Dollhouse Miniature Exterior Floor Cube Side 5

 

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I had so much fun with the floor last week I decided to cover another side of the exterior floor cube this week. This time I went with a wood look for the material but still used just some poster board to make it.

This time I wanted two layers a black bottom layer that was then covered with strips that look like wood. For the black layer it is a simple coat of black craft paint. For the wood look I used a couple of colors of brown as well as a golden yellow and painted on a very streaky coat of paint to look like wood grain. Once cut into the small pieces it will be more convincing than it looks as a large piece.

 

 

Let the paints dry. Once dry cut the piece that is painted to look like wood grain into ¼” strips with the steaks going the long way.

 

 

 

 

 

Once cut it is a simple task to just glue those strips to the black piece leaving a small gap between them. When we are done this will resemble the fake wood tiles that you can buy to cover a real deck with.

 

 

 

 

Once the strips are glued down and the glue has dried (at least mostly dried) cut the piece so that you have strips that have 3 “boards” on each one.

 

 

 

Once cut use one of the wide strips (with 3 boards) to determine the length to cut each one into. What you are wanting is a bunch of square “tiles” that look like they are made of 3 pieces of wood.

 

Now just glue the tiles onto the cube (or in place on your dollhouse patio/deck/porch) alternating the orientation of the boards on the tiles. Continue until the surface is covered trimming as needed at the edges.

 

 

I did add a clear finish to this floor using some Mat Mod Podge to give just a very subtle shine to the flooring.

And there we are another surface of the floor cube covered.

What do you think I should to with the last side? Be sure to let me know if you have an idea.

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