Can someone help me with a craft idea?
I DO NOT WANT ANY WEBSITES! I am making modle rooms (Not houses) to keep me occupied. I need to know of any in-expensive stores that sell miniature furniture near Asheville, North Carolina. I don’t want them to be painted (White is O.K.), and the beds can’t have like little comforters and stuff. I will make those myself. I just need names of stores (NOT ON-LINE) that sell plain mini furniture. I’m checking Michael’s Craft Store today. Thanks for all good answers.
What will be good to use for the room walls? Will cardboard look tacky? Is plywood to difficult? Keep in mind…I’m only 12!
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try going to any craft store near you michaels is a great one to try also if you have a hobby lobby near you that is another good one
I’d say as i build my first Tudor dolls house on my own at 16.
4mm plywood is good for walls, also for wooden floors as it can be cut with a craft knife.
You can use cardboard, but use stiff cardboard and coat it with watered down PVA glue to seal it.
If you want to wallpaper you wall, a really good trick is, rather than buy dolls house wall paper, use scrap booking paper, much cheaper and prettier.
Furniture, i don’t know as I’m in the UK.
Hope it helps.
For room walls I would suggest wallpaper, wrapping paper, scrapbooking paper or papers from books that cloth companies give out. As for the furniture itself…I’m pretty sure Michael’s sells something like that; they also have wood shapes that you can paint – it might come in handy. You can also check out Ragshop, or any other craft store, and maybe Amazing Savings or second-hand shops, garage sales, etc.
Here’s a great link to a dollhouse that I made with my older sister a few years ago. It’s adorable and while I’m not sure it’s what you want you may get some ideas from it:
http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/buildmodel/feature/famf0200dollhouse/
Good luck, I think it’s great that you’re doing this!
You have Dollar Tree stores in your area and when I went to visit my son at Camp LeJeune NC and shopped a store called everything for a buck or everything for a $
At this time of year all the Dollar trees get a shipment of miniature house furniture.
You can also visit your library and get a book from the craft section on dollhouse miniatures and diaramas. These books can show you how to make furniture from bottle caps, and other left over things. Once you put a table cloth on it, Who Knows? I mean after all under my end table in my house is a barrel full of blankets, but with the table skirt, it is just an end table.
And about the walls, any Walmart, JoAnns etc have scrapbook paper with flowers so tiny they look like wall paper, even tiny striped paper can be wall paper.
build your diarama in a shoe box, or a deep (shadow box ) picture frame.
You can cover the outside in brick print paper or wood grain paper and plant the out side just like a house