DIY dollhouses made of plywood, boxes and other materials

Every little girl dreams of her own dollhouse. Nowadays, you can find a lot of them in stores, but they are all the same type and expensive. This article will show you how you can make an original dollhouse without spending a lot of money. Such a house will become unique, the child will be able to furnish it as he wants. Your whole family can have a great time creating their own masterpiece.

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There are many different workshops for making doll houses. The materials are very different: wood, plywood, drywall, laminate, boxes, bookshelves, document folders. This is not a complete list of the proposed materials.

The front wall of the house is either not made at all, or made in the form of an opening door. This is necessary for the convenience of the game. We invite you to choose what is right for you and get started.

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 from both the outside and the inside. However, man's help is required to make a wooden house.

If the house is built with high quality, it will not be distinguished from the purchased one. You can make drawings for the construction of 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 - carpentry, PVA;
self-adhesive film with which we will glue the floor in our house;
wallpaper, they are useful for pasting walls in rooms;
simple pencil;
roulette.

Step-by-step instruction:

We cut out the walls of the house from plywood sheets, according to the dimensions in the drawing.
We mark where the windows and doors will be located, and cut them out.
With the help of wood glue, we assemble the structure as shown in the figure. You can use small studs for structural reliability.
Make a roof. Cover it with corrugated cardboard and paint to simulate shingles.
Glue the finished house onto a piece of plywood that is larger than the floor of 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 paste over the walls in the rooms with wallpaper, and the floors with foil.
We arrange furniture.
We decorate the interior with the help of textiles: curtains for windows, rugs, tablecloths for furniture.

Watch the following video for a master class on making a dollhouse from plywood.

The necessary drawings from the video, see below.

Drywall

After repair, many of us have pieces of drywall that are no longer needed. Why not let them go and make your little princess happy? You can make a wonderful dollhouse out of it.

A drywall house 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. It is worth a little pressure on any part of the house, as it breaks down immediately.

In order to make a drywall house, you can use the scheme given above, or you can simply make cruciform partitions to save space in the nursery. These partitions will separate the rooms from each other, there will be no external walls and roof.

You can make a full-fledged beautiful house from large sheets of drywall. See the master class in the next video.

Styrofoam

If you have sheets of packing foam lying around at home, 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;
essential accessories for the interior: pieces of carpet, curtains, furniture and everything that your imagination is capable of.

Step-by-step instruction:

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 in accordance with the drawing. It is convenient to do this with a hot knife, so the foam does not crumble.
We think over where you will have windows and doors, you can make a staircase between floors. Cut out the necessary openings.
We start assembling the house. Zwe break the waste cleaners in half. We will need them to create a more durable structure. We glue the foam sheets with a glue gun, having previously connected them using halves of toothpicks.
We use bamboo sticks to strengthen the floor and ceiling from Chinese napkins. Stick the sticks to the foam sheets as beams. After that, the sheets intended for the floor-ceiling can be glued to the side walls.
Glue the interfloor staircase separately... It can be made from styrofoam or wooden rulers. We use toothpicks as a railing. After that, we glue the finished staircase.
The roof can be glued with foam or corrugated cardboard. Shingles can be imitated by cutting the cardboard into small pieces and gluing and then painting.
A balcony can be made on the outer wall. We glue it from foam, use bamboo sticks as a railing
Outside paint the house acrylic paints using a regular sponge.
We cover the walls of the rooms with wallpaper, cover the floors with carpet. We cut out the baseboards and window sills from the ceiling plinth and glue them. We create coziness with curtains on the windows.
We arrange furniture which can also be glued from polystyrene, and we invite new tenants.

Home decoration can be very diverse. You can use a clear plastic box, make prints of the underwater world, and put an aquarium in your home. You can print 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 a great dollhouse out of a bookshelf or shelf. It is very easy to make it, because you already have a ready-made base. To decorate the house, use cardboard, wallpaper, self-adhesive paper, wrapping paper is also suitable.

Connect your daughter to this creative process. She will be able to act as a designer for her dollhouse.

If the house is located stationary against the wall, then you can make the roof of the house using black electrical tape, gluing the contours. Glue the chimney in the same way. If you need to move the house to another place, you can safely peel off the tape without damaging the wallpaper in the room. You can buy ready-made furniture for dolls or show your imagination and make it yourself.

From an old cabinet or dresser

Your daughter asks for a dollhouse, and an old chest of drawers is gathering dust in the garage? You can breathe a second life into old, already unnecessary furniture. Delight your child by making a dollhouse from an old cabinet or dresser... 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 full-length rooms. It may be necessary to combine 2 shelves by removing unnecessary partitions. Work carefully, being careful not to break the inner walls of a cabinet or dresser. In place of the partitions that we removed, a void that we do not need will appear. It can be sealed with thin strips that fit.

After waiting for the glue to dry completely, treat the walls of the chest of drawers with a thin layer of putty. After that, the chest of drawers must be sanded, then it will become even and smooth. Using a jigsaw, you can cut out windows.

The final step will be to decorate your house. The outside can be painted. Most likely, you will have to paint it in several layers in order to paint over the old color of the chest of drawers. The walls inside can be pasted over with wallpaper, colored, wrapping or self-adhesive paper. Or you can just paint them too. We arrange furniture, hang pictures and mirrors on the walls, curtains, spread carpets and invite dolls to housewarming. Now dolls will always be tidied up in your daughter's room!

From cardboard

A budget option for making a dollhouse is corrugated cardboard. With its help, you can create a wonderful toy that will delight your little girl for a long time.

We will need:

corrugated cardboard for the frame of the house;
decorative cardboard for decorating a house;
part templates that will depend on the size of your future house; sweep;
stationery: pencil, ruler, eraser, scissors;
knife, paints, brushes, markers;
glue gun;
colored, packaging and self-adhesive paper;
the cloth;
decorative elements - beads, rhinestones, stones, artificial flowers.

Let's start making a house:

If you have a large sheet of corrugated cardboard, then you can scan it. Choose the dimensions based on the size of the house. If there are no large sheets, then each part must be cut out separately. The front wall does not need to be done.

In order for the cardboard to be conveniently bent, it is necessary to make a groove at the fold by drawing a ruler along it. If all the parts are cut out, glue them at the joints of the cardboard.
We cut out and glue the interior partitions. In such a house, they are simply necessary. They will perform a supporting function.

The structure is assembled. You can start to design.

It is better to cover the inside of the wall with decorative paper or cloth. This will hide the seams at the seams. Outside, the walls can be decorated to your taste: painted, pasted over. Decorate your home with beads, rhinestones, stones, or other elements of your choice. Pay attention to the fact that the decor elements adhere well to the cardboard, otherwise the house will lose its attractiveness during the games.

Arrange furniture and invite your child to play.

See below for master classes on making a cardboard dollhouse.

Out of the boxes

A very easy-to-make dollhouse from boxes. For it, you need to choose the right size boxes. 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-storey by gluing boxes one on top of the other. This will save space in the room.

It is necessary to fasten the boxes together so that its top is on its side, revealing the interior space of the room. 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 our taste. We furnish with furniture and delight the girl with a new toy, on which you spent a minimum of money and effort.

If there is very little space in the children's room, you can make a foldable dollhouse.

Watch the next master class, which shows in detail the process of making a beautiful dollhouse out of the box.

It's quite easy to make a great house out of boxes! See the following videos for details.

From document folders

If there is very little space in the children's room, you can make a foldable dollhouse.

For such a house we need 4 document folders. We glue each folder inside with beautiful paper - this will be wallpaper for the walls. Decorate the folder clip with a cloth, making it a kind of curtain. Print out interior items and stick them on the walls. The house is ready. It remains to open the folders and put them vertically. Add the necessary furniture.

You can make a separate room from each folder folder.

From fabric

Option 1

A folding fabric house can become a mobile version of the house. If necessary, it can be folded and removed, it will take up very little space.

To make it, we need a dense fabric for the back wall-base. The length must be calculated from the number of floors and the height of the dolls. We sew a base rectangle. Next, we sew the pockets into which we put a sheet of cardboard - this will be the floor of our rooms. We sew ribbons or ribbons to the two corners of the pocket. All that remains to be done is to sew the pockets to our base of the rectangles with one edge, the corners with the ribbons should be on the other side. Now we raise the floor in the rooms with the help of ribbons and fix it by sewing the ribbons to the base. Use the tape to make a handle for hanging your house on the hooks. You can decorate the back wall with fabric appliqués and start playing.

Option 2

House-handbag - this version of the house is more suitable for small dolls.

Materials for making:

plastic mesh;
the cloth;
cotton wool;
threads

Dimensions in drawings are in inches. 1inch = 2.54cm.

We cut out the details for our house from the plastic mesh. We wrap each detail with cotton wool and sheathe it with the fabric that you have chosen. Now we sew all the details together.

Sew buttons and loops on the side parts of the house. Sew on handbag handles and assemble the house. In such a house, all your daughter's favorite dolls will always be with her!

You can also make a house-book for dolls from felt. See the next video for the implementation of this idea.

As you can see, there are a lot of options for making doll houses with your own hands. You can diversify the houses by lighting the rooms. You can think of an elevator that will transport dolls from floor to floor ...

According to the proposed options, doll houses can be made not only for girls, but also for boys. Everything will depend on the design you choose. For boys, this can be a garage, parking lot, or, for example, a castle. Turn on your imagination, make a house for the child and enjoy the pleasure with which he plays ...