How To Put Siding On A Dollhouse

Old houses have that beautiful narrow lap siding.

How to put siding on a dollhouse.

Hold or temporarily tape your siding sheet in place then using a pencil mark any doors and windows from inside the dollhouse to indicate your cutting lines. It is usually easier to first cut along the vertical lines then across the horizontal lines. Make templates for each wall of your dollhouse from sheets of shirt cardboard or thick poster board. It s a lot more time consuming to install whether your house is full sized or dollhouse sized but it adds so much authenticity if it s done right.

I recommend that you cut the shingles to the appropriate angle then install them up the entire height of the roof valley gable or dormer on both sides before proceeding to the rest of each row. Hold the first piece of siding along the bottom edge of the first wall flush with the corner of the house. The right hand side is original. If the dollhouse kit did not come with siding then you most likely will have individual siding strips rather than sheets.

Please follow my facebook page for more miniature madn. Step 2 sketch the positions and correct dimensions of any doors or windows onto the templates. This video will show you how and what you need to install siding on your miniature dollhouse exterior. Here s my old victorian.

Cut the poster board or shirt cardboard to the length and width of each wall. Holding the siding in place draw a pencil line on the back of the siding where it will be cut. You can then continue as the instructions show or you can work from the gable or dormer to the outer edge of the roof. To minimize warping paint them on both sides and then lay them on wax or parchment paper to dry.

Remove the sheet and cut along the pencil lines with your knife. Still holding the piece in place draw a pencil mark around the window and door openings covered by the piece of siding. That said i bet this how to sand dollhouse clapboard siding could apply to the kind of clapboard siding that you buy as a sheet and attach to a shell that doesn t have it.