A custom-made dollhouse is an ideal toy to teach your (grand)children to use their creativity. However, to make a wooden dollhouse yourself, you need DIY doll house plans or building plans.
On this website called a Beautiful Mess, Katie Shelton wrote a fantastic article on how she built this pretty dollhouse with 3 levels high. And she explains step by step how she made it.
@Katie Shelton
#4: Another cardboard and boxes dollhouse.
This cardboard and boxes dollhouse is ideal to put your kids’ Barbies in. The plans are downloadable in the article.
No real DIY building plans were needed to build this dollhouse, but still, I thought it was a good idea to show this one :-). Have a look at the blog post on this website.
If you want to download the building plans for this dollhouse in the picture below, MockingBirdArtBoutiq has them.
#8: Remodeling A Dream Dollhouse.
You can of course remodel an older dollhouse and make it look as good as new! The plans are downloadable on this website and you can also read more instructions there.
@Oliviag2026
#9: A DIY Wooden Dollhouse/bookshelf.
You can make this house to use as a bookshelf, but of course, you can just use it as a dollhouse, it can go both ways!
“MotherEarthNews” has expanded DIY dollhouse plans for this farm-style house. If you scroll through the pictures above, you can see all the details you need, which means measurements, all the necessary plans and building materials.
If you would prefer to make the building plan yourself, you would really need to put all the details on paper beforehand, indicate the exact dimensions for each part, and also think about the dimensions for windows, doors, and stairs!
You really need to include all of these in your building plan.
Another thing to think about is: which scale do you want your dollhouse to be in?
Choosing the scale of the dollhouse can be influenced, for example, by the space you have in your home for the dollhouse.
If you choose to want a dollhouse on a scale of 1:24, for example, this can be because the miniatures of Playmobil have about the same scale. So if your kids already have Playmobil, having a dollhouse for those toys would be quite fun for them 😉
To get an impression, measure the spaces in your house and convert them to 1:24 or 1:12 scale to determine which scale you are going to use.
What To Do Next When You Finished The Basics of your DIY Dollhouse.
I can help you with that by adding all of the blog posts from my website where I have talked about all there is to do on a dollhouse, but that would be way too much haha.
Here’s a small list though of further steps to take:
==> There is so much more, please just use the “search” button on my website, thanks!
My Final Conclusion
I hope that you have found a suitable dollhouse building plan for your needs by reading this blog post, and thus I could help you out 😉
If you have any more questions about this topic or have any other things to chat about, please feel free to leave a comment below, join me on my social media channels, or on my fantastic Facebook-group, where people are helped out with questions or showing their work. Welcome!
6 thoughts on “The Top 23 Best DIY Doll House Plans – Free Or Very Affordable!”
Hi Lizzy! This was such a fun article to read, and I appreciate you taking the time to summarize these amazing options for DIY dollhouse plans. One of my close friends is about to have a baby girl, and I know that this will be of great interest to her. I am also wondering if I should keep it a secret and gift her a dollhouse myself! These are super helpful suggestions that will inform which one I purchase in the near future.
I am impressed with how affordable these DIY dollhouses are. During this pandemic, I have had more free time. So, I got into these DIY dollhouses. I appreciate you created this list of DIY building plans, because there were some here that I had not heard of. I will give each one a try. Thank you so much for these insights!
Thank you for this very helpful information. I have been interested in dollhouses and miniatures practically all my life (my parents gave me my first dollhouse at age 7), and featured a dollhouse I made and decorated from a Greenleaf kit at a Cleveland Home & Flower Show in 1981. Because I worked full time and had a lot of other interests over the years (making costumes for Victorian and Medieval events, singing, etc.), the dollhouse was stashed away in the attic for 30+ years. The winter of 2021, I brought it back downstairs, cleaned it up, and displayed it for Christmas. Since then, my love for miniatures has blossomed again. This past Fall & Winter, I decorated an unfinished wooden dollhouse, which someone had donated to a homeless family shelter, and presented it back to the shelter before Christmas. The staff loved it. I told them that even though it was for the children, they could play with it whenever they wanted! Wish I could show you pictures of these two dollhouses.
I’ve been looking for a pattern that has three rooms on the main floor. Most kits and patterns seem to have only two rooms on the main floor, which means I can only have a kitchen and living room, or a dining and living room. I’d also like to make a Tudor style dollhouse some day.
Thank you so much for telling your story here and I actually would love to create a Tudor-style dollhouse some day as well, what a coincidence! I have this old book,of which I think it is not even sold anymore, and I will surely give it a try, someday.
Have you seen the Tudor homes from Kevin Jackson before? They are so lovely, totally my style!
I wish you happy continuous crafting
Lizzy
Hi Lizzy! This was such a fun article to read, and I appreciate you taking the time to summarize these amazing options for DIY dollhouse plans. One of my close friends is about to have a baby girl, and I know that this will be of great interest to her. I am also wondering if I should keep it a secret and gift her a dollhouse myself! These are super helpful suggestions that will inform which one I purchase in the near future.
Hi Erica,
I wish your close friend either a lot of fun with building her own dollhouse for her girl, or either a nice brand new dollhouse, why not? Have fun!
Kind regards,
Lizzy
I am impressed with how affordable these DIY dollhouses are. During this pandemic, I have had more free time. So, I got into these DIY dollhouses. I appreciate you created this list of DIY building plans, because there were some here that I had not heard of. I will give each one a try. Thank you so much for these insights!
You are welcome Ann, happy crafting!
Lizzy
Thank you for this very helpful information. I have been interested in dollhouses and miniatures practically all my life (my parents gave me my first dollhouse at age 7), and featured a dollhouse I made and decorated from a Greenleaf kit at a Cleveland Home & Flower Show in 1981. Because I worked full time and had a lot of other interests over the years (making costumes for Victorian and Medieval events, singing, etc.), the dollhouse was stashed away in the attic for 30+ years. The winter of 2021, I brought it back downstairs, cleaned it up, and displayed it for Christmas. Since then, my love for miniatures has blossomed again. This past Fall & Winter, I decorated an unfinished wooden dollhouse, which someone had donated to a homeless family shelter, and presented it back to the shelter before Christmas. The staff loved it. I told them that even though it was for the children, they could play with it whenever they wanted! Wish I could show you pictures of these two dollhouses.
I’ve been looking for a pattern that has three rooms on the main floor. Most kits and patterns seem to have only two rooms on the main floor, which means I can only have a kitchen and living room, or a dining and living room. I’d also like to make a Tudor style dollhouse some day.
Hello Liz !
(having the same name is always fun haha)
Thank you so much for telling your story here and I actually would love to create a Tudor-style dollhouse some day as well, what a coincidence! I have this old book,of which I think it is not even sold anymore, and I will surely give it a try, someday.
Have you seen the Tudor homes from Kevin Jackson before? They are so lovely, totally my style!
I wish you happy continuous crafting
Lizzy