Dollhouse do it yourself

Just like boys dream of a house on a tree, also girls dream of a doll house for their favorite toys. Of course, you can buy it, but a good house stands at all indecent money, and you can't buy a bad child. Another thing is to make it yourself, but be prepared for what will take a lot of time. Especially if you do not have too much experience. On average, to make a house for dolls with your own hands, you will need at least a week.

We choose the material

You can make a house for dolls with your own hands from any sheet building material. The thickness of the material for the house is a height of about a meter (for two floors) 9-15 mm, for one-storey it is possible and the thorough. Consider the most common materials used by the construction of a doll house:

Plywood. An excellent choice, as it is durable, keeps the form well, can be glued, combined with nails and screws. Cut the Faneru saw for metal (with a fine tooth), pubesomes (manual or electric). The ends should be well polished so that there is no possibility to drive the off-therange. Upon completion of the work, you can cover with varnish or veneer, paint, caught with wallpaper, etc.

Houses for dolls make most often from plywood
Plasterboard. After repair remains trimming, which can be used. To bonded the sheets with each other will need tin corners (you can - perforated corner). Mount will be attached to special self-tapping screws, but they will hang around from the back, so the option is not from the best. You can try to "plant" on glue, but you have to align the cut line to reduce the flow of glue.

Doll house of plasterboard - one of the possible options
OSB (OSB). The properties are similar to plywood, with the only difference that it is moisture-resistant and is made of chips. Work with it is approximately as with plywood.

OSB - also good stuff
Cardboard. The most inexpensive and most tender material that does not keep loads very well. It is better about the Cardboard for Scrapbooking (you can buy in stores for needlework). It is more dense and durable, you can make single-storey houses or use for the roofing device. Connect using glue or stapler brackets. In order for the house for dolls to be more reliable, it is better to collect the frame from the planks, and then cover it with cardboard.

House for Barbie or other not very large dolls can be made from cardboard
Chipboard or laminated LDSP. Plus this material - it can already be with the finish finish. If you wish, you can order the sawing of the entire "box" of the house with a sticking edge in some furniture company. It will remain then only to collect. Moreover, you can use screws or furniture fittings. Three are too thick material, which increases the mass, formaldehyde, and fragility for lateral loads. If you can cheat with a thickness and mass, then the allocation of formaldehyde should not ignore. We must search with the E0-E1 emission class. With fragility, unfortunately, you will not do anything. Is it possible to use the corner to connect the parts, and this is not too beautiful.

DSP house can withstand the weight of the child
Furniture shields. Move from wooden planks glued with carbon black glue. An ideal option for making a dollhouse: environmentally friendly, durable, easy to process. But the furniture shields do not call cheap, although they are not so road as an array. In any case, it can be taken to make the box - the bottom, side walls and overlap. The roof and rear wall can be made from other materials (for example, DVP, plastic, etc.).

Furniture Shield - Eco-friendly and Beautiful Material

There are more options like laminate, wooden lining, thin shaggy board. But they work with them not so often. In any case, the minimum thickness of the materials is 6-7 mm. Then the house for dolls will be reliable and withstand even your child.

Features of work with plywood

Most often, in the manufacture of a puppet house, Paneur is used. As you probably know, it can be different brands. Making a puppet lodge with your own hands is better made of furniture polished plywood. It is possible to conifer breeds, but preferably from birch. The construction is better not to take, even though it is two times cheaper.

In general, it is easy to work with plywood. If there is an electrolybiz and grinders, cut and the preparation of parts will take a couple of hours. The only complexity that may occur in the manufacture of a two-story house for plywood dolls - installation of the overlap of the second floor. T-shaped plywood mount is not the simplest task.

We must come up with the mounting of the overlaps

The glue is not too reliable, but try to set fasteners in the end of the screw type with a thickness of 6 mm. It is difficult - the material may differ, even with preliminary versions of the holes (the thinnest self-tapping screw is 1.8 mm). There are several options:

Make on nails (not too securely, except to embroider with glue);
Install at the bottom of the corner (not very beautiful);
On the perimeter to put a stroke, which will also support the floor, and "work" with a ceiling plinth (the best option).

After drinking parts, all the joints must be finely polished. First take sandpaper wood with medium grain wood, gradually go into small. When the edge becomes smooth, you can start the assembly.

Drug House Draft

The first thing 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, there will be or no basement. Choose strokes if desired. It is arbitrarily, but all other parameters must be counting.

Dimensions of the puppet house depend on the size of dolls. To play it is convenient, the height of the ceilings in the premises should be no less twice the growth of the doll. For example, with a doll height of 22 cm, the ceilings in 40-45 cm will give enough space for their free movement, but if the ceilings are even higher, it will be even more convenient to play. But still need to take into account the growth of the child. The height of the highest overlap must be slightly below the eye level. In this case, it will be convenient to play, and the house for dolls will be "on the grown" - for a couple of years height will be enough.

The depth of the rooms for dolls also depends on the growth of dolls, but also from the availability of free space. On average, the depth is made 30-45 cm. This is enough to accommodate the entire situation. But it can be deeper.

That's about the same way to do before starting work.

The width of the doll house depends on the number of rooms in it. Here are defined depending on the available free space. The form usually the frame of the doll house looks like a rectangle, but it will be pulled out in length or height - it is all determined himself. If the design is large, you can make furniture wheels to the bottom. It is very convenient - the toy turns out to be mobile.

You can draw the project itself in any designer program, but if you do not own them, it is easier to do it on paper. Why do you need a draft doll house? To calculate the number of materials needed for its manufacture, and without sizes and quantities you will definitely make sure.

Features of finishing

Finishing a house for dolls with your own hands is no less than the issues than the construction. In principle, you can use the same method of finishing as in apartments or houses. For example, in the rooms for dolls of the walls can be separated in the following ways:

Paint. Only paint should be taken special, which is permitted for use in children's and medical institutions. It may be the composition of any type, but the best choice is perhaps the water-free washable paint. It is not too expensive, does not smell when painting, it can wipe, easily applied in any color.
Bloom the wallpaper. If you have remained from repairing monophonic wallpapers, this is a good option. But the remnants with the pattern are unlikely to fit, as the drawing is usually too large for miniature rooms. For such a case, you can find a sample of wallpapers on the Internet and print on a color printer. For the same technology, by the way, it is possible to make "linoleum" or "parquet" - to print, stick, cover at least a layer of PVA. For complete believability, use varnish or epoxy resin.

It is easier to glue the wallpaper before the start of the assembly

If you have chosen the option "Bloom Wallpaper", it's easier to do it before the assembly stage. Even if there are several floors, the workpieces are drawn, glued wallpaper. It is much easier than then try to crack the corners.

The outer decoration is not much different. Most often use painting. This is the optimal option in terms of practicality and labor costs. If you want, you can do something similar to the decorative plaster. It can be mimic with gray toilet paper. Only choose it is thorough. It is torn to pieces, sampled PVA (1 to 1) diluted with diluted water, lay out on the walls, forming the necessary relief. After drying, you can paint using acrylic paints. This is a decoupage technique and can be used with colored or ordinary napkins.

Registration of windows and doors

Cut windows in plywood, OSP, and in any other material, not such a problem. To begin with, the drill and drill make a hole in which you can skip the saw blade. Next - the case of technology. The cut hole is grinning, bringing to smoothness, and then you need to do so that the holes made are like the windows. For this you need frames, curtains. If desired, glass can be made of transparent plastic bottles.

Much depends on the details

Binding frames can be made of white cardboard. Stick them after the completion of "finishing works." Doors Children love to open / close, so it is better to do them from thin plywood. Fasteners can be found - there are piano loops or small furniture. From wire and thin tubes can be made.

May the light be!

The house for dolls with lighting is the highest pilot. And there is no need to make a system of wires, converters, light bulbs and other electrical "filling". There is a very simple and spectacular solution. In any more or less large lighting shop there are small LED lamps running from batteries. And they are mounted on the velcro. Each lamp is equipped with its own switch, runs from voltage to several volts. In general, a very good output.

These are non-volatile LED lamps.

If you still want to make a real light in a dollhouse, you need a 220/12 in or battery converter with a corresponding voltage. We still need light bulbs or LED tapes under the corresponding nominal, a bunch of wires. In general, this path is much more complicated and requires much more time, but also a possible option.

How to make a roof

If the roof is planned by the usual - double, the planning of the attic space or the attic floor it is necessary to make the partition in the center, which will maintain the roof in the junction of two halves of the roof. This is the easiest way. There are more complex.

The roof on a puppet house can be done in different ways can be done in different ways.

If you need a roof of a complex shape, cut out several rafters from plywood, which will set the form. They are fastened to the walls, we are wearing any flexible material. It can be cardboard, fiberboard. The ends of the rafters are missing with glue (better - joiner), after which the material is placed. If the bending is too cool, you may need additional fasteners. Usually use thin small carnations by type of shoal.

Photo options of different doll houses

Build a house for dolls - creative process. It can be done as you dream to see your home, recreate a house from a fairy tale or fantasy. And there are no restrictions. All you want and as you want.