How to put a small bit of wallpaper in your dollhouse...

In an earlier post I told how I put full walls of wall paper in a wooden doll house.  This post will tell how I do smaller bits of wallpaper... for example, a painted top and wallpapered bottom.  This method also works for installing borders.  Remember things look better in "thirds" rather than "halves".  (for example, paint 2/3 of the wall and wallpaper 1/3... or wallpaper 2/3 and paint 1/3...)

1. Measure and cut  your wallpaper
2. Always have your wallpaper go continuously around a corner... don't have it stop at a corner or a dark "gap" will show when you're all done.  To make this easier, crease/fold the wallpaper piece where the corner will end up.
3. Use an old magazine and lay a piece(s) of your wallpaper upside down on it.
4. Smear tacky glue all over the back of it, paying special attention to the edges.
5. Quickly go wash and dry your hands, or keep a wet rag handy to wipe the glue off your fingers before pressing the wallpaper into place.
6. Turn the magazine page, and you have another fresh surface for gluing the next piece!

Free printable dollhouse wallpaper

Here is some more "print your own" free doll house wallpaper... same pattern, just different colors.  As always, personal use only please, thanks!

Lavender / Purple doll house wallpaper downloads...

Here is some of the same dollhouse wallpaper as an earlier post, but in tones of purple and lavender.  I did it quickly using the tip posted earlier.  As always, personal use only please.  Thanks!  

Doll house butterfly wallpaper - free printable download!

Here is some more homemade dollhouse wallpaper... butterflies this time... personal use only, thanks!

Download a free printable log cabin wall / wallpaper for your dollhouse!

We used Lincoln Logs and Photoshop to create this doll house log cabin wall / wallpaper.  If I can ever get our comments working, I'd love to see what you all can do with this one!  Again, personal use only please.  Thanks!

More free printable dollhouse wallpaper and border for you to download!

Here are various kinds of pink flowered doll house wallpaper and border for you to use free for personal use.  Have fun!

This last one is a sheet of pink daisy border:

Free Printable dollhouse wallpaper: candy stripes with pink scallops and colored dots with pink bead border

Here are two more free doll house wall papers for you to download... You can trim the scallops or beads and hang it on a partially painted wall, or you can cover the whole wall with it.  As always, personal use only please.

How to change the color tones of free wallpaper files...

Say you find the "perfect" wallpaper for your dollhouse... but... it's pink with orange polka-dots and you can't stand pink with orange polka-dots!  Using Adobe Photoshop (or Adobe Photoshop Elements) you can easily change the doll house wall paper colors... Here's how:
* open the file
* Choose the "Replace Color" command.  (In my version this is found by clicking: Enhance, Adjust Color, Replace Color)
* Click on the color you want to change
* Adjust the 3 slider bars until you get the color and look you desire
* Click "OK" and you're done!  
* You may need to do this multiple times for a file, depending on how many colors you are wishing to change.
Here are three of my earlier files with the above technique applied:

How to make some basic homemade wooden dollhouse bathroom furniture

Here is a "before" picture of a wooden doll house toilet, bath tub, and sink. I'm still experimenting, but these are solid and playable. I plan on painting them white. The toilet lid will hinge with a small bit of fabric glued on. You can buy various sized dowels in the craft section of stores, or from a hardware store. I made this picture a little larger than normal so you can see the pieces and how they're put together.

As a side note, the wallpaper is scrapbooking paper and the floor is too - it's covered with clear plastic laminate. It is from Joann Fabric and Craft Stores and looks really nice installed.

Here is an after picture of the bathroom... First I painted every thing white. The sink part I painted a little bit of an off white to make it stand out more. The toilet flush handle I just painted on with a bit of grey paint. Same with the bathroom sink faucet and handles (I couldn't find anything on hand tiny enough to look realistic, but will keep looking!). The bathtub faucet is a metal hook and the bath tub's hot / cold water handles are earring posts. The pictures on the walls are attached with Velcro so they can be switched around. The pictures are those small ones found on the backs of calendars. Then I glued them on foam paper. The mirror above the sink is a small 1 inch mirror from the craft section, and I glued it to the middle of a piece of foam paper, and then cut small pieces to form a border around it. The toilet I ended up making hinge with a small piece of white duct tape.

Here is a picture of a later homemade wooden dollhouse toilet that is a little simpler to make...  This lid does not hinge like the other one.  

A tile and wallpaper set for your dollhouse!

Here are a couple of options for doll house larger-sized tile floors, as well as a coordinating diamond wallpaper. It would look nice in either a bathroom, kitchen, or laundry room.

More free printable doll house wallpaper for you - this one is extremely bright colors

One thing that sometimes is fun to do in a dollhouse is decorate a "kid's room" with popular kid themes... this can be difficult because of copyright laws. You can create your own, but not distribute them... that being said, I won't post any like that here, but here's one simple thing you can do... right now Wal-Mart (likely other craft stores too) has a cute Hello Kitty ribbon that is the perfect scale for a doll house. So I designed a coordinating striped wallpaper... you could paper the entire wall and put the border at the top, or paper just 1/3 or 2/3 of the wall, paint the rest, and "join" the two with the ribbon border. Here is a picture of the ribbon so you know which one I'm talking about (the flash distorted the color a bit), as well as the free wallpaper download.

More free printable doll house wallpaper for you!

Here are three variations on the same burgundy and red dollhouse wallpaper...

Click to enlarge, then print (heavier paper works best), and spray with clear acrylic sealer.

Here's the solid wallpaper version:

Here is the "bottom third wallpaper, top 2/3 paint" version:

And here is the "bottom third paint, top 2/3 wallpaper" version:

Free printable bathroom doll house wallpaper and linoleum set for you!

Print your own matching dollhouse wallpaper and linoleum set! For instructions on how to hang the wallpaper, visit this post. For instructions on how to lay the linoleum, visit this post. As always, free for you to use, no resale please. Have fun!

More free printable dollhouse wallpaper!

Here's some more free printable doll house wallpaper for you... follow the instructions in this previous post.  As always, free for you to use, no resale please.  Have fun!  

More free printable doll house wallpaper

Here's some more free printable dollhouse wallpaper for you... follow the instructions in the previous post.  You can also cut the paper right above the border and install it on a painted wall.  As always, free for you to use, no resale please.  Have fun!