Dollhouse Bookshelves

Great idea. She’ll love it.

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Great project for a girls room!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

great job, only need a lot of books,and toys. I think your daughter is lucky to have a father like you.

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I like the concept. It looks great so far, can’t wait to see the finished product.

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looks like a good project for a little girl’s room. If you need to divivde up the shelves a little smaller, you can always add furnature.

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Great Job! I am actually working on one of these too. My wife gave me the same specs as yours. Pottery Barn Kids could keep me busy for years.

there mus tbe cooo going on i was asked to make one for a friend i was going to use poplar. Would oak ply wood be better/ more durrable?

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@happy_budah – I’m sure poplar will work fine so long as your joints are strong. I used my router to rabbet out 3/4” grooves on all of the joints to add extra support and glued them in place before hitting them with the brad nailer. Pottery Barn uses MDF for theirs, so I’m guessing anything will work. There aren’t too many unsupported lengths to worry about structurally. I have actually considered adding a base to the bottom and concealing a 2×4 in the middle of the bottom shelf to keep it from warping over time if there are a lot of heavy items stored there. I tend to over-engineer everything I build, as I’m not skilled enough at this point to make showpiece furniture. I figure if it can take a beating and last for years, my efforts are well worth it.

If you use poplar, please post some photos. I’d love to see how it turns out.

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A great design. Nice job on the construction.

Keep us posted with construction blog postings.

You can search on the web for wallpaper for dollhouses and print off full sheets of paper for printing wallpaper on your printer. Also kitchen supplies and laundry.

It’s surprising to me that I hadn’t thought of that before. The web site that I found is in Peterborough Ontario. 12 miles from where I grew up as a kid.

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@Karson – Wallpaper printing is a great idea. I’ll check online to see what I can find. I had also considered a 1/4 MDF back with different fabrics glue on to create varying wallpaper for the rooms.

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Awesome job! Those things are $400 on potterybarnkids.com and theirs aren’t even rabbeted. I think you could make a living on those. Thanks for the post.

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cute design well done

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