Diy dollhouse roof shingles

You Can Create Dollhouse Shingles With Different Materials And With Very Different Methods- A Complete Walkthrough For You On My Blog!

I started with sheets of black poster board then realized buying a stack of 8 1/2" x 11" black card stock would be less $. I taped th...

Making a slate roof on a budget takes a little time, but is well worth it. The cheap wood shingles I already had happened to be warped but ...

Today We Are Going To Give You 5 Dollhouse Roof Ideas, From How To Create Shingles To A Thatched Roof And More!

how to: slate look roof tiles, Excellent tutorial for making slate shingles or stone floors!!

As much fun as demo always is, I was so excited to get started on the transformation. I painted the wrap-around porch Heirloom White.

So I know I said in my last post that I would be doing some railings for the second story balcony next. Well, I started to work on it and had a duh aha! moment. I should probably do the roof before putting in my rails that would make parts of the roof inaccessible. I really wanted to use real metal for the roof, but my lack of patience and proper equipment left me wondering how to achieve the same look in an easier way. So off to Hobby Lobby I went. To make the roof I used 1/16" x 1"…

Let's make some shingles for the roof, Today I'm going to show you how I made shingles using cardboard from a box. I also show how I attach them and how I paint them. Use this technique on your Fairy

The roof of the house is covered with pieces of cardboard and painted afterwards to make it resemble a grey slated one. First of all, I made use of a book written by Jean Nisbett and called : "A beginners Guide tot the Doll's House Hobby". In this book the writer sets out several options of house exteriors. One of them is the "economy option" for supplying your house with a slated roof using cardboard. I did some experiments with it to make it look as realistic as possible. In this post I'll…

There was some great debate within me on what to do for the exterior of this build. I wanted something more than just paint, but I knew what I had planned for the roof and what I wanted for colors...I settled on stucco finish with Glidden's Gold Coast White as my main color. Nice and neutral! My big hurdle then was what to make the stucco with. I wanted to use something that I already had at the house since I had a really limited budget to work with. Hard to spend oodles on the house when…