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Build This Inexpensive Yet Durable Dollhouse

Many of the visitors to this craft website come to find out about dollhouse furniture.

I decided to show how to build an inexpensive, light, and portable dollhouse that's just the size for most of the furniture and dolls described on pages of this craft site.

Any little girl would enjoy helping build this inexpensive craft project, and playing hours upon end with it when the construction is complete.

As this picture shows, this beauty has a handle to make transport easy, and is so light that I actually have picture frame hooks on the back, and I hang my little dollhouse on the wall.

You might want to consider supplementing your dollhouse with the miniature gazebo and wishing well described in my book Judy's Easy Craft Projects. Both are on a compatible scale for the dolls and furniture described on this site, and included in the book is some additional miniature dollhouse furniture.

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From the front this miniature has the charm of a small cottage. The front doors are hinged and held closed with a small latch.

Enticing front windows (described later) decorate the front of the dollhouse.

Open the doors to find several rooms of easy living for dolls the size of the Girl Doll shown on another craft page.

You can see that this little cottage is furnished with furniture, much of which is described in the wood craft sections of this website.

Dollhouse Construction Layout

At left you see a parts layout for the pieces used to construct the dollhouse cottage.

These parts are all cut from 3/16 inch thick sheets of foam board. I've found this foam board to be the perfect material for the construction of the little dollhouse cottage. It is very light, very strong, and easily cut with a craft knife .

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