Where have you found plans for dollhouse furniture? If you know of any great sources for plans or tutorials, please let me know! Craft sticks or coffee stir sticks are the basis for these 1:12 scale pieces, a child's chair and a picket gate bed. There are also clear step by step instructions on this site for the following pieces of simple dolls house scale furniture made from basswood (or jelutong)
- Make a simple table
- Make a simple chair
- Make a dolls house armoire or cupboard with opening doors
- Make a dolls house night table with an opening drawer
- Make a dolls house chest or tack trunk
- Make a simple shelf with hanging pegs
Edwardian fret saw plans from Hobbies crafts have been posted by Fine scroll saw. They include dollhouses and furniture to fill them. The plans can be downloaded as pdfs, but need to be printed on large sheets, or blown up to scale. These plans are from an era where hand fret saws/scroll saws were extremely popular.
CDHM have a tutorial on making a miniature bed using toothpicks
A set of 1:12 scale Mission Style Bedroom Furniture comes from Alice's Dollhouse page.
There are wonderful free printable furniture pieces for a bedroom on Odissey Paper Models in 1:12 scale.
Forty-Two Roads has a set of furniture posted that you can make from cardboard. This is designed for children's play dolls, but you may be able to adapt the concept to other scales.


Comments
You had some very helpful information for me to use in starting to build miniature furniture. I’ve never built any small furniture before. I was a carpenter for yrs. but blew my back apart a couple of yrs. ago. This seems to be a lot less strain on the back and it’s a lot of fun and so relaxing until I mess up a nice piece of furniture that is. But I guess thats all part of learning something new. I’ve made quite a few pieces now and I would like to make some more complex items for the mini mansion that I have made. Need to fill it up with some fancy stuff you know. Do you know of any sites where I can find anymore detailed plans for free? Thanks for having a site like this for us new enthusiasts to enjoy,and for helping make projects a little easier.
Jack Baker
Vancouver Island BC