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!
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Handmade ideas for dollhouses: Let’s create your ideal room and home! (1–10)
Provence-style miniature house from a 100-yen shop
You can make a miniature house in a South-of-France Provence style using materials from the 100-yen shop.
For the wall finish, dilute paper clay with water, add some wood glue, and apply it to create a textured, three-dimensional look.
For the front door and other features, cut them out of colored foam board and coat them with the same paper clay mixture.
Make the roof by peeling corrugated cardboard to expose the wavy layer, stack it to form tiles, and then paint it.
For the windows, randomly apply glue to acrylic sheets; once it dries, it gives a handmade glass effect.
You can add as much detail as you like, so finish at the level that suits you best.
Living room for 1/6 scale dolls
Here’s an idea for creating a 1/6-scale living room to fit dolls like Licca-chan.
While dollhouses often have a cute, charming image, this one is appealing for its mature look with a focus on natural colors.
It uses polystyrene foam from a home improvement store for the walls, adhesive remake sheets as wallpaper, and 100-yen-shop wood of a manageable thickness to the fullest.
It even incorporates waste materials like masking tape cores—clever ideas that make you go “aha.” The small accessory ideas are all ones you’ll want to copy!
[100-Yen Shop] Easy Dollhouse for Sylvanian Families
![[100-Yen Shop] Easy Dollhouse for Sylvanian Families](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rNyc6apAclA/sddefault.jpg)
Not only children but also adults are big fans of Sylvanian Families these days.
Some people feel nostalgic because they played with them as kids, of course, but many others have fallen for their charm as adults thanks to the adorable animal characters.
How about trying to handcraft a Sylvanian Families dollhouse? The main materials are color foam boards and adhesive remake sheets from the 100-yen shop.
You can make most of the walls and floors simply by gluing the foam boards together.
Using wooden coffee stirrers—which can be easily cut with a utility knife—as decorative accents is a great idea too.
Handmade dollhouse ideas: Let’s create your ideal room and home! (11–20)
West Coast-style dollhouse
Let’s try making a West Coast–style dollhouse using almost all items from 100-yen shops.
There are channels on YouTube and elsewhere where you can download materials, so be sure to check those out.
For the walls, use color foam boards from the 100-yen shop—they’re strong yet easy to cut with a utility knife, which is really handy.
For the flooring, apply wide masking tape; there are many types and patterns to choose from.
Since we’re doing a single wall color this time, we’ll finish it with a remake sheet.
For shelves, use partition cases from the 100-yen shop.
You can also use mini furniture from capsule toys, so keep an eye out for those too.
[Easy DIY] A room with a miniature piano
![[Easy DIY] A room with a miniature piano](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7kQhX4HeC_k/sddefault.jpg)
Here are some ideas for room decor and furniture placement that will really make the miniature piano stand out.
The piano is assembled from board pieces and painted all over, so let’s plan the decor to match its color.
Picture a room where a real piano might be placed, and proceed by arranging items to go on top of the piano, as well as storage for sheet music.
By incorporating heart motifs and wallpapers or furniture with a pink base, the piano’s dreamy, otherworldly atmosphere will be accentuated.
Above all, maintaining a color balance that complements the piano is the most important point.
Make it with cardboard! Miniature dollhouse
Here’s an easy dollhouse idea: just decorate cardboard and assemble it into the shape of a room.
Cardboard is sturdy yet easy to work with, so the freedom to customize shapes and designs is a big draw.
If you wrap the pieces neatly with origami paper or construction paper before assembling and cover the cardboard surface, it will look even more refined.
Choosing different decorative materials is a fun way to add originality, and layering fabric on the surface to create a softer look is also recommended.
Kids will love it ♡ Cardboard house
How about making a dollhouse where kids can play with their favorite stuffed animals and dolls? Dollhouses are generally very small and intricately crafted, but at this size it should be easier to make even if you’re not good at detailed work.
Try using cardboard and build it to match the size of the stuffed animals.
Give it a cute triangular roof with rounded tiles, make windows that can open and close, and decorate the exterior walls with wrapping paper or drawings—it will look lovely.