How to Make a Dollhouse Chair

Creating a chair for your dollhouse is one of the simplest beginning projects for a new fan of dollhouse furniture. By using everyday materials, you can recreate everything from a sparse kitchen stool to an ornate, overstuffed chair. So pull up a seat and create a new chair for your dollhouse family.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Toilet paper tube
• Scissors
• Spray adhesive
• Upholstery fabric
• Batting
• Hot glue
• Silk cording
• Needle
• Thread
• Balsa wood
• Ruler
• Wood glue
• Three corks
• Velvet
• Hot glue gun
• Button
• Embroidery floss
• Needle
• Cardstock

Fabric Covered Chair

1. Trim a toilet paper tube into a slipper chair shape by trimming a seat area 2 inches from the bottom and creating a curve for the back.
2. Pack the center of the tube with foam, cotton or crumpled paper to fill the seat area.
3. Apply spray adhesive to the whole chair base and cover with a thin layer of batting.
4. Spray again with the adhesive and apply the upholstery material over the batting.
5. Trim away the excess fabric along the curve of the back and along the edges. Cover the raw edges by gluing a silk cord along the edges of the chair and around the seat base.
6. Cut two small circles from the upholstery fabric to make a seat cover. Add a small amount of batting inside the two circles and hot glue together. Add the silk cording around the seat cushion as well.
7. Make several French knots in the seat cushion, creating tufting.
8. Glue the seat cushion to the seat, covering all the raw material.

Wood chair

9. Cut a 1 ¼ inch by 1 ¼ square section from balsa wood for the seat. Cut two small notches in one side that will help the seat fit against the back section.
10. Trim balsa wood square sticks to several lengths. You will need two front legs measuring 1 3/8 inches, two back legs measuring at 2 7/8 inches and five 1 inch sections for the seat base and the top edge of the chair.
11. Assemble the seat base by gluing together four of the 1 inch sections into a square. Let the glue dry completely.
12. Secure the front and back legs by gluing the sections to the front and back of the seat base.
13. Add the seat to the completed chair. Paint or decorate if you like.

Ottoman

14. Glue three corks together for your ottoman base.
15. Cut a 6-inch round section of velvet and place over the top of the corks.
16. Hot glue the fabric to the bottom of the corks and trim away the excess.
17. Thread a small button onto a long piece of embroidery floss. Sew the button onto the top of the ottoman and secure the thread to the bottom of the ottoman, pulling it tightly.
18. Trace the shape of the ottoman form onto a piece of cardstock for the base. Glue it securely to the base of the ottoman.

Tips & Warnings

• Sew seat cushions with scraps of fabric and batting.