Furniture for the dollhouse with their own hands

Each was once a child, independently or with the help of adults, made the first attempts to build a miniature city, to furnish a doll interior of a room in his playroom. Some children bought standard store toys, other parents made cars, houses, soft toys and even doll furniture with their own hands, saving the family budget.

What improvised materials can be useful

To create doll furniture, interior design toy house, will be useful:

• matchboxes - they will become drawers of drawers, drawers and dressing tables, cabinets, drawers for linen;
• cigarette packs - suitable for equipment Barbie wardrobe, storage of her boots;
• shoe boxes — beds, tables, lockers for large dolls will come out of them;
• boxes of baby cereal, perfume, other cosmetics;
• colored plastic bottles, cups from yogurt;
• soft foam sponges, viscose napkins;
• pieces of plywood, fiberboard, wood cuts, boards;
• scraps of fabric, leather, gauze;
• plastic eggs from kinder surprises;
• remnants of wire, chains, foil;
• sewing, knitting, laces;
• metal cans;
• paper, cardboard, wallpaper, PVA glue;
• adhesive tape, colored self-adhesive film;
• foam plasticine, polymer clay;
• gouache, acrylic, nail polish;
• beads, buttons, LED flashlights.

With minimal skills in woodcarving, sewing by hand or on a typewriter, embroidery, it is easy to create incredible doll crafts.

Workshops for the manufacture of doll furniture

When creating a self-made interior of a dollhouse, you should start with the arrangement of the main rooms - usually the kitchen, bedroom, dressing room.
The most common items of furniture:

• bed;
• chairs and table;
• armchair;
• bedside table;
• chest of drawers;
• wardrobe, including corner;
• sofa and kitchen sofa;
• cupboard;
• television;
• fridge;
• table for the kitchen.

Furniture from boxes, boxes

Matchbox furniture set is the least time-consuming way to create an internal design of a dollhouse.
To make a mini dresser or dressing table, you will need:

• six to ten matchboxes;
• PVA glue or any other;
• colored paper or decoupage wipes;
• thick cardboard;
• scissors.

How it's done:

• matchboxes are glued to each other so that all the drawers are freely extended;
• on top pasted cardboard table top;
• all visible surfaces are pasted over with paper, napkins, self-adhesive film, painted with gouache;
• The legs of the table or dresser will be four wooden beads in the shape of cones, the handles of the drawers will be round beads or small buttons.

In approximately the same way, a dressing table or a writing table with two side tables is made.

Plywood

To make such a thing as a toy coffee table or a dining table, you will need:

• a piece of plywood;
• jigsaw;
• PVA glue;
• acrylic paint;
• pencil;
• ruler;
• compass;
• paper.

What do we have to do:

• the drawing of the details of the table is depicted on paper, after it is transferred onto a plywood sheet;
• Two circles are cut out of plywood - one more, the other a little less;
• then two arcuate details are made, on one of which a slit is made on the top center, on the second - on the bottom;
• at last, two rectangular parts are cut, the length is almost equal to the diameter of the smaller circle, and slots are also made in them in the center;
• the construction is smeared with glue, assembled, painted with paint, dried.

From similar smaller parts make stools.

From wood

A wonderful folding sofa will come out of natural wood and textiles, for the manufacture of which you will need:

• board about one centimeter thick;
• hacksaw or jigsaw;
• flat furniture hinges;
• glue;
• furniture fabric;
• foam rubber;
• pattern paper;
• self-tapping screws;
• thread needle.

Working process:

• Two rectangular parts of the base, bottom, two armrests are cut from the board;
• all the details are outlined on paper, then the patterns are transferred onto the fabric;
• the bottom is glued with the ends to the armrests;
• parts of the base are fastened to each other with loops, attached to the armrests on the screws;
• all parts are pasted over with a cloth, and foam rubber is glued to two main ones;
• on the resulting folding design knit plaid with fringe, sewn small pads.

At the bottom of the sofa is sometimes made a drawer out of plywood, for storing bed linen.

Cardboard by patterns, schemes

To make cardboard boxes, corrugated cardboard, a cabinet in miniature, they first create a sketch, decide what details the future product will consist of. Schemes of some products can be downloaded from the Internet, printed on a printer, and then transferred to a thick cardboard.
To make a modern locker that fits the entire doll wardrobe, you need:

• cardboard box;
• corrugated cardboard;
• self-adhesive film;
• scissors or office knife;
• ruler;
• pencil;
• metal rod;
• thin wire;
• foil;
• glue;
• ornaments in the form of beads.

According to the pre-made patterns, details are cut out - the sides, the top and bottom of the cabinet, the back wall, the doors. The construction is assembled, pasted over with a film, a metal rod is inserted between the sides, onto which hangers made of wire cling. Foil is stuck on one of the doors - it will be a mirror. Door handles are made of two large beads, the front part of the product is decorated with smaller ones.

If desired, you can make a cabinet with sliding doors - the "rail" for them is also made of cardboard.

From paper

From the thin paper tubes, furniture imitating wicker of rattan or wicker will come out for an ecological style house.
From materials, tools needed:

• thick cardboard;
• thin paper;
• thick needle or awl;
• paper knife;
• wooden sticks;
• PVA glue;
• acrylic paint;
• tassel.

Two parts of the future table top are cut out of cardboard - holes for legs are made in the corners of one with an awl, and holes for paper racks are made around the perimeter. Wooden legs are fastened to the corners of the structure with glue, paper racks are threaded through the remaining holes. The top of the second element of the table top is glued with colored squares, imitating an oilcloth, and then glued to the first part. Weaving is made by paper tubes, by threading them from top to bottom, alternating in each row. The last row is braided with pigtails, the finished product is painted in a light brown color scheme. About the same chairs are made.

Paper tubes are made of strips of paper that are tightly wound diagonally on a thin needle and fixed with glue.

From fabric

Textile chair bag is made of soft fabric and any stuffing - foam rubber, padding polyester, cotton wool. Textile material is surrounded by one piece of the seat and the bottom, two symmetrical side. The product is sewn, turned out, tightly stuffed.
For the production of a round ottoman, two round parts are cut out of the fabric, one is rectangular, slightly longer in length than the circumference of the bottom and top. The rectangular part climbs, connects with round, packed with pieces of padding polyester. The resulting product is decorated with lace, beads.

How to make furniture from metal cans of drinks

Such furniture is suitable for a luxurious atmosphere in the Empire or Baroque style. To make the chair-throne, a luxurious doll high chair, the top is cut off from the jar, the sides are cut into strips of three to four millimeters wide, the design is turned over. Part of the strips remains at the bottom - the chair legs are twisted out of them, the rest become lace armrests, and the backrest. To make a product with a soft seat, a round pad is made with soft padding, glued to the seat cushion.

Knitted furniture

A cot with a canopy, a valance, lacy bed linen, resembles an object for an old "palace" bedroom. For the manufacture of such an object is made frame - a rectangular base on the legs, turning into a rack, which is attached lacy canopy. The base is made knitted mattress, filled with foam rubber, the same pads. Lace bed linen, valance, are made separately. Racks are also tied with a hook in a spiral, their tops are decorated with lush bows.
The decoration of the room is complemented by a cradle, the frame for which is made of wire or "myzle" - a design that fixes the cork in a bottle of champagne. The cradle is tied with laces, decorated with bows, the color of which depends on the floor of the baby-doll for which it is intended. Here you will have to “put into the theme” a round knitted rug, a fireplace with knitted flames.

Chairs, tables, chairs, beds for toys from kinder surprises will be plastic corks tied with thin threads and matchboxes.

Ideas for making furniture from other materials

Furniture is easy to make from other scrap materials, unnecessary items:

• wooden spools of threads - two glued one on another, are made out of a round or square table top made of cardboard, plywood, glued on top. Stools are made the same way, but each will go on one coil. Finished products are painted with gouache, nail polish;
• colored wire - depending on the thickness, from it you can completely weave chairs, chairs, sideboards, or create frames that are later covered with textiles;
• from the "iron designer" or lego parts - such products become real "modular furniture", which, if desired, is easy to assemble and disassemble, turning it into something else. For each version of the assembled product, a suitable case is sewn, which is put on and removed as needed;
• with the help of ice cream sticks, it creates something similar to the currently popular furniture made from euro pallets, used for loft-style rooms, art believe. Miniature pallets are glued together from sticks, of which later tables, sofas, etc. are assembled;
• From colored polymer clay, cut into pieces of plastic rulers, it is easy to create furniture for a toy kitchen. Plastic parts are glued with PVA or rubber glue, taps, door handles, gas burners are carefully molded from polymer clay of a suitable color scheme;
• A set of wooden clothespins, previously freed from the metal connecting part, will help to create real garden furniture resembling decorated with carvings for a small doll. The parts are mounted on carpenter's glue, the finished structure is painted with stain or acrylic;
• very small sofas come out of the wine corks - for this, a base is glued from two to four pieces, on which a soft seat is later glued. Another cork is cut into circles, about five millimeters thick - it will be the back and armrests. For the rocking chair at the cork, the ends are cut off, the rest is cut along. Parts of the seat are connected at a right angle, glued to the round armrests. The glamorous coffee table will come out, if you take six corks, glue them two together in height, make in the upper and lower slots, in which you can use shiny glue to fix shiny CDs;
• from the plastic oval container, in which the herring is usually sold, will come out a doll bath. To do this, it is necessary to cut off all unnecessary protruding parts from it, mold intricate legs, taps from plastic, arrange the sides;
• from plastic eggs from kinder-surprises, four bolts and lids from the box with cotton buds you will get a dining table. Of the other similar colored eggs - a few small chairs;
• Two plastic containers placed on each other, if they cut off the front wall, become a sofa - it remains only to sew a cover or pads. As an option - to make soft parts of colorful foam sponges.

Dollhouse decor elements

The decor of the toy house is made from almost any available materials:

• the floor lamp is made of a stick, an empty rod from a ballpoint pen, firmly fixed on the base. Colored beads are strung on the core, a cork is fixed on the top, on the edge of which a lamp shade is glued - lace or crepe paper;
• A simple chandelier is mounted on the ceiling of the doll house. It is woven from beads and fishing line, made from plastic eggs with slots, and a small LED light bulb is inserted inside, with a battery and a switch;
• from a large button or a lid from baby food, you get a real wall clock. The frame, the stand for them, is made of cardboard or polymer clay, the plane itself is decorated with colored paper, wire arrows;
• the mirror on the wall is made of foil, and nutshells are used to create flower flowerpots, the plants for which can be made of dried flowers, moss or polymer clay of a suitable color scheme.

About prefabricated plywood constructors

Ready-made plywood designers cut out with a jigsaw on design patterns, buyers of such a set independently assemble, glue. In essence, this is a wooden blank for creativity, which is not only required to be properly assembled in accordance with the instructions, but also to color, decorate in any convenient way. Such a product develops constructive thinking, becoming an entertaining puzzle for the whole family. Sometimes a set of collapsible furniture comes complete with the same plywood house or lock.

Conclusion

Original furniture for Barbie, Winx, other dolls, animals, fairy creatures is easily made by hand. In a large cardboard box, a wooden box, on the table you can equip a full-fledged doll mini-apartment, with all the necessary accessories. Many of the items of toy furniture can even be made by junior schoolchildren with small parental help.