Do-it-yourself doll furniture - setting up a doll house

How to decide on sizes

The dolls, their houses and furnishings are smaller copies of us and our homes. And the most reliable way to make doll furniture with your own hands and not make a mistake 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 actual dimensions depends on how small or large the doll is, because they range from 7 cm to 60 cm or even higher. Accordingly, they need furniture of different sizes. To determine the number by which the actual dimensions should be divided, divide the average human height in centimeters (170 cm) by the height of the doll. Let's get some number. This is how you will need to divide the dimensions of real furniture.

For example, the height of the doll is 15 cm. We calculate: 170 cm / 15 cm = 11.3. It is by this number that we divide all the parameters of “human” furniture. It is also worth saying that 14-15 cm is the most popular size among the doll population. Therefore, most of the finished furniture is made in a ratio of 1:12. We can also use the existing dimensions, at least so that we can navigate the scale of the required parts and the amount of materials.

Approximate dimensions of furniture for doll children

So, the most common doll sizes are:

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

If you need furniture for dolls of similar sizes, its parameters will be as follows:

• Bed: double – 160*130 mm;
• single - 160*75 mm; The size of the setting depends on the height of the inhabitants

If the toys you have are slightly larger/smaller, you don’t have to adjust the sizes. If the difference is large, you will have to increase or decrease (or you can calculate it yourself).

Review of available materials that are found in every family

If you want to complement toys and houses with “real” sets, or give your dolls comfortable and original furniture sets, you should not throw away the following household waste that we are used to:

• matchboxes - they will be needed if you want to make full-fledged drawers in cabinets, dressing tables, bedside tables, and chests of drawers;
• plastic bottles;
• plywood scraps and wooden blocks;
• foil, flexible wire of different thicknesses;
• threads for knitting and embroidery;
• cardboard boxes for cosmetics, household appliances, shoes;
• sponges for washing dishes, viscose napkins;
• scraps of leather, fabric - the more beautiful scraps, the better;
• plastic food containers, egg cells.

If there are people in the house who do handicrafts, furniture for dolls made of cardboard can be decorated with beads, rhinestones, polymer clay, beads, lace - all this will help create a bright, colorful interior of a doll house.

Wooden furniture for dollhouse

Cardboard sofa for dolls

For example, scraps will be needed to sew upholstered doll furniture in addition to cabinet furniture. From various triangular scraps you can assemble a colorful bean bag chair, which is so popular in real life. The same material will be needed to create sofa and bed pillows, sheets, blankets and bedspreads. A room with a cardboard furniture set can be decorated with an LED garland - such lighting is appropriate for the game, and it is also fireproof.

Cardboard dollhouse

Two-story dollhouse

Doll furniture made 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 covered with paper or fabric, self-adhesive film, etc. You can use wooden beads as legs, handles for drawers can be made from small buttons on legs or from long beads.

Simple homemade doll furniture from matchboxes

You can make chairs, a table, a chest of drawers, a bed, and a bedside table from matchboxes. Another thing is that furniture is made for very small dolls, no more than 10 cm high. Although, you can use a larger number of boxes, 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 flexible and allow you to create products of more elegant shapes.

Toy dressing table made from matchboxes

DIY doll desk

Dining table and chairs made from matchboxes for a dollhouse

How to glue boxes Several design techniques for finishing a homemade toy chest of drawers from matchboxes

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

Material options

Do-it-yourself toy doll furniture is made from a wide variety of materials. These are simple items that are found in any home. For example, powder packaging, yogurt jars, cocktail straws, candy wrappers, matchboxes, etc.

You can also make beautiful doll furniture from plywood with your own hands. This is a thin plate of wood. Its advantages are strength and naturalness. The disadvantages of the material include the difficult method of making a toy set. To create armchairs, a sofa, a cabinet, chairs or a table, you will need certain skills, as well as various tools and consumables:

• jigsaw;
• varnish paint;
• sandpaper;
• glue;
• screws;
• nails;
• self-tapping screws

Features of choosing youth furniture, popular interior styles
Cardboard furniture, which is easy to make at home, is also popular. The advantages of this thick paper are accessibility, ease of use, and the ability to create stylish interior items to suit every taste. There are many ready-made templates for making furniture for dolls from cardboard with your own hands. For assembly you will need a minimum amount of available materials - decorative elements, paper, glue, paints, compasses, markers, scissors, pencils. However, cardboard also has disadvantages - low strength, too ordinary appearance of the finished product.

Other popular materials from which you can make furniture for dolls with your own hands are collected in the table.

Tips for choosing and placing children's furniture in the room of two boys

Making doll furniture with your own hands from boxes requires minimal effort . Packaging is most often used to make tables or cabinets. Chests of drawers, benches, and various drawers are made from newspaper tubes. Matchboxes will become pull-out shelves for bedside tables, dressing tables, desks, and cabinets.

An excellent option for a dressing table and various decorative elements is a do-it-yourself miniature doll made from thick paper. Plastic is used to create frames, the main parts of any pieces of furniture, including cabinets, beds, and sofas. Corks make beautiful chairs, armchairs, and coffee tables.

Requirements for toy furniture, criteria for its correct selection

From paper

From newspaper tubes

From boxes

Made of plastic

Out of traffic jams

From wire

From matchboxes

Furniture for a dollhouse made of cardboard

You can try your hand at making furniture for dolls using cardboard. The material is inexpensive, accessible, you can try and make mistakes, redo it. Cardboard is usually joined using PVA glue; you can use a glue gun or any universal glue that can glue cardboard, fabric, or 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’s convenient to work, and the connection is reliable.

Without finishing, doll furniture made of cardboard does not look very good

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

Cardboard bed for a doll

This cardboard doll bed is designed for a large doll - up to 50 cm in height. If necessary, all specified 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 fixatives. The parts are held in place by grooves cut into 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 workpieces are indicated in the diagram.

Bed diagram for dolls

Green and yellow dots indicate compatible cuts. They are inserted one into the other, where the assembly ends. If you like this model, it can also be made from plywood.

Schemes for making cardboard doll furniture

Basically, furniture for dolls made of cardboard is glued. It is unlikely that it will be 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.

Chair diagram for dolls

Such models can be made “by eye”. Without the “upholstery” they look unsightly, but after that they look quite decent

It’s not difficult to make a bed, but with kitchen cabinets you’ll have to be a little tricky

A bedside table with doors and an open shelf - one diagram, different designs Another model of a bedside table for making from cardboard or plywood Do-it-yourself toy table for dolls using this scheme is not a problem

Floor lamp for dolls made of cardboard

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

Poodle made of colored cardboard and cotton wool

Children really enjoy making crafts from colored cardboard, especially when it comes to applique animals.

Necessary materials:

- cardboard;

- sharp scissors;

- glue;

- cotton wool;

- pen or pencil.

On a sheet of white cardboard, draw a poodle figurine and cut it out. You can also find a dog template online. Glue the figure onto a sheet of cardboard.

To make the dog look real, first roll up cotton balls and glue them onto the figurine. Do not completely seal the figure. Without balls, leave only the paws, the middle of the legs, the face and the junction of the body and tail.

Then take a pen or pencil and draw the dog’s eyes, mouth and nose. The craft is ready!

Wardrobe for dolls made from scrap materials

The toy cabinet can be made of plywood, painted or covered with wrapping paper or self-adhesive film. There probably won’t be any questions here - everything is clear, and if you have questions, you can see their solution in the “natural” closet. But it can be made from very inexpensive materials. The good thing about making do-it-yourself furniture for dolls is that its cost is very low.

From a cardboard box

The main task is to find a thick cardboard box of the appropriate size. Moreover, it will be easier to work if it is packaging - with folded edges. This 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 do you need for work?

To work, you will need good tape, preferably paper-based, as it will be easier to glue the trim to it later. If you have a glue gun or a construction stapler (a large stationery one will do) with staples, that’s also good. If you will use other materials in addition to cardboard and paper, it is better to find a universal glue that glues paper, cardboard, fabric, and plastic. You will also need scissors, a stationery knife, and a ruler.

How to make a doll wardrobe from a cardboard box

If the box you find is too large, you can make it smaller by cutting off the excess. To ensure that the folds are even, take a ruler. We apply it to the place of the future fold, we pass along the ruler several times with a blunt hard object (the stem of a spoon or fork). After this, the cardboard will be easy to bend.

Filling for a toy cabinet

We cut out shelves from scraps or another box. They should be slightly - 5-8 mm - longer and wider than the internal space of the cabinet. We bend the excess so that sides are formed on all sides. Folds form in the corners; 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 them with glue and glue the shelves into the cabinet. The photo on the right shows how the shelves are glued. But so that the gluing points are not conspicuous, it is better to turn the sides down.

Making furniture for dolls with your own hands is no less fun 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 straw, wire, etc. Hangers can also be twisted from colored wire or cut from juice bags, plastic bottles, etc.

Finishing is a creative process

Next comes the finishing touches. You can paint the cardboard with watercolor or acrylic (preferably) paints, glue it with wrapping paper, fabric, felt. You can imitate a mirror surface by covering it with foil (food foil, 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 first, use simpler, softer, thinner materials; they are easier to work with

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

Doll wardrobe made from newspapers

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 roll up tight tubes from newspapers, coat them with PVA around the edges and leave them to dry. Then the tubes can be glued together. A glue gun is better suited for this operation. There are two ways: first collect large blocks, then cut them into fragments of the required length, or immediately cut the tubes of the required length and immediately glue the blanks to size. The second way is more painstaking, but there is less waste.

Assembling planes from newspaper tubes

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

We glue holders under the shelves

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

Fastening the door with wire

The second way to secure the doors is with wire. Only this time it should be tough and thick enough. Cut a piece that is 2 cm longer than the height of the cabinet. Immediately make a loop on the wire on one side using 1 cm. We bend the loop at an angle of 90° to the wire. We make holes in the bottom and roof, pass a wire through the bottom, the loop remains at the bottom. We put the door on the wire, using the outer tube instead of hinges. Slightly bending the wire, we thread it through the hole in the cabinet roof, bend the excess, fixing the door. We repeat the same operation with the other door. Please note that you need to attach the door with tape before finishing the cabinet, but you can attach it with wire after.

Ready-made wardrobe for dolls made 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 roll them from the paper you use to decorate the toy. Roll it into a tight roll, glue the edge with glue, then cut it into pieces of the required length and glue it in the right places. Instead of tubes there can be wooden sticks, beads, etc.

Do-it-yourself dollhouse for Barbie: diagram, photo

Of course, there are simpler options for making a doll house for your daughter:

1. Buy ready. But they cost exorbitant amounts of money. At the same time, the plastic parts turn out to be fragile, they are poorly attached to each other, and the house constantly falls apart.
2. Organize your home in a closet, nightstand or bookcase. Probably, my parents did this themselves in their early childhood. The good thing about this option is that, firstly, there is no need to spend extra money, and secondly, the child will learn to use substitute objects in the game. The downside is that sooner or later the daughter will say that the house is not real, she will want to have something more believable, with wallpaper, windows, etc.

Then mom and dad will have to decide how to make this toy themselves. First of all, decide on the sizes. If the house is intended for a doll like Barbie or Monster High, it will turn out to be oversized. The height of each room will be at least 30 cm, the width, so that you can put a doll bed in the house, 40 cm or more. For baby dolls and toys-figurines, you can make a more compact “housing”.

DIY plywood house for Barbie.

IMPORTANT: In practice, a doll's house takes up space as a full-fledged piece of furniture. Having decided to make one, you need to think about where it will stand in the room.

The next stage is the selection of materials. As a rule, dollhouses are made from:

1. Cardboard boxes and cardboard. This is a budget option; you don’t need to spend a lot on purchasing materials. Also, you don’t need to think about what kind of fastenings to assemble the house with; you only need any glue and adhesive tape. The big disadvantage of the house is that it is fragile, hygroscopic, and gets dirty easily. You cannot place heavy furniture on thin shelves. A cardboard doll house is not suitable for small children who do not know how to calculate strength during play.
2. Plywood. A more practical and also cheaper option. A sheet of plywood is applied to parts for a toy house with your own hands using an ordinary jigsaw. The toy turns out better. But porous plywood must be painted or glued so that it does not absorb dust and moisture, does not swell, and fungus does not grow in it. Another disadvantage of this material is that thin sheets of plywood are not easy to connect together so that they hold tightly and the house does not fall apart.
3. Wood, MDF. The most practical and expensive option. The house will be of very high quality and durable, stable and safe. It will not fall apart, even if a child hangs on it with all his weight. MDF is easy to process, the structural elements are firmly connected to each other with self-tapping screws, and their caps can be recessed into the thickness of the material. MDF gives absolute freedom to house decor ideas.

An interesting dollhouse made of cardboard with lighting.

IMPORTANT: You need to remember that a child will play with the house, and, most likely, this large toy will be in the children's room. Materials for it must be hygienic, environmentally friendly, hypoallergenic, and non-toxic. If after priming or painting the house emits an odor, you need to let it air out.

Beautiful homemade doll house.
Although the house is intended for children from 3 years old, that is, the age at which the director’s play has already been formed, you need to pay attention to the presence of small parts in it that can cause choking. Before you start purchasing materials for a dollhouse and directly move on to assembling it, you need to make a plan or diagram. It will help you calculate how much material you will need to buy. The parts will correspond to each other, they will be firmly connected. A stable and beautiful house for toys will delight the child and will not spoil the interior of the apartment.

Scheme of a doll house with dimensions.

Doll bookcase or shelf made of rulers

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

Making a toy bookshelf from wooden rulers is easy.

You will also need a jigsaw for the job. If you have an electric one, great; if not, a manual one will do, since there’s not too much work. You also need fine-grain sandpaper, glue (PVA or wood glue) and paints (acrylic or gouache).

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

You can use rulers to make other pieces of furniture for dolls.

To obtain an even and bright color, it is better to cover the structure with white, and after drying, paint it with the desired shade. You can also decorate doll furniture made by yourself using the decoupage technique.

Flower card

To work you will need:

- corrugated cardboard;

- colored paper;

- scissors;

- marker or pen;

- glue.

Choose a suitable color for the background of the card. Cut out a medium sized rectangle. Cut long strips 0.5 cm wide from green and orange cardboard.

Fold a sheet of corrugated cardboard like an accordion, draw on the sheet with a marker and cut it out. For a postcard you need 8 of these leaves.

Glue the leaves to the base of the card in any order. You can change the layout of the sheets as desired.

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Fold a petal from the green stripe and glue it to the corner of the card. The orange stripe is for the core. Twist it in a circle and glue it to the center of the flower. You can also cut out a small yellow strip and write congratulations on it. The corrugated cardboard card is ready!

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.

It’s better to start with something simple: a table and chairs for dolls made from ice cream sticks

You can make armchairs and sofas

Garden bench or sofa - depending on the finish Almost the same designs with soft upholstery

Making a chest of drawers like this for dolls = this is a more difficult task

You can also assemble a crib

You probably already understand why this material is good - it has rounded, processed edges, is the same in size and is well processed. If the sticks seem too rough, sand them down smooth using fine-grit sandpaper.

Clothespins make good armchairs and stools. They are disassembled into halves and joined using wood glue. Curly products are obtained in almost a few tens of minutes.

This sofa can be assembled from wooden clothespins

A chair, a table - can also be made from clothespins

If you add a few holes, you get an openwork product

It’s not difficult to make a round table for dolls from clothespins

Original legs made from three halves of clothespins

Rocking chair for dolls

Toy stools

Chairs with armrests for dollhouse

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

As your skill increases, you can move on to more complex materials - plywood or wood. The difficulty is that turning 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 desk for a doll….just like the real thing

Styles vary

Kitchen furniture in a dollhouse

Wardrobe for dolls made of plywood - very high reproduction accuracy

Kitchen cabinet with filling

Plywood bed for dolls

DIY toy kitchen tables made of plywood Chairs for playing with dolls

Making a room from cardboard and paper

You can make a room for Barbie dolls with your own hands from cardboard. To do this, you can use several boxes at once, which are glued together with glue or tape. Next you should start making the roof. It can be fixed to the surface with double-sided tape. If the box is quite large, it needs to be divided in half, creating a second floor. Partitions are used for this. At the next stage, you can move on to interior decoration.

But paper is a rather fragile material; it can easily be torn and wet. The consequences will be sad. But if you still decide to use this material, then you should draw a diagram or print the finished one on a printer. The necessary elements are cut out, the workpiece is cut along the contour. We should not forget about the doorway and the door, which should be left open. Each part of the wall is glued together, then you can glue the roof and decorate the house from above and from the inside.

Subtleties of manufacturing volumetric functional models

If you are interested in the question of how to make furniture from cardboard so that it is soft and closely matches real sofas and armchairs, you should use corrugated material, usually used in the manufacture of packaging boxes. If we take a chair as an example, the first step here is to draw up drawings of the parts - the side slats with armrests, the bottom and the back. By gluing several identical cut-out pieces to each other, you can achieve the required volume and proportionality; then you just need to cover the assembled craft with thin foam rubber and cover it with fabric.

Matchbox doll chair

Cardboard washing machine for dollhouse

The result is upholstered furniture made of cardboard, from which you can assemble a real set: a pair of armchairs, a sofa, an ottoman. The latter, by the way, can also be glued together from identical parts, covered with fabric and foam rubber. To achieve greater resemblance to the “original”, place a small quilted pillow stuffed with cotton wool on top.

Cardboard furniture can be decorated with an elegant and unusual addition in the form of a wicker back or bent legs made of wire. The solid seat of a chair or bench is combined with openwork elements, the entire composition is painted in a single color scheme - this is how you can make an impromptu garden composition or a home set in the Victorian style. In the same way, you can create “forged” backs and legs for a children’s doll crib; a cardboard blank will serve as the frame; the mattress and bedding are made from scraps and foam rubber.

Cardboard furniture for dolls

Table with mosaic top

If you don’t know how to make furniture for dolls, start with this option - it’s quite simple, and the result will delight you with its brightness and originality. The shape can be rectangular or round, in the first case the standard legs are glued to the tabletop, they can be cardboard or openwork wire, in the second case it will be more convenient if you make a leg from two pieces of cardboard connected crosswise.

To decorate the top surface, ordinary colored cardboard is suitable: small elements should be cut from it, which, when subsequently glued at random, will form a beautiful ornament on the tabletop. Using the same principle, you can assemble a table with checkers (the rectangular surface imitates the playing field); in this case, the active elements can be replaced with large beads of the corresponding colors or flat beads.

Barbie furniture decorated with wicker looks interesting. The frame is made using toothpicks; medium-thick knitting threads are used instead of vines; PVA glue is used for additional fastening. To hide the joints and seams, craftswomen decorate these areas with rope braids.

Chairs for a dollhouse made from champagne bottle wire

Cardboard bedroom in a doll house

Matchbox bed and chest of drawers

Step-by-step master class

To understand how to make furniture for a doll house, first of all you should prepare diagrams or take ready-made interior options from master classes. From scrap materials you can build any model of furniture you like.

Don't be afraid to be creative. Even if the furniture is made according to a master class, its size or appearance can be adjusted independently depending on the parameters of the free space in the dollhouse and personal preferences.

Classic style chair

There are many options for creating a chair for a dollhouse in a classic style, but among all of them there are two of the simplest and most practical methods that do not require much money. If you want to make budget furniture from scrap materials, you can take simple matchboxes (4-5 pieces). After this you need to follow this procedure:

1. Paint the matchboxes in the color you like and let them dry completely.
2. One box needs to be placed horizontally, then glue the match packs, installed vertically on the edge, on the right and left sides - this will be the railing of the future chair.
3. As a backrest, you need to glue a vertically mounted box to the bottom of the chair.
4. After the structure has dried, you need to make 4 small holes in the bottom of the first matchbox from each corner.
5. Take 4 matches and carefully cut them in the middle.
6. Part of the match with sulfur will be used as legs for the chair; to do this, they need to be placed in the holes and leaned against the inner wall of the box, having previously been coated with glue.

You can play with dolls with the furniture you made immediately after it has completely dried.

Also, a dollhouse chair can be made from a simple plastic bottle. To do this, you must adhere to the following algorithm of actions:

1. Cut the bottle into two parts so that you can separate the part with the bottom.
2. You need to measure 2-3 centimeters from the bottom point of the bottle (depending on the size of the furniture being made). The entire area that will be on top needs to be cut off, except for the back. It can be cut into any shape you like.
3. The bottom of the bottle should be filled with foam rubber or other soft and elastic material.

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As upholstery, you can use any fabric suitable in style and color, which is cut to the shape of the resulting chair and gradually stitched onto its surface. For the classic style, calm tones are used - brown, white, black.

Wardrobe

There are several options for making a wardrobe, but the simplest is to select a box of suitable dimensions from which the base is made. You can use any suitable and durable tube as a crossbar for hangers. If you want to make doors, they can be made from cardboard by making 2 holes in it and the edge of the cabinet at the bottom and top. Small steel rings made of wire should be threaded through them - they will act as hinges on which the doors are held.

There is also an option with a curtain. To do this, you need to thread a fishing line between the two walls of the furniture in the upper part, through which a fabric of suitable size will be pulled. With the help of such a simple mechanism it can be moved and closed. Match boxes or smaller boxes can be used as shelves and drawers for the closet, and twisted wire or paper clips can be used for hangers.

Buffet

To make a buffet for a dollhouse, you need to follow this procedure:

1. The base of the buffet is created from a box, which will be filled as it is constructed.
2. The lower part can be made from boxes of suitable size by gluing with PVA.
3. To make doors, you need to cut small round holes (up to 5 mm). Pre-prepared wire rings of slightly smaller diameter will be threaded through them, acting as loops.
4. You need to cut out a rectangular part in the doors, which will serve as a hole for the glass. In most cases, this space is not filled with anything, but stretched plastic film can be secured.
5. The shelves inside the buffet can be made from any suitable material (cardboard, piece of plywood).

If there is a need to create a detailed and exact copy of the buffet, you can insert a pre-cut piece of glass into the doors. However, it needs to be securely fixed so that the child does not get hurt while playing.

Victorian style sofa

To make a Victorian-style sofa for a dollhouse, you should prepare the following equipment and materials:

• thick sheets of cardboard;
• small buttons;
• fabric for covering a sofa;
• furniture foam rubber for stuffing;
• pieces of plywood for the base of the sofa;
• curly plaits;
• glue that can reliably fix some structural elements;
• scissors;
• pencil;
• ruler;
• screws and a screwdriver.

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Next you need to adhere to the following algorithm:

1. Cut out a template for the back and bottom of the sofa from paper or cardboard.
2. Fix paper or cardboard templates using glue with a pre-formed foam rubber mold.
3. Cover both parts with fabric, and glue several small buttons, previously wrapped in the same fabric, to the surface of the back.
4. Saw off the bars to the required length and width and fasten them together with self-tapping screws. This part will be the base on which the entire structure is installed; it also needs to be covered with fabric.
5. The armrests need to be cut out of plywood, and then covered with foam rubber (so that they are soft) and fabric.
6. After creating all the individual parts, they need to be combined using glue and self-tapping screws; a shaped tourniquet should be glued at the seams.

Before starting to make a sofa, it is recommended to prepare all the necessary materials, tools and take all measurements first so as not to be distracted during work. To create a Victorian style, you can apply decor on the back and armrests of the sofa. It is sculpted from polymer clay or plasticine. To make a piece of furniture look complete, you should add sofa cushions.