Wednesday, 11 November 2015

DIY doll's house sink unit

I got inspiration from a few websites (e.g. http://www.mnn.com/family/family-activities/blogs/diy-recycled-doll-house-furniture). 



To make this version I used:

Material
1 box from a bottle of medicine
1 plastic razor-head cover
1 plastic bendy straw
1 sheet of pale yellow foam card
1/2 sheet of white foam card
5 small round silver beads
1 small red bead
1 small blue bead
1 blue sequin
2 gold flower stickers
1 piece of silver metallic card
White and metallic silver acrylic paint (or you could use tin foil or foil wrapper)
Glue
Black biro or fine marker pen

Instructions
  1. Glue open end of the box shut. Decide where the sink should go, and trace the outline of the sink hole around the bottom of the razor head cover.
  2. Using a scalpel, cut a hole out of the box for the sink, and adjust the hole size just enough so the razor head cover fits inside to form a sink. Remove the sink for later.
  3. Cut 6 pieces of coloured foam to fit around the six sides of the unit and glue in place, making sure they line up exactly at the edges.
  4. Using a scalpel, cut a hole through the foam sheet around the sink hole – making sure the foam is just very slightly overlapping the cardboard underneath.
  5. Push the sink snugly into place.
  6. Cut a piece of silver card fit into the bottom of the sink and glue in place. Stick a blue sequin or button on as a plug hole.
  7. Cut a piece of silver card to make a draining board and use a fine marker pen or black biro to draw on the corrugated lines. Glue in place.
  8. Cut a piece of bendy straw the right length for the faucet, making sure it’s long enough to touch the floor of the sink unit when in place. Either paint it with acrylic paint (3 coats white + 3 coats metallic silver) or cover with silver foil (glue in place).  Glue a silver bead onto the end.
  9. Cut a small hole next to the sink in the place you want the faucet to go, and push the faucet through the hole until it reaches the floor of the sink unit.
  10. Glue the red and blue beads in place as taps.
  11. Cut 3 squares and 3 small rectangles of white (or coloured) foam card to make drawers and cupboard doors, and glue in place.
  12. Cut six tiny lozenges from the petals of gold flower stickers and stick onto drawers and cupboards as handles.
  13. Glue four silver beads onto the base as feet.

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