Do-it-yourself plywood house: drawing up a drawing, cutting and assembling

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A happy childhood is a room full of interesting toys. The Soviet shortage has been replaced by variety and a wide range, so every child can find a toy to their liking. Girls especially love dollhouses: large or compact, furnished or empty, fairytale castles or realistic homes.

Purchased houses for dolls are always beautiful, often of high quality, but often expensive. Loving parents have a great chance to save a little and at the same time give their baby a unique toy.

Making a dollhouse with your own hands is not so difficult, because on the Internet you can find dozens of master classes, tips and recommendations for making such a structure from any material. You just need to choose the option that suits you and put in a little effort.

Pros of DIY

The advantages of making a dollhouse with your own hands from plywood include the following:

1. A product made according to an individual drawing involves the use of its own dimensions, design and functionality. The main advantage of such a toy is its uniqueness and the ability to take into account the child’s wishes when arranging and decorating rooms, choosing layout and furniture, accessories and decor.
2. The house can have the necessary and convenient size, which is selected taking into account the free space in the children's room and the wishes of the child. This can be a tabletop or floor-mounted design.
3. You can involve the child in decorating and arranging the interior space even at the stage of drawing development - joint work brings the child together, allows him to reveal the creative potential of the child, teaches him to make independent decisions and bear responsibility for them.
4. Working with plywood is a creative and fun process that the whole family can participate in.

If you make it yourself, you can give the house any appearance.

Advantages of plywood

Any materials can be used to make a dollhouse yourself, but plywood is used more often, as it has a number of advantages:

1. A whole category of toys for children are made of wood, in particular plywood, due to its pleasant to the touch, warm surface.
2. The light weight of the material allows you to create large structures that even a child can move from place to place.
3. Plywood is a durable material, so structures made from it are reliable and durable.
4. The material is affordable, which allows you to make a toy no worse than the one sold in the store, but for much less money.
5. Working with plywood is easy, it is easy to process and does not require the use of special tools or professional skills.
6. After assembly, the house can be painted or left as is, covered with transparent varnish - the surface of the plywood is smooth, with a pleasant natural pattern and shade.

Plywood has an attractive appearance and natural shade

Note! E0 grade plywood is an environmentally friendly and safe material. This type of material is used in the manufacture of goods for children.

DIY doll house: drawings with dimensions

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Preparatory work

At the first stage, you will need to decide on the dimensions of the structure. To do this, you should take into account the size of the doll the child is playing with - the toy should fit freely at full height with a margin of a few centimeters to the ceiling. There should also be enough space for arranging toy furniture - a crib, a table with chairs, kitchen furniture.

Houses for Barbie

The number of floors in the house depends on the size of the toys and the height of the child. If the figures do not exceed 20 cm in height, then the house can have up to 3 floors. If the structure is assembled for a standard Barbie doll, then it will not be possible to make more than 2 floors - then it is better to arrange the rooms horizontally.

Floor-mounted 3-storey house for playing with small figures

Having decided on the concept, you can begin to develop the project in more detail by drawing a design drawing to scale on a piece of paper.

Project details

Drawing

The drawing of the details of the house must be done to scale - you can draw it on a sheet of paper or in a special computer program. This will allow you to reflect the dimensions of the product, the number and sizes of parts, and determine the methods and locations of fastenings. Also, at the stage of creating the project, you should decide on the internal layout, shape and design of the house. This stage of preparatory work should not be skipped, as it allows you to determine the required amount of material and the sequence of assembly of the product.

Basic elements of a dollhouse

Note! To make a house, you can use a standard drawing. It is worth remembering that when changing (increasing, decreasing) one size, a proportional change in the remaining sizes follows.

When developing a drawing yourself, you will need to consider the following:

1. The shape of the rear wall is a rectangle or pentagon, which allows you to make a gable roof.
2. To make the assembly process easier, the base is made slightly wider than the space inside.
3. The ceilings of the upper floors should have smaller dimensions than those at the base.
4. The main structural elements also include sidewalls, interior partitions and roof parts.

Sketch diagram of the house

Cardboard housing

A budget housing for toys can be made from ordinary cardboard. The material is easy to work with, it can be painted and deformed. Craft materials:

• corrugated cardboard;
• plain and thick colored paper;
• development of parts - windows, doors, roof, stairs;
• glue gun;
• scissors, stationery knife;
• acrylic paints;
• pieces of fabric.

The sketch is applied to a large sheet of cardboard and cut out. If there are only small pieces of paper, then the walls, roof, floor and ceiling are made separately. There is no need to make the front wall, otherwise it will be uncomfortable for the girl to play. They fasten the frame of the future house. Sometimes it is inconvenient to bend the cardboard, then to facilitate the process, small grooves are made at the bend points with a ruler. Be sure to install partitions between rooms in the house. They will not only divide the home into parts, but will also play the role of load-bearing structures.

Windows are cut out in the walls according to the patterns, and doorways are cut out in the partitions. The staircase to the second floor can be made from cardboard folded into an accordion. For supports and railings, use wooden skewers or pieces of thick paper coated with glue. The interior surface of the house is covered with colored paper, decorating the walls, ceiling and floor. It is advisable to also make all furniture from cardboard. To do this, draw drawings of each item, cut out parts from them and fasten them with glue. The interior is complemented with textiles.

If the toy will be located against the wall, then there is no need to make a back cover. The roof can also be stationary - just draw its outline with acrylic or black insulating tape. In a similar way, they decorate a house from office folders. They are covered with fancy wrapping paper, printed furniture is attached to each page. The folder is opened, placed vertically, and the remaining interior items are placed next to it.

Tools and material

Making a plywood house is carried out in several stages. Particular attention should be paid to acquiring the necessary tools and materials.

List of materials and tools:

1. Plywood sheets, the number of which is calculated in accordance with the drawing, taking into account the size and number of parts. The resulting value is rounded up. On average, it takes 3 sheets of plywood to make a dollhouse.
2. The roof of the house is made of plywood, corrugated or regular cardboard.
3. To ensure strong fixation of plywood parts, use quick-drying wood glue.
4. For temporary and additional fixation of parts, you can use mounting tape.
5. Sandpaper is used to sand parts. Particular attention should be paid to the ends of the elements.
6. The parts are cut using an electric jigsaw.
7. The parts are fixed when assembling the house using self-tapping screws.
8. At the stage of preparing the material for cutting, you will need a ruler, tape measure, and pencil.

Necessary tools
After assembling the house, it needs to be decorated. To do this, use scraps and other remnants of finishing materials: wallpaper, film, colored paper, pieces of linoleum, fabric, felt, laminate. Window openings are filled with transparent plastic or plexiglass.

Step-by-step instructions for making and assembling a plywood house

The sequence of making a dollhouse from plywood is as follows.

Table 1. Making a dollhouse

Note! The method of fastening plywood parts depends on its thickness and the size of the elements. When the material is thin and the house itself is not large, the elements can be fixed using wood glue or using special grooves.

Assembling a small house

Video - How to make a plywood dollhouse

Features of product decoration

Paint the dollhouse with environmentally friendly paint, such as acrylic. You can get a bright, rich or soft, pastel shade by adding tinting paste to the base composition.

Material for painting plywood

After the house is assembled, you can begin to decorate the interior walls, floors, and arrange plywood doll furniture.

Internal filling of the dollhouse

To make the structure more realistic, it is electrified using autonomous lamps powered by batteries, which are secured with double-sided tape.

Autonomous lamps

Construction of the roof

For frame houses, lightweight roofing materials are used: flexible tiles and corrugated sheets.

Roof diagram of a frame house.

Rafter beams are attached to the top sheathing, which are leveled and additionally secured with jibs. The distance between the beams should not exceed 1 m. After this, sheathing is done with boards. The pitch between the boards depends on what the roofing material will be. If flexible tiles are used, then the distance between the sheathing boards is small.

After the sheathing is completed, it is necessary to lay a layer of waterproofing. Roofing material is quite suitable for this. It is laid overlapping, carefully fastening the joints and perpendicular to the sheathing. To enhance the waterproofing characteristics, it is possible to install a second layer of roofing material, which is placed perpendicular to the first. After this, the roofing material is attached.

Plywood growth house

This design can be used both outdoors and in the apartment. The house is easy to assemble, literally within 5 minutes it can also be easily disassembled into convenient fragments that can be stored in the pantry.

On a hot day, such a house on the site will provide comfortable conditions for playing outdoors.

Play structure for home

In essence, it is an enlarged copy of a dollhouse. Therefore, its production takes place using the same technology.

Table 2. Step-by-step instructions

Particular attention should be paid to the interior decoration of the house. The design may provide for a bench and a folding table, or a shelf on the wall. Furniture can also be portable plastic or wooden.

When operating the house outdoors, it is necessary that the base be dry, so the structure is placed on a podium or dry grass

Plywood is often used in the furniture industry and for the manufacture of a large number of boxes of various sizes and other very beautiful and functional crafts. What plywood products can you make with your own hands? Read in the special article.

Inside the house, you can lay a soft mat or mattress on the floor, on which the child will feel comfortable.

Completely unnecessary secrecy

Having obtained step-by-step instructions for creating a dollhouse, parents who are passionate about this idea often try to hide the processes from their child

• Design;
• Manufacturing of components;
• Assemblies;
• Dollhouse coloring;
• Basic and final finishing.

It should be noted that there is absolutely no need for this conspiracy. In fact, the girl and her sisters will get great pleasure from participating in every stage of creating a fairy-tale or completely realistic building.

Involving the child in drawing up drawings, transferring them to plywood, cutting out blanks

• Will give a powerful impetus to children's imagination;
• Will contribute to the development of fine manual motor skills, and with it imaginative thinking;
• Will lay the foundations for the professional guidance of her daughters and her friends;
• It will take relationships with parents and other family members to a new level.