Handmade dollhouse ideas. Create your ideal room and home!
If you love dolls and miniatures, you can’t help but want a dedicated room or little house for them, right?
You can buy them ready-made, but many of you probably think, “If I’m going to have one, I want to make a room just the way I like it!”
So in this article, we’ll introduce handmade dollhouse ideas!
With cardboard and items from the 100-yen shop, you can easily make an adorable dollhouse.
We’ve gathered a variety of ideas and methods, so please use them as inspiration and give it a try!
Handmade ideas for dollhouses: Let’s create your ideal room and home! (1–10)
[100-yen shop] A dollhouse that Licca-chan can play with
![[100-yen shop] A dollhouse that Licca-chan can play with](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GAK0S96cxq4/sddefault.jpg)
Even when it comes to dollhouses, there are tips for building them in various sizes to match your main doll.
Here, we’re introducing a dollhouse sized for Licca-chan to play with—a 1/6 scale dollhouse.
We’ll share tips on how to make it using materials from 100-yen shops.
Use color foam boards for the house walls, and make windows and doors from photo frames.
For wallpaper, choose a wall sheet with your favorite pattern.
You can create beds and furniture by using styrofoam as a base and covering it with fabric.
Combining miniature furniture sold at 100-yen shops will also look lovely!
Antique kitchen dollhouse
Why not try making a realistic dollhouse kitchen using wood and kraft paper? This piece is finished to evoke the atmosphere of a genuine antique-style kitchen.
With tweezers, even the fine details are recreated—from the storage cabinet drawers to the kitchen utensils.
By cutting cork sheets into brick-like pieces and pasting them one by one, then coloring them with specialty paints, you can achieve an even more realistic look.
Antique styles vary by region—such as European, British, and French—each with distinct characteristics.
It could be fun to create an antique kitchen that matches your personal taste.
[100-yen shop] A dollhouse for Sylvanian Families made by remaking a box
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How about remaking an empty box into a Sylvanian-sized dollhouse? It’s the perfect chance to reuse sturdy, cute boxes you couldn’t bring yourself to throw away.
Cut out the window frames and door with a craft knife; for the exterior walls, apply a whipped-cream-like base material to create a plastered look.
Make the windows with thin wood and acrylic sheets.
For the interior, try using adhesive remake sheets as wallpaper.
Use the corrugated part of colored cardboard for the roof.
The finished piece looks so polished, you’d never guess it was made from scrap materials.
Sylvanian Families–style café dollhouse
When making a dollhouse by hand, it’s nice if it can also serve as toy storage.
Here, we’ll show you a café-style dollhouse you can create mainly using items from 100-yen shops.
First, use a tray with a stylish design as the wall as-is.
For areas other than the tray, layer and attach color boards and cushion sheets.
Create the brick-style exterior with wide masking tape—what a clever idea.
For the floor, stick a makeover sheet onto a color board.
Assemble everything on a corkboard, and it’s complete.
Create with 100-yen shop frames! A display case for miniatures
There are many types of dollhouses where the dolls themselves don’t actually fit inside, aren’t there? Here’s a method for making a dollhouse where the house itself is the focus, along with the small accessories displayed inside.
For this dollhouse, the main material is a photo frame from a 100-yen shop.
With the front and top being clear, it’s easy to see and lets you display items without them getting dusty.
The frame is wooden but soft, so it’s easy to cut with a hand saw and simple to work with.
How about making one to showcase miniature items and collections that are currently sitting unused?
[100-Yen Shop] Creating a Garden for Sylvanian Families
![[100-Yen Shop] Creating a Garden for Sylvanian Families](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XLOLCJ0emps/sddefault.jpg)
Using only items from the 100-yen shop, you can make a dollhouse with a luxurious garden.
Take a corkboard—also available at the 100-yen shop—cut artificial turf to fit its shape, and place it on top.
If you want to make a pond, cut out a section of the turf where the pond will go.
Glue small stones from the gardening section around the cutout, and for the pond water, mix glass sand with liquid glue.
Create the front walkway using a colored foam board and paint it.
Fill the surrounding gaps with a mixture of the same stones and liquid glue used for the pond.
For the fence, use wooden name tags.
It’s fun to visit the 100-yen shop to hunt for the perfect materials.
A one-of-a-kind dollhouse made for your home is truly irreplaceable.
[100-yen shop] Portable dollhouse
![[100-yen shop] Portable dollhouse](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dsrTRKdmDxc/sddefault.jpg)
Dollhouses that children play with are a lot of fun, but they can take up space and be expensive, which may make some people hesitate to buy them.
In such cases, a handmade dollhouse using items from a 100-yen shop is easy and budget-friendly.
This dollhouse is made inside a box, so it’s portable, easy to put away inside the box, and won’t get scattered.
If you make it together with your children using patterns and designs they like, you’ll end up with a one-of-a-kind dollhouse.