Thread: windows for a dolls house

Originally Posted by stings

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You can use the thick plastic found in the blister packs of many products to make acceptable "glass". I paste toothpicks or split matches on the plastic to give the "colonial" affect. Balsa makes excellent frames for my windows and can be bevelled and mitred with a stanley knife. I use Tarzan grip or supa-glue.

When my daughter had her dolls house we used the plastic from shirt-boxes....but that's 33 years ago!

I would be amazed if any craft shop stocks pre-fabricated mini-windows, but then I'm often surprised.

Originally Posted by Knurl

You can use the thick plastic found in the blister packs of many products to make acceptable "glass". I paste toothpicks or split matches on the plastic to give the "colonial" affect. Balsa makes excellent frames for my windows and can be bevelled and mitred with a stanley knife. I use Tarzan grip or supa-glue.

When my daughter had her dolls house we used the plastic from shirt-boxes....but that's 33 years ago!

I would be amazed if any craft shop stocks pre-fabricated mini-windows, but then I'm often surprised.

Windows,doors,cornice...anything you can think of on a real house is available in 1/12 scale (except scale wrought-iron lace)...roof-tiles,slates (real ones)etc,"amazing" is the right word!
Another way to make windows is to use 2mm perspex and rout a shallow rebate for the frames which avoids the "stuck-on" look and disguises the thickness of the perspex.Haven't tried it yet but it the best I've seen.
Check out this bloke's work...
Gable End Designs Frame Home Page

30 years ago, when I made my daughter a doll house I used some 1/16" Plexiglass and painted on "Wood" strips between the panes. Glued the sheets over a hole cut in the sides of the house and applied thin strips for the framing & sill. Still have the house in storage an my daughter wants me to refresh the appearance for her daughter.

I was at local craft store not too long ago and saw an array of goodies, Windows, doors lamps, bricks, shudders, clabbords, shingles, almost any building material in miniture. Locally it is Hobby Lobby but I don't think they are international, surely you have a similar store.

Some interesting miniatures...click on link.
(the architects stools are around 50mm high.)Room 11