DIY furniture for Barbie, step by step instructions

Almost all girls love to play with dolls, especially Barbie. For children, such games become the first experience of family life, passions boil in doll houses, toy people communicate, everyday situations are played out. Games will not be realistic without an appropriate interior. The furnishings of the Barbie home should be as similar as possible to a real house. If adult women want to have unique things in their wardrobe, then their daughters just need original and beautiful barbie furniture to be happy. If parents decide to make their own furniture for Barbie, involve their child, then the baby will receive an interesting pastime for the evening and new elements for the game.

Necessary tools and materials

It is interesting to come up with and make from various materials various elements of the decor in a toy house. It is impossible to clearly determine the list of necessary tools, it will depend on the imagination of the masters. Useful in any case:

• Scissors;
• Glue;
• Ruler;
• Napkins
• Oilcloth;
• Threads with needles;
• Pencils.

These things will help to create very beautiful details. In fact, you can create furniture using a much larger list of items. For example, to make a luminaire with a switch, you may need a blowtorch, LEDs, wires.

Plain cardboard will help in the manufacture. From the material create real masterpieces. Making cardboard furniture is an affordable way for everyone to furnish a toy house with quality furniture.

Walkthrough

You can, of course, independently come up with ways to make furniture, but it will be much simpler and more reliable to use drawings, assembly diagrams, instructions that help in the manufacture of toy furniture. All this has been tested several times, and your imagination can take a walk at the decoration stage.

Table

Barbie, like people, has different tables. Production methods differ slightly depending on the purpose, functionality and design features:

• Dinner table;
• Coffee table;
• Desktop.

Tables made of cardboard. To give strength to the products, the legs of the tables must be made in the form of cylinders. This form creates additional stiffeners that prevent breakage or deformation. You can fasten them with glue or tape. These substances can not be spared. The larger the tape, the stronger the product.

The legs to the table can be attached in two main ways:

• Through holes. For this, circles equal in diameter to the legs of the table are cut out in the countertop. They insert cylinders into them, level them in height with each other, lower the countertop so that the cylinders rise above its level by about a centimeter. The protruding parts of the cylinders are divided into 3-4 parts; all of them must be tightly glued to the surface of the table. The upper part of the countertop will not look very aesthetically pleasing, but this can be fixed with decor;
• Gluing the legs to the "wrong" part of the table. The process remains exactly the same, only the legs are divided into strips and glued to the bottom of the table. This allows you to leave the front side untouched.

Tables with one leg will not stand stably, therefore, from the bottom of the sole support, they fix another circle of thick cardboard, which gives the structure stability. For reliability, it is better to use 3-4 legs per product.

Cut out the detailsGlue partsWe fix the countertop

Armchair

In the photo, such products seem almost real and allow children to create compositions for pictures. This is a rather complicated element of furniture, therefore it is necessary to approach its manufacture with all responsibility. It will be most convenient to make a chair out of thick cardboard. Great packaging from household appliances. The corrugated middle of these sheets will give strength, and the smooth side parts make them easy to fasten. A chair without legs and without a large number of small elements will be simple and durable.

1. To begin with, you should come up with the shape of the back of the future chair. It must be schematically drawn on cardboard;
2. Such forms should be glued to each other to achieve a thickness of 0.5-1 cm;
3. The seat is cut in the same way. It should repeat the shape of the back. The height of the seat is also gained by gluing several layers of cardboard. Ideally, if it is 4-5 cm;
4. The handles of a chair can be made of cardboard in the same way;
5. The chair turns out angular, flaky and plain. You can cope with this with the help of a clerical knife or when covering the furniture with a layer of soft cloth.

The chair needs to be done a little more than required, this will allow you to choose any decor elements and use soft filler for the textile part.

We prepare the boxesSeat upholsteryWe fix the fabric with staplesUpholstered with synthetic winterizer coatings

Bed

This element will not cause difficulties, especially if legs are not required. The easiest way is a bed from a shoe box. The dolls have convenient growth, due to which they are ideally placed in many boxes. In this case, you don’t have to do anything, except to prepare bedding, pillows and a mattress.

Legs can be attached to the bed, only they should not be made of fragile material. Corks from bottles, covered with elastic fabric, or painted with acrylic paint in the required color, are perfect. It is most convenient to fix them to a cardboard bed on a wire. It, like threads, is threaded in two places into cardboard and connected by twisting. To prevent the metal from tearing the cardboard, the wire is attached to several toothpicks placed between the puncture sites.

The sides of the bed should be hidden with a cloth, sticky paper or a soft strip created from synthetic winterizer glued to the surface and covered with fabric. You can create a four-poster bed. Usually it is mounted on top, on thin legs. It is impossible to create thin and durable legs from cardboard, so parents will have to make them from another material. You can use old pens pasted over with beautiful elements. A thin tulle is hung on these racks. For strength 4 vertical supports are connected with strong and thin sticks. Between them they are connected with tape.

The blanket should be approximately 1.5 times the size of the bed in all directions. Thus, wrapping a doll is not difficult. A large blanket is used as a carpet if desired.

Cut the parts out of the boxWe connect the elements with masking tapePaint the blankWe make and fix the rufflesWe lay the bed sheets

Sofa

The sofa is very similar in design to a chair. It is made in exactly the same way by connecting layers. However, there is an easier way:

1. First you need to determine the dimensions of the future sofa and choose the most suitable shoe box;
2. One of the long sides should be cut immediately. You can leave a strip 1 cm high below;
3. The curly back and armrests are cut out, you can leave them square;
4. From a foam plastic 1 - 2 cm thick. A rectangle the size of the bottom of the box is cut out;
5. A piece of sintepon or any other soft material of exactly the same size;
6. These parts are superimposed on each other and are covered with fabric. It will be a seat. It is placed at the bottom, and the centimeter of cardboard left does not allow the soft part to fall;
7. Other parts of the sofa are wrapped in exactly the same fabric. A soft sintepon must be glued to the surfaces and only then tightened with a cloth;
8. The legs are made of corks. It is a durable and easily accessible material that allows cardboard furniture to serve for a long time. They are attached to the sofa with wire and toothpicks, as mentioned in the section on making beds.

Fasten the fabric to the cardboardWe fix the sides and seats of the sofaMake pillowsGlue pillows

Chest of drawers

Parents are thinking about how to make Barbie furniture more functional, and not just beautiful. The chest of drawers should open, it can store toy trifles, for example, combs, bows and shoes for dolls. For the manufacture of a toy chest come in handy several matchboxes. They easily create the ability to store things:

1. The boxes should be painted first. To do this, remove the match grater and paint;
2. Each next box is attached to the previous glue;
3. They can be wrapped with tape around the perimeter, this will prevent peeling off and help to further strengthen the structure;
4. For ease of opening, you need to make handles. Buttons on the leg are suitable for this. They can simply be sewn.

You can create a dressing table, then two such dressers are needed, a countertop between them and a mirror. It is made of cardboard, glued with a mirror film or silver tape. The mirror is attached to the back wall, it can be its continuation. For durability, this part should be glued to the chest of drawers.

Prepare matchboxesCut the side walls and backPaint coatingsPaste the boxes with matchesMake pens

Dressing

To decorate furniture for a house you will need a variety of props: scraps of fabric, unnecessary cream boxes, pieces of cardboard, broken pencils, empty pastes from pens, jewelry torn from gum, unpaired socks, torn buttons, and a lot of seemingly unnecessary little things.

• The soft parts of beds, sofas and armchairs are made of padding polyester. This is cheap and affordable stuff. It can be found even at home, if you undo an unnecessary jacket;
• Pillows stuffed with the same padding polyester. They can be sewn on a typewriter, but the remaining hole for stuffing will have to be sewn up manually, this makes the product much more accurate;
• Accessories and furniture are made of paper. Here a set of colored paper may come in handy. It is better to use a two-sided option, this will help to make the elements completely painted in one color;
• Buttons are needed to create pens on the bedside tables and dressers. Small buttons are used to create beautiful pillows, blankets, tablecloths;
• All elements must be designed in the same style. This is ensured by using the same materials. Usually people don’t store very small scraps of fabric at home, so this item will not cause difficulties;
• Adhesive tape will help to simulate a wooden surface, making it easy to make almost wooden furniture from cardboard furniture. A beautiful adhesive tape with a pattern or lace saves time for decoration and helps not only to fasten elements, but also to decorate them. Using these tools at the same time, you can effortlessly create a beautiful element, especially if the lace tape is a contrasting color film.

For the manufacture of do-it-yourself barbie furniture it will be convenient to purchase several meters of beautiful tape in advance. It will close ugly joints, distract attention from glue smudges, mask masking tape. All materials for the decor are prepared in advance, selected in tone and stored for future use.

Video

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