If you’re looking for DIY dollhouse textile ideas for dressing up a miniature bedroom, this method is an easy no-sew version. Using double-sided tape as a shortcut, you can do some dollhouse decorating using miniature fabric prints without needing to sew anything. And you can even use it to make some cute mini things to accessorize your doll’s house.
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Supplies you’ll need.
This is an easy DIY, and you only need a few things. (This list includes Amazon affiliate links.)
- Dollhouse bed (I got mine from the dollar store website.)
- Gluit double sided tape
- Regular double sided tape
- Small-scale fabric or solid colors
- Scissors
I started with a basic dollhouse bed that I got from the dollar store on their website. You have to buy these in bulk, and they’re not to scale, so be aware that these aren’t the best for actual 1:12 scale dollhouses. It’s fine for this demo, though!
The company had sent this to me to try out, and I really like it because it’s thicker than regular double sided tape, so I thought about using it to make things like the pillows. It’s also removable and reusable, so you can reposition things on it.
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Do the sheet on the bed.
Cut the tape to fit the bed, and stick it to the bed, leaving the backing tape on the top.
Cover the whole bed with the tape and then flip it over.
Do the same thing on the bottom of the bed. Don’t remove the backing strip yet.
Choose some fabric that will be the “fitted sheet” on the bed. I used this solid pink fabric that I have in my Spoonflower shop, where I also have a bunch of 1:12 and 1:16 scale dollhouse patterns.
Fit the fabric onto the bed to see where it needs to be trimmed. It needs to be about 1/2″ longer on each end, and long enough to wrap around the bed about 1″ on each side.
Make sure it will wrap around to the underside of the bed.
Trim the fabric to the right size.
Remove the backing of the tape that’s on the top of the bed.
Press the fabric onto the taped surface, placing it evenly in the center of the fabric.
To see how to make a no-sew rug using this tape, click here.
Bend the tape at the head and foot of the bed up so that you can wrap the fabric around it.
Fold the fabric over to the back of the tape.
Do the same thing to the foot of the bed.
Turn the bed over and remove the backing of the tape that’s on the underside of the bed.
With the edges folded from where it wrapped around the tape on top, fold it up onto the underside of the bed and stick it to the tape there.
Press both sides of the fabric up and stick it to the underside of the bed to create the fitted sheet look.
Now the “bottom sheet” is done, and you can move on to the pillows.
Click here to see how to make DIY miniature dollhouse frames
Make some pillows.
Cut a piece of the Gluit tape in the size of the pillow that you want to make. Don’t take the backing strip off yet.
Stick that piece to the end of the tape strip, sticky side to sticky side, and cut off another piece to create a thicker block.
Remove one of the backing strips and do it again to make a thicker block.
When it’s as thick as you want it (I used 4 pieces) trim the sharp edges of the block to soften the look of them up.
When the block is ready, stick a piece of fabric that will wrap around and cover the sides and back to it.
Trim the fabric to a length that will fold all the way over to cover the whole thing.
Take the backing strip off and fold the sides of the fabric up to stick it to the back.
Fold one side of the long side of the pillow and stick it to the back.
Fold the other side of the fabric up and kind of angle the sides in like an envelope so that the folded sides are on the underside and don’t show on the sides.
Now you have the pillow, do as many as you want to add to the bed.
Do the mini blanket for the bed.
For the top blanket, I used a 1:12 scale fabric from my Spoonflower shop so that it would be a small-scale that fit the bed. Cut the blanket a little longer than the mattress of the bed it there’s a footboard on it, or folded down to the floor on the foot of the bed if you want it to cover the entire mattress and there’s no footboard.
It should be a little longer than floor length on each side of the bed.
Use the regular thin double-sided tape for this next part.
Put a strip of the thin double-sided tape on the long sides of the fabric on the back.
Remove the tape backing from one side.
Fold the tape over to create the hem of the blanket.
Put the “hemmed” side of the blanket on the bed and position it where you want it to sit on the pillows. Fold the foot end under to where it hits the footboard and pinch it to mark the length.
Turn it over, holding the hem in place, and either pin it or just hold it in place. Remove the backing from the tape on that edge (you’ll have to hold it in place while you do this if you don’t pin it) and press it down to create the second hem.
Now put it on the bed and see if it’s too long on either side when it’s lined up on the bed.
Trim it if it needs to be cut to get the length right. You’ll still need to turn it under, so don’t cut it too short. It’s better to leave it a little longer than you think you need it to be.
Put double-sided tape on the short ends of the back of the blanket.
Remove the backing from the tape and fold it over to make the side hems.
Attach the blanket to the bed.
Put some double-sided tape on the bed itself, placing it not all the way up to the headboard.
Remove the tape backing paper and put the blanket on the bed, then press it down to stick it to the side of the bed to keep it in place. It works best if you line it up on the footboard the press it down the sides of the bed. Put the pillows on top and put it on your doll’s house.
Before and after.
Here’s a before and after, and if you wanted to paint the bed or add more blankets you could do that, too.
The good thing about using double sided tape is that you can easily redo your dollhouse decor quickly and without having to sew anything. The downside is that these aren’t going to be reusable tiny blankets, so this is more for displaying and decorating than for building an inventory of dollhouse decorations.
Either way, it gives you a quick way to cover furniture without needing to sew anything, so you could do this in combination with making other things like tiny quilts that you can switch out without attaching them to the bed!
