My adult daughter asked me to make a dollhouse for my granddaughters for Christmas. The inspiration was a deluxe dollhouse selling on the Harrod’s site for $1200. This is a team effort - I built the structure and my daughter will paint and decorate before Christmas morning. I’ll try to update the final look when finished.
It’s big - dimensions are 40" tall x 30" wide x 16" deep. The overall construction is 1/2" plywood cut on my XXL Pro basically with interlocking tabs. The window treatments and stairs are 1/8" plywood cut with an XTool S1 laser. The front door is solid and swings, also cut on my Shapeoko. The only parts not made by me are the window panes in the top gables (you can see one is white). These were borrowed from my daughter’s old dollhouse, for a - “something new, something old” touch. There is a slow close hinge/piston on the attic roof to save fingers. Basic piano hinges on front doors and roof. Magnetic catch on front doors. Two sheets of 1/2" birch ply, 1+ sheet of 1/8" ply.
Nice work! My daughter in law has a huge dollhouse that she bought and has done a ton of modifications on to make it to her liking. She has a laser engraver that she is using to make structural changes and tons of furniture for it.
After the paint work, post a picture. I saw my outlaw grammy ( the other side of my daughters family ) today and told her about your effort. She used to make very intricate doll houses.
The last dollhouse I made was many years ago and I had only a table saw, circular saw, and jigsaw to use to make it. I used everything I could that would reduce the need for me to cut small pieces close to the blades. For example; I used popsicle sticks for the roof shakes. After all of the work though, it only got used for few times to play with until they moved on to some other fun activity that made it obsolete. Then it became a space hog. I ended up selling it almost 2 years after I made it.
Not saying this will happen to this one. You did a great job on it and seeing that most of it was cut on your machine is great.
That’s amazing…and way beyond my patience and endurance levels! I see a multi generational heirloom here. If you haven’t already, be sure to note on it somewhere your name and year made.
