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We are convinced that only home-made can be better than a purchased dollhouse. After all, it is very interesting to “build” and decorate it to your liking for both parents and children. Moreover, everyone can make a house for dolls with their own hands, this will require only a few tools, simple materials and creative inspiration.

Master class 1. How to build a house in half an hour from a cardboard box

A cardboard dollhouse is good because it is done quickly and from improvised materials. It can be very beautifully designed and periodically completed - add new rooms, floors and entire buildings.

Materials and tools:

1. A large cardboard box that will hold one to three floors for dolls 25-30 cm tall (Barbie, Monster High, Bratz, Winx, etc.).
2. Scissors and cutter.
3. Scotch tape in a contrasting color (does not include painting) or masking tape (if you want to paint the house later). In this master class, bright green tape is used, and the house itself is not painted.
4. White paint.
5. Decorating materials (optional): scraps of wallpaper, wrapping paper, paint, brushes, etc.

Step 1. First, cut the box in half and cut off the top flaps from both halves.

Step 2. We put the resulting pieces of cardboard into action: cut out the triangular gable of the roof from one part, and make a small hole in the other - this will be the second floor with access to the stairs. Next, glue the parts into place with tape and / or glue.

Step 3. From the unnecessary part of the box, cut out the slopes for the roof and another floor for the attic, and then glue the parts onto the adhesive tape. Do not forget to cut a hole for the stairs in the attic floor.

Step 4. Now we cut out the windows and the front door on the first floor with a clerical knife, having previously drawn the markup. Then we cut out stairs from the remnants of cardboard and glue them to the floors.

Step 5. Hooray! The frame of the house is ready, now you can proceed to the "finishing". In this master class, all the details from the tiles on the roof to the steps of the stairs were drawn with a white marker.

As soon as the "repair" in the house is over, you can start creating furniture.

You can come up with your own house design - paint the house and the roof from the outside, draw window frames, paste over the walls with “wallpaper” made of fabric or scrapbooking paper, and finish the floor with linoleum or laminate. In the next selection of photos, you can get ideas for decorating a doll house miniature and cardboard furniture.

And here is an example of a cardboard house for dolls, upholstered in fabric, or rather, scraps of old dresses and pillowcases.

And finally, we offer you to watch a video review of a dollhouse for Monster High dolls, made by hand from several large boxes.

Master class 2. How to make a doll house from a bookshelf or rack

Do you want to make a stronger house without fiddling with blueprints and a jigsaw? Then use a small shelving unit or, say, an old bookcase as a base. With the help of the simplest steps, you can turn an ordinary piece of furniture into a wonderful house for dolls.

• Best for "construction" is a cabinet with a depth (25-30 cm), which has a back wall. So, for example, in this master class, Ikea's Billy shelving unit is 30 cm deep and 106 cm high (pictured right). In such a house, you can equip three floors, quite suitable for 25-centimeter Barbies or Monster High. The price of Billy's rack is 2000 rubles.

Materials and tools for reworking the frame:

1. Cabinet, chest of drawers or shelving;
2. Plywood, MDF or boards 25mm thick, 30cm wide and at least 120cm long (these are measurements for Billy's closet, but you can take shorter or longer/wider boards depending on your closet dimensions);
3. Sheet of hardboard, PVC or MDF wall panel (for the manufacture / replacement of the back wall and the manufacture of partitions in rooms);
4. Bar 5x5x20cm (a pipe will be made from it);
5. Several small photo frames that will become trim for windows;
6. Decorative molding of small width (polyurethane can be used);
7. Screws and screwdriver;
8. Carpentry glue or liquid nails;
9. Drill and drill.

Decoration materials:

1. Wood putty (optional, but desirable for masking fasteners and joints);
2. Primer (optional, but desirable for better paint durability);
3. Acrylic paints of desired colors;
4. masking tape;
5. Brushes and / or spray gun;
6. Scissors;
7. Materials for lining the walls of rooms (paper for scrapbooking is best);
8. Popsicle sticks to create a lattice fence;
9. Roof tiles material.

Step 1. Painting the rack

This step is optional if you are satisfied with the color of the selected shelving or cabinet. For example, white or plain colored furniture will look great even without painting.

• If the cabinet is old or has a too “furniture” look, then it definitely needs to be repainted. To do this, we act according to the following scheme: sanding and grinding - primer (until dry) - a layer of paint (until dry) - a second layer of paint (until dry) - a layer of matte varnish.

In this master class, the dollhouse will not only be painted, but also decorated with brickwork. If you like this decor idea, then prepare the following accessories:

• Cellulose sponge;
• Gray paint;
• Acrylic paint (our instructions use a mixture of two paints - the colors of red brick and chocolate).

So, first we paint the entire rack with gray paint. As soon as the last layer of paint dries, we begin to create brickwork. To do this, we cut out a rectangle about 3.5 × 8 cm in size from a sponge, which will become a template for painting.

Pour the paint into the container, soak the sponge in it and, starting from the bottom of the cabinet, print the bricks - first one row, then the second row in a checkerboard pattern. Do not forget to maintain indents between bricks of about 5 mm. Paint about 1/3 of the house this way.

Step 2. Making windows

This step is also optional, but if you want to create a realistic miniature of the house, then it's better not to skip it. In order to cut windows, you first need to measure the window "frames" (if any) and draw markings on the cabinet walls from the outside.

Once the markings of all windows are ready, you can start cutting. To do this, use a drill to make holes in the corners of the markup inside the border to create a starting point for the jigsaw blade. To make the edges of the windows look neater from the inside, you need to glue the masking tape on the inside of the cabinet along the marking contour. In the photo below you can see the process of work.

To give the windows a more finished look, putty and paint the "window niches", remove the tape, and glue the frames on the outside of the house.

Step 3. Mounting and decorating the roof

In order to make a roof, you need to cut 2 boards from plywood (or other lumber) 30 cm wide, but of different lengths - 61 cm and 59 cm.

Now we join the end of the shorter board at a right angle with the edge of the 61-cm board and again drill holes, but only at the end of the short board, passing the drill through the three holes made earlier on the edge of the long board. This stage is clearly shown in the next photo.

Glue two boards together, then fix with screws. If desired, the joint can be sealed with putty.

Next, we move on to finishing the roof. It can either be painted in 2 layers, or pasted over with “tiles” from improvised materials, for example, from cardboard or cork sheets. And finally, on the ends on the front side of the roof, we glue 2 parts of the molding.

Step 4. Creating and installing a pipe, installing a roof

It's time to turn the 5x5x20 cm wooden block into a chimney. To do this, simply saw off one of its corners (45 degrees) and paint according to the principle described in Step # 1. When the paint is dry, we fix the chimney to the roof with screws.

Well, that's all, the roof is ready, it remains only to screw it to the cabinet in the inner corners, as shown in the photo.

Step 5. Replacing or installing the back wall

The next step involves equipping the rack with a wall, if it is not there, replacing the existing wall with a prettier one (for example, under a white lining) or simply installing the missing wall for the attic floor. We perform the following actions: we make the necessary measurements, cut out a blank from the hardboard / wall panel and fasten it on the back side with cloves / screws / glue.

Step 6 Install Partitions to Create Rooms

Cut out interior partitions from any material (hardboard, wood, MDF, plywood), then cut doorways into them and install with glue or screws. Woo-ala! The doll house is built, you can proceed to the most exciting part of the work - the decor and filling the rooms with furniture.

If you add a rack with wheels, the house will turn out to be mobile

And here is an example of equipping a dollhouse with lighting, which can not only create comfort in it, but also play the role of a night light.

Master class 3. How to make a plywood dollhouse

Making a dollhouse out of plywood or wood is somewhat more difficult, but it will look better and last so long that in the future it can even be inherited. To create such a house does not need to have special skills. It is enough to have the tools, clearly follow the drawing and the following video instruction, from which you will learn how to make a do-it-yourself dollhouse for 25 cm Barbies and other dolls 25-26 cm tall.

The dream of any girl is dolls in beautiful dresses, her own doll house with furniture, a fluffy carpet, pets, where dolls can live their carefree life: relax, visit, celebrate holidays and return to it from travels.

In stores, prices for dollhouses start at 1,500 rubles. And these are only modest one-room apartments, and a two-story house with stairs, balconies and a bathroom will cost 9000-15000. There are specimens that are completely sky-high - this furnished house costs 25,000 rubles above the height of a child.

If you are not ready to pay such an amount for a doll apartment, our master class is for you! We will make a house for a doll that will not cost a single ruble!

You will need:

• a large cardboard box (you can ask in the store),
• pieces of wallpaper remaining after repair,
• scissors,
• stationery knife,
• scotch,
• glue (wallpaper, PVA),
• a piece of linoleum, carpet, carpet or dense fabric.
• And some inspiration!

Cost: free - from what is.

Production time: 1.5 hours.

Number of participants: we do together with the children.

Making a dollhouse

We examine the material that we have in stock. We choose the decor option "from what is."

We level the floor inside the future house. To do this, cut off the side of the lid from the box. It is perfectly mounted in unevenness on the "floor". Glue it on with tape.

We choose the wallpaper with which we will paste over the doll's room. Glue them to the box.

Then we select a border for them or cut strips from other wallpapers. Glue the border. We lay linoleum and put the carpet.

Now we install the furniture and introduce the dolls to the new home.

But you don’t have to stop there: you can cut windows with a clerical knife and decorate them with curtains. Make opening doors, add a few more rooms out of boxes. Then make an external decor.

Thus, you can make not only a house, but also a shop, a cafe, a school, a hospital for dolls. Unleash your child's imagination and help bring his ideas to life!

Any girl dreams of a house for her dolls. Now there are a huge number of them on store shelves. But such pleasure is not cheap, and the assortment is of the same type.

We offer to please the child with a handmade gift. This will allow you not only to save money, but also to make the house one of a kind.

In addition, it will be a great pastime for the whole family during leisure time.

There are many special tutorials for making dollhouses with your own hands. You can use a wide variety of building materials: boards, plywood, chipboard, laminate, cardboard, etc.

As a rule, the front wall on dollhouses is not made, or they make it removable or openable so that your child can put dolls there, change the situation in the rooms, and tidy up.

Choose the material - and we will teach you how to make a dollhouse with your own hands!

Doll houses made of plywood and laminate

These are the most popular items. A distinctive feature from the "brothers" - stability and longevity. It is easy to decorate both outside and inside. But the manufacture of such a house requires male power.

If you try, then such a house will not be distinguished from the store version.

Diagrams and drawings can be found on the Internet, but if there are technical inclinations, you can try to draw it yourself. There are also photos of finished dollhouses on the Internet.

To make a house, we need:

• thicker plywood (from 7 mm.);
• electric jigsaw;
• glue;
• self-adhesive for the floor;
• pieces of wallpaper;
• tape measure or ruler;
• a pen;
• scheme;
• a little imagination and patience.

Let's get to work, before that, having decided on the size of the dollhouse (they will depend on the dimensions of the "residents"):

• we cut out the walls of the future house from plywood or laminate;
• we cut windows and doors into them;
• we glue the walls together, it is also fashionable to use building nails or staples;
• we make a roof, it can be both flat and sloping. To give a real look, you can use corrugated cardboard, and then paint it;
• we fasten the resulting structure with the foundation - a sheet larger than the house itself. On an unused site, you can make flower beds, sidewalks, a platform, parking;
• glue wallpaper and lay floors;
• we furnish the house with furniture;
• you can also add curtains made from pieces of fabric, bedspreads, rugs, etc.

Plasterboard dollhouses

Many housekeeping parents after repairs leave the remaining building materials to gather dust on the balcony in the hope that they will someday come in handy. Their time has come! Drywall can make an excellent dollhouse.

A good house made of this material is that it turns out to be very light and easy to assemble. But, at the same time, it will need to be handled more carefully - it will be quite fragile.

The scheme of such a house is no different from a plywood or laminate product. But it is much easier to assemble such a house, and there are much more layout options - with the help of partitions, you can divide the premises among themselves.

Styrofoam houses

To assemble such a house, we need:

Note!

• sheet foam;
• glue;
• canape sticks;
• rulers;
• bamboo sticks;
• cardboard;
• pieces of wallpaper and fabric;
• dye;
• sponge for washing dishes;

Pieces of plinth for the ceiling

Let's get to work:

• make a diagram;
• cut out foam walls;
• we make doors and windows in them;
• we connect the walls with toothpicks, then we glue the walls together;
• for the strength of the roof, we first install bamboo sticks on top of the walls, and only then we glue the roof to the walls;
• from wooden rulers or the same foam we make a ladder;
• you can also use toothpicks for the railing;
• in addition, if desired, a balcony, massandra or even a terrace can also be made from polystyrene;
• we paint the house;
• inside we decorate the house as in the previous description.

Houses from bookshelves and cabinets

It will not be difficult to make a house from old furniture - after all, the walls are already ready.

It remains only to cut windows and doors into them, and think about what to make a roof from, if necessary.

It can also be made from the materials described above. We arrange the furniture, let the cat in - happy housewarming!

Cardboard houses

For this design we need:

Note!

• cardboard;
• house detail templates;
• scissors and stationery knife;
• gouache or watercolors.

Building a house:

• if you have a large piece of cardboard, then we do not cut it, but bend it in places according to the diagram, and then glue its components together.
• we install interior partitions made of cardboard, they will serve not only to delimit the space, but also to fasten the frame structure.
• Let's get started on renovations!

House of boxes

The easiest and fastest option. It is enough to choose the right number of boxes (depending on the number of rooms), fasten them together with a stapler, after placing them on their side so that the top of the box serves as an exit.

This will allow you to open the front wall at the right time to rearrange, clean up, etc.

Cut out windows and doors. Let's start building the frame.

Note!

Paper folder house

It needs four folders. We glue them from the inside with wallpaper or printed sheets with decor items and household appliances in the plane.

We cut out windows in the folders, set the folders vertically, fasten them with the help of clips that are available for each folder. Your house is ready.

fabric house

This option is good because it takes up almost no space, it can be completely folded.

Using a dense piece of fabric, we make the back wall - it will serve as the foundation. We sew a rectangular base for the house. We make pockets, to which cardboard for the floors will then be attached. We attach ribbons to both corners of the pockets.

It remains only to sew pockets with a rectangular base from one edge so that the ribbons are on the reverse side. Floors with ribbons and sew the ribbons with the back wall. Set up a house and start playing!

You can make houses from other materials - the main thing is to show your imagination! It will also be a wonderful gift for a boy - after all, you can build a garage, parking, etc.

DIY dollhouse photo

Experienced parents know that buying a doll is not all that a child needs. For your beloved Barbie, you need girlfriends, a “husband”, a “baby”, a special set of doll dishes, a special doll car, a separate wardrobe ... this list is endless, and marketers are constantly coming up with more and more new attributes for playing with Barbie. The main one is, of course, the doll house. Not only does this design occupy half of the children's room, it collects dust, and parts from it are scattered all over the house, it also stands like a wing from a jet plane. But after all, playing with him brings so much joy to children, so it is very difficult (and not necessary) for a child to refuse a request for a dollhouse. It's just not necessary to buy it in a store, you can make this toy yourself literally from improvised materials. In this article, we will show you how to make a dollhouse that is perfect for Barbie.

What materials can be used to make a Barbie dollhouse?

A variety of materials can be used to make a dollhouse, depending on what tools you have available and what your skills are with them. Of course, the simplest option is a house for Barbie made of cardboard boxes. You can use unused shoe boxes, but large appliance boxes are even better - not only because of their size, but also because they are made of a denser material. It is not necessary to make the dollhouse one-story and one-room, because each box can be divided by additional partitions into separate rooms of any layout, and the number of floors is also easily regulated by connecting several boxes of a suitable size to each other.

The second popular option is a plywood house. This design looks more thorough, and with high-quality performance, such a house will not even look like a home-made one. Of its advantages - durability, and ease of decorating both the outer and inner sides of the walls. Of the minuses, the fact that not everyone knows how to handle a jigsaw, and chipboard sheets are still not in every apartment, and you may have to buy them on purpose. To make it more convenient to play, one of the walls of the house is usually left empty or designed in the form of drop-down doors.

The third option is a house from an old chest of drawers. It is the most bulky, but at the same time the most durable. It is recommended to make a house from old furniture only if the apartment really has a lot of space, because it will be difficult to move it from place to place.

1) The roof of the house can be decorated with corrugated cardboard, which will look like tiles. To give it a beautiful red or orange color, you can paint it with your own hands with spray paint.

2) Regardless of whether the house is made of cardboard or plywood, you should not leave the walls outside undecorated. They must be painted "under the putty" or simply pasted over with colored paper. For beauty, you can stick bamboo slats between floors (you can take them from a sushi rug).

3) You can cut out rectangular "bricks" from thick cardboard and stick them on the bottom of the house.

4) Balcony and window frames are cut out of cardboard. The railing can be made from toothpicks painted white.

5) A lawn made from old dish sponges (of course, they should be green) will look great around the house. It can be "planted" with artificial flowers.

1) It is most convenient to paste over the walls of the house from the inside with colored paper, you can even print it - it will be wallpaper. Ceilings must be painted with whitewash or pasted over with white paper.

2) To depict a door, you can simply cut out a picture of a suitable size from a magazine and stick it on a cardboard base. The handle for the door can be molded from plasticine.

3) Instead of carpet, you can stick velvet paper, and cut rugs from microfiber cloths.

4) Do not forget to hang curtains from tiny rags on the windows. Instead of cornices, it is convenient to use pieces of wooden meat skewers.

It's no secret that many parents are reluctant to buy dollhouses because they take up too much space in the apartment. If you make a house yourself, you can cheat a little: make a house of a small area, but with a large number of floors. This design will be a little more compact.

If even this option does not fit into the apartment, it does not matter. Instead of a full-fledged house with a roof and walls, you can simply make cruciform partitions that visually separate the “rooms”. Such a design can be installed each time in a new place and arrange furniture inside in a new way. Below in the photo you can see how it looks.

Video on the topic of the article

To learn how to make a dollhouse, we suggest watching the following videos. Experienced craftsmen will tell you about all the intricacies of making these crafts.

What girl in childhood did not dream of a dollhouse? The childhood of many passed in dreams, because not all parents could allocate a round sum from the family budget to buy such an expensive toy. But there were those who undertook to make a house for Barbie with their own hands.

So where do you start? From what materials is it better to make a house, what design to choose and how to properly distribute everything in a doll house? Of the materials, you can use everything that is available: it can be plywood, cardboard boxes and even foam. And the most important thing is to involve the child in the process of designing, because who knows better how the ideal house for Barbie should look like. You can do everything with your own hands: walls, furniture, and textiles for a doll house. How exactly? Let's figure it out together.

Frame for the house

As a frame for the house, an unnecessary rack or whatnot is perfect. And if there are none? In this case, the design can be made of thick cardboard or plywood. Here are a few ways to build a frame:

Coziness for dolls

When the frame is sorted out, you can proceed to the layout and finishing work. It is not necessary to cut windows and doors in the house, it will be enough to select the appropriate pictures and, after printing, stick them on the wall of the frame. By the way, this option will allow you to make a gorgeous view from the window. Curtains from the remnants of the fabric will be a great addition.

The walls and ceiling can be pasted over with the remnants of wallpaper or painted with water-based paint, and the floors can be covered with carpets made from pieces of fur. The final stage is the arrangement of furniture, which can be bought or made by hand, but this is a separate issue.

In fact, making a house for Barbie with your own hands is not so difficult, the main thing is to turn on your imagination and listen to a little adviser who will tell you exactly what and how it should look like.