Doll house roof diy

I wanted to share a quicker way to apply shingles to a dollhouse. The directions always say to use glue but I remember years ago when I did...

Are you looking for ways to make your dollhouse look realistic? In the latest episode of my Sylvanian Families 'Applewood Cottage Makeover , I'll show you ho...

The roof of the house is covered with pieces of cardboard and painted afterwards to make it resemble a grey slated one. First of all, I made use of a book written by Jean Nisbett and called : "A beginners Guide tot the Doll's House Hobby". In this book the writer sets out several options of house exteriors. One of them is the "economy option" for supplying your house with a slated roof using cardboard. I did some experiments with it to make it look as realistic as possible. In this post I'll…

Welcome back to part two of building a Sylvanian Dollhouse. Unfortunately I'm one of those people who forget to take photos at all the right...

Let's make some shingles for the roof, Today I'm going to show you how I made shingles using cardboard from a box. I also show how I attach them and how I paint them. Use this technique on your Fairy

Preparing and painting the card Here is a quick tutorial on how I made the roof of the lakehouse. It was made to resemble flat metal roofing joined by ridges. You need thin non-shiny card for this project, it can't be too thick/stiff or you won't be able to get the ridges fine enough. You'll need to work out which way the grain runs in the card, and make the folds along the grain, not against it. This will help a lot to get the ridge lines fine. I have done this in the photo using two square…

I started with sheets of black poster board then realized buying a stack of 8 1/2" x 11" black card stock would be less $. I taped th...

The Westville kit comes with shingles in sheets. An advantage is adding the shingles in strips instead of individually. The disadvantage is punching out the strips. Challenging! While the shingles …

So I know I said in my last post that I would be doing some railings for the second story balcony next. Well, I started to work on it and had a duh aha! moment. I should probably do the roof before putting in my rails that would make parts of the roof inaccessible. I really wanted to use real metal for the roof, but my lack of patience and proper equipment left me wondering how to achieve the same look in an easier way. So off to Hobby Lobby I went. To make the roof I used 1/16" x 1"…