Recycled Doll House Revamp.

I'm sure most of us has had a doll house in our life's or has a sibling who has, now i want you to think about were it is right now... In the attic picking up dust, long washed away in the sea of abandoned childhoods?

So many dolls house get thrown away an replaced with new ones, that still get bored of repeating this cycle .

That's why I believe in the art of REVAMPING... sorry didn't mean to shout, but you can turn literally anything into a bright and new shiny item with the power of REVAMPING.. Plus not only is it a fun activity but it is also a great way to involve your siblings in a good craft so they aren't stuck annoying you all day.

I would i have loved to do more with this doll house but it turned out great for what i could do and my neice and sister love it, especially since i found out about this competition late so i only had 3 days to complete it, woooh.

Also i have dyslexia so if there is any spelling mistakes i'm very sorry.

Now I'm going straight to the basics skip ahead if you've done this before.

so the aim of this step is to have a scaled image on the workplace, that's the gridded mat in your 3d space.

1. drag a square from the side bar that should be displaying all the different shapes tinker cad shaped provided (if its not there, there should be a little pull out tab on the right)

2. Now its time to scale, first lets get some back ground knowledge the grid in tinker is measured in 1 mm so when making you furniture i highly recommend planning it out on paper first having all the measurements down in mm of exactly the length, width and height.

so to scale as shown in the picture, when the box is pressed some enlarging icons are shown, you can use this to enlarge and reduce the length, width and height of your block. Also if you press on one of those squares on the lines you can edit the measurement by double clicking of the figure ( this can be easier).

Yes, this step may sound weird, but in tinker cad they don't have a cutting tool.

This means to split or hollow out a object you need to use a normal square and convert it into a hole or the hole shapes, which is the one with stripes.

1. Add a square as you can see in the first picture i have placed a square, which will be my hole square in the centre of my object

2. Now I'm scaling up my hole square to make sure its will cut out the unnecessary parts, you need to make sure your hole square is leaving room for walls not cutting through anything you want to keep.

3. To convert it into a hole, you need to make sure your pressing your intended hole shape and when you do on the side you'll notice a solid and hole pop up bar... just press the hole.

4. As you see your square has become clear, but there's no hole in the object. That is why you have to group them this is making them one. Select both the hole and the object, by pressing one then pressing the other whilst holding shift, then go to the top of your screen you should see a button that looks like a circle merging with a square press that.

then boom.

please use this new knowledge and a little bit of playing about, to build some more furniture...

When you first go into tinker cad it may look very scary as its literally just shapes, that are relatively unchangeable.

But tinker cad has shown me you can make anything out of just the basic shapes you just have to experiment.

You don't have to add another floor if your doll house already has many floors, but mine only has two and the ceiling has enough space for a maisonette.

1. make sure you measure your doll house, you want a clear measurement of how big you want your second flour (so make sure you have the length, width and height) in relation to what can actually fit inside your doll house.

2. we'll be using kebab sticks as the legs for our maisonette to hold the platform up. Cut those kebab sticks into a suitable size for how tall you want your second floor.

3. Now it's time to use old some cardboard, this can be from a cereal box, a amazon package.

Anything really and you'll cut out the length and width of your new floor.

4. We're nearly done guys, you just need to hot glue those kebabs sticks into place. If you don't have hot glue, use any glue you have. Please make sure its strong though.

it's important to make sure your structure is sturdy and reinforced so this is how you'll do it.

1. cut out a kebab stick the size of the length and width of your platform ( the cardboard part)

2. once that is done hot glue them across the width and height of your board.

3. you should have the other half of your cereal box still there, an that will be used to put on top of the kebab sticks. so know cut your cereal box just like the one before and hot glue it on top like a sandwich.

4. To reinforce the legs, You want to cut a kebab stick that will reach from one stick to the other making a box out of sticks.

This is just a cute accessories I wanted

1. you will need to make a table out of kebab sticks, to do that just like before you need to cut four stick the size of your desired length, width and length.

2. The only difference is, you will need to cover the whole table with cut up kebab sticks. This means as seen in the picture above you must cut enough width sticks to fill your whole table.

3. now all you have to do is hot glue this mess together this means creating the frame, which is your length, width glued together then glue the panel of weight sized sticks to make the top of the table.

4. Now that is done, we get into a tricky bit we must add the fabric to the table.

Firsts things first, measure out your fabric by placing it over your table, Japanese desks normally have a blanket type table cover to keep there legs warm underneath so I'm making my fabric extra long.

5. Now snip snip snip your need to cut this fabric to size.

6. I guess the fun part has started gluing and pleating so first things first you need to hot glue the top part of the table to the fabric the face of the table

7. Next you need to start hot gluing the sides .. LISTEN it is not as easy as its sounds, i have dyslexia so this will be hard to explain. First you are going to want to line up your side fabric with each table leg, Next your going to want to expose the legs please refer to the picture

you are going to pinch the fabric to the right and hot glue it to the leg then like wrapping paper, hot glue the left fabric down

as said please look at the pictures.

so this project is about you guys enjoying and experimenting do what ever you want in this picture i'm making a sink.

1. roll the clay into a sausage this will be the sink leg

2. next roll a second piece into a circle

3. The circle piece you will want to massage into a nice smooth cup his will be the sink bowl

4. than attach to sink leg

TOILET

1.

This is a basic shower for a bathroom you can revamp how you want. Remember if you don't have the tools I use you can substitute it for things you do have, remember this is your project.

1. You will need kebab sticks ( Yes these make up the majority of the project tools) to make your shower you need to measure how big you want it

2. Then cut out a length and a width and a height using your measurements.

3. Hot glue you kebab sticks to make a frame.

4. I'm using a cereal packet to represent the shower glass you will want to cut the bag in half

5. Then you want to use the shower frame you just made to measure how big the plastic will be.

then cut out the plastic sheets.

6. Now hot glue the plastic cut outs to the frame

These are some cute no sew pillows you can adapt.

1. First get some scrap pieces of fabric make sure you have and idea of how big you want these pillows to be.

2. As you know pillows have a back and a front and a easy why to achieve this is to just fold your fabric in half that's what I did. So once you fold you fabric in half you can start cutting it to shape.

3. For decoration i hot glued a ribbon down the middle of my fabric, it isn't necessary.

4. Because its folded in half all you need to do is hot glue is the two widths to there halves.

5. As you you need to stuff the pillow, the middle seem is left open.

6. you stuff the pillow

7. Hot glue the open side down..

See super easy...

So I've used resin in this bed making project, I really want to enthuse on the fact that you can use anything to create you just need to try. That's what a revamp is about.

1. create bed frame by cutting kebab sticks into four pieces of length, width , length, width.

2. Tightly hot glue the sticks together making our frame.

3. I used cling film as a mat to stop uv resin from getting every where.

4. Now pour the uv resin inside the frames making sure to spread it around coating the inside evenly with resin.

5. Then cure it under a uv lamp for around 15 minutes

6. I then attach the bed legs to my frame using hot glue.

now i forgot to take pictures of this next part i apologise so hop to building a couch to get the main idea of adding fabric.

This is going to be a repeat of some of the knowledge we've gained from the table.

1. So first we'll make our sofa frame by using kebab sticks (they were just laying around my house) so we'll cut them to size and hot glue them together.

2. Next we will use the Japanese table method of filling in the face of the table using small sticks, but they can be a bit more spaced out now.

3. Next we add the legs by gluing them to the base of the frame this means the part were the little sticks aren't facing.

4. Now that's done we'll add fabric (bed people read here) we'll be measuring the face of our bed on some scrap fabric.

5. you put the now cut and measured fabric of the base of the sofa, we must cut little tiny leg holes so the legs can fit.

6. After that the fabric should slide on like a pair of shorts. Make sure its hot glued to the base.

7. Now we need to measure fabric for the front of the bed so were they'll sit on.

8. Then just like before we can hot glue it on, leaving one seem open as room for stuffing.

9. Now stuff like a pillow and hot glue the left over seem.

10. Next the head board, this is very straight forward we use some cardboard to make the inside hard next we measure it to the width of our sofa, then we cut the card board to fit then stick some fabric on it.

11. Last but not least hot glue the headboard to the sofa.