Quick and Easy Dollhouse Miniature Trellis Tutorial

Tutorial: How to make a quick and easy garden or patio trellis

Here's a quick and easy tutorial for a garden or patio trellis. Fun little project with minimum materials or time required.

Things you'll need:
6-7 Wood slats  (coffee stir sticks, popsicle sticks)
1 Small Oblong Wood Piece
Paint
Glue
Garden Vine

This project doesn't take long at all and can be done in between waiting for other projects you're working on to dry. The longest part of this project is waiting for the paint to dry.

Select 3-4 even sized wood pieces (depending on the size of your trellis)

Paint about 6-7 wood pieces your color of choice. I painted mine white. The extra pieces will be trimmed to go horizontal across the trellis

 

Measure and trim two wood pieces and glue horizontally across the vertical pieces, as shown in the photo

Paint a small piece of wood and glue to the bottom. This helps with balance and stability

Add your vines and glue in place if necessary

 

 

Ready to set up!

A lot of my materials are every day items I have around the house, like the coffee stir sticks I used. For the vine (and other mini plants I make) I go to the Dollar Tree store and find the smallest plants and flowers they have. Then I snip off the pieces and use however I can.


Thanks for looking and Enjoy! 

Mini Travel Trailer Video

Managed to make a quick video for the Mini Travel Trailer, it's under 4 mins. Enjoy!

The Greenleaf Travel Trailer in 15 Days

This Travel Trailer project was so much fun! I worked on it non-stop nights and weekends for 15 straight days, and I managed to finish it by Christmas. And I learned a lot while working on it. The kit produces a finished trailer that is completely empty on the inside, so the imagination is limitless when planning and designing it. Since my daughter requested a 50's retro style design, it was easy for me to choose a color theme and the accessories. The challenge was the furniture, since afterall it's a travel trailer so typical mini furniture doesn't work. The balance to that was it wasn't a lot of space to fill. I've posted a few photos below, and I'm working on making a short video. Enjoy!

Exterior

Exterior - Front End

Exterior - Rear End. The License Plate says "MINI"

Here are a few photos of the Interior. I added walls to separate the bedroom and bathroom, added upper and lower cabinets in the kitchen area, and built in a couch in the lounge area.

Interior - Before the Additions

Interior - Finished

Interior - Lounge and Kitchen Area

Interior - Kitchen Area

Interior - Bedroom and Bathroom Area

Interior - Bedroom and Bathroom Area

Interior - Top View

Interior - Top View

The video I'm making has close up photos of the interior and exterior. There's so many cute little details inside. As with any mini project though, photos can never due it justice. You appreciate them much more seeing it in person.

Now that this project is done, I'll finally be starting The Arthur by Greenleaf. I got a new Dremel tool for Christmas, along with a box of attachments, so the kit bashing I have planned will go much smoother now. I will also be practicing while building The Arthur, because once I'm done with that I'm planning to do The Brookwood by Greenleaf. Mine will be a beach house, of course. I've already started collecting items for it :-)


Thank you for looking!