How to make a sofa for dolls?

Psychologists say that the way a child behaves in a game, that is how he will be in life. Do you dream that a real woman with a delicate taste, an excellent hostess and a caring mother will grow out of your little daughter? So - her dolls should have all the best - beautiful clothes, dishes and a cozy room with elegant furniture. It’s not necessary to spend all this crazy money in company stores. In fact, you can do a lot with your own hands - you just need to think carefully and try to do everything carefully. How to make a sofa for dolls? Read about this important matter in our article.

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Age and size

The daughter is growing, but the dolls with which she plays are becoming smaller. So first you need to think about what kind of furniture you want. In the puppet corner, where almost the real girlfriends of your three-year-old daughter live, dolls, a big bear, and even their mistress herself can easily fit on the couch. All objects are almost like real ones, only a little smaller.

Do-it-yourself sofa for dolls can be made from improvised materials:

• plywood;
• polystyrene foam;
• residues of wallpaper or newspaper sheets - if there are a lot of them.

In addition, you need:

• fabric for mattress and pillows;
• thick foam rubber, synthetic winterizer or batting;
• glue depending on the material;
• small nails if you are going to make a sofa for dolls from plywood;
• jigsaw;
• sharp knife;
• scissors;
• sewing supplies;
• apparatus for burning;
• acrylic or oil paints.

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The easiest doll sofa

How to make a sofa for a doll if the daughter is small and the doll is large? The easiest way to make a sofa is from two wooden highchairs. They should be the same in height, while lower than what your child needs in height. Still, this is doll furniture, although sometimes a little housewife can use it.

In addition to chairs, you need:

• 2 slats 50-60 cm long;
• 2 pieces of plywood for sidewalls;
• a piece of thick foam for the seat and back;
• thick fabric for upholstery;
• screws or screws;
• screwdriver;
• sewing supplies.

Important! Before you make a sofa for dolls with your own hands, you need to fasten the chairs with slats from the bottom, and attach the sidewalls on both sides. As for the sizes, they are largely arbitrary - the sidewalls should be lower than the back, that's all. It’s enough if they will rise ten inches above the seat.

Connect the chairs:

1. On the lower parts of the chairs, mark the places for fastenings.
2. Mark the slats in the same way.
3. Drill holes - on the rails they will be through, on the chairs - of sufficient depth.
4. Screw the rails with any fasteners that are at hand - for fidelity, you can put screws or self-tapping screws on glue.

Sidewalls

The sides are just two sheets of plywood that cover the space under the chairs and rise slightly above the seats. The only thing to take care of is that the front corners are cut off. This is easiest to do with a jigsaw.

Important! By the way, if you have a little command of this tool, nothing prevents you from making carved armrests - then they will not need to be covered with upholstery. Saws must be thoroughly treated with sandpaper so that the child does not have the slightest chance to plant a splinter. A great idea is to coat these parts with varnish.

You can make a doll sofa with your own hands without wooden armrests. For example, you can supplement the design with foam rolls that are placed on the sofa when necessary, but can also be used for other purposes.

Do-it-yourself sofa for dolls - the workshop continues

Sometimes young mothers ask how to sew a sofa for dolls. The sofa itself is not sewn, but only its soft parts, moreover, it is approximately the same for small furniture and large.

Sofa upholstery

Cut 2 pieces of thick foam to fit the seat and back. There are two ways to deal with them:

• stick to chairs, and then upholstery all together with a cloth;
• first make 2 identical mattresses, one - put on the back, the second - put on the seat.

The use of a particular method depends on the shape of the chairs. In some highchairs, the backs are bent back and the front edge of the seat down. In this case, the first option is preferable. In all other situations, the second is more interesting, because it turns out to be something like modular furniture, when removable parts are used for a variety of purposes.

Important! First you need to stick foam on the back, then on the seat.

We sew mattresses

For mattresses, the old curtain or an unnecessary blanket are quite suitable. You can cut it directly on the fabric, but if you are not very confident in yourself - make patterns from graph paper.

For each mattress you need:

• 2 rectangles equal in length and width to the seat or back of the sofa, plus allowances of 1 cm on each side;
• strip - its length is equal to the perimeter of the mattress, and its width is the thickness of the foam, plus allowances of 1 cm on all sides, you can cut it along the oblique.

Important! To make the mattress very similar to the real one, you can sew a steering wheel between the strip and the main details - it is sold ready-made in handicraft shops. For each mattress, 2 pieces are needed, the length of which is equal to the perimeter.

When manufacturing it is important to adhere to a certain procedure:

• Mark on the strip the places of the corners of the future mattress - it is better to do this on both long sides.
• Iron the corner points by folding the strip with the front facing out.
• Having folded a strip and one of the rectangles with their faces facing each other, sweep away the details, leaving one short side open.

Important! If a steering wheel is expected, it must be inserted between the parts with a harness on the front side.

• Stitch the details on three sides.
• Cut corners obliquely very close to the seam.
• In the same way, attach a second rectangle to the strip.
• Cut corners.
• Turn the workpiece out.
• Insert the foam and close the open edge manually.

If the chairs are sloping

Upholstery of a sofa with glued foam rubber is a simple matter, but it requires some skill to work with a hammer and wallpaper nails:

1. First, cut a rectangle. It is easy to determine the width - it is equal to the width of the chairs, plus allowances of 3 cm on each side.
2. As for the length, then everything is somewhat more interesting. The cloth should completely cover the space under the chair, seat, back and back, plus again allowances - but they can be smaller, 2 cm will be enough.
3. Iron the allowances that will be adjacent to the sidewalls on the wrong side.
4. Allowances on the front and back sides - hem, bending twice to the wrong side, and iron.
5. Nail the cloth to the seat and backrest at a distance of 2-3 cm from the sidewalls, in increments between wallpaper nails of 5-7 cm.
6. Beat the cloth also to the top of the back and the bottom of the seat.

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Sofa for medium sized dolls

A girl of an older preschool age also has dolls, but they are much smaller than their mistress. These can be medium-sized dolls or small ones. Accordingly, the furniture will be small for them, but it can be made from improvised means.

Look if you were lying around in the apartment:

• boxes from electronic devices:
• shoe boxes;
• juice cartons;
• packing cardboard;
• rectangular plastic bottles;
• material for the legs;
• pieces of foam;
• shreds of different sizes.

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Juice Boxes

To make a doll’s sofa, you need 2 identical juice boxes and 2 pieces of thick packing cardboard:

1. Cut the lids off the cans.
2. Put one box on a large rectangle, with the long side facing you.
3. Lubricate the long sidewall of the second box with glue.
4. Attach it to the first box so that the long sides coincide, and the boxes themselves are glued at right angles.
5. For the sidewalls, cut 2 identical rectangles from the packing cardboard.
6. Glue them to the sides of the boxes.

Important! You can make legs - for this, corks from plastic bottles are suitable, which are glued to the bottom of the sofa with universal glue.

Folding blank for sofa

How to make a sofa bed for dolls? And from what? Yes, from the same juice boxes, you just don’t need to glue them together. To create a folding sofa for dolls with your own hands, you will need a design such as a book cover with a spine made of artificial leather or thick fabric:

1. In size, each part of the “cover” is equal to the area of ​​the box.
2. Glue the boxes to the inside of the “cover”.
3. Attach 8 legs - 4 of the corks to the seat, and 4 make of thick cardboard, bending it at a right angle - only one part is glued to the back.
4. Glue 4 plastic paper clips to the back - under them the legs will be removed when the sofa is assembled.

Making a soft pad

DIY cardboard sofa is almost ready, it remains to make a soft layer and upholstery. Thin foam is perfect for laying, but you can use sheet sintepon, batting and even a soft, but quite thick fabric.

Important! It is better to glue the blank on all sides, trying to keep the layer as even as possible. It is not necessary to cut the gasket from a separate piece, you can also make pieces, the main thing is that there are no noticeable bulges and hollows.

Do Upholstery

Upholstery is better to cut from large pieces of fabric:

• First you need to glue the sidewalls so that you can close the allowances with the main piece. It is more convenient if it is a strip, equal in width to the length of the sofa, plus small allowances on all sides.

Important! The strip should be such that it completely covers the lower part of the sofa, seat, front and back of the back.

• The allowances at the short edges must be immediately bent to the wrong side, ironed and glued to the part of the seat that will be facing. Allowances on the long sides adhere completely.

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Vehicle Box

Very interesting models of doll furniture can be made of cardboard cubes or parallelepipeds, which pack all kinds of electronics. By the way, often in the box is another wonderful material for a sofa - polystyrene. But first, let's deal with the box:

1. Open it and remove all contents.
2. Do not cut the lid - on one open side, you need to make a semicircular cutout in it, then the bottom will become a seat, and the lid and side walls will become a back and armrests.
3. At the bottom, stick a piece of thin foam rubber or synthetic winterizer.
4. Fill the space near the side and back walls with foam rubber or synthetic winterizer - you can attach the gasket to the walls with a few drops of glue.
5. Paste the fabric on all sides of the sofa.

Important! For this design, of course, you need legs - cubes from a dismantled building constructor, barrels from lotto. Even caps for toothpaste tubes are suitable if the box is small.

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Matchboxes

An excellent sofa for Barbie and her guests will turn out from matchboxes. You will need 6 boxes - 2 on the back and seat and 1 on the sidewalls. If you do not have suitable material for the legs, you can make the seat double or even triple:

1. Glue all matchboxes so that the drawers do not slide out of the lid.
2. Make a blank for the seat - glue 2 boxes together with the short sides.
3. Similarly, make the back.
4. Glue the seat and backrest at right angles.
5. Glue the sides vertically on both sides.

We paste over the blank

Soft laying for such small dolls is not really needed, so you can immediately do upholstery. To do this, fit:

• paper;
• adhesive tape.

Varieties of paper - a great variety. What prevents, for example, from making a velvet sofa for your favorite doll? Or marble? With a self-adhesive film, things are even better - it comes in all kinds of colors, so that you can make the sides, for example, wood, and the seat and back - under the silk. And you can make the whole sofa wooden.

Important! By the way, if you are still interested in how to sew a sofa for dolls, if it is very tiny, you can do it, and even with a soft layer. You can donate a pair of brand-new sanitary napkins for the puppet corner, only those with an adhesive layer applied to the entire surface are needed. From one we make the soft part of the seat, from the other - the back, we sew it all with fabric. Wonderful sofa. As legs - any round lids of the same size.

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Foam packaging

A piece of polystyrene foam, in which for the time being perfectly slept in some kind of electronic device, is almost a ready-made sofa or chair. It is enough to simply cut a square or rectangle with a recess in the middle in half to make a semicircle from the circle, and here you have a finished sofa, and even a very modern shape. It remains only to paste over it with paper or a self-adhesive film. The foam itself is quite thick, so even legs are not needed.

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How to make a bedroom for dolls?

In the bedroom, even in the doll room, there is more than one sofa. There is a table, and wardrobes, and even a dressing table. And all this can be done from what lies in the apartment without any business and is even thrown away:

• The cabinet with drawers is made of matchboxes put together and glued together.
• A piece of plywood and four legs are enough for the table - for example, bars from a scattered builder. You can even make a table with one leg in the middle.
• Styrofoam pieces are great for armchairs.
• And from packaging cardboard, you can do anything at all - you just need to think carefully.

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Stock footage

As you can see, there are a lot of ideas. Therefore, you just have to choose more interesting for yourself and put it into practice. And as soon as the interior of the house for dolls bothers your child, you will already know other options to change it in a matter of days.