How To Put Siding On A Dollhouse

It s a lot more time consuming to install whether your house is full sized or dollhouse sized but it adds so much authenticity if it s done right.

How to put siding on a dollhouse.

To minimize warping paint them on both sides and then lay them on wax or parchment paper to dry. The right hand side is original. Make templates for each wall of your dollhouse from sheets of shirt cardboard or thick poster board. Step 2 sketch the positions and correct dimensions of any doors or windows onto the templates.

You will have to paint each and every one of them individually. Cut the poster board or shirt cardboard to the length and width of each wall. I recommend that you cut the shingles to the appropriate angle then install them up the entire height of the roof valley gable or dormer on both sides before proceeding to the rest of each row. That said i m going to bet this how to doesn t apply to clapboard siding you make on your own as in one board at a time.

That said i bet this how to sand dollhouse clapboard siding could apply to the kind of clapboard siding that you buy as a sheet and attach to a shell that doesn t have it. If the dollhouse kit did not come with siding then you most likely will have individual siding strips rather than sheets. Hold the first piece of siding along the bottom edge of the first wall flush with the corner of the house. Holding the siding in place draw a pencil line on the back of the siding where it will be cut.

Old houses have that beautiful narrow lap siding. Please follow my facebook page for more miniature madn. It is usually easier to first cut along the vertical lines then across the horizontal lines. Here s my old victorian.

You can then continue as the instructions show or you can work from the gable or dormer to the outer edge of the roof. This video will show you how and what you need to install siding on your miniature dollhouse exterior. Hold or temporarily tape your siding sheet in place then using a pencil mark any doors and windows from inside the dollhouse to indicate your cutting lines.