Mini doll houses with their own hands. DIY dollhouse at no extra cost

Do you want to please your daughter and give her Dollhouse? Read how to make a house for Barbie, Monster High with your own hands from cardboard, plywood and MDF.

What girl does not love dolls and does not dream that they have a real house with spacious rooms and furniture? Such a toy will not only entertain the baby, but also make her director's game more complex and varied. As you know, while playing, children learn and develop, and parents should make efforts to organize the conditions for this development.

Do-it-yourself dollhouse for barbie: diagram, photo

Certainly there are more simple options make a doll house for your daughter:

1. Buy ready. But they cost sky-high money. Wherein plastic parts are fragile, they are poorly attached to each other, the house is constantly falling apart.
2. Organize your home in a closet, nightstand or bookcase. Probably, parents in their distant childhood did this themselves. The option is good because, firstly, you do not need to spend extra money, and secondly, the child will learn to use objects in the game - substitutes. The downside is that sooner or later the daughter will say that the house is not real, she will want to have something more believable, with wallpaper, windows, etc.

Then mom and dad will have to decide how to make this toy themselves. First of all, decide on the size. If the house is intended for a doll like Barbie or Monster High, it will turn out to be dimensional. The height of each room will be at least 30 cm, width, so that you can put a doll bed in the house, 40 cm or more. For baby dolls and toys - figures, you can make a more compact "housing".

House for Barbie made of plywood, made by hand.

IMPORTANT: In practice, the doll house takes its place as a full-fledged piece of furniture. Having decided to make one, you need to think about where it will stand in the room.

The next step is the choice of materials. As a rule, dollhouses are made from:

1. Cardboard boxes and cardboard. Budget option, you do not need to spend a lot on the purchase of materials. Also, you do not need to think about what fasteners to assemble the house with, you will only need any glue and adhesive tape. The big minus of the house is that it is fragile, hygroscopic, easily dirty. You can't put heavy furniture on thin shelves. cardboard house For a doll, do not fit small children who do not know how to calculate strength while playing.
2. Plywood. A more practical and also cheaper option. A sheet of plywood is covered on the details for toy house with your own hands using an ordinary jigsaw. The toy is getting better. But porous plywood must be painted or glued so that it does not absorb dust and moisture, does not swell, and fungus does not start in it. Another disadvantage of this material is thin sheets plywood is not easy to connect with each other so that they hold tight, the house does not fall apart.
3. Wood, MDF. The most practical and costly option. The house will turn out to be very high quality and durable, stable and safe. It will not fall apart even if the child hangs on it with all its weight. MDF is easy to process, structural elements are firmly connected to each other with self-tapping screws, and their caps can be drowned in the thickness of the material. MDF gives absolute freedom to house decor ideas.

IMPORTANT: It must be remembered that a child will play with the house, and, most likely, this dimensional toy will stand in the children's room. Materials for it must be hygienic, environmentally friendly, hypoallergenic, non-toxic. If after priming or painting the house exudes a smell, you need to let it weather.

Although the house is intended for children from 3 years old, that is, the age at which the director's game has already been formed, you need to pay attention to the presence in it small parts that you can choke on.
Before proceeding with the purchase of materials for the dollhouse and proceeding directly to its assembly, it is necessary to make a plan or diagram. It will help you calculate how much material you need to buy. The details will match each other, they will turn out to be firmly connected. sustainable and beautiful house for toys will please the child and will not spoil the interior of the apartment.

Diagram of a doll house with dimensions.

How to make a dollhouse out of a box?

The girl really asks for a dollhouse, did you decide to urgently and cheaply make it out of cardboard boxes? Well, then you need:

• the boxes themselves (according to the number of rooms, from 2 to 6 pcs)
• thick cardboard
• scissors
• stationery knife
• ruler
• PVA glue or any other for paper
• paints, colored paper, self-adhesive wallpaper, kitchen oilcloth, corrugated paper, ribbons, braid, bows, other handy material for house decor

IMPORTANT: Boxes will fit any, if they right size and quite dense. For dolls the size of Barbie (29 cm or 31 cm, scale 1:6) or Monster High (26 -28 cm), it is best to take boxes from under household appliances.

1. Boxes are stacked in two floors of two rooms. On the second floor, you can also equip one room and a veranda.
2. The boxes are fixed with glue and adhesive tape. In order for the parts to stick well, they organize a press from ordinary clothespins.
3. The roof of the house can be made from a box by cutting it in half diagonally, or cut out from sheets of cardboard.
4. In the side walls, they measure out, draw and cut out windows with a clerical knife.
5. The interior decoration of the house is in progress. Ceilings, floors and walls are glued with colored paper, wallpaper residues, self-adhesive or oilcloth. From improvised means, you can also make cornices, window sills, baseboards, and other surroundings.

House for a doll from boxes: tools and materials.

House for a doll from boxes: manufacturing steps.

How to make a do-it-yourself doll house out of cardboard?

Dollhouse parts can be cut from thick cardboard, perhaps, all from the same boxes of household appliances.
Here a drawing is definitely needed, for example, this one:

The scheme of the house for Barbie from cardboard.

You will need:

• cardboard
• scheme
• pencil and ruler
• glue, tape, tape
• stationery knife
• paints, felt-tip pens, old wallpapers, oilcloth, corrugated paper for decorating the interior and exterior of the house

1. The drawing is drawn or found on the Internet and printed. The details of the house are cut out.
2. Make markings on cardboard. It is better to cut cardboard parts not with scissors, but with a knife, then their edges will be even.
3. Sections that will not join can be trimmed with tape or electrical tape.
4. The cut parts of the house are assembled into grooves or glued together.
5. Create the interior of the house. If mom and dad are creative, they can paint the house by hand.

A simple cardboard house.

House made of cardboard for toys.

Cardboard house.

Cardboard house, assembled into grooves. Cardboard house for small toys with a drawing.

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Drawing of a plywood dollhouse with dimensions

Making houses out of plywood is no longer so easy. Most likely, mom alone can not cope. You need to attract dad, the little princess will definitely thank him for the unique toy with her incomparable happy smile.
To make a house for Barbie prepare:

• plywood
• jigsaw
• hammer
• sandpaper
• wood glue or PVA
• masking tape
• nails
• wood primer, paint
• scissors, pencil, ruler
• house interior decoration materials

Plywood dollhouse drawing.

Scheme of assembling a plywood dollhouse.

1. From plywood, the details of the house are very carefully cut out. They must exactly match the drawing. Also cut out window and door openings, if any. Windows can be made rectangular, round or triangular.
2. All plywood parts are carefully sanded with sandpaper so that the child does not drive a splinter during the game.
3. Connect the details of the house with construction glue, PVA glue or hammer together with nails. It needs to be stated glue gun plywood will not hold with silicone.
4. Primed and painted plywood.
5. Think over and create the interior of the dollhouse. The walls in the rooms can be painted by hand with paint, painted in one color, decorated with the remnants of wallpaper, wrapping paper.
6. The floor is also painted, shreds of carpet are laid on it, and so on.
   It is recommended to make a staircase to a two-story housing for dolls from wooden rulers sawn to size.
7. Furniture in the plywood house will be any - bought specifically for dolls in toy stores, made with your own hands from cardboard, the same plywood or improvised means.

Making a house for Barbie from plywood: stage 1.

Making a house for Barbie from plywood: stage 2.

Making a house for Barbie from plywood: stage 3. Making a house for Barbie from plywood: the back side.

Making a house for Barbie from plywood: rooms.

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Do-it-yourself wooden doll house: drawings and dimensions

The doll house will be played by a girl from 3 to 10-12 years old. This toy, if it is beautiful and of high quality, will stand in the house for many years, invariably delight the baby and surprise guests. It is definitely worth the effort and investment. That's why, the best option will make it from MDF.

1. At the first stage of work, they think over the design of the house. You need to decide on the size, number of rooms, their shape, roof configuration. One-Stop Solution – two-storey house for 4 rooms with pitched roof and an attic.
2. For such a house, the main details are needed: a rear wall, two side walls, two strips for the ceilings of the first and second floors, two vertical lintels between rooms, a strip for the roof slope. It is better to order the cutting of these parts in a furniture or carpentry workshop. Under them all take MDF of the same thickness. Or is it possible back wall and the sides, that is, the bearing parts of the structure, should be made thicker, and the rest, auxiliary, thinner.
3. In the side walls, and, if desired, in the back, window openings are cut.
4. It is better to order window frames in laser cutting, then they will turn out to be perfectly even and already chamfered.
   MDF - heavy material, it will not take glue or ordinary screws. Connect the parts of the house with self-tapping screws. Hats are drowned in the material and then masked with shavings with glue or polymer clay.
5. On the roof, the attic with a round window looks beautiful. It is also better to order it in laser cutting. A plywood attic is attached to the roof of the house with glue.
6. To imitate tiles and decorate the roof beautifully, they buy thin bamboo roller blinds, cut them to the size of the slope and glue them on it. The attic is decorated in the same way. If the roller blinds are on one thread, they can crumble when cut. Then they must first be glued with ordinary PVA.
7. The roof of the house is conveniently mounted on hinges so that it can open. In the "attic" then it will be possible to store the pupae and their dowry.
8. Window frames are planted in openings.
9. Next, move on to the design of the walls. The simplest thing is to prime them and paint them the same color. You can also simulate brickwork. Bricks are first marked with a pencil, then cut out with a wood router. Primed MDF and painted desired color. After the soil has dried, the recesses between the bricks are isolated with a simple pencil or marker. To make the masonry look natural, color heterogeneity is betrayed with the help of crayons.
10. “Bricks” of various sizes are cut out of porous egg trays and glued around the windows.
11. They complete the exterior decor of the house with artificial small flowers. They are glued at the base of the side walls, on the roof and attic.
12. The ceilings and floors of the house are painted in the right colors.
13. Barbie doll is a conditional model of a person 1 to 6, respectively, and her house. Scraps of old wallpaper or gift paper will look rough in it. Good decision- for each, find a wallpaper on the Internet with a pattern that you like, proportionally reduce them in a photo editor and print them out at a printing house. Important to choose good paper. A conventional copier will soon wipe off, glue may appear on it, or it will wrinkle during pasting. Photo paper may not adhere well. Glue wallpaper on PVA.

Blanks for a dollhouse made of MDF.

Window layout.

Assembled frame house.

Window frames laser cut.

Round attic window.

Roof top attic.

Decoration of window openings and imitation of bricks.

Wallpaper 1:6 in the children's doll room.

House interior decoration.

Finished roof with imitation tiles and flowers.

The girl will play in such a house for hours.

IMPORTANT: The girl will play in the barbie house for a long time. To make it more convenient for her, it is better to make it on a leg. The raised design also makes it easier to clean the toy.

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How to make a do-it-yourself doll house for monster high?

The relationship of moms and dads to Monster High dolls is ambiguous. Some cannot stand them, they consider them crippling the psyche of the child. Others tend to think that stylish monsters stimulate the child's cognitive interest in myths and legends, and also raise his self-esteem. Be that as it may, girls love monster dolls. And at some point, the daughter may ask her parents to make her a house for them.

House for Monster High from whatnot.

IMPORTANT: The dimensions and construction of the Monster High house are different from those intended for Barbie. But with the finish will have to tinker.

1. Before you design a house for monsters, you should learn more about the Gothic style.
2. monster high like interesting color palette: dark black they combine with rich pink, fuchsia, neon yellow and green. The same combination of colors should be used in the interior of the doll house.
3. You need to think about how to beat the glitter and black lace. Monster rooms should have gold and silver.
4. Elements with imitation of artistic forging also complement the interior of the Monster High doll house: chandeliers, candelabra, fireplace grates, stair railings.
5. The interior and exterior of the house use Monster High symbols.

House with symbols of Monster High. Dollhouse lighting.

A happy childhood is a room full of interesting toys. The Soviet shortage has been replaced by variety and a wide range, so that every kid can find a toy to his liking. Girls especially love dollhouses: large or compact, furnished or empty, fairytale castles or realistic dwellings.

Purchased houses for dolls are always beautiful, often of high quality, but often expensive. Loving parents have a great chance to save some money and at the same time give their baby a unique toy.

Making a dollhouse with your own hands is not so difficult, because on the network you can find dozens of master classes, tips and tricks for making such a structure from any material. You just need to choose the option that suits you and put in a little effort.

Doll houses for children: we make ourselves

The uniqueness of do-it-yourself dollhouses lies not only in their uniqueness, but also in the opportunity to become closer with your child. It is better to make such a structure together with the baby: to be interested in her opinion, draw a house plan together, choose furniture, equip the home like a real one. According to the general opinion of psychologists, such joint activities will benefit both parents and the child.

It is not difficult to make a house for a doll, and the child will have impressions for a whole year. A doll house made by parents can be shown off to friends, and it is much more interesting to play it.

The classic dollhouse does not have a front wall to make it more convenient for the child to play with the dolls located in it. A homemade house can be different: without a wall, with a curtain imitating a wall, with a real opening wall.

The choice of one or another option depends on the size of the house and the room in which the toy will stand, the age of the baby and design features the building itself. Wooden or cardboard houses can be equipped with a spectacular closing wall, but a fabric dwelling is traditionally made open.

The dimensions of the future doll house also depend on a number of factors. The age of the baby who will play with the dolls should be taken into account: it is difficult for young children to use bulky products, while older children love large toys with a lot of details.

Be sure to consider the size of the children's room or the room in which the toy will stand. A massive house may be too bulky, it will interfere and eventually go to the balcony.

Little dollhouse in a box

A compact toy is an ideal option that is not too troublesome and time-consuming to make, it does not take up much space, and playing with such a doll house is no less interesting.

Big dollhouse

Houses for dolls from different materials

Doll houses are made from everything from wood to cardboard folders for papers. The breadth of possibilities gives parents the chance to create a unique, original product which will take into account the interests and preferences of a particular child.

Toddlers are more suitable compact soft houses made of fabric, children 3-6 years old - light cardboard houses, and junior schoolchildren- solid buildings made of plywood or old furniture.

But it’s not enough to make a beautiful house - you also need to equip it: decorate the walls and floor, arrange furniture, add accessories, place dolls. A do-it-yourself dollhouse is a constant creativity: looking for new solutions, adding original details, and settling in new residents who need new rooms and additional furniture.

Psychologists advise using the creation and arrangement of such a doll house as an ideal means of communication with a child, because during the game you can find common ground and better understand each other.

From cardboard boxes

Houses made of plywood, laminate, wood

There are many requirements for a dollhouse: a child needs a bright and interesting product, mom cares about the environmental friendliness of the toy, and dad cares about the strength of the structure. It is unreliability that is the main problem of purchased doll houses, which do not always withstand the active games of moving kids.

Dollhouse wooden

Making a house for dolls from laminate or plywood means getting an original, creative and durable home option for all baby dolls.

House-constructor from plywood

ADVICE. A house made qualitatively according to the schemes found on the net with a neat finish will look no worse than a purchased one. And its originality and unusual details will make such a toy a reason for pride.

Toy house house made of laminate

To make durable and beautiful house for dolls, laminate or plywood (at least 7 mm thick) is cut according to pre-prepared patterns and securely fastened with inconspicuous corners and small nails, then glued with wood glue to ensure the strength of the entire structure.

The glue will also help close any gaps that can look unattractive and become a place where small parts of the toy are lost. After the body of the house is assembled, you can start finishing: the ideal option for walls, floors and ceilings is a self-adhesive film.

Plywood dollhouses

Dozens of available colors and textures make it possible to create a dream home in any style. Such a house is very durable, therefore it is able to withstand not only light cardboard or plastic furniture, but also more reliable wooden parts.

Houses made of boxes or cardboard

Perfect option for joint creativity is the creation of a house for dolls from cardboard boxes. It can be of any size: tiny figures will be comfortable in a shoe box, larger dolls will fit a vacuum cleaner box, and if you want a dollhouse, look for a box washing machine or refrigerator.

House for dolls from boxes

ADVICE. Big house can be made not from one, but from several small boxes, carefully fastened together. Such a building can have several floors and rooms, a spacious attic and even a basement.

cardboard dollhouse

Work with the box begins with the removal of one of the walls, as well as the installation of partitions between the rooms. The hollow box becomes a blank for the future home: the walls, floor and ceiling are decorated with paper, plastic furniture can be arranged around the rooms that the house can withstand.

Such a dwelling for dolls is attractive for its light weight, so it is not difficult to rearrange it to another room or take it outside in the summer.

In addition, it is easy to make repairs in such a dollhouse: it is enough to purchase a few sheets of designer paper and a new interior is already ready. Usually such construction is so captivating that adults and children begin to make furniture and decor for dolls non-stop.

You can make a house not only from ready-made boxes, but also from sheet cardboard: you will need patterns, glue, scissors and colored paper, as well as imagination and a desire to turn boring brown cardboard into a real fairy-tale castle.

Do-it-yourself dollhouses from cardboard boxes

Plasterboard houses

Making a house for dolls is easiest when the apartment is being renovated. A huge amount of building materials allows you to build quite an attractive home for dolls of any size without any special costs.

At the same time, the doll house will resemble a small copy of the apartment, because for its decoration you can use the remains of real wallpaper, laminate, linoleum and even tiles.

To make a full-fledged drywall house, you will need a parts diagram and the material itself. Carefully cut drywall is connected in small corners, and then the walls are puttied and painted (or wallpapered). Such a house looks like a real one, especially if you follow the layout of the rooms, as in real housing.

Houses from old furniture

You can make an excellent dollhouse for your child from old furniture that has long been gathering dust in the garage or on the balcony. Old chest of drawers, detail kitchen set or part of a bookcase, after simple transformations, can turn into an attractive and interesting house for dolls.

ADVICE. A significant advantage of such a house is its size, which makes it possible to use large toys, as well as the presence of doors: all the dolls will sit in the closet, and the room will be in perfect order.

To turn an old closet into a stylish toy, you will need the help of a dad or grandfather, because you will need to cut windows with a jigsaw, rearrange shelves, or reconfigure the contents of the cabinet by adding partitions. For maximum comfort of the playing child, all surfaces are rubbed thin layer putty, which also makes the house look more attractive.

The final finishing of the finished house is entrusted to the mother, who, together with the baby, chooses wallpaper for all rooms, flooring, furniture and decor. The walls of the house can simply be painted, glued with wallpaper, colored or wrapping paper.

In the interior of such a doll house, ready-made or self-made furniture looks great: cabinets from boxes, sofas from juice bags, cardboard racks and a bath from a soap dish.

Houses made of fabric or stationery folders

Fabric doll houses great option for kids 2-5 years old. At this age, a child needs educational and safe toys, and a fabric doll house is absolutely safe. The fabric house can be of two types: hanging option with folding shelves or a handbag house that folds out into a full-fledged dwelling. Both options look decent and deserve attention.

fabric houses

The fabric house is attached to the wall and does not take up space when folded, so it is chosen for small children's rooms or small apartments.

Game house from a folder for papers

Even a beginner can sew such a house:

• you need to make a dense back wall with a thematic pattern,
• provide a place for future shelves-rooms,
• sew the “floor of the room” and place cardboard inside,
• sew an impromptu floor with one edge to the base and secure with ribbons or ribbons in a horizontal position,
• pick up light furniture, soft dolls and populate the house.

Sewing a doll house in the form of a handbag is a little more difficult: for this you will need a parts diagram, multi-colored fabric, wall filler, decor for decoration and the ability to work with sewing machine or hand needle.

Since the walls of such a house must be solid, the role of the base is played by a plastic mesh or cardboard, which should be wrapped with soft material (cotton wool, thin foam rubber or sheet synthetic winterizer), and then sheathed with the selected fabric. The walls of the house can be decorated with ribbons, buttons, appliqué, embroidery - to make the toy interesting for a child of any age.

A slightly easier way to create an entertaining home is to use stationery folders as the base of the home. Such a dwelling for dolls resembles a book with bright pictures that can become a platform for active children's games.

It is easy to make such a toy: the folder is pasted over with beautiful paper imitating wallpaper from the inside, furniture is glued on top - and the room is ready. 3-4 vertically standing folders already look like a real house in which you can put dolls.

Any doll house that parents can make for their little one will be an original creation suitable for the child's play and development. Large or compact, durable or soft, fabulous or realistic, such a house is a great gift for a daughter or son for any occasion.

DIY dollhouse: drawings with dimensions

Any child dreams of their own house, where they can create an individual atmosphere and enjoy the game. Basically, such houses are divided into two types: intended for the child himself and for dolls. It is quite simple to make any cardboard house, as this material is soft and practical. To make a beautiful, correct and neat design, you must follow the instructions for assembling them.

Little girls love to play house. Why not build a cardboard tower for the little hostess, make a voluminous ladder for him, along which the dolls could “move” along the floors, do not assemble from the same cardboard doll furniture? Making crafts for children is fun and enjoyable, especially if you do it with your child. Drawings with detailed dimensions can be found in one of our videos, you can also download a scan from which a pattern can be obtained, and instructions will help you understand the manufacturing process step by step.

Any child dreams of their own house, where they can create an individual atmosphere and enjoy the game.

The easiest dollhouse to make is the one made of cardboard.. best material to create such structures will serve carton boxes from under household appliances or thick art cardboard. This material will allow you to create high-quality, strong structures and will not overshadow the children's gameplay.

While working on the creation of the house you will need:

• cardboard;
• stationery knife with a new blade;
• scissors;
• glue;
• scotch;
• decorative materials: remnants of wallpaper, linoleum, self-adhesive paper, fabric;
• paints - gouache or acrylic;
• brushes.

A small house is made according to the following instructions:

1. To make a two-story house with 2 rooms on the ground floor, you need to take two boxes of the same thickness, which are connected in series with each other with glue. A smaller box is placed on a more elongated box so that their two sides form a single wall of the house.
2. The elongated box that forms the first floor is divided into two parts using a cardboard rectangle that acts as a partition.
3. To form the roof, you need to take a rectangle. With the help of a ruler and a knife, a blind incision is made in its middle. Then the rectangle "breaks" and bends at an angle. Using glue, the corner roof is attached to the top floor of the house.
4. The glued structure is placed on big leaf cardboard, outlined in pencil.
5. The resulting figure is cut out and glued to the back of the structure, forming the back wall of the house.
6. Window openings are cut on the walls.

Gallery: do-it-yourself cardboard house (25 photos)

The easiest dollhouse to make is the one made of cardboard.

Then you need to move on to decorative interior and exterior decoration of the structure.

Interior and exterior decoration

To make the house beautiful and interesting, it needs to be properly designed. The first step is to strengthen the structure by doing exterior finish building. To do this, you can use self-adhesive paper or glue the case with plain white paper using double-sided tape. Such processing of the walls will strengthen the joints of the structure and extend its durability.

To make the house beautiful and interesting, it needs to be properly decorated.

After that, you should go to the interior decoration:

• each room is covered with wallpaper;
• on both sides of the window, pieces of fabric are attached to imitate curtains, an openwork strip is cut out of thick paper, which plays the role of a cornice and is glued parallel to the upper side of the window;
• you can put the remains of linoleum on the floor;
• the roof is decorated with carved stripes, imitating a chapel, a brush in the shape of a triangle is made in the corner part;
• inside the rooms you can put furniture for dolls made of cardboard and decorated with the same materials at hand.

Making a dollhouse with your own hands with your child will not only immerse him in an interesting creative process, activate his imagination, but also develop accuracy and gain skills in working with cardboard, paper and glue.

Staircase with steps in the dollhouse: step by step instructions

In order for the floors in the dollhouse to be interconnected, it is necessary to make a ladder. It is very simple to do this, you only need to measure the height of the room, determine the length of the desired staircase.

In the process of making stairs you will need:

• cardboard;
• glue;
• scissors;
• ruler.

In order for the floors in the dollhouse to be interconnected, it is necessary to make a ladder

Step-by-step instruction:

1. A long rectangle is cut out of cardboard, 2-4 centimeters thick. From the upper long side of the rectangle you need to cut a zigzag. All elements of the zigzag must form an angle of 90 degrees.
2. Then the second same element is made.
3. The width of the stairs is determined.
4. Rectangles are cut out, the length of which corresponds to the width of the stairs, and the width to the length of the side of the zigzag. The number of such rectangles is determined by the number of sides of the zigzag.
5. Then each rectangle is glued to the side of the zigzag, fixing both main elements together.
6. After all the rectangles are glued to the vertical and horizontal sides of the zigzag, you will get steps with an angle of 90 degrees.

If desired, railings can be glued to the stairs, however, they will complicate the use of this adjacent element during the game.

DIY dollhouse (video)

How to make a cardboard house for children with your own hands?

Many children dream of their own little house where they can retire and enjoy the game. Such an item brings a sense of coziness and comfort to the game, which is why it is popular among children. In order not to purchase expensive designs, a toy Orphanage can be glued from ordinary cardboard.

For this you will need:

• a ready-made template or a drawn diagram;
• stationery knife;
• ruler;
• PVA glue;
• thermal gun;
• colored paper.

The layout of the game house is assembled according to the following instructions:

1. Cardboard material depicts a diagram of a house or its details.
2. Then the drawn elements are cut out. If there are fold lines, they should be drawn with a ruler so that grooves form. Then the sheet is bent along the grooves.
3. All seams are taped. If there are partitions inside the house, they must be immediately glued with a heat gun.
4. After assembling the entire structure, it should be strengthened. To do this, a paper strip is glued to each glued seam. Such elements should be glued not only from the outside of the building, but also from the inside.

After the complete assembly of the house, you can proceed to its decoration. Home decoration can be done using various materials. Most often, colored paper, paints, fabric, wallpaper are used for this. It is best to put such a house in the corner of the room, since in this place its dimensions will not interfere with free movement around the room.

Scheme

The first step is to draw a diagram of the house. If you skip this step, the design may turn out to be sloppy or uneven. As a basis, it is necessary to take a cross scan, in the center of which there will be a base - the floor, and the cross itself will form the walls of the structure. If the child is large and it is necessary to make a house in his full height, each detail is best depicted separately.

The first step is to draw a diagram of the house

For the construction of a large orphanage can be used ready-made schemes. The simplest of them is the development of a house with a corner roof. It should be enlarged to the desired size and transferred to cardboard sheets. If desired, each element of the house can be drawn separately, maintaining all the proportions presented.

Do-it-yourself doll house (video)

Making a paper house

From colored paper, only a miniature house can be made. This construction can be used, for example, as tea house by placing tea bags in it.

During the cooking process you will need:

• colored paper;
• scissors;
• glue.

Makes a paper house in stages:

1. The first step is to redraw the diagram of the house on paper. To do this, you can use a ready-made scan, or you can come up with your own.
2. Next, the drawn element is cut out, a fold is made along all the dotted lines.
3. A doorway is cut through - with the help of this hole it will be possible to get a tea bag.
4. Windows can not be cut through, but simply decorated by making an application of colored paper.
5. Then the walls, the roof of the house are decorated with elements cut out of colored paper.
6. The decorated scan is glued together with allowances.

It remains to fill the house with tea and treat guests. In order not to look for ready-made schemes, you can use the following sweep:

Only a miniature house can be made from colored paper

To the process of making cardboard and paper houses children need to be involved. Joint activities will not only teach the child to work with paper products, but also develop the skills of accuracy, perseverance, and imagination in him. In addition to the options presented, cardboard boxes can also be used to create houses for decorating gifts, organizers, caskets.

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Just as boys dream of a treehouse, girls also dream of a dollhouse for their favorite toys. Of course you can buy it, but nice house costs absolutely obscene money, and you can’t buy a bad child. It's another thing to do it yourself, but be prepared for the fact that it will 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 house for dolls with your own hands.

Choosing a material

You can make a house for dolls with your own hands from any sheet building material. The thickness of the material for a house about a meter high (two floors) is 9-15 mm, for one-story houses it can be thinner. Consider 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, joined with nails and self-tapping screws. They cut plywood with a metal saw (with a fine tooth), a jigsaw (manual or electric). The ends will need to be well sanded so that it is not possible to drive a splinter. Upon completion of work, you can varnish or stain, paint, wallpaper, etc.
• Drywall. After the repair, scraps remain, which can be used. To fasten the sheets together, you will need tin corners (you can use a perforated corner). You will have to fasten it with special self-tapping screws, but they will stick out from the back, so this option is not the best. You can try to “plant” on glue, but you will have to align the cut lines to reduce glue consumption.

  

  A plasterboard dollhouse is one of the options

• . In terms of properties, the material is similar to plywood, with the only difference being that it is moisture resistant and made from wood chips. Work with it in much the same way 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 scrapbooking cardboard (you can buy it in needlework stores). It is more dense and durable, you can make one-story houses or use it for roofing. Connect with glue or staples from a stapler. In order for the doll house to be more reliable, it is better to assemble the frame from the planks, and then cover it with cardboard.

  

• Chipboard plain or laminated (). The advantage of this material is that it can already be finishing. If desired, you can order sawing the entire "box" of the house with gluing the edges in some furniture company. Then all that's left is to assemble. Moreover, it will be possible to use self-tapping screws or furniture fittings. There are three minuses - the material is too thick, which increases the mass, formaldehyde emissions and brittleness under lateral loads. If you can put up with the thickness and mass, then the release of formaldehyde should not be ignored. It is necessary to search with the emission class E0-E1. With fragility, unfortunately, nothing can be done. Is it possible to use corners to connect parts, and this is not too beautiful.

  

• Furniture boards. They are made from wooden planks glued together with wood glue. Ideal for making a dollhouse: environmentally friendly, durable, easy to process. But furniture boards You can’t call them cheap, although they are not as expensive as an array. In any case, it can be taken to make a box - the bottom, side walls and floors. The roof and back wall can be made from other materials (eg fibreboard, plastic, etc.).

  

  Furniture shield - eco-friendly and beautiful material

There are also options such as laminate, wooden lining, thin planed board. But they don't work that often. In any case, the minimum thickness of materials is 6-7 mm. Then the doll house will be reliable and will withstand even your child.

Features of working with plywood

Most often, plywood is used in the manufacture of a dollhouse. As you probably know, she can be different brands. It is better to make a dollhouse with your own hands from polished furniture plywood. They can be coniferous, but preferably from birch. It is better not to take a building one, even though it costs twice as much.

In general, plywood is easy to work with. If you have a jigsaw and, cutting and preparing parts will take a couple of hours. The only difficulty that may arise in the manufacture of a two-story plywood doll house is the installation of the second floor floor. T-shaped plywood fastening is not the easiest task.

The glue is not very reliable, and it is difficult to try to install fasteners such as self-tapping screws with a thickness of 6 mm at the end - the material can split, even with pre-drilling holes (the thinnest self-tapping screw is 1.8 mm). There are several options:

• make on nails (not too reliable, except to additionally smear with glue);
• set the corners at the bottom (not very beautiful);
• put a glazing bead around the perimeter, which will both support the floor and “work” ceiling plinth(the best option).

After cutting out the parts, all joints must be well sanded. First, they take sandpaper for wood with a medium grain, gradually moving to a fine one. When the edge is smooth, assembly can begin.

dollhouse project

The first thing you need to start building a house for dolls is to create a project. It is necessary to determine the height and number of floors, the width of the room, the type of roof, whether or not there will be a basement floor. Choose the number of floors you want. This is arbitrary, but all other parameters must be calculated.

The size of the doll house depends on the size of the doll inhabitants. To make it convenient to play, the height of the ceilings in the rooms should be at least twice the height of the doll. For example, with a doll height of 22 cm, ceilings of 40-45 cm will give 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 growth of the child. The height of the uppermost overlap should be slightly below eye level. In this case, it will be convenient to play, and the doll house will be “for growth” - it will be enough for a couple of years in height.

The depth of the 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 environment. But it could be deeper.

The width of the dollhouse depends on the number of rooms in it. Here it is determined depending on the available free space. In shape, the frame of a dollhouse usually looks like a rectangle, but now it is elongated in length or in height - this is determined by everyone. If the design turns out to be rather big, furniture wheels can be attached 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 size and number of walls, you will definitely be mistaken.

Finishing Features

Decorating a doll house with your own hands raises no less questions than building. In principle, you can use the same finishing method as in apartments or houses. For example, in doll rooms, walls can be finished in the following ways:

If you chose the "wallpaper" option, it's easier to do this before the assembly step. Even if there are several floors, blanks are lined, wallpaper is glued. This is much easier than trying to paste over the corners later.

The exterior finish is not much different. The most commonly used paint. This best option in terms of practicality and cost. If you want, you can do something similar to decorative plaster. It can be imitated with gray toilet paper. You just have to choose more. 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.

Decoration of windows and doors

Cutting windows in plywood, OSB, or any other material is not such a problem. To begin with, using a drill and a drill, make a hole into which you can pass the saw blade. Next is a matter of technology. The cut hole is polished, bringing it to smoothness, and then it is necessary to make the holes made look like windows. For this you need frames, curtains. If desired, you can also make glass - from transparent plastic bottles.

Frames with bindings can be made of cardboard white color. Stick them on after completion finishing works". Children love to open / close doors, so it's best to make them from thin plywood. Fasteners can be found - there are piano hinges or small furniture ones. Bolts can be made from wire and thin tubes.

Let there be light!

A dollhouse with lighting is aerobatics. Moreover, there is no need to fence the system of wires, converters, light bulbs and other electrical "stuffing". There is a very simple and effective solution. In any more or less large lighting store there are small LED bulbs battery operated. And they are mounted on Velcro. Each lamp is equipped with its own switch, operates on a voltage of several volts. In general, a very good output.

This is a non-volatile LED lamp

If you still want to make a real light in the 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 for the appropriate denomination, a bunch of wires. In general, this path is much more difficult and requires a lot 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 of the 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 of complex shape, we cut out several rafters from plywood, which will set the shape. We attach them to the walls, sheathe them with some flexible material. It can be cardboard, fiberboard. The ends of the rafters are coated with glue (better - carpentry), after which the material is laid. If the bend is too steep, additional fasteners may be needed. Usually thin small carnations are used, like shoe studs.

Photo options for different dollhouses

Building a house for dolls is a creative process. It can be made the way you dream of seeing your home, recreate a house from a fairy tale or fantasy. And there are no restrictions. Everything you want and how you want.

A one-story house is also not so bad. But you can put it on the table and play sitting

So different…

So do the shutters

Every girl dreams of a house for dolls, for example, Barbie, she wants the house to have a bed for a doll, a table, a chair and even a floor lamp. But it is not necessary to buy everything, because you can do it yourself, and then it will be much more interesting for children to play.

Just today I will tell you how to make a house for dolls with your own hands. In my case, the house will be made of plywood, and anyone who even a little bit owns a hacksaw and a jigsaw can easily repeat it all.

If you are far from such skill, then the doll house can also be made from cardboard, for example, from a large box.

I promised everyone for a long time to show what house my father made for Barbie with his own hands, now you have to guess who I am such a creative mother. I will start just with a house for dolls, and finish with furniture for the house. I'll tell you everything briefly and clearly. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments, and I will certainly answer them and help you cope with the task.

Do-it-yourself plywood doll house, drawings

To make our own house for dolls measuring 110 cm by 131 cm, we needed two sheets of plywood. Before you cut something, you need to draw everything.
You can take your own dimensions, which are convenient for you, we have a house height without a pediment of 112 cm, a width of 131 cm, and a depth of 30 cm, a height of rooms of 34 cm, passages in the form of an arch are made in the walls.
Of course, if your doll house is made of cardboard, then the dimensions must be significantly reduced, because the design will be unreliable.

To assemble the frame of the house, it is necessary to cut three boards 30 cm wide and 76 cm long, one board 30 wide and 110 cm long from a sheet of plywood. The last board of this length, because it will serve as the base of the house, the side will be attached to it a wardrobe for dolls and a library with books, which is why they are longer.

Then you need to cut two boards 112 cm long and 30 cm wide, these will be our box walls.
The back wall of the house and the roof are also made of plywood. All this was cut out with a jigsaw and fastened with a screwdriver and small bolts. I advise you to choose a figure eight for plywood, because it will be difficult to fasten the walls and all other details of the house to a thin one.

When work begins, everything is mixed up in my head - a do-it-yourself house for Barbie, a plywood photo, a diagram, dimensions. Only now you should not get lost, but you just need to be patient.

See what a do-it-yourself plywood dollhouse turned out to be, in my opinion, it already looks good.

Do-it-yourself plywood doll house - photo

When the drawings, dimensions are already known, and even the house for Barbie is assembled, it's time to show you a photo of what we ended up with.

After all the assembly, we decided to transform our doll house a little and put furniture there that can be made and waste material or improvised means. Only before putting the furniture, it was necessary to make repairs in the house.

We pasted over the walls of each room of the house with drawings printed on a color printer. You can paint everything with either paints or gouache, or you can transform it with the help of real wallpapers.

And here is a photo of a do-it-yourself plywood doll house.

Do-it-yourself furniture for dolls from improvised materials

Well, what kind of house for dolls is without furniture, drawings are drawings, and dolls need to sleep somewhere. In addition to sleep, they need to eat somewhere, sit on chairs, and in the dark, a floor lamp will not be superfluous.

I have already shared many master classes with you, showed you step by step how to make a table and chairs for Barbie dolls, a bed and even bed sheets. Here, perhaps, I will start with the bed and bed linen.

DIY doll bed made of cardboard

Well, what can I say, because you need to sleep somewhere, you can also on the floor, but it will be better on the bed, especially if it is made by hand. A bed for dolls can be made of plywood, we also have one, after which I glued it with old sliders with a hot gun and it turned out to be a wonderful cradle for a baby doll.

Friends, detailed wizard a class on how to make a bed for Barbie out of cardboard with your own hands, you can find in my previous articles. There is also detailed description how to make real bedding for a doll bed.

Some people already know how to make furniture in a dollhouse for Barbie with their own hands, it remains to tell you how to make a table and chairs for dolls, and no matter what Monster High or Barbie, everyone wants to eat and sit.

How to make a table for dolls with your own hands

Yes, of course, everyone wants to eat, even the dolls of our children, and where to go, modern toys, they ask you to understand, and you don’t need to teach them how to eat on their own.

Well, since it touches the table, it can be made in many ways, for example, from clothespins, ice cream sticks, or from the most ordinary plastic bottle.

The easiest table for Barbie with your own hands from ice cream sticks looks like this, and you can find the rest of the master classes by clicking on the link at the beginning of the article.

Now you also know how to make a table for dolls with your own hands from improvised materials.

How to make a chair for dolls with your own hands

No one doubts that if there is a table, then you don’t have to sit on something at it. A chair can also be made from improvised means and waste material. I made master classes from wooden clothespins, a lot of interesting things can be done from them, not only for children, but also for adults.

You can also find a master class of a chair made of several types of clothespins on my website, and after all, make an excellent house for a doll with your own hands with a complete set of furniture.

Do-it-yourself floor lamp for a dollhouse

And here my fantasy swallowed me completely, and did not let go for a long time. I still have tulle after our wedding with my husband, and it is stored, only everything has a shelf life. It seems that he came to visit tulle, I'm talking about shelf life and shelf life.

Having cut off a small piece of tulle, 50 centimeters long and 6 cm wide, I strung it along the edge with a thread, too of blue color. Next, I took the cap from a five-liter bottle and, having made a hole in it, placed it in a sushi stick and filled it with hot glue. After that, I drew a trapezoid out of cardboard, cut it out and glued it along the edge, and attached it to the cork from a champagne bottle. But on the very top I glued a piece of tulle and a strung strip.

See what a floor lamp for a doll I got.
Friends, share your opinion on how you like a house for dolls with your own hands, drawings for a plywood house, do-it-yourself furniture for dolls from improvised materials and a floor lamp with a chair and a table.

With love, your Nina Kuzmenko!