Make a Dolls House Bed From Wooden Stir Sticks

Glue the Bed Posts To the Headboard and Footboard

Clamp and glue a set of bed posts to the side edges of the dolls house picket gate assembly to make a miniature head or foot board.

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Lay your basic gate on a set of stir stick scraps so that the gate is slightly raised above your clamping surface. Line up your posts in position so that there is a 3/4 inch gap from the bottom of the gate to the base of the bed posts. Make sure your mortises for your bed rails are facing in the correct direction. On the cross member side for the head board, and on the side without the cross members for the footboard.

Glue the gate sections to the posts so that the gates fall roughly in the middle of the posts (this is what your stir stick scraps are for. Clamp the sides of your posts so that they are held tightly against the gate. Leave to set.

• Make a Dolls House Bed From Wooden Stir Sticks
• Make A Scale Model Picket Gate from Wooden Stir Sticks
• Cut the Second Cross Member For the Miniature Picket Gate
• Finish the Basic Dolls House Scale Picket Gate
• Make Round Finials For Dolls House Fence Posts
• Create Mortise and Tenon Joints For Miniature Bed Posts
• Fit the Bed Rails to the Posts
• Glue the Bed Posts To the Headboard and Footboard
• Matching Designs for Dolls House Headboard and Footboard
• Glue the Bed Rails to the Dolls House Junior Bed Headboard and Footboard