When you’re redoing the flooring in your dollhouse you can use any number of things to make it, from actual dollhouse flooring, to things like mini tiles, or even stickers. These ideas will give you some things to start with, and might even spark some ideas that I don’t have here.
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Premade dollhouse flooring.
You can make it easy on yourself and buy flooring materials that were designed to use in dollhouses, since they’ll be the right scale already. Some will be made of printed cardboard or other materials, and some will be peel-and-stick, which makes them easy to attach.
Make sure that you check to see what tools you’ll need to cut the premade flooring into shape, since you might need to get a tool like a Dremel if you can’t use regular scissors.
You can find premade flooring on Etsy here: Dollhouse flooring
Real flooring made for regular houses.
If you have solid colored leftovers from your own home projects, or you can get some at the store, you can use real home design materials like tile and vinyl. Solid colors work best for this since you won’t have to have a pattern scale to worry about.
Some stores let you take samples, but don’t go crazy with that or they’ll ban you from the store!
You can also get clearance wood and vinyl materials at resale stores, so keep an eye out for those and grab them when you see them.
Printables that you download.
An inexpensive option is printables. They give you a lot of design options and you can print them at home to save money. We have some dollhouse printables, and are adding more on a reguar basis, so check those out: Free Printables Archives – A Cake To Remember
You can buy a lot of designs on Etsy here: Dollhouse printable flooring. I also have a section on this website that has some printables for dollhouses, like this flooring option.
Printables are also easy to cut to fit into a room, and they can be printed on regular paper or on cardstock if you want something heavier, to glue into the house.
Stickers and contact paper.
Stickers and contact paper can be added to a dollhouse to make it look like a tile floor, and they’re easy to cut into shape.
You can also get large stickers on Zazzle that have designs that look like tiles on them. I have several listed in my Artisan Shopping Designs store on Zazzle that are specifically made to look like tile flooring or repeating wallpaper. You can see all of them here: Peel and Stick dollhouse wallpaper and flooring on Zazzle.
Make sure to get a design that has a small pattern on it, because anything that’s too big will look like it’s not meant for the smaller space.
Scrapbooking paper.
Scrapbook paper or cardstock is a good choice to put in a dollhouse because you can usually find a lot of designs that are smaller scale that would work.
Wallpaper samples.
If you can find wallpaper samples with a good design on them, you can cut them up to use for flooring in a dollhouse. They’re usually thicker than regular paper, so it will give you a good solid surface if you want to glue it down.
If it has a texture it can mimic carpet, too.
Mini carpeting and fabric.
Speaking of carpets, you can always do wall-to-wall carpet in your dollhouse using fabric and other textured materials.
I found this textured craft foam that worked perfectly for throw rugs with a slight pile texture. It cuts with regular scissors and it’s super simple to make throw rugs from it.
There are pre-made area rugs that can be purchased (check them out on Etsy) or you can make your own mini area rugs using a kit.
You can also make rugs by printing them and attaching the images to lightweight cardstock, but you won’t have the realistic texture, so it’s a tradeoff.
Samples of real carpet are another way to make dollhouse flooring. You can also buy a single carpet square from a company like Flor, which will give you a continuous piece of carpet for a room that’s larger than a regular sample size.
There are so many different types of fabric, including upholstery fabric that’s textured like fur or leather, you should be able to find something that looks like carpeting if that’s what you want to do in your dollhouse.
You can attach the fabric to a piece of cardstock that fits the room, and then place it inside the room for a patterned look.
For an article about upholstering dollhouse furniture with mini fabric, click here.
See how to make an easy no-sew rug here.
Painted floors.
Hand-painted or stenciled flooring is a fun way to add an individual touch to the flooring design. Use stencils or freehand designs like flowers and vines around the edges of the floor.
Look for smaller stencils that are used for wood crafts in that section of the craft store to keep the small-scale going throughout your house.
Paper tiles or marquetry.
Cut up pieces of paper or cardstock to make tiles or marquetry patterns, then seal them with Mod Podge to give the floor the look of a high-end marquetry floor.
Stickers.
Stickers can be a fun way to add details to flooring, either as a specific accent or as an allover design with small geometric stickers. Add a medallion with something specific in the center of the floor to make the room really unique.
Non-flooring options.
I mentioned the gnome room in my dollhouse, and I used some moss and plastic flowers for the wallpaper in that room. You could also use things like pebbles, artificial moss, bamboo skewers, cut-up matchsticks, or other found objects as flooring for the interior or exterior of your dollhouse.
I’ve seen floors that were made with tiny matchstick pieces in the shape of herringbone patterns, and they looked really good even though they probably took forever! (Or maybe because they took forever.)
Craft supplies that are scaled smaller.
Some craft supplies that are intended for other things can be used for dollhouse flooring materials.
You can get small glass tiles that are used for mosaics and use those as dollhouse tile floors. Since they come in a lot of colors they can be used to add a pretty custom floor to a bathroom, entryway, or kitchen.
Take a look in the bead section of the craft store and see if you can find any that are flat enough to glue onto a backing board. Or get a bunch of tiny seed beads and glue them to a board to create a flat floor that has a lot of color and sparkle.
Use buttons that don’t have a shank on the back and glue them to a board to create flooring. I have some interesting flat buttons that would work really well as interesting tiles, and filling in around them with grout or caulk to level the floor off would look good.
People have used craft sticks or popsicle sticks to create some really impressive wood flooring. They can be cut so that the ends are flat and look like wood planks, then arranged in different patterns.
You can paint them or stain them with regular wood stain, thinned-out acrylic or watercolor paint, or something like tea or coffee.
Coloring them before you put the floor pattern together will give you the option of using “planks” that are slightly different in color, so it will add variety to the look of your flooring.
You can get sheets of felt that have patterns, or that are solid colors, and those would work well for flooring in a dollhouse. It can mimic the look of a carpet, or you can seal it with Mod Podge to make it look more like a solid surface.
Recycled materials.
Using recycled materials is a fun way to reuse things and show your creativity. It can turn into an ongoing challenge to try to figure out what you can make with something instead of throwing it away.
Both paper and foam egg cartons (or other grocery store packaging) can be cut up and used to make tiles or stones. The textured paper cartons can be painted to mimic the look of stone walkways, and you can use a small ball tool to press textures into the foam cartons.
Placemats are a good size to cut into shape and put into a room in a dollhouse. Depending on what they’re made from, they can also be used to make window treatments.
There are almost unlimited ideas about what you can do with dollhouse flooring. It can be realistic or have a texture that’s just there for looks. The important thing is to have fun and be creative while you’re doing it!
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