DIY furniture for dolls

Having bought a dollhouse in a store or having made it on their own, many parents think about how to furnish it. You can, of course, purchase ready-made items, or you can make furniture for dolls with your own hands such that only your child will have a single copy. An additional bonus will be saving the family budget, because toy furniture is not so cheap. And how much pleasure this will bring to your child, because he can help you in this creative process.

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Main materials

Do-it-yourself doll furniture can be made from any means at hand:

• Plywood sheets and wood are the most commonly used materials for making toy furniture. Working with them is time-consuming and requires experience, however, products made from them will last a long time.
• Cardboard is easy to use, so even a child can be involved in the process. In the work, you can use both sheets and boxes.
• Matchboxes allow you to design any piece of furniture with drawers.
• Jars of plastic and boxes of cosmetics can sometimes be used even when finished, for example, as a bath. Having shown imagination, it is possible to make masterpieces from covers from toothpaste and other trifles.
• Plastic and cardboard tablets from eggs can also go into business and perfectly equip the space of a children's house. You need to think through the composition in detail and cut out the necessary parts.
• The advantage of the wire is that it bends easily. This, for example, will make it possible to design a room in the Provence style, making the bed frame look like a forged product. The interior can be complemented by a wrought chandelier or a candlestick.

Important! It can also be colored sponges for washing dishes, viscose wipes, plastic bottles, foil, various textiles. Most of the things that we determine the place in the bin will help to make furniture for dolls with our own hands from improvised materials.

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Dresser and sofa for dolls

To make a chest of drawers from matchboxes, it is enough to glue their planes, laying 3-4 layers, and paint them with bright colors. The upper surface can be decorated in one style, and the inner in another.

Consider how to make a sofa for dolls with your own hands from cardboard. For work, you will need, in fact, cardboard itself, a synthetic filler, for example, foam rubber, and a fabric with threads.

Work Stages:

1. Take a dense material, cut it according to the pattern of a small rectangular box, 6x15 cm in size.
2. Make a similar figure, but with dimensions of 2.5x15 cm.
3. In a larger box, we fill the foam, leaving an open hole on top. The filler must be well sealed.
4. To assemble, place the small product on the end (this will be the back), glue the back to the resulting soft seat.
5. We take a beautiful fabric and do the upholstery, fitting furniture around it and making marks for the size of the future cover.
6. Cut the fabric according to these markings and sew it, while leaving a seam below.
7. To fix it additionally, you can make small holes on the cardboard surface for threading the ties, or just nail the fabric with a stapler.
8. You can add accessories by stitching small pillows or rollers.

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Plywood bedside table

To make a bedside table or a chest of drawers for dolls with your own hands, you will need:

1. thin plywood;
   1. jigsaw;
   2. sandpaper;
2. drawing instruments (pencil, ruler, eraser);
   1. PVA glue;
   2. acrylic putty;
   3. white acrylic paint
   4. colorings;
3. tree branch.

Important! In the presented master class, the size of the finished product will be 14.5 x 16 x 6, 5 cm. Knowing how to make a bedside table for dolls of this parameter, you can choose the dimensions of your choice.

Algorithm of actions:

1. We draw drawings of parts (rear wall, 2 side walls, 3 shelves and a cover) on plywood.
2. We cut out the details and clean it with sandpaper.
3. With the help of an awl we make holes on the back wall, into which a file is then mounted, mounted on a jigsaw, and a cut is made.
4. We attach the side ones to the back wall, gluing the joints at the same time. The result is a box in which to place the shelves.
5. Glue the lid on top of the product.
6. We disassemble the entire structure and apply PVA glue.
7. After waiting until it dries a little, we collect the chest of drawers back.
8. For drawers, cut rectangles.
9. We glue the boxes and process them with sandpaper.
10. We put these drawers in the chest of drawers, and make the front side.
11. We make handles for them from a tree branch, sawing it into pieces and gluing it in the right place.

Important! If the boxes do not slip well, wax them.

Do-it-yourself furniture for the dollhouse is ready, you can add it with accessories, for example, a mirror-sink.

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Furniture for a house

How to make furniture for dolls with cardboard do-it-yourself will consider the example of a miniature dressing table made of cardboard packaging. For work you will need:

• cardboard packaging, for example, from hair dye;
• scissors;
• ruler;
• pencil;
• foil;
• stationery glue;
• colored or decorated paper.

To understand how to make furniture for dolls, follow the instructions:

• Cut the box to the desired height.
• Make a mirror scheme on the cut-off part that matches the width of the table.
• Cut the blank and glue it to the base.

Important! The upper edge of the mirror can be decorated with patterns or round it.

• Tape the future table with paper.
• Drawers and doors can be drawn on the product.
• Cut the mirror and handles out of foil.
• Stick the items on the table.

Now you know how to make furniture for dolls with your own hands, and you can decorate the interior of a toy house to your taste - it all depends on your imagination and free time.

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Plywood coffee table

For work you will need:

• plywood;
• glue;
• jigsaw;
• acrylic paint.

Here's what to do:

1. Cut two identical circles from plywood. This will be the surface of the table and shelf.
2. Knowing how to make a shelf for dolls with your own hands, we proceed to connecting the blanks with each other using glue.
3. The resulting product is coated with varnish or paint.

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Stock footage

Now you can equip the dollhouse with any furniture, because it should be very similar to the real one. Create, experiment, perhaps the most successful miniature ideas you can then implement in a larger-scale repair of your apartment or private house!