Measure the length and width of each side of the roof and write these measurements down.
How to make a dollhouse roof.
How to build a dollhouse roof.
Many times your wood dollhouse kit will come with prepackaged shingles.
Bend the trimmed lid in half widthways to create an a frame roof.
Lastly i added the gable roofs at the peak.
Dec 2 2018 explore amy sproveri s board dollhouse diy roofing on pinterest.
One of the most popular and economical solutions is to apply wood dollhouse shingles.
I then rechecked all of my work to make sure all the panels were straight and tight together.
Draw a line lengthways and cut down the line with scissors.
If you only want to use 2 floors nail both roof poeces on.
I used 4 small hinges to attach the roof to the beam.
The roof is not an easy process and took a lot of patience.
How to make roof tiles for your doll house from sandpaper.
Measure the depth of the box and then measure that length widthways on your lid and make a mark.
I left the house to dry and walked out of my workroom knowing the shell of the dollhouse was complete.
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.
To build the frame of the roof visit our detailed post about roofing here and scale it to size.
How to make shingles for a doll house step 1.
We don t want the screws to poke up through the roof.
Choose either black or brown sandpaper depending on which matches the color of the outside of the doll house.
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Create an a frame roof for your dollhouse.
Make sure you use short screws.
You don t have to do this.
Also mark that the vertical cuts in the strips of cardboard alternate.
If it s a more.
The roof of the dollhouse.
Every cut is positioned in the middle of the slate direct below.