A dollhouse will definitely bring your little girl great joy. But what happens if the child is no longer interested in dolls? The dollhouse ends up in the trash. Another point to consider is whether there is enough space for it in the children's room. You can build a functional dollhouse yourself and put it to practical use later. Find out how!
Creative ideas with shelves & co. from Ikea
Treat your child to a dollhouse if you build it yourself or at least design it yourself. No prior knowledge or craftsmanship is required, just creativity and a few craft materials. We present 10 imaginative ideas, like from an ordinaryIkea piece of furniturea beautiful dollhouse can be created.
In a small greenhouseBuild your own dollhouse
The greenhouse 'Socker' is actually a house made of glass. Its dimensions - W 45 / D 22 / H 35 cm - provide an excellent basis for creating a room for your favorite doll. A Barbie doll is on average 29-30 cm tall and will definitely feel comfortable in a room with floor-to-ceiling windows and a glass roof. You simply have to remove one pane on the width and now create a cute doll's room.
Design a dollhouse in the closet
There is rarely enough space in the children's room to organize all the toys loosely and nicely. Children seem even more convinced that they want to have a large dollhouse. To avoid disappointment, you can let your creativity run wild and think of something unusual. Why not convert the closet itself into a dollhouse?
Repurpose a closet system made from untreated wood
Cabinet and shelving systems that are characterized by their simplicity and simple appearance, such as the Ivar model from Ikea, are perfect for further redesigns. There is also enough space to create an entire dollhouse with several rooms inside the closet. Another advantage is that all the small stuff or doll accessories stay behind closed doors when the child is not playing with them.
Build your own dollhouse out of a simple bedside table
Small pieces of furniture can also easily be converted into doll rooms. What is needed besides doll furniture is a cozy interior. You can achieve this if you design the interior walls of the piece of furniture creatively and chic. Leftover wallpaper, packaging or craft paper or even a paper bag with a beautiful pattern can help.
A bedside table, like Rast from Ikea, consists of four wooden boards, which can also be assembled differently. Take two of them and build them up one on top of the other. You have already built a two-story dollhouse yourself, which you just need to furnish lavishly.
Dollhouse with a difference without building
You can create a beautiful dollhouse without even having to build anything. Simply take a cupboard of the appropriate size, such as from Ikea's Stuva furniture series. Thanks to the playful but at the same time very simple design and the large selection of colors, Stuva furniture is ideal for children's rooms.
White furniture for children's rooms is a practical solution and is well suited for children of all ages. The simple design and clear form language leave the opportunity to interpret the furniture according to individual wishes and ideas. Behind the cupboard doors there can be a dollhouse, but also school supplies.
Build your own dollhouse from the baby room furniture
The furniture in the children's room changes as the child grows up. There are basically three types of children's room furniture - for babies, children and teenagers. And instead of throwing away the old baby furniture, you can build a beautiful dollhouse out of it yourself. They are best suited for the purpose due to their size. What's still missing are color and cheerful motifs.
Hansvik wall shelf from Ikea is only 16.5 cm deep, divided into six compartments and therefore ideal for a six-room dollhouse. Now decorate the back of the wall shelf with beautiful patterned craft paper and mount it on the wall at a height so that the small child can easily reach the upper shelves. The decorative board in the upper area of the wall shelf gives it a country house look and, when redesigned as a dollhouse, it is strongly reminiscent of the facade element of a traditional gable roof house.
Use the Kallax shelf from Ikea
A shelf repurposed as a dollhouse also creates space for other homeless toys and pictures that might otherwise be lying on the floor or in a bucket. A small, free-standing shelf from the Kallax series from Ikea can be used as a two-story Barbie house when it is not being used as a bookcase.
The shelf is also available in several versions and offers the possibility of expanding the dollhouse with a few more floors or storing other things. Kallax itself is a very simply constructed shelf and it would certainly not be a problem for a hobby carpenter to recreate it from MDF or wooden panels.
Repurpose a Billy shelf
You can see from the examples that it is actually not that complicated to build a beautiful dollhouse yourself. Its basic shape is very similar to a rectangular shelf that can easily be placed on the floor. The details are sophisticated, such as doors, windows and wall decorations, which everyone can design individually.
One of Ikea's best-selling pieces of furniture is the Billy shelf. Offered in several versions, in terms of color, size, with or without doors, etc., it is very simple but undeniably functional and can be used in every area of the home and even in the workplace.
Imaginatively design a wall in the children's room as a dollhouse
A dollhouse can be designed in a very playful and imaginative way. It does not have to consist of just a single unit, but also of several small ones, which are arranged and beautifully arranged into the characteristic house shape.
Förhöja wall boxes from Ikea offer storage space for small things
The Förhöja wall boxes from Ikea are only 30 x 30 cm in size and can be mounted under a closet or directly on the wall. This creates additional storage space in small rooms without cramping the space.
Practical open shelves 'Lack' optimize the smallest space
The narrow wall shelf from the 'Lack' furniture series from Ikea is also considered to optimize small rooms and offer more storage space. Usually the corners of the room remain unused because no furniture fits in them. A lacquer shelf is considered for such situations.
Build an entire dollhouse yourself out of boxes
Perhaps the most practical idea for building a dollhouse yourself is to use boxes for its rooms, such as 'Lekman' from Ikea. A cube-shaped box made of plastic can be designed as a living room, others as a bedroom or kitchen. If the child is not playing with his dolls at the moment, the boxes are used for storage as usual.
Lakman boxes are tailored to Expedit Regal and can be configured with it or purchased individually.
