How to make furniture for a doll from a box of matches and cardboard

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

How to make do-it-yourself furniture for a doll? Let's say right away that this is feasible for those who stock up on patience and the necessary materials. Hand made doll furniture can be made from thick cardboard, wood, newsprint, cans, plastic bottles, matchboxes, shoe and candy boxes, kitchen sponges. This results in exclusive and original miniature furniture. How to make furniture for a doll beautifully and correctly?

Let's look at the example of matchboxes from which you can create a designer chest of drawers for Barbie.

How two boxes turn into an antique chest of drawers: step by step work

Furniture for Barbie dolls should be stylish and extraordinary. Therefore, the chest of drawers will be made using technology that will age it. First you need to prepare and collect the necessary materials. These will be:

1. Empty matchboxes - 2 pcs
2. PVA glue, candle.
3. Two plates of cardboard: one 1 mm thick, the second - 2mm.
4. A nail file or a piece of sandpaper.
5. Decorations for fittings.
6. Acrylic paints (brown and white).

How to make furniture for a doll? Let's start creating!

1. Glue the boxes "backwards".
2. Cut out 4 blanks from thick cardboard. Two for the side walls of the chest of drawers and one each for the top and bottom of it (do not glue the front and back walls).
3. Wrap the boxes, starting at the bottom and top (then on the sides).
4. Gently press, fixing the end zones. Ideally, the cardboard should be solidly wrapped around the boxes.



5. Protruding bumps, nicks cut off with sandpaper or a file.
6. Extract drawer prototypes from the workpiece.
7. Take the brown tone of acrylic and thoroughly paint over all surfaces, joints and corners of the workpiece.
8. If the paint is thick, then you can do without a primer.
9. With a paraffin candle, process the outer and inner corners of the chest of drawers, as well as the ends. Brush off the white crumbs of the candle with a dry sponge or brush (if they remain, all aesthetics will be lost).
10. Now you can cover with white acrylic. Don't be afraid to do some layers.
11. Let's start decorating the facade of the drawers. From thin cardboard, cut 6 rectangular blanks of different sizes (3 for each). One, which will be glued directly to the box, must exceed it in length and width. The second is slightly smaller than the first, and the third is the smallest.
12. Make preliminary measurements of blanks: between themthere must be a gap for the normal pull-out of drawers in the finished chest of drawers.
13. Glue the rectangles by putting them on top of each other (put the middle one on the big one, and the smallest one on the middle one).
14. Glue blanks to drawers that are best inserted into the box.
15. Cover with brown paint, then rub with a candle and fix with a white tone.
16. When everything dries well, take sandpaper and erase the layer of paint on those places that were processed with a candle.
17. Rub lightly and without pressure, so as not to get to the cardboard. Now it remains to tint the chest of drawers with brown paint to give it a touch of old age.

The pleasant part of the work remains - decorating and decorating. On the top of the chest of drawers, you can glue scrap paper or put, for example, a vase of flowers using the quilling technique. If you want, you can attach legs from twisted strips of paper to the chest of drawers.

If you decide to make furniture for dolls out of paper, then take better cardboard. From it, make patterns for your future items (bed, wardrobe, bedside tables, kitchen sideboards). The joints can be glued, or you can fix them with ice cream sticks. For decor, use acrylic paints, varnish, scrap paper. We hope these tips will help you if you are puzzled over how to make doll furniture.