DIY Dollhouse Week 4

The next room up is the living room. I enjoyed this room. You have a couple of big pieces and a few small pieces that you had already done before like the jug, books and apples. The baskets are also a lot easier this time as you use a printed box underneath and then glue the rope around it. Super easy!

The most fun was making the couch, so that is what this post is concentrating on. First step is to cut a small piece of the couch material and wrap around the end of the arms.

There is no need to hem any edges as they all will be covered.

Next is to cover the rest of the arms. In this case you need to hem the side that buts up against the arm end (or cheat like me and use fabric glue).

You also need to make sure the material that runs over the arm and down the other side is low enough to cover everything up till the point that the seat will cover it from (about half way down will be fine).

Once you have both arms done you need to cut out the seat pattern and glue it together.
Then cut out a couple of pieces of material to cover the seat and the back plate.

I found the stuffing supplied was a bit low. So for the couch I just folded up a bit of handy towel, and used that as the cushion padding.

The seat was just wrapped like a parcel. And the back plate was wrapped from the front around the back. You can see the back of the couch through the window. So if the back of your couch isn’t very tidy you can cut and hem a piece of material and stick it on the back of the couch to hide all the loose ends.

And here are all the items assembled in the house.

For the wood in the fireplace baskets the instructions called for the orange cardboard to be rolled up into logs. But I have all the leftover wood from the house and there is plenty of planks in there. So there is real wood in my fireplace. I also added a bit of the leftover wood to the back of the one canvas painting that didn’t have a back board, I just like it better that way.

And that’s all for now, until next time – happy crafting.

Sorry…I forgot to add the picture of all the items gathered up before they got added to the room. So here they are all.

There are four pictures shown. But I ended up putting one of the pictures in the bedroom next door. Part of the fun of these houses is you can arrange them as you like. I am trying to keep mine as a sample, so very close to the original. But you can have as much creative freedom as you wish with yours!