Miniature houses have recently gained extraordinary popularity among lovers of needlework. Such crafts can decorate the interior both in the apartment and in schools or kindergartens. Small houses on the garden plot look beautiful, giving the interior a certain fabulousness. It seems that the little dwarf is about to return, open the magic door and go into his miniature house.
It’s not difficult to do crafts with your own hands, but this work is rather painstaking due to the presence of many small details. You need to think through all the details in advance: what to take as a basis for the design, how to design the exterior walls and roof, from what and what shape to create doors and windows.
If you have a little daughter, then you can start by creating miniature doll houses with your own hands. Girls are very fond of playing with small dolls and will be extremely pleased with the appearance of housing for them, especially since it will have everything necessary for the game - furniture, a bed, a bathtub and stairs. One can dream endlessly both with the design and with the shape of the house itself. Involve your child in creating a drawing and choosing materials for decoration.
In the article we present to your attention several interesting ideas for making miniature houses with your own hands with step-by-step instructions and photos. You can use the samples in the article or come up with your own version that will fit perfectly into the interior of your home or garden.
Ice Cream Stick House
To create such a wooden structure, waste material was used, namely ice cream sticks. They are all the same size and have neat rounded edges that look good on the finished product. Details of the house are made using hot glue. It is convenient and the parts are fastened much faster. You will also need a simple pencil for marking, a ruler, a jigsaw to give the sticks the right size.
How to make a miniature house with your own hands? It is most convenient to create a base from cardboard or used box, and then just glue the blank with wooden sticks. To make the windows, round skewers are taken. If the house is small at all, then you can even use toothpicks. The structure will look interesting if the sticks are painted with acrylic paints and coated with a layer of varnish.
Plastic tubing construction
In the manufacture of miniature houses with their own hands, craftsmen use a variety of materials. The sample below is made of different color cocktail tubes. Plastic is perfectly glued and cut with ordinary scissors.
You don’t have to paint the house, as the tubes can be selected in any color. The house will turn out bright and cheerful. From the green tubes, you can depict trees, palm trees or flowers in the flowerbed.
Gift box in a box
Miniature houses built in a cardboard or tin box from cookies or chocolates look original. A card and a pocket for money are glued on the lid. And already in the inner deep half they are building a whole green meadow with a house, furniture and even the characters living there.
To create such a miniature house, do-it-yourself foam plastic, sisal fibers, artificial flowers and fruits, colored bath salt for the brook and wooden twigs to create the structure itself are used. Such a gift will be the most original at the holiday.
Cardboard structure
DIY miniature houses can be made of packaging material using boxes from cookies or appliances. To make the roof corrugated, just peel off the top tissue paper from the corrugated board. The windows are carved with a knife and glued with wooden sticks.
The ladder leading to the house looks originally. It is made by gluing thin sheets of foam of various sizes and wrapped in cardboard on the sides. The house is mounted on a solid base, so that it is easy to move from place to place. You can paint the cardboard in different colors, adding brightness to the craft.
Foam house made of twigs
Such a wonderful fairy house is not difficult, but its manufacture requires considerable preparatory work. You need to pick up twigs of the same thickness, remove the bark from them and open the stain to give a brown tint. From the foam, by gluing several sheets together, they make the shape of a house with a triangular roof and a balcony. At the location of the windows with blue paint, the foam is painted, and then pasted over with small thin sticks.
The roof slats on the sample are painted with green paint and are attached to one another like a real tile. This house is decorative in nature, as its doors do not open. The entire structure is preferably located on a solid foundation. It can be thick cardboard, fiberboard or MDF, thin plywood is also suitable.
House on the Bank
It is convenient to make miniature houses with your own hands on some basis. It can be packaging from juice or a plastic bottle. The next proposed option is made on a glass floor liter jar using polymer clay. It is not necessary to have the talent of an artist to fashion flowers, windows and a door. On the lid of the can, do not forget to punch a hole so that when baking in the oven it does not crack. The tiles are made of identical plates, rolled out with a rolling pin and cut out by stack. You can make a craft in different ways, here you can already fantasize ad libitum. The container itself is completely covered with a thin layer of plastic mass and is divided by strips at an equal distance. It seems that these are wooden logs of a real log house.
When the house is finished, it is put in the oven and baked at a temperature of 100 ° - 130 ° C until the clay hardens. This craft can be stored for a long time, it can be washed under wastewater and calmly rearranged from place to place. It is durable and easy to store. It looks impressive, saturated colors remain for a long period.
Miniature Garden Cottages
You can decorate a personal plot with your own hands. On a flower bed or on a tree stump from a felled tree, arrange a miniature fairy-tale house that will become a real decoration of a garden or patio.
Natural materials are most often used for its creation - fine gravel, sea pebbles, logs and hemp, tree bark or branches. As the basis for attaching the finishing material, foam or construction foam, plastic 5 or 6 liter bottles are used.
On the prepared basis with the help of a glue gun, small elements of finishing material are applied. The photo above shows that fine gravel is glued onto the cut-out plastic container with a semicircular hole for the future door.
As you can see, it’s not difficult to make small houses for interior decoration on your own, the main thing is to have an original plan and desire to create. Good luck