How To Make A Dollhouse Roof

If you only want to use 2 floors nail both roof poeces on.

How to make a dollhouse roof.

We used a 25 inch piece as a rafter and a 15 inch piece as our ridge. One of the most popular and economical solutions is to apply wood dollhouse shingles. Create an a frame roof for your dollhouse. Measure the depth of the box and then measure that length widthways on your lid and make a mark.

To build the frame of the roof visit our detailed post about roofing here and scale it to size. Also mark that the vertical cuts in the strips of cardboard alternate. I left the house to dry and walked out of my workroom knowing the shell of the dollhouse was complete. Bend the trimmed lid in half widthways to create an a frame roof.

How to build a dollhouse roof. Make sure you use short screws. Every cut is positioned in the middle of the slate direct below. Draw a line lengthways and cut down the line with scissors.

How to make roof tiles for your doll house from sandpaper. Measure the length and width of each side of the roof and write these measurements down. I used 4 small hinges to attach the roof to the beam. We don t want the screws to poke up through the roof.

The roof of the dollhouse. 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. The roof is not an easy process and took a lot of patience. You don t have to do this.

How to make shingles for a doll house step 1. Many times your wood dollhouse kit will come with prepackaged shingles. If it s a more. Lastly i added the gable roofs at the peak.

See more ideas about diy dollhouse doll house miniture things. 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. I then rechecked all of my work to make sure all the panels were straight and tight together.