouse with original furniture made of plywood
There are many materials that can be used as a basis when making a dollhouse. However, plywood is most often used for these purposes. This is explained by a number of advantages of the material for assembling a toy house. These include:
- plywood is a pleasant-to-touch material, always warm, like all wooden toys;
- if the construction rules are followed, the finished structure will be durable and can be used even for the most violent games;
- plywood is low-cost, so you can use it to build an inexpensive house, unlike a ready-made store-bought version;
- working with plywood requires affordable tools that can be found in every home;
- The surface of the plywood itself is smooth and aesthetically pleasing, so there is no need to further decorate the surfaces.
In addition, plywood is a safe material. However, when choosing it, you need to pay attention to the labeling. The impregnating adhesive contains formaldehyde, which is hazardous to health. Therefore, only material marked E0 should be used.
Making a drawing
To build a house from plywood, you will need a detailed drawing with the dimensions of all the parts. First you need to decide on the approximate dimensions of the structure. Its size should be based on the wishes of the future owner, as well as the size of the room in which the house will stand. In addition, it is necessary to think in advance about the shape of the product and its style.
Dollhouse drawing
If used finished drawing, then it must be remembered that when changing the dimensions of certain parts, other dimensions should be changed proportionally. If the drawing is drawn up independently, it is necessary to include the following data:
- The back wall should be in the shape of a rectangle or pentagon. The last option is preferable, because it will allow you to make original roof with beveled edges.
- A base that should be slightly larger in width than the interior space. This will simplify the process of assembling the structure.
- Overlapping the second and third floors, which should be the same size and be slightly smaller than the base.
- Side details.
- Partitions between rooms.
- Elements for making a roof.
Details of assembling a plywood dollhouse can be found in the video:
The dimensions of all elements can be easily calculated independently by drawing a sketch on paper. To simplify the work, you can use ready-made diagrams by making the necessary adjustments to them.
Materials and tools
Making a house from plywood is a multi-stage and complex process. One of the most important stages is preparation and purchase necessary materials and tools. If you do this in advance, the process of making the house will go faster.
To work you will need:
- Plywood. Basic building material for making a dollhouse. To calculate required quantity, it is necessary to calculate the number of parts and their area from the drawing, add up all the data. The resulting value should be rounded up. For a small house you will need on average three sheets of material, and for a huge palace for dolls, you may need up to ten sheets of material.
- Corrugated cardboard. It can be used to make a roof. This material can be replaced with regular cardboard or plywood.
- Electric jigsaw. The optimal tool for working with plywood. Allows you to quickly cut out parts the right size with minimal risk of cracks and chips.
- Wood glue. Great option for fastening plywood parts. Dries quickly and has no unpleasant odor and at the same time does not leave marks on the material.
- Mounting tape. Recommended for use as additional means for securing parts, especially in places where strength and reliability of the structure are required.
- Self-tapping screws. For reliability, the main structural elements can be additionally secured using self-tapping screws.
- Sandpaper. Use it to clean all edges of the material to prevent injuries and cuts.
- Tape measure, ruler, simple pencil.
Additionally, you should prepare materials for decorating the house. To do this, you can use wallpaper or films that imitate them, colored paper and cardboard, film as flooring. You can also use pieces of linoleum, fabric, felt, laminate. Additionally you will need paints and glue. Plexiglas or plastic should be inserted into the windows.
Technology for making a dollhouse from plywood
For making doll house from plywood, first of all, you need to transfer the images from the sketch to the plywood. To do this, the elements of the drawing should be printed or drawn by hand, and then transferred to sheets of material.
The parts should be cut out using a jigsaw, after which the edges should be carefully sanded so that the edges of all parts are even and smooth. If windows are not indicated on the diagram, at this stage they need to be marked on the workpieces, cut out and also processed with sandpaper.
A simple version of a dollhouse
After this, you can proceed directly to assembling the house:
- Using construction glue and self-tapping screws, you need to attach the side walls to the base.
- It is necessary to install the ceilings of the second and third floors on the side walls, as well as all internal partitions. If the parts were not cut very carefully and gaps have formed between them, you can cover them with a special putty for wood and then paint them.
- A roof is installed, which can be cut from corrugated paper and the same plywood. If paper is used, it must be painted in the form of tiles. When using plywood, tiles are glued to the roof, which must be cut from colored paper, cardboard or other decorative materials.
- Installation interior decoration. Pieces of linoleum, carpet, felt or fabric can be used to finish floors. The walls are covered with wallpaper, colored fabric, film or painted with gouache.
- Furniture manufacturing. For a plywood house, the furniture is best made from the same material. In some cases good decision There will also be the use of ready-made furniture, which can be purchased in sets or separately in children's toy stores.
- House painting. It can be painted in various colors gouache or watercolor. However, plywood is an aesthetic material, so you can leave it without painting.
Additionally, near the house you can make a small garden in which cardboard flowers and trees will grow. This will give the toy an even more delicate and beautiful appearance.
After assembling the structure, all that remains is to decorate the interior space
House design
After manufacturing, the frame should be decorated various materials, and also place doll accessories in the rooms. At this stage, no instructions are required; you can decorate the house to your liking. However, some useful tips can help:
- the walls and floor of a wooden house do not have to be painted or covered with decorative elements;
- for swing windows and doors, special small metal door hinges should be used;
- Windows should be decorated with sheets of fabric to create curtains.
In the finished house you can place your favorite dolls and other toys. Making a house from plywood is not difficult, and the child’s joy from owning such a toy is priceless. A beautiful dollhouse will also become a real decoration for a child's room.
Examples of a do-it-yourself plywood dollhouse
