How to make furniture for dolls out of the box from matches and from cardboard

How to make furniture for the dolls? Let's say at once that this is feasible for those who are reserved for patience and necessary materials. Puppet furniture hand made can be made of cardboard, wood, newsprint, cans, plastic bottles, matchboxes, shoe and candy boxes, kitchen sponges. This results in an exclusive and original miniature furniture. How to make furniture for dolls beautiful and correct? Let's look at the example of matchboxes, from which you can create a designer chest of drawers for Barbie.

As two boxes turn into an antique chest: a phased operation

Furniture for Barbie dolls should be stylish and not ordinary. Therefore, the chest of drawers will be made using a technique that will make it old. First you need to prepare and collect the necessary materials. These will be:

1. Empty boxes of matches - 2 pcs.
2. Glue PVA, candle.
3. Two plates of cardboard: one thickness of 1 mm, the second - 2 mm.
4. A nail file or a piece of nazhdachki.
5. Ornaments for fittings.
6. Colors acrylic (brown and white).

How to make dolls for furniture? We begin to create!

1. Glued boxes "back".
2. Cut out of thick cardboard 4 blanks. Two for the side walls of the chest and one for the upper and lower part of it (the front and back walls are not to be sealed).
3. Glue the boxes, starting from the bottom and top (then on the sides).
4. Gently press down, fixing the end zones. Ideally, the cardboard must be monolithic to tighten the boxes.
5. Speak unevenness, cut the notches with sandpaper or a saw blade.
6. Pull prototypes of drawers out of the workpiece.
7. Take a brown tone of acrylic and properly paint all surfaces, joints and corners of the workpiece.
8. If the paint is thick, then you can do without a primer.
9. With a paraffin candle, process the outer and inner corners of the chest, as well as the ends. White crumbs of a candle to brush off a dry sponge or a brush (if they remain, all aesthetics will be lost).
10. Now you can cover with white acrylic. Do not be afraid to make several layers.
11. Let's start decorating the facade of drawers. From a thin cardboard to cut out 6 rectangular blanks of the different size (on 3 on everyone). One, which will be glued directly to the box, must exceed it in length and width. The second is slightly smaller than the first, and the third is the smallest.
12. Make preliminary measurements of blanks: there should be a gap between them for the normal extension of the drawers in the finished chest.
13. Rectangles to glue, having imposed them on each other (on the big to put average, and on the average - the smallest).
14. Glue the workpieces to boxes that are better to insert into the box.
15. Cover with a brown paint, then rub it with a candle and fix it in a white tone.
16. When all is well dry, take the nazhdachku and erase the coat of paint in those places that were treated with a candle.
17. Rubbing should be easy and without pressure, so as not to reach the cardboard. Now the chest has to be filled with brown paint to give it a raid old age.

Remains a pleasant part of the work - decoration and decoration. On the top of the chest can be stuck with scrap paper or put, for example, a vase of flowers in the technique of killing. If you want, then attach a chest of drawers from twisted strips of paper.

If you decide to make furniture for dolls of paper, then take better cardboard. From it, make patterns of your future items (bed, wardrobe, bedside tables, kitchen sideboards). Joints can be glued together, and can be fixed with chopsticks from ice cream. For decor use acrylic paints, lacquer, scrap paper. We hope that these tips will help you if you are puzzling over how to make furniture for dolls.