How To Make A Dollhouse Roof

Bend the trimmed lid in half widthways to create an a frame roof.

How to make a dollhouse roof. If it s a more. Choose either black or brown sandpaper depending on which matches the color of the outside of the doll house. Draw a line lengthways and cut down the line with scissors. Dec 2 2018 explore amy sproveri s board dollhouse diy roofing on pinterest.

Measure the depth of the box and then measure that length widthways on your lid and make a mark. One of the most popular and economical solutions is to apply wood dollhouse shingles. How to make shingles for a doll house step 1. I then rechecked all of my work to make sure all the panels were straight and tight together.

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. If you only want to use 2 floors nail both roof poeces on. We used a 25 inch piece as a rafter and a 15 inch piece as our ridge. Measure the length and width of each side of the roof and write these measurements down.

How to build a dollhouse roof. I used 4 small hinges to attach the roof to the beam. Also mark that the vertical cuts in the strips of cardboard alternate. How to make roof tiles for your doll house from sandpaper.

The roof is not an easy process and took a lot of patience. Create an a frame roof for your dollhouse. See more ideas about diy dollhouse doll house miniture things. To build the frame of the roof visit our detailed post about roofing here and scale it to size.

Many times your wood dollhouse kit will come with prepackaged shingles. You don t have to do this. Make sure you use short screws. 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. The roof of the dollhouse. We don t want the screws to poke up through the roof.