Doll house roof ideas

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 roof of the house is covered with pieces of cardboard and painted afterwards to make it resemble a grey slated one. ...

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...

You Can Create Dollhouse Shingles With Different Materials And With Very Different Methods- A Complete Walkthrough For You On My Blog!

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...

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"…

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…

As much fun as demo always is, I was so excited to get started on the transformation. I painted the wrap-around porch Heirloom White.