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 quick dollhouse border...

You scrapbookers likely already know about this! But I just discovered the self-adhesive ribbon that craft stores sell in the scrapbooking section... there are all kinds of doll house sized "borders", and better yet, they have adhesive on the back of them, so you just peel and stick! No need to deal with gluey fingers! Here's a picture of a kitchen I just did with an apple border and yellow scrapbooking paper wallpaper...


Another great dollhouse decorating site to visit!

Here is another site you definitely need to look at if you're decorating a doll house. Tons of wallpaper and other fun printables! http://www.jennifersprintables.com/

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.


A great website for lots of dollhouse printables!

This site has a LOT of great print-your-own things for doll houses... If you're decorating a dollhouse, you should definitley check it out!

Print your own wood laminate dollhouse flooring

Here are some printable wooden laminate doll house floors for you... after printing them you can do one of two things:

1. Print, cover with clear vinyl laminate (like Contact Paper), trim, and glue to your floor.
2. Print, spray several coats of clear acrylic sealer, trim, and glue to your floor.




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: