Dollhouse Furniture

Christmas is just a week away, and Rachel has finally completed her letter to Santa. She had written a few in the past, but all of them had found their way into the bin because she wasn’t sure what she wanted this Christmas. Now, she has finally made up her mind. This is her letter to Santa.

Dear Santa,

I hope you will be visiting my home this Christmas too. This year I would like a BIG doll’s house with beautiful furniture, just like the one that Valerie has. She has been telling everyone in school about it. Please, please get me a lovely doll's house too.

See you on Christmas Eve; I will leave cookies for you by the fireplace. Please remember to eat them.

Give my love to the Elves.

Rachel.

Building Dollhouse Furniture Using Kits

• Building dollhouse furniture from kits is not as difficult as it sounds. These kits are available in the market and come with instructions on how to assemble them.
• After buying the kit you need to assemble the pieces of furniture. Some of the kits come with pre-cut wooden pieces that fit together to form the furniture while in the others the furniture needs to be glued together.
• To give your furniture the finished look you need to apply a coat of wood stain or paint. If your kit does not include the wood stain, you can buy it from any craft store.
• Once the furniture is done, you can attach the accessories i.e. the small parts in your furniture kit like the handles for the dresser drawers, knobs for the wardrobe doors and keyholes for chests and trunks.
• Now that you have built and painted/stained your furniture, it is time to put the pieces into place. Now, let 's leave that for the young lady to decide!

Making dollhouse Furniture Using Things Around the House

It is possible to make dollhouse furniture using items found around the house. These pieces can be customized and are inexpensive. There are a variety of things that can be created using containers, lids, empty boxes and scraps of fabric.

Beds
Empty cheese boxes can be turned upside down and used to make large dollhouse beds. Use a layer of batting to make a mattress, and cover the batting with a piece of fabric. Use glue to stick the mattress to the fabric. You could also make a headboard for your bed using a 4 ¾ inch craft sticks. Collect and paint enough craft sticks to cover the width of the bed horizontally and vertically. Use wood glue to stick the pieces together, let them dry and then attach them to the bed.

Tables
Use the little plastic stands placed on the pizza to make dollhouse tables. Use tiny scraps of fabric as tablecloths or you could even leave them just like that.

Curtains and Rugs
Curtains and rugs are easy to make with small crocheted doilies. Use narrow satin ribbons to fill in the larger holes. You could also use these doilies for small throw rugs. If you want the entire room to have the same feel, gather and tie doilies to small dowel rods with narrow satin ribbons to create curtains.

Drawers
Matchboxes can be used to make good dollhouse furniture. To make a chest of drawers all you need to do is glue matchboxes together depending on the size of the chest. After the glue has dried, paint the drawers with acrylic craft paint or wood grain contact paper. Use colored beads as knobs for the drawers.

Trash Cans
Use the lids from narrow hairspray cans as trashcans. To make them look beautiful and real, add crumpled paper.

Decoration
Use photographs and pictures from comics and magazines to decorate the walls of your dollhouse. To frame a small photograph, split craft sticks in half and trim them with a small hacksaw or emery board. Glue the sticks together and paint them. After the glue dries, attach a picture to the back with small strips of masking tape.