A quick, cheap doll house waste basket...

Use an old cap (from toothpaste, hairspray, etc.) for a quick dollhouse garbage pail!

How to make your own dollhouse pie

Making your own doll house pies is a lot easier than you might think.  You need a bottle cap, some craft foam and a small hole punch (or tiny beads or used air soft rifle pellets), glue and water, a scrap of thin brown paper.  
Here are step by step instructions with pictures:


1. Take an old bottle cap (you can also buy them at a craft store for a few cents), fill it with tiny beads or small punches of craft foam to see how much filling you need:

2. Dump the loose pie filling into a small container, add glue and stir.

3.  Dump the pie filling into the bottle cap(s) and wait for it to dry.  Here's a before and after picture of the wet / dry pie filling:

4. Next, make the crust... turn a pie upside down on thin brown paper and trace around it.  Cut out the circle.

5.  Cut the brown paper circle into thin strips.

6. Mix a little water and glue together - make it fairly runny, like the consistency of milk.  Put the strips in the glue mixture and stir them around, being sure they get coated on all sides.

7. Lay the strips across the top of the pies in a criss-cross lattice pattern.  (Note:  I use a toothpick or end of a paint brush to help get the strips in place.  Otherwise they start sticking to both hands and you end up really frustrated.)

8.  Wait for the pies to "bake" (dry!) and you're done!  

Another dollhouse stove picture...

Here is a picture of another wooden doll house stove.  Unlike the other wooden stoves I've done, this one has all painted on faucet handles, door pulls, and stove burners.  These particular ones were not meant to look "real", so I used pink!

Use Dowels to finish your wooden dollhouse kitchen furniture

Using small diameter dowels is an easy (and cheap) way to finish your wooden doll house stove, refrigerator, sink and cupboard.  Here I used some scraps of grey dowels (torn out of an old drapery sample) for handles for the fridge and stove.  And tiny snippets of thin dowels for the sink/cupboard faucet handles and drawer and cupboard handle.  When the glue dries, paint these too.  

For a finished picture of the miniature sink / cupboard combo, see the picture in my later post.

Another dollhouse kitchen idea - a homemade stove and sink combo

For a "studio" doll house, you might like this space saving idea!  "Install" a stove to the right of the sink (where you would normally leave empty for some cupboard space).  This time I tried using small gold rings (available from craft stores) for the stove burners.  Next time I would even out the glue blobs on top after it has sat about an hour.  Here are a couple pictures:

Making your own homemade dollhouse kitchen sink and cupboard

To make your own wooden doll house sink and cupboard is not hard if you can operate a scroll saw... if you can't, I think you could glue small pieces of wood around to form a sink, anyway, here are instructions on how to make this one!

You need:

* a chunk of wood 3.5" x 1.5" x 2" (this is the base)

* a piece of wood 3.5" x 1.5" x .5" (cut a .5" x 1.125" rectangle out of one end of this - it will be the sink)

* 2 thin pieces of wood 1.625" x 2.25" (these are the cupboard doors)

* 1 screw hook

* 2 earring posts

* beads for cupboard handles (or you can paint them on)

Assemble wood pieces as shown by gluing...

paint...

screw in the "faucet"

glue on the faucet handles and door handles...

You're done!

For another example of this miniature kitchen sink and cupboard, see this picture in a later post.  It uses little snippets of thin dowels to create faucet handles and cupboard / drawer handles.  (Glue them on and paint over them.)

Make your own doll house stove / oven

Here is a basic idea for making your own dollhouse wooden stove and oven. You would not have to put the "hood" over the stove:

You need:

* a chunk of wood 1.5" x 1.5" x 2.5" (drill 4 small holes in the top - big enough that half a snap will fit in them)

* thin pieces of wood to make your back and "hood".

Glue together...

paint...

glue on half of a snap for stove burners (you could paint these on instead)...

glue beads on for stove "dials" (you could paint these on instead too)...

glue or paint on an oven door handle...

You're done! Here are some before and after pictures:

You can also use tiny rings for the stove burners... see this picture in a later post for an example.

Make your own homemade dollhouse refrigerator / freezer combo

With 3 wood scraps you can easily make a doll house refrigerator and freezer combination. You need:

* one wood chunk measuring approximately 1.5" x 2.125" x 5.5"

* one thin piece of wood measuring 2.125" x 3.375"

* one thin piece of wood measuring 2.125" x 1.75"

Sand corners...

Glue on doors...

paint...

add a refrigerator handle (a metal clip from an old pen works well)...

And you're done!

This fridge/freezer can be set on either end, depending if you want a top or bottom freezer model!

Here is a before and after picture of one:

For another idea on miniature fridge / freezer handles see our later post.