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….Build A Dolls House - Fitting The Doors
This article has been written to be read after …Build A Dolls House – Fixing The Interior Walls.
Doors vary greatly depending on the stye, era and grandeur of your dolls house. There are many types and styles on the market if you would like to use ready made doors. If you are feeling more ambitious, you might like to try making your own:-
- Planked doors can be made by scoring a single piece of wood cut to the size of your door frame.
- Another way to make planked doors is to add pre-stained strips of wooden beading onto a single piece of wood. Be sure to add beading to the front and back and leave a tiny gap between each piece of beading.
- Panelled doors can be made from off cuts of plywood, gluing strips of wood around the areas that you want to be panelled (Wood panelling for walls can be made in a similar fashion. Start with the vertical uprights and add the cross pieces in afterwards.
- For grand panelled doors follow the instructions above but add a square or rectangle of thin wood inside the panelled area, leaving a border around it to give the impression of relief.
- Doors can be painted or stained. If you choose stain, be sure to stain the pieces before gluing. Otherwise wood glue will not take the stain properly and you will be left with an uneven finish.
To fit doors into you the interior walls of your dolls house, it may be easiest to do this before you have secured the walls with glue, screws or pins and the interior wall is stil on your work bench.
- Mark the position of the hinges on the door
- With the door held in a vice, gouge to small rectangular dips to house the hinges. Use a craft knife or chisel to to this.
- After checking that the hinge fits the hole that you have made for it, place the door in it’s hole in the interior frame and mark the position of the hinges on the wall
- Drill holes in the door and fix the hinges in place (You should be provided with tiny pins when you buy the hinges)
- Drill holes in the door frame in the interior wall and fit the door in place. The door should be at right angles to the wall when you tap the pins in place.
- Architraving should be added once the walls have been decorated. If you are using shop bought doors, many of them come fitted inside architraving. This saves you the fiddly job of attaching and fitting hinges.
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