Playing with dolls is very important for little princesses. In the game, they can simulate situations that occur in adult life. In order for the game to resemble reality as much as possible, it is necessary to make the space for it look like the scenery of the real world. Barbie furniture helps parents and their daughters with this. If it looks like small copies of real cabinets and sofas, then the girls will enjoy playing much more.
Separate rooms in the dollhouse perform their functions. There should be space for dolls to rest, cook, and sleep. The options don’t end there; parents and their child can come up with something new. The arrangement of rooms requires several rules:
- The furniture in each room should be made in the same style and, if possible, in the same color. This will allow you to quickly find and assemble each kit;
- Furniture for Barbie dolls should be durable so that games bring only pleasure and not grief due to broken things;
- It is not recommended to use small elements that may enter the respiratory tract. Even the smallest children will not be able to swallow large things.
Bedroom
In the bedroom, the main element will be the bed. It should be large, bright and have several pillows. The bed linen can be changed depending on the child's wishes. In addition to the main piece of furniture, the bedroom has bedside tables, a dressing table and a wardrobe with clothes. It will not be possible to store the entire wardrobe of Barbie dolls in it; clothes take up a lot of space. You will have to think of alternative storage for things not used for the game.
Children's
Just like in a real family, dolls can have children. You should come up with options for the nursery. If the doll child is still just a baby, then you can place a crib in the room. In addition, you can complement the furniture set with a box of children's toys. As this element, it is convenient to use a small cardboard box, painted or covered with fabric at the child’s discretion. The children's room can have an armchair for parents or just guests.
DIY crib: step-by-step master class
To make a beautiful bed for Barbie, you will need:
- cardboard (preferably corrugated);
- album sheets;
- PVA glue and Moment;
- scissors;
- cable;
- regular and double-sided tape;
- self-adhesive fabric or colored paper.
Decorating a baby crib consists of several stages:
1. On a landscape sheet you need to draw a model of the future bed and decide where the headboard will be. The sizes can be any and depend on the size of the wrist.
2. Cut out some details from ready-made corrugated cardboard templates. The strength of the future product depends on the number of elements.
3. After this, using Moment glue you need to connect all the parts together.
4. Next, you need to take 4 pieces of wire of the same length (about 50 cm, but this depends on the size of the crib), lay them on cardboard glued in layers and secure with tape.
5. Then fill the surface with the wire with PVA glue.
6. After this, place the remaining cardboard on top and glue it.
7. The product in a semi-finished state must be subjected to pressure (by any heavy object).
While the cardboard is drying, take the cardboard blanks under your back and also treat them with glue (three pieces each), and then place them under the press.
8. After some time, the components will dry and they can be attached to each other, and then mark the points of contact.
9. These points should be pierced with an awl or thick needle.
10. Wire is inserted into the resulting holes.
11. The joints are treated with glue.
12. Tie a cord on the back of the cardboard and cut off the large ends.
13. After this, the frame and back are glued together.
14. The product can be covered with paper, fabric or viscose napkins.
15. The napkin must be attached to the finished structure and carefully trimmed, leaving 4 cm on each edge.
16. The bed can be decorated with floral appliqués.
For greater realism, you can sew a mattress, a blanket, a pillow, and a sheet.
Living room
The living room, as the name suggests, is a room for meeting guests. This is where friends visiting the dollhouse are invited. It will be much more convenient to play tea drinking in a large living room with many chairs, armchairs and sofas. All the inhabitants of the dollhouse will comfortably fit here.
To create coziness, you can place a fireplace in the room. Inside there is firewood from small twigs or an artificial fire drawn on paper. The fireplace can be easily made from white cardboard and painted with a thin brush.
A living room with a beautiful shag carpet in the center will look even more realistic. It can be easily made from a piece of fabric. It is best to use material with non-fraying edges. The carpet should be bright and stain-resistant. Fleece fully corresponds to these qualities. This fabric is quite inexpensive, easy to clean, has a rich color that does not fade during use. Fleece scraps can be found in almost every home where someone does sewing.
Bathroom
In the bathroom you will definitely have to place a bathtub, Jacuzzi or shower. But the set of this room would not be complete without some additional elements:
- Toilet;
- Wash basin;
- Bedside table with bath accessories;
- Mirror. It can be made from silver cardboard or tape glued to a thick cardboard base. It will be very successful to place the mirror in a frame designed in the style of the rest of the room;
- Towel and hanger for them. Rectangular pieces of white fabric are used as towels.
If a set of bathroom furniture does not include curtains and carpets, then it is still worth hanging them, these elements create coziness, and with them the design of the room seems complete.
Model selection
Before we get started, we need to agree on what we want to see as a result. A bed for dolls can be made in different versions, but the main condition is its environmental friendliness, safety and fun.
The second condition is that it must be reliable, easy to use and always brilliantly designed. During construction, it is possible to use any variety:
- single and double models;
- rocking cradle;
- bed;
- four-poster bed;
- hanging hammock
You can choose from a variety of styles: with a headboard, backrests, panels, with legs or with a rectangular base.
In addition, it is worth considering the possibility of making bedroom set items. For example, if it is a Barbie bed, a trellis, or at least a nightstand. If it's a baby doll, you'll need a changing table. For a closet you will need at least a couple of drawers under the bed.
Before starting work, you also need to correlate the dimensions of the bed with the parameters of the toy, so as not to be disappointed in the finish when the bed for the doll suddenly becomes small.
Hallway
The hallway usually houses clothes and shoes. To accommodate all the jackets and coats, you will have to place several coat hooks. To prevent them from breaking under the weight of doll things, it is necessary to come up with a very durable design. It is advisable to place a closet that includes not only clothes hangers, but also a large mirror. In order for such a craft to serve dolls for a long time, it can be made from a piece of plywood on stable legs. They should be located at the bottom of the structure perpendicular to the plane of the plywood sheet. You can secure the legs using screws, nails or strong glue.
Hooks are made from small nails that are driven into a sheet of plywood. The side with the cap should protrude about a centimeter above the surface of the plywood. This will be a clothes hanger. To prevent the child from getting hurt, the sharp parts of the nails must be bent parallel to the plane of the sheet and covered with adhesive film or strong tape. This will make the element beautiful and safe. Shoes can be placed on the floor under a hanger, but in this case they will quickly get lost. It is recommended to place it in a separate box or box. It is advisable to take care of a hook that prevents spontaneous opening of the storage unit.
Manufacturing materials
Plastic sets have an affordable price for most. They can be used to decorate a child's room. An important characteristic of such toys is the possibility of their frequent disinfection and washing with soapy water. The plastic housings of the “household appliances” built into Barbie furniture hide batteries that provide light and sound during the game. Disadvantages of original sets for a house made of this material: fragility of products, low resistance to mechanical stress. Counterfeits may contain toxic substances.
Popular types of transformable children's furniture, advantages
Wood and plywood are the safest materials for children, but they are highly hygroscopic. They cannot tolerate prolonged contact with water, as the raw materials become deformed. The undeniable advantages of this room design:
- possibility of painting and pasting furniture;
- long service life due to resistance to shocks and falls on hard surfaces;
- The parts resemble the real ones as much as possible in functionality.
Cardboard is short-lived; in roomboxes, it can be used to make, for example, a picture that imitates the decoration of a room. It depicts wallpaper, windows and landscapes located outside the house. The disadvantage of textiles, which are also used to make toy furniture, is its ability to absorb odors and dust from the environment, but without this material it is impossible to recreate coziness.
Plastic
Tree
Plywood
Cardboard
Cabinet
The office is the place where work is done, so the environment in it must be appropriate. The main element of the furniture is a table with a computer. Around them you can begin to create a different, additional interior.
A bookcase with books will fit perfectly into the office. Small toy books can easily get lost, so you have to use a trick and put just a rectangle in the office, painted like a bookcase with drawn books. To match the entire interior, you can place a sofa, chairs and carpet in the center of the room. These elements will look good if their soft parts are made of the same fabric.
After purchasing the house, the filling process begins. To do this, you can resort to the help of a children's toy store or try to make furniture yourself. But this is a hassle, and store purchases cannot be unique. The best house for Barbie will be obtained if you combine both methods.
You can put different wallpapers in the rooms and make the rooms different from each other. This makes it easy to change the interior. The more things there are in the house, the more finished it looks. Pictures of Barbie doll furniture always suggest the presence of additional elements. They make a toy home look like a real one.
It is worth remembering the correct arrangement of doll furniture. It must correspond to the functional purpose of the room. It is necessary to accurately calculate the free space and arrange the rooms. Products should be placed facing the child, providing him with free access to any corner. Initially, you need to separate the furniture to understand whether it will fit in the right room. Then you need to take measurements. The ideal option would be to create a drawing of the house on paper with the placement of all the furniture. This way you can avoid most of the problems associated with decorating a house.
On the Internet you can find videos on how to properly care for toys. You don't have to put in a lot of effort to do this. The most important thing is that there is no dust in the house, which causes allergies in children. To do this, it is necessary to carry out wet cleaning regularly. Textile parts of the interior can become dirty over time; just like in real life, they require regular washing. In order not to waste time on hand washing, they can be washed in a machine along with other things. But you will have to place small parts in a mesh laundry bag, close it securely, and only then place the toy items in the machine.
Broken things can be fixed with tape. It’s better to buy colored tape, and then it can become a decoration for furniture. Do not forget about the various types of coatings that are used in the manufacture of factory furniture. For products made from chipboard, wet cleaning cannot be used. This leads to swelling and delamination of the material. To clean furniture coated with paint and varnish components, do not use hard brushes or chemicals.
Types of sets
Thanks to demand creating supply, inexpensive (plastic) doll house furniture is presented on specialized online resources, in children's departments. There is so much of it there that it makes your eyes wide open. But you still have to respect priorities, starting with the arrangement of the most necessary rooms for the game:
- The set of furniture for Barbie's living room includes several cabinets combined into a wall, a soft corner (an L-shaped sofa or a sofa with two armchairs), a coffee table, a TV and a bedside table for it.
- A washbasin, shower stall, bathtub, bidet and/or toilet are included in the kit for arranging a sanitary unit.
- The Barbie doll's bedroom set includes a bed, bedside tables, table lamps, night lights, and a wardrobe.
- The kitchen includes not only household appliances (microwave, oven, refrigerator, stove), but also food sets and dishes. The furniture is intended to decorate the dining area; the set consists of chairs and a table. Sometimes it is equipped with a vase of flowers or a tea set. The same set is perfect for indoor and outdoor terraces.
- The children's room furniture is somewhat different in size, because it is designed not for Barbie herself, but for her daughters and sons - dolls 7-8 cm tall. The sets consist of two beds - for a girl and a boy, a playpen, chairs, a table (of suitable height and width).
- The office of Ken, Barbie's husband, has a masculine design, which is expressed in the color of the upholstered furniture - the armchairs and sofa are made of upholstery that imitates natural leather. This set also includes bookcases and shelves (with open shelves and transparent doors).
How to make furniture for a dollhouse with your own hands, recommendations
The choice of furniture for a particular room largely depends on what character the owner has come up with for the doll. When purchasing a roombox made of plastic, the choice lies in the color scheme. Collectors who use wooden objects in a Barbie house get much more opportunities; furniture of this type “requires” matching of other interior details of the rooms. It can be combined with porcelain dishes, velvet curtains and light curtains (made of taffeta, guipure, sewing), high-quality upholstery (made of tapestry, flock).
Types of children's cabinet furniture, criteria for its selection
Living room Sanitary unit
Kitchen
Children's room
Cabinet
