A house made of cardboard is original and interesting, and most importantly, stylish for unusual interior.
A house made of cardboard with your own hands can play certain functions, for example, be a real home for an animal - a cat, a dog, and sometimes even other pets.
In addition, a house can be made for a baby - children love to play in a place where they can hide, be alone with toys, and most importantly, feel like the real and only owner.
Decorative cardboard house
In order to decorate your apartment with cute houses that can imitate settlements, it is enough to stock up on the following materials:
- cardboard of different colors. You can buy a pack of plain cardboard, and then simply paint it in different colors;
- paints. Even if you decide to buy multi-colored sheets of cardboard, you will definitely need paints. You can take watercolors, they are found in almost every home, at least where there are children;
- scissors;
- colored paper, you can also use cardboard;
- glue.
How to make a cardboard house
The actions will be as follows:
- First, we take paper and make a box out of it for a cardboard house. It is better if the house is small, since you will need to make several of these. When cutting out a pattern for a future craft, it is better to pay Special attention on the recesses, which will be smeared with glue to fix the walls to each other;
- We remove the top of the box, which will serve as the base for the cardboard house, and install a roof in its place. It also needs to be attached to the recesses so that the product does not fall apart. If you plan to decorate the house with something else, you can make fastenings using a stapler, but glue will look better and will not allow the cardboard to delaminate and create gaps;
- You need to install a cardboard house with your own hands on a base of prepared paper. It should be dense so that it does not wrinkle quickly. Depending on how many houses you will have, you need to take a sheet of paper. You can select one large one, or you can stop at cut small ones. We glue the house to the base;
- we make all the other houses, after which we attach them to the base material. The colors of the houses should be arranged in the same way as the lamps of the garland (for example, if the first lamp is blue, and then red and yellow, we place the houses in the same way). However, it is important to remember that garlands most often contain lamps that fit too tightly together, so this rule may not be relevant;
- in each house, depending on the size of the lamps and cord, we make holes (if there is a large hole punch, this will become the best option);
- we thread the garland into each of the holes through the houses.
That's all, now you can install the houses made from cardboard in a semicircular row and plug the garland into a power outlet.
There will be a very beautiful glow inside. Of course, the number of windows and doors in such houses may vary, but it is better to make them multi-window - the glow effect will be enhanced.
Is there enough space? Of course that's enough!
And if you take, say, a box from a refrigerator, TV and microwave, the price will not be that of such a cardboard house for a child.
So, it will be possible to use the tallest box to create a kind of tower, in which a passage into the TV box will be cut out using a stationery knife.
The baby will be given a lot of space, and most importantly, he will feel as if he is in a whole castle. A microwave box is suitable for creating a roof. What did you think?
The top of the TV box needs to be removed and an L-shaped roof installed in its place. And the height of the “ceilings” will be higher, and there will be more space, and the view will be more original.
By the way, finishing the roof of a cardboard house can be done using natural material, what are they suitable for? But the walls can be covered with small branches - such a house will take on the appearance of a timber structure, or some kind of toy forest structure.
It is better to fasten all elements using a large stapler, since glue does not always help in the construction of such serious structures that are exposed to active use children, and, as you know, kids rarely remember that their “toy” can break.
It is better to either decorate the inside of the house or paste it with posters, pictures, and stickers. And they will look great where doors and windows are decorated.
A large and impressive craft, but what can’t you do for your beloved children!
Materials:
- cardboard,
- glue “Moment crystal”,
- acrylic paints,
- acrylic lacquer,
- padding polyester,
- pieces of fabric,
- braid,
- beads,
- wooden sticks,
- tassels,
- modeling mass,
- scissors,
- wire,
- beads,
- mirror,
- bead pendants,
- pieces of wallpaper,
- pencil,
- ruler,
- disposable containers,
- fantasy.
Operating procedure:
It so happened that one of my daughters fell ill with chickenpox, and I needed to keep them occupied with something at home. We decided to make everything together house for our dolls. They made it according to the principle: I made it out of what I had. We didn’t have a ready-made box, but we did have a fairly large piece of cardboard and many small pieces of varying thickness and texture. I thought that our house would be a small one consisting of two rooms, but that was not the case: 2 young designers had their own thoughts about our house.
As a result, we began to do Dollhouse IR 3 floors with 5 rooms(later the upper floor was divided into 2 parts and there were 6 rooms).
Layout
From big piece cardboard, I cut out 1 piece - this back wall our house and 2 side ones (see photo 1).
Next I bent 2 side walls and began gluing the floor and ceiling (photo 2).
The house has dimensions: height - 74 cm, width - 50 cm, depth - 30 cm.
I covered the blank for our house with pieces of wallpaper and suitable paper (see photo 3).
The outside of the house is covered with wallpaper, the roof is strips of cardboard measuring 3 cm by 31 cm, glued overlapping.
The frames are glued together from strips of cardboard.
Our house needed a variety of puppet, which we tried to make with our own hands from scrap materials. I glued everything by eye without preliminary drawings or patterns. I simply cut a cardboard rectangle and glued the necessary pieces to it. All furniture is painted with acrylic paint and covered acrylic varnish.
Bedroom
So, room No. 1 - bedroom. There is a lot of furniture in it, and the first thing we’ll start with is this. It is quite easy to glue it together, just look at photo 4.
I covered the cardboard blank with acrylic paint, after the paint had dried, varnished it, glued a soft mattress, added a few soft pillows and a blanket.
The next pieces of furniture are a chest of drawers and a bedside table (photos 5 and 6).
The principle of their manufacture is the same - a small cardboard box to which false drawers are glued. There was also a place in the bedroom for a comfortable rocking chair (photo 7).
A large and spacious closet also found its place (photo 8).
In photo 9 the whole room is in color.
You can also watch how to make a bed for dolls (and other furniture) on the “Homemade” channel:
common room
Room number 2 - common room to watch TV. The TV in our house is flat - a large cardboard rectangle was covered with black acrylic paint, after drying, a suitable picture was glued and the whole thing was covered with acrylic varnish.
The main place in this room is occupied by a spacious one, which houses a large family of dolls.
The base of the sofa is a cardboard blank (photo 10).
The back and armrests are covered with paint and varnish, and the base is glued with padding polyester and fabric. The daughters already had a table - this wooden construction set, onto which we glued a piece of cardboard and painted everything together.
We see room No. 2 in photo 11.
Video on how to make a cabinet:
On the second floor of our house there is a music room and a kitchen.
Living room
IN music room there is a fireplace (photo 12).
It, unlike all our furniture, is covered with cracks. At the beginning it was covered with white acrylic paint. After it dries, a layer of craquelure medium is applied. After this layer has dried, a layer of black acrylic paint is applied. After drying, the entire product is coated with matte acrylic varnish.
Since our living room is musical, then from 6 matchboxes the piano was glued together (photo 13). It was immediately covered with colored paper, but the paper turned out to be of poor quality, and later it was painted, like all the furniture in the house. In addition, I glued 2 square beads to it - these are pedals.
The piano stool (photo 14) is glued together from cardboard, painted and decorated with a velvet cushion.
Sofa (photo 15) and armchair (photo 16). I glued them together from cardboard and decided not to cover them with fabric, but simply paint them with paint; my daughters were happy to help me with this. After applying varnish, they are very similar to leather.
The entire music room after painting the furniture (photo 17).
Kitchen
Room No. 4 is the kitchen, it is small but roomy. Kitchen set- this is a large cabinet in the shape of the letter L (photo 18).
The sink is a small plastic jam container, the faucet is made from modeling clay, and there is a small hanging cabinet:
The stove is electric with 4 burners (photo 20), its door opens.
In the kitchen we have 2 chairs (photo 21) and a table (photo 22).
Dishes were also made from small items (photo 23).
Photo 24 shows our kitchen after applying paint and varnish.
On the top floor we accommodated children's and toilet room.
Children's room
IN children's The main place is occupied by a bunk bed (photo 25).
She has soft mattresses and pillows. In the room there is a small table (photo 26) and a chair (photo 27).
There is also a cabinet for toys (photo 28).
In this room I did not cut a window, but simply glued a cardboard one to the side wall. The room is decorated with a colorful alphabet (cut from paper packaging from a children's toy). Photo 29 shows a children's room in color.
Almost all the chandeliers in our house are glued together from disposable containers, beads, cockerel sticks and braid.
Only one, which is in the music room, is made of beads, wire and bead fittings.
I also glued a ladder to the house, but we have it attached for now, because I am afraid that if it is glued, it will interfere with two children playing at the same time.
Bathroom and toilet
For toilet room we needed a toilet, sink and bathtub. It was necessary to make them quickly and simply.
And I decided to just sculpt them from modeling material. Which is what we subsequently did with our daughters (photo 30).
They may not be ideal, but they were made together.
Our works took about a day to dry. Next, we painted them with white acrylic paint and coated them with glossy acrylic varnish. After drying, the tank turned out to be quite heavy, then I replaced it with a lighter one (cut it out of cork and painted it). To keep the sink stable on the wall, I glued a nightstand underneath it. The bedside table was painted like all the furniture in the house. Next, I glued the bedside table to the wall and floor of the house, and then glued the sink. A tap (made from modeling clay) and beads are glued to the sink. There was no ready-made mirror, and ours is also made of cardboard.
The toilet is made of several parts - the base, cockerel sticks, a tank (made of cork), chains and beads.
This entire structure is complemented by a seat - cut out of cardboard and covered with plain fabric.
In photo 32 the entire toilet room is in color.
So quickly and cheerfully, together with our daughters, we built from scrap materials our dollhouse. Such crafts always bring joy to children.
It may be quite simple for now, but my daughters are quite happy with it and enjoy playing together.
And another video on how to make a house for dolls with your own hands from plywood:
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The New Year's time is coming - a time of miracles, when everyone can feel a little like a helper to the kindest old man in the world. After all, think about it, if in addition to gifts for the children of the whole planet, the old grandfather also had to decorate our houses, how would he manage to do everything. That is why we, adults, help him in every possible way, because it is impossible for children to stop believing in Santa Claus.
Home decoration is the most the main task in process New Year's mood. Buy in store ready-made elements decoration is not a difficult matter, but to do it new Year decoration with your own hands is something completely different! In this article you will find more than 20 master classes and schemes for creating New Year's houses. At first glance, it may seem to an unprepared person that creating a New Year's house from paper, cardboard or any other materials is an impossible task. In fact, this is not the case, especially if you have a ready-made template. So, if you are serious, then get ready to become a real builder, because in this article you will find diagrams of not only single houses, but also entire winter villages!
You can make a very beautiful New Year's house with your own hands from an ordinary cardboard box. Interior boxes are usually Brown, which, in fact, works to our advantage. The box will have to be gutted and turned inside out. Draw a house template and cut it out. Next we glue the walls and floor. You can leave the top with an improvised roof and use the house as a gift box, or you can glue a full roof and put it under the Christmas tree. You can draw on top of the cardboard with a special white marker, white gouache or regular corrector. Externally, the house is very reminiscent of the gingerbread delicacy that is common in the Western world. Well, you and I are familiar with the gingerbread house from the famous fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm “Hansel and Gretel”. If your children have not heard it yet, then it’s time to read this story, and a homemade gingerbread house from a cardboard box will be an excellent attribute for a small dramatization!
More Gift Boxes:
If you are planning to make not just a house, but an entire Christmas village, then you will definitely need a church. Print out our finished diagram, cut it out of cardboard, glue it in the right places and the church layout is ready. Now all that remains is to decorate it with sparkles and artificial snow so that the church becomes truly winter. You can download the finished diagram below.
So, the church is ready, now all that remains is to build the houses of the local residents. Download the finished diagram from the link below, cut it out of cardboard, glue the house and decorate it. Who should be accommodated in the houses? Anyone! Little dolls, pine cone elves, or any other residents you have. If there is a little Santa Claus, then feel free to accommodate him too! You'll get a whole residence!
If there are any problems with cardboard, then you can easily make a New Year’s house from salt dough. You can use it as a candlestick, it looks very cool. So get ready salty dough, roll it out to about 1-1.5 cm thick. Cut out the walls, windows and door. This can be done with special molds, and if there are none, then use a stationery knife and a ruler. Glue all the walls and glue the roof. Cover the joints with the remaining dough. When the house is dry, sand the rough edges with a sanding knife and enjoy your creation!
Cute houses in the style of Danish architecture can be made using this scheme. At the link below you will find diagrams of all three houses, which you just need to print and bend along the lines. Place an electric candle inside, turn off the lights and enjoy the city's winter landscape!
If you like corn flakes or, like true Englishmen, eat oatmeal in the morning, then you will probably have cardboard boxes of the appropriate sizes. Below is a step-by-step master class on how to make a New Year's house with your own hands from a cardboard box. Follow the instructions carefully and you will succeed!
Excellent New Year's houses are made from magazine clippings. Find a picture of a suitable house or castle, cut it out and glue it in a circle. Place an electric candle inside and enjoy.
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If you have accumulated a lot greeting cards, you can make wonderful houses out of them, which you can use to decorate your apartment, combining them into garlands. Or you can use these postcard houses to congratulate friends and acquaintances. You will find step-by-step instructions for making houses from old open doors below.
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With our ready-made scheme and step by step instructions You can make a whole city, especially if your team has little fidgets ready for handicrafts. You will also need electronic candles or you can use New Year's garland. Add some mini Christmas trees and the New Year's city is ready! And most importantly, the whole family is in a New Year's mood!
New Year's houses can also be made from scrap materials, which is especially great when these materials are no longer suitable for use, such as milk packaging. If you look at it, the house is almost ready, all that remains is to make the roof and adjust the size of the house itself. If the box doesn’t look very presentable, you can cover it with paper and draw windows and doors, but if you’re happy with everything, then the craft house is ready!
From this step by step wizard class you will learn how to make a simple New Year's house from ordinary cardboard. The main difficulty lies in the template, and if you do not have spatial vision and architectural education, drawing something more or less complex on paper is quite difficult. Therefore, using the link below you can download a ready-made diagram of the house and glue it together yourself.
Download the finished house template, cut and glue. The DIY Christmas house craft is ready!
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Getting ready for the New Year with the children and making Santa Claus's house out of paper. Download the finished template, print it and glue it together. Young designers will be delighted!
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A very cute New Year's house can be made from paper tubes. For this you will need: thin paper, scissors, glue, pencil, decorative elements. Cut the paper into strips of the same size. Wrap the paper strip around a pencil and glue it with glue, remove the pencil. You will need about 50 tubes to make a house like in the master class. When the base is ready, glue on the roof, and then the windows and other decorative elements.
Incredible New Year's houses can be made from felt. Volumetric or flat, in the form of gingerbread houses or clocks. In addition, felt houses can be used to decorate pillows or socks for gifts. Ready-made patterns You will find it under the photo.
You will need:
White cardboard
Sequins
Ruler
Latex primer (optional)
Glue stick
Scissors
Stationery knife
Decorations (tinsel, bells, balls).
1. To get started, download the template from THIS link or you can draw a house of similar dimensions yourself.
2. Cut out all the parts from paper and glue them to white cardboard using a glue stick or double-sided tape.
3. Cut out the pieces from cardboard. Use a utility knife to cut out doors, windows and other details.
4. Fold all the elements along the fold lines and glue everything together.
5. If desired, you can apply a primer to the paper house to prevent it from deforming.
6. Paint your house and after the paint has dried, start decorating it.
The house can be hung on the Christmas tree using a thread attached to the roof so that it hangs level, or you can simply place it on flat surface so that it decorates the house.
DIY craft "House made of paper tubes"
You will need:
Thin paper (regular printed paper is fine)
Scissors
Pencil
Decorations.
1. Roll each sheet (or identical pieces of sheets) into a tube. It's better to use a pencil - it's easier to twist.
2. Draw windows and a door on paper or cardboard and cut them out.
3. Glue the tubes together as shown in the image (to make a hut).
4. Glue the windows and door to the hut.
5. Decorate the house to your liking.
Another option:
DIY Santa Claus house (master class)
You will need:
Cardboard box or
Scissors
Sandpaper
Stationery knife
Tassels
Polyurethane foam and gun (optional).
1. Prepare cardboard box and make a house out of it. You will need to cut the pieces and glue them together.
2. Use a utility knife to cut out the windows and door. You can draw them in advance with a simple pencil.
3. Paint the house or you can decorate it polyurethane foam. To do this, you need to apply foam in strips so that each strip is 1.5 cm wide. As it dries, the foam will swell, so it is better to leave 3-4 mm between the strips.
4. After you have covered the house with foam, leave it for 30 minutes to allow the foam to dry.
Making a stand for the house.
Cut out a rectangle from cardboard that should be larger than the base of the house.
Glue the house to the stand and decorate the perimeter of the stand with foam.
*Use of foam is optional. To imitate snow, you can use cotton wool, which should be glued with PVA glue.
* You can also cut out snow slides, snowdrifts, a snowman or a Christmas tree from paper or white cardboard and glue them to the base, bending the bottom part and applying glue to it.
If you used foam, then after it dries, cut off the excess parts with a stationery knife and sand it with sandpaper.
Paint all the desired parts.
DIY cardboard house: gnome's home
You will need:
Cardboard cylinders from toilet paper
White paper
Colored paper
Black felt-tip pen
Glue stick
Hot glue or PVA glue
Sequins of different colors (including white).
1. Cut one toilet paper cardboard cylinder in half, and the second and third so that you have two long and two short pieces. This way you will have houses of different sizes.
2. Cut the white paper into strips 15 cm long and 2-3 cm wider than the height of the cylinder that you will wrap with this strip.
3. Cut out windows and doors from colored paper. Use a marker to draw door handles and window details.
4. Using a glue stick, glue the windows and doors to the white stripes.
5. Wrap the strips around the corresponding cylinders and secure them with glue. Fold the excess paper into the cylinder.
6. Make several cones of different colors from colored paper, glue the ends of the cones, and glue the cones themselves with PVA glue to the house cylinders.
*You can add a little glue to each roof of the house and sprinkle glitter on it to imitate fallen snow.
DIY paper house: paper New Year's village
You will need:
Corrugated cardboard (cardboard from regular packaging)
Stationery knife
Scissors
Ruler
Pencil
White acrylic paint and a brush
LED garland.
1. Prepare cardboard and use a pencil to draw several houses connected to each other on it. You can use a ruler. You will end up with a small village. Cut out a village from cardboard.
2. Bend the cut out piece like an accordion along the lines that connect the houses. To make even folds, place a ruler on the fold line and bend the cardboard.
3. Draw and cut out a Christmas tree on cardboard. Trace the tree onto another piece of cardboard and cut out a second tree. Make a cut on one tree from the top to halfway, and on the other from the bottom to halfway and connect both parts to get a 3-D tree.
4. Apply white paint to rooftops and Christmas trees to imitate snow.
5. Place the village and Christmas tree on a white cloth or felt and place an LED garland next to it.
DIY house (photo)
Paper or white cardstock that you can print on.
*You can draw a similar drawing yourself and cut it out.
Scissors
Stationery knife
Glue stick
Battery operated candles.
1. Print and cut out the house drawing. Cut out windows and doors with a utility knife.
2. To make the roof, cut a rectangle measuring 15x9 cm. Bend it in the middle.
3. Assemble and glue the house and glue the roof to it.
* You can make several houses to make a small village.
* You can also cut out Christmas trees from green cardboard.
4. Place a candle with batteries inside the house.
*You can decorate the house to your liking. Use markers, glitter with glue, cotton wool (snow), etc.
DIY box house
You will need:
Box (of cereal, pasta, for example)
Ruler
Pencil
Scissors
PVA glue
Clothespin or masking tape (if necessary).
1. Open the box completely and place it on the table.
2. Draw a straight line along the unfolded box 2.5 cm below the middle.
3. Make cuts from the original fold lines of the box to the line you drew (see image). The white dots indicate the places where the cuts need to be made.
4. Cut off those parts of the box where the X is written.
5. Turn the box over and apply glue to a small bend (see image).
6. Fold the box with the pattern facing inward and secure with glue.
7. Fold the opposite narrow sides to form a roof. Each part needs to be bent in half (see image).
8. Cut the wide sides so that they can be glued to the part of the roof that was formed in step 7. You need to cut with a margin so that this margin can be bent and glued.
The level of technological development today allows architects to embody the wildest fantasies from almost any material, which until recently was not intended for the construction of residential structures. At the same time, housing must meet several basic requirements - to be environmentally friendly, durable and prefabricated. All these properties are inherent modular houses original form from no less original material– cardboard.
Wikkelhouse – wrapped house
For more than four years, innovators from the Dutch design studio Fiction Factory have been developing a project for a small mobile home made of corrugated cardboard. One of the developers explains this unusual choice of material.
Rick Butcher
Cardboard is not appreciated and is widely used only as packaging, but meanwhile, it is light, quite durable, and even has good thermal and sound insulation properties. And we decided to test it by creating a residential building, even if it is still unusual.
The house is assembled from separate modules, each length is 4.6 m, width – 1.2 m, height at the ridge – 3.5 m, weight – 500 kg, the number of segments varies depending on the wishes of the customer. The modules are a spatial metal frame, which special device wrapped with cardboard tape, gluing each turn. The result is a kind of cocoon of 24 layers, forming walls, floor and roof of the required thickness.
The number and size of windows is determined by the customer, as is the type of door system - the module looks best with panoramic glazing. Also at the planning stage, the configuration of the house is determined - special modules with a built-in kitchen, bathroom and outlet for the chimney are made. It is supposed to heat the house in cold weather with a wood-burning stove.
Since the weight metal frame, covered with cardboard, relatively small, the house does not require a reinforced foundation, usually a columnar foundation, like for frame frames, or concrete supports. The finished modules are brought to the site, connected into a single structure, and after installation, the surface of the entire house is covered with a special, waterproof, but at the same time breathable film. As a finishing facade material– pine slats. The house does not have a roof in the usual sense, just the upper part of the modules is made in the form of two slopes and, when facing, is also covered with wood. The inside of the house is sheathed with plywood; this interior is successfully combined with an ergonomic shape and a transparent entrance. All materials used in creating a house can be reused after recycling. The developers predict that Wikkelhouse can serve its owners for up to a century, but only if the protective film is updated every three decades.
