In 2 previous articles, I have talked about how to make miniature walls and miniature water (streams, beaches, and waterfalls.) Today we are going to talk about 4 different miniature dollhouse flooring ideas and how to make those DIY-style.
To craft this miniature dollhouse flooring, you don't need as many materials at all as in the miniature-water tutorial, so I hope to guide you through these more fluently haha!
updated on 17.06.23
Dollhouse flooring ideas: Idea number 1: use egg cartons.
Make a miniature cobblestone walkway using egg cartons and recycle/upcycle! A little walkthrough:
- Mix black and white acrylic paint until you get a slightly grayish color. Add a drop of brown color so that the mix gets the color of concrete.
- paint it on the area that you want to cover in stone and let it dry.
- cut out the rounds of an egg carton after you cut it in half. Flat them out and cut out a bunch of squares and rectangles. The size is up to you. Glue the pieces randomly to the gray painted area, just make sure that you don't put too many big pieces together, the same goes for the small ones. Seal it with another layer of glue.
- cover the sealed stones with silver acrylic paint, it will give the stones a metallic shine that will remain visible. Cover that again with gray acrylic paint.
- randomly cover the stones here and there with a mustard color, some raw sienna, and some reddish-brown. Finish with the mix you made in the beginning and again paint a few stones here and there at random.
- Seal everything with a sealer. In the video underneath, Polycrylic is used, but I presume you can use Mod Podge.
- use shrink-free grout between the stones. Leave the residue that is left on the stones.
- add some leftover gray concrete paint mix on the crevices, to make it look more used, but just a little bit.
I can't understand the end of the video, she talks way too quickly, can you? But I am assuming she wants to seal it again 🙂 And then it's done, check out the video :
This video is a variation of the previous one, but with a porch instead of a cobblestone floor :
Dollhouse flooring ideas: Idea number 2: wooden floors.
A. Use popsicle sticks.
I had to really organize this part because people tend to 'paint' popsicle sticks in lots of different ways, so here we go to get an oversight!
But first, let's show the different patterns you can make with this collage of pictures that I put together:
The choice is all yours really, I took the easiest one, but it would sure be a challenge to try and do the herringbone pattern for example.
Cutting the popsicle sticks is the easiest with a mini table saw, but of course, it is totally up to you if you want to do it by hand with a hacksaw if you have the patience for it 😉
Gluing the sticks to the surface, I've seen people use all kinds of glues or also mod podge. I just used regular wood glue, but again the choice is yours.
Painting them can be done in several ways.
- One way is using shoe polish and an old cloth to give them that worn and weathered look.
Another way could be staini