I found a cute wall-hanging shelf that is shaped like a little house at the thrift store and while I think it was intended to hold small collectible figurines and tchotchkes, that's not what I bought it for!

Actually, I intended to just paint it and resell it in my Etsy shop but it sat in my craft room while I procrastinated doing other things for a looooonnnngggg time.

And then I collaborated with a company called xTool and received a desktop laser cutter and a light bulb went off in my head.

I hopped on Etsy to see if there were any patterns for laser-cut dollhouse furniture and there are 😍

And you can guess the rest of the story from here... I decided to keep the house-shaped shelf and create a tiny wall-hanging dollhouse!

Small Wall Hanging Dollhouse Makeover

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I started with the outside of the house and the kitchen.

Here is what it looked like when I found it at the thrift store for just $3.19!

You can see it is very shallow.

It had two hangers on the back so I removed those first.

You can't have a dollhouse without walls to decorate so I cut a back for it with some scraps of 1/8" plywood I had and reattached the hangers to that.

I'm not sure if or what color I might paint the outside yet but I knew I wanted it to have a little shingle roof.

I purchased a bag of Creatology Craft Sticks at Michael's and then cut them with miter shears to create shingles.

Then I used Gorilla Wood Glue to add them to the roof. I used tape to ensure they are in a straight line.

I chose to create the kitchen first so I searched through my hoard of scrapbook paper until I found a combination for the floor and walls that I liked.I used Mod Podge to add the new kitchen floor and walls.



I found a laser pattern for dollhouse furniture on Etsy from a shop called Angela Craft Studio and sized it down so it would fit in this tiny house. I bought a pattern for a set of 26 dollhouse furniture pieces and cut them out with the xTool M1 Laser and Blade Cutting Machine. 

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To make these, you cut out one of the little bowl shapes from the blister pack adding some handles when you cut. Paint the inside white and the outside the color of your choice and then add your chosen design. I used the end of a small paintbrush to create the polka dot and heart patterns. I also coated the inside and outside of mine with DecoArt Triple Thick Gloss Glaze so they are shiny.


The little rug in front of the sink is made with masking tape and baker's twine.I had this clothesline leftover from a macrame project I did.To make this, I taped some cardboard pieces together into the shape of a range hood. Then I cut a little piece of copper sheeting and used a scrapbooking tool I have to make creases (a butter knife would work too) where it needs to fold over the cardboard. I used the end of a paintbrush to make the hammered copper look.I still have my other dollhouse. You can see those posts here: Dollhouse Makeover. It's not finished either but I am now side tracked with this one! lol