Trendy couch

This couch was made by the same pattern and principle as the beige couches in the living room. The basic structure of it is just cardboard, and it's extremely easy to make.  

  I started by cutting out squares that would make the different parts of the couch. Each part is made up of three layers of cardboard, so each part of your couch needs to be cut out three times. You glue them together like on the picture and glue fiberfill on top of the pieces that are on the inside of the couch.   

You can choose whether or not you do this, and where, I chose to stuff all the "sitting sides" of the couch.

The next step is to wrap the different parts of the couch in whatever fabric you choose to make your couch in. You glue the parts together and you're done!
 

Rocking chair

Hello. Since this seemed so very self explanatory, I'm just going to post enlightening pictures!

Pharmacy cabinet

My grandmother likes making "theme boxes" like these, because her dollhouse is huge and pretty much finished (read: so stuffed with things there wouldn't be room for a fly in it). And since she wanted to make one of a Pharmacy, I decided to make her a box and a pharmacy cabinet. How to make the box seems too self explanatory to make a blog post out of.
The cabinet takes some time, but it's entirely doable if you work precisely.

As usual, I made the back out of foam cardboard because it's hardly visible, apart from the small space in between the shelves. But since I waxed the wood and the cardboard, you can't really tell when the shelves are filled and decorated with small bottles of medicine or whatever.
The dimensions of this back piece are 16 x 13 cm.

These are the two sides of the cabinet. They are 16 cm high and the least broad bit is 2 cm wide. Where it gets wider to make the platform they are 4 cm wide.

After assembling these parts and adding the top (14,5 x 3,5 cm) this is what it looks like. The big parts of the cabinet are made out of 2 mm balsa wood, but the top and the big platform in the middle are 4 mm thick. I really thought it looked better this way, because with glass paper I could round off the edges to give it a more 'ancient' look.

Next I made the lower front, which I gave extra molding by cutting out a rectangle 1 cm smaller on all sides, and a frame to glue around it of the same size as the panel.

 After this I added the platform. it starts in between the two side panels, and then becomes wider so as to stick out on all sides of the cabinet, the top view would be like this:








The two shelves hereunder are deceiving, because the top shelf is not to be used as a shelf but as a support for the upper front panel. I realize there is milk on almost all of my pictures, but it's because a. I drink gallons of it and b. I use those heavy boxes to hold things that need to try.

  

As you can see there is now only one shelf left. And then it was time for the itty bitty work, to cut out 14 pieces of 1,5 x 1,5 cm. I didn't make real drawers because it seemed impossible to do, but if you feel you're up for it, please do! The realer it gets, the more fun you have once it's finished.  

Using this terpentine wax of a rather dark color, I painted the cabinet a darker, older looking color, and finished it was! I used big pony beads for the knobs on the drawers, and just paper for the labels. 

Ikea Fjellse bed

 

This is actually my own bed in my room, it was really cheap at Ikea! Since I like simplicity in furniture, I thought I'd make it for my dollhouse. It's easy and quickly done.

  This is the mattress support, it's out of foam cardboard because nobody will see it once your bed is made up. This is 9 cm x 10 cm.

Then I surrounded the support by balsa panels, so as to make the bed frame. I glued little wooden beads under it to make the beds 'legs', which aren't the same as the legs of the Ikea bed, obviously, but I thought little round legs didn't look bad on a dollhouse bed. I think if I had made them out of balsa, they would even have splintered and broken.

To make the "head" of the bed, I used matches of which I cut off the sulfur bit. I glued those on top of the frame as you can see here.

 

Next I glued one bar out of 0,5 mm balsa on top and on the sides, and the bed is finished! 

Linnen cupboard

 

I bet you're thinking oh my god what I can't make this, but the truth is, you can, because it REALLY wasn't   hard. I made this in one hour and I have no more fine skills than an unemployed plumber!

 

The back of the cupboard is the white foam cardboard, since it will be invisible, no need to use balsa for it. The two side panels are glued to the foam cardboard back panel.

Back panel: 10 x 9 cm

Side panels: 10 x 3 cm

These are the legs of the cupboard, they add 2 cm to the height of the cupboard which is why the back panel is only 10 cm. I cut out the little 'feet' to give the whole thing a little 'country' look my mom likes.

Legs front and back: 2 x 9 cm

Legs on the sides: 2 x 3 cm

I added the bottom (invisible = foam cardboard) and the top and some shelves.

Bottom: 10 x 3 cm

Top: 10,5 x 3,5 cm

Shelves: 8,8 x 2,5 cm

These are the doors. They are 4,5 x 10 cm and on the right one I added a 0,5 x 10 cm balsa bar on top to be able to "close" the cupboard properly. The moldings were balsa bars of 0,5 cm wide and the middle panels on top are 7,5 x 2 cm.

Next I glued the 'feet' of the cupboard on the bottom, look how great it looks!

The hinges are really just thin cardboard rectangles glued on the sides of the cupboard and to the doors, nobody is going to see them anyway! I intend to paint them black just in case, but really the point is just leaving the door slightly opened so you can see the linnen neatly folded in the cupboard! You can also wax or varnish the cupboard in a darker shade, and give it a worn off look.

Enjoy!

Flatscreen tv

The tv was crafted out of balsa wood, so is the DVD player, and the remote control out of a grey rubber sheet. I'm not going to explain all the details, because I forgot to take pictures as I was making these anyway, but how I made the flatscreen for the computer is pretty much the description for the tv. The DVD player is a balsa rectangle on 4 black beads.
It's mostly just for inspiration!

Countrystyle furniture: Shaker bed

My mother, who is my dollhouse-building-grandfather's daughter, couldn't help but notice me getting all crafty around the house I have, and decided to pick up hers aswell. Her house was made by the same man, it was my house when I was a small child though soon I was in need of a larger one. I passed this little one on to my mom because she wanted to try creating a dollhouse of her own.
But mom is starting from scratch, I inherited some old furniture from my older sister when I started mine so I had something to go on. Mom is a quilter, she does patchwork more than she does household chores. She wants her house to be entirely in a country/shaker style, so I proposed to make her a little country bed to start with.

You could probably guess it, but the bed was made out of 2 mm thick balsa wood. I was not difficult but it took some imagination and research to find a nice and doable country bed. I asked mom her preference and decided to make the one on top.

With the help of a bottlecap I drew the wavelike design of the bedframes and cut them out with a hobbyknife rather than a simple cutter, because as you can see those are much smaller, and thus more precise and accurate.
Then I made the posts of the bed out of 5 mm balsa. I cut them 5 mm wide so I had square posts that would look really realistic on the bed. Shaker furniture always has some kind of molding on its furniture legs though, so with a hobbyknife I extremely carefully molded that out of the balsa. Be very, very careful and patient, balsa is fragile and it's often better to scrape off a piece with glass paper than to cut it off brutally with a knife.

The mattress support is cut out of foam cardboard, because it will be invisible so I was reluctant to waste balsa on it. I cut out two sides for the bed to hide the cardboard entirely and make the bed a solid frame, glued everything together and there, I had the cutest little shaker bed for my mom:

You can paint it with a dark varnish to make the bed look old and antique