Do-it-yourself dollhouse furniture - we equip a dollhouse

Giving or making a home for her dolls for your daughter is just the beginning. Further, this house will have to be furnished. This is a bunch of toy furniture, equipment, accessories. How to make furniture for dolls with your own hands will be described in this article.

How to determine the size

Dolls, their houses and furnishings are small copies of us and our homes. And the most reliable way to make doll furniture with your own hands and not be mistaken is to measure real objects, reduce them several times, and then work with the obtained values.

Furniture for dolls - copies of our furniture

How much to reduce the real size depends on how small or large the doll is, because they are from 7 cm to 60 cm or even higher. Accordingly, they need furniture of different sizes. To determine the number by which the real size should be divided, the average height of a person in centimeters (170 cm) is divided by the height of the doll. We get some number. Here it will be necessary to divide the dimensions of real furniture into it.

For example, the height of the doll is 15 cm. Calculate: 170 cm / 15 cm = 11.3. We divide all parameters of "human" furniture by this number. It should also be said that 14-15 cm is the most popular size among the puppet population. Therefore, most of the finished furniture is made in a 1:12 ratio. It is possible for us to use the available dimensions at least in order to be able to navigate with the scale of the required parts and the amount of materials.

Approximate dimensions of furniture for doll children

So, the most common sizes of dolls:

• male doll 150 mm;
• female doll - 140 mm;
• baby doll - 75-100 mm;
• toy baby - 65-75 mm.

If you need furniture for dolls of this size, its parameters will be as follows:

• Bed:
  • double - 160 * 130 mm;
  • single - 160 * 75 mm;
    

    The size of the environment depends on the height of the inhabitants.

• Chair - height with backrest 75 mm, seat height - 40 mm;
• Cabinet not lower than 165 mm;
• Sofa, armchair - seat height 40 mm, backrests, armrests can be different;
• Working table, dining table - height 65 mm, shape and width / length can be different.

If the toys you have are slightly larger / smaller, you can not adjust the size. If there is a big difference, you will have to increase or decrease (or you can calculate it yourself).

Doll furniture from matchboxes

The easiest way to make furniture for dolls with your own hands is from ordinary matchboxes. They are glued together using PVA glue, creating certain structures, then pasted over with paper or cloth, self-adhesive film, etc. Wooden beads can be used as legs, drawer handles can be made from small buttons on legs or from long beads.

Simple homemade doll furniture made from matchboxes

You can make chairs, a table, a chest of drawers, a bed, a bedside table from matchboxes. Another thing is that furniture is obtained for very small dolls, no more than 10 cm in height.Although, you can use a larger number of boxes by gluing them into blocks, and from these blocks create furniture for dolls about 15 cm high. Also an option, but work with others materials are not much more complicated, but they are more plastic and allow you to create products of more elegant shapes.

This may be your first experience in making doll furniture. Later you can tackle something more serious.

Furniture for a dollhouse made of cardboard

You can try your hand at making furniture for dolls using cardboard. The material is inexpensive, affordable, you can try and make mistakes, redo. Cardboard is usually connected with PVA glue, you can use a glue gun or any universal glue that can glue cardboard, fabric, wood. By simply making furniture for dolls with your own hands from cardboard, you will also use these materials. If we talk about convenience, then a glue gun is preferable - it glues quickly, it is convenient to work, the connection is reliable.

Without decoration, cardboard doll furniture does not look very good

To make furniture for dolls, you can use regular packing cardboard. It is cheap, but it makes furniture very delicate. It is unlikely that the child will last long. But, as a "first experience", this is a good option. More reliable products are obtained from cardboard for scrapbooking. It is more dense, homogeneous, has a different thickness (from 2 mm and more), it can be with a textured surface, embossed with monochromatic patterns, a pattern on one or two sides. The disadvantage of such cardboard is that you have to buy it, and some types of such cardboard are not very cheap.

Cardboard doll bed

This cardboard doll bed is designed for a large doll - up to 50 cm in height. If necessary, all indicated dimensions can be reduced.

You can make such a bed out of cardboard in a few minutes.

This option can be done in literally 10-20 minutes. There is no need for glue or other fasteners. The details are held by the grooves cut in the cardboard. The width of the groove is equal to the thickness of the cardboard, the length of the slots and the dimensions of the blanks are indicated in the diagram.

Diagram of a bed for dolls

The green and yellow dots indicate the alignment cuts. They are inserted one into the other, where the assembly ends. If you like this model, you can also make it out of plywood.

Schemes for the manufacture of cardboard doll furniture

Basically, furniture for dolls made of cardboard is glued. It is hardly possible to make something delicate or very complex from this material, but making simple models will not take much time. Having a diagram with dimensions, you can even do without explanations. Everything is clear anyway.

Furniture patterns for dolls can be used not only for making from cardboard. They can be transferred to plywood and cut with a jigsaw.

Closet for dolls from scrap materials

The toy cabinet can be made of plywood, painted or covered with wrapping paper or self-adhesive tape. Here, probably, no questions will arise - everything is clear, and if there are questions, you can peep their solution in a "natural" closet. But you can make it from very inexpensive materials. DIY furniture for dolls is so good because its cost is very low.

Out of a cardboard box

The main task is to find a box made of thick cardboard of a suitable size. Moreover, it will be easier to work if it is packaging - with folding edges.Such a folding part is a ready-made door. All that remains is to finish it - hang a mirror, attach a handle, etc.

One of the options for homemade furniture for dolls is a wardrobe

What you need to work

For work, you will need good scotch tape, better - on a paper basis, since it is easier to glue the finish to it later. If you have a glue gun or a construction stapler (a large clerical one will do) with staples, that's not bad either. If, in addition to cardboard and paper, you also use other materials, it is better to find a universal glue that glues paper, cardboard, fabric, plastic. You will also need scissors and a stationery knife, a ruler.

How to make a doll closet out of a cardboard box

If the box you find is too large, you can shrink it by cutting off the excess. To make the folds even, we take a ruler. we apply it to the place of the future fold, several times we pass well along the ruler with a blunt solid object (the petiole of a spoon or fork). After that, the cardboard will bend easily.

Filling for toy cabinet

Cut out shelves from scraps or from another box. They should be slightly - 5-8 mm - longer and wider than the inside of the cabinet. We bend the excess so that the sides form on all sides. Wrinkles form in the corners, we carefully cut them off. We bend one of the parts 180 ° and glue it to the shelf itself. This side of the shelf will “look into the world”. We bend the other three parts at an angle of 90 °, coat with glue and glue the shelves into the cabinet. The photo on the right shows how the shelves are glued. But so that the places of gluing are not striking, it is better to wrap the sides down.

Making furniture for dolls with your own hands is no less pleasure than playing with it later.

In addition to shelves, you can also make a crossbar for hangers. It can be made from bamboo skewers, for example, you can try using a juice tube, wire, etc. Hangers can also be twisted from colored wire or cut from juice bags, plastic bottles, etc.

Finishing is a creative process

Next, it's up to finishing. You can paint the cardboard with watercolors or acrylics (better) paints, glue it with wrapping paper, cloth, felt. You can imitate a mirror surface - glue it with foil (food, for example). If you want to make a "plastic" surface, look for water bottles of the desired color, cut off the neck and bottom, and use the "body" as a finishing material.

Finishing is a creative process, but, for starters, use materials that are simpler, softer, thinner, easier to work with.

Handles can be made of wire, beads, long beads. For larger toy cabinets, you can find buttons or buttons. We glue all this “beauty” after we have “sheathed” the cabinet.

Newspaper doll wardrobe

You will need old newspapers, PVA glue with a brush, a glue gun, a couple of pieces of wire or thread, wrapping paper for finishing the cabinet or paint.

We twist dense tubes from newspapers, coat them along the edge of PVA and leave to dry. Then the tubes can be glued together. A glue gun is best for this operation. There are two ways: first, collect large blocks, then cut them into pieces of the required length, or immediately cut the tubes of the required length and glue the blanks immediately to size. The second way is more painstaking, but less waste.

We collect planes from newspaper tubes

The finished cabinet walls must be fastened together. To firmly fix the 90 ° angle, it is better to use thin wire. First, coat the joints with glue, then pull the walls together with wire. If the wires get in the way, they can be removed after the glue dries.

Glue holders under the shelves

The bottom, top, shelves are glued using the same technology. The doors will need to be done a little differently. To make them open, two strips about 1.5 cm wide are cut out of the tape. Scotch tape is glued along the edge of the door so that a little more than half hangs in the air.With this loose tape we glue the door to the wall, but so that there is a gap of 2-3 mm between the wall and the door (there is just scotch tape). This will make it possible to close the doors. We fix the glued door on the other side with the second strip of adhesive tape.

Fastening the door to the wire

The second way to fix the doors is with wire. Only this time it should be tough and thick enough. Cut off a piece that is 2 cm longer than the height of the cabinet. Immediately on the wire on one side we make a loop using 1 cm. We bend the loop at an angle of 90 ° to the wire. We make holes in the bottom and roof, we pass the wire through the bottom, the loop remains at the bottom. We put the door on the wire using the extreme tube instead of the hinges. Bending the wire slightly, thread it through the hole in the roof of the cabinet, bend the excess, fixing the door. We repeat the same operation with another door. Please note that it is necessary to fasten the door to the tape before finishing the cabinet, and to the wire - it is possible after.

Ready-made cabinet for dolls from newspapers

There are still some little things that need to be said a few words. Cabinet legs and handles can also be made from paper tubes. You just need to twist them out of the paper with which you trim the toy. Roll it up into a tight roll, glue the edge with glue, then cut it into pieces of the desired length and glue it in the right places. Instead of tubes, there can be wooden sticks, beads, etc.

Doll's bookcase or ruler shelf

You can make furniture for dolls with your own hands from school wooden rulers. They are good because they are already processed, have the same width and thickness. At the office supply store, you can find the size you want - larger / smaller, wider / narrower - as desired. For example, to make a doll's bookcase, you need 6 rulers 15 cm long.

Making a toy bookshelf out of wooden rulers is easy

You will also need a jigsaw for work. If there is an electric one - great, if not - manual will do as well, since there is not too much work. You also need fine-grain sandpaper, glue (PVA or woodwork) and paints (acrylic or gouache).

From the rulers we cut the segments: 4 pieces of 6 cm each, one - 8 cm. We sand the edges until smooth, we also remove the markings and bar codes. We place shelves between the two rulers (which are 6 cm each), on top we leave approximately the same distance - under the cover (a segment of 8 cm). We coat the joints with PVA glue or carpentry, connect and tighten with masking tape, leave for a day. When the glue dries, we glue the very last piece - the cover on top. Actually, the shelf itself is ready, it remains to paint it.

You can also make other pieces of furniture for dolls from the rulers.

To obtain an even and bright color, it is better to cover the structure with white, after drying, paint it in the desired shade. Also, do-it-yourself doll furniture can be decorated in decoupage technique.

Furniture for dolls: photo ideas

You can make furniture for dolls with your own hands from the most unexpected materials. You have already seen how to use newspapers and wooden rulers. But you can make tables, chairs, armchairs, sofas, beds, shelves, cabinets, etc. from ice cream sticks.

What is good about this material, you probably already understood - it has rounded processed edges, the same size and well processed. If the sticks feel too rough, use fine-grain sandpaper to smooth them down.

Clothespins make good chairs and chairs. They are disassembled into halves and connected with wood glue. Curly products are obtained in almost a few tens of minutes.

Wooden clothespins are almost always used to make doll furniture. But no one forbids taking plastic. To work with them in the same way, the only difficulty is that wooden ones are easier to modify by changing the thickness of the shape, etc. If the product is simple and does not require modification, you can take plastic ones. They are more varied in shape and size, already painted, so there is less fuss with them.

With the growth of skill, you can switch to a more complex material - plywood or wood. The difficulty is that gouging and cutting out miniature parts requires filigree precision, perseverance and takes a lot of time. But you can do whatever you want.

You can make furniture for dolls with your own hands of any size, style

Several models of plywood doll chairs

Toy bed for baby doll

For those who have a lot of patience

Carved wooden doll bed

Corner writing desk for a doll .... everything is like a real thing

Styles are different

Furniture for the kitchen in the dollhouse

Plywood wardrobe for dolls - very high fidelity

Kitchen cabinet with filling

Plywood crib for dolls

DIY plywood toy kitchen tables

Chairs for playing with dolls