How To Make A Dollhouse Roof

We don t want the screws to poke up through the roof.

How to make a dollhouse roof.

See more ideas about diy dollhouse doll house miniture things. Choose either black or brown sandpaper depending on which matches the color of the outside of the doll house. You don t have to do this. Measure the depth of the box and then measure that length widthways on your lid and make a mark.

The idea is to paste the strips of cardboard on the wooden roof of the house making sure evere strip partly covers the one underneath. Also mark that the vertical cuts in the strips of cardboard alternate. To build the frame of the roof visit our detailed post about roofing here and scale it to size. The roof of your dollhouse takes up a lot of real estate which makes it worth it to take some time to think about how you want to approach it.

The front part of the roof is hinged so we can use the third floor. We used a 25 inch piece as a rafter and a 15 inch piece as our ridge. I used 4 small hinges to attach the roof to the beam. Dec 2 2018 explore amy sproveri s board dollhouse diy roofing on pinterest.

Measure the length and width of each side of the roof and write these measurements down. Draw a line lengthways and cut down the line with scissors. I then rechecked all of my work to make sure all the panels were straight and tight together. Make sure you use short screws.

The roof of the dollhouse. If you only want to use 2 floors nail both roof poeces on. Many times your wood dollhouse kit will come with prepackaged shingles. Create an a frame roof for your dollhouse.

How to make roof tiles for your doll house from sandpaper. Lastly i added the gable roofs at the peak. Bend the trimmed lid in half widthways to create an a frame roof. One of the most popular and economical solutions is to apply wood dollhouse shingles.

Every cut is positioned in the middle of the slate direct below. I left the house to dry and walked out of my workroom knowing the shell of the dollhouse was complete. If it s a more.