Also mark that the vertical cuts in the strips of cardboard alternate.
How to make a dollhouse roof.
The roof of your dollhouse takes up a lot of real estate which makes it worth it to take some time to think about how you want to approach it.
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The roof of the dollhouse.
If you only want to use 2 floors nail both roof poeces on.
Make sure you use short screws.
One of the most popular and economical solutions is to apply wood dollhouse shingles.
We used a 25 inch piece as a rafter and a 15 inch piece as our ridge.
Measure the length and width of each side of the roof and write these measurements down.
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I then rechecked all of my work to make sure all the panels were straight and tight together.
Bend the trimmed lid in half widthways to create an a frame roof.
To build the frame of the roof visit our detailed post about roofing here and scale it to size.
Create an a frame roof for your dollhouse.
You don t have to do this.
How to make roof tiles for your doll house from sandpaper.
How to build a dollhouse roof.
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Choose either black or brown sandpaper depending on which matches the color of the outside of the doll house.
How to make shingles for a doll house step 1.
We don t want the screws to poke up through the roof.
Draw a line lengthways and cut down the line with scissors.
I used 4 small hinges to attach the roof to the beam.
Many times your wood dollhouse kit will come with prepackaged shingles.
Measure the depth of the box and then measure that length widthways on your lid and make a mark.
I left the house to dry and walked out of my workroom knowing the shell of the dollhouse was complete.
Lastly i added the gable roofs at the peak.
The idea is to paste the strips of cardboard on the wooden roof of the house making sure evere strip partly covers the one underneath.