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I have a lot of plans for next year, and all my excitement about what I am going to be building comes from all the ideas I have had while working on this particular project. I am a dollhouse shingle hobby lobby fanatic and if it weren’t for my friend’s help, I would probably still be working on an actual dollhouse full-time.
This hobby lobby is one of those little projects that is just so amazing, but you have to buy the materials to make it. If you’re just looking for a new way to spend time with your dolls, this is one of the only projects that really makes you feel like you are working on an actual project.
It seems that the hobby lobby, which is essentially a dollhouse shingle, has been around for years. I have no idea why I waited so long to get started, but I knew this project was worth the wait. I guess I just wanted to get it a bit sooner than I would have spent a whole lot of money. It has taken me a little over a year to complete a dollhouse shingle.
You have to buy three of them, and they all seem to be the same size. They are all painted in a very similar way, so I would recommend building one as a start and then building more as you get more comfortable with the process.
I have had great experience building my first shingle from scratch. I’m not totally sure why, but it seems to have worked out well.
Building a dollhouse shingle is a bit like building a real one. You choose the materials you want (plaster for the frame and doors), lay the materials out, and then build the pieces. After you have finished the frame, you need to make the doors and windows. The easiest way to do this is to use a dowel rod and screw it into a plywood base to attach the doors and windows.
The same thing can be done with the sheet rock. You just need to cut it to the size you want, then take a sheet of paper and mark it with the size you want to cut it in. The best way is to cut the paper to your exact size and then make the cuts.
You can get creative too. You can make windows out of the sheet rock, or you can simply cut the sheet rock to fit the doors.
We’ve already got a full tutorial on how to do this in this video.
We’ll be doing a tutorial on the sheet rock DIY soon on our new “How to Build a Dollhouse” blog. It’s going to be full of fun stuff like how to use a sheet of plywood to make the windows in the first place, and how to get the front door of the dollhouse to open. We’ll have a few different DIY tutorials on our main blog.
