Every miniature house needs useful everyday furniture, and a classic Chest of Drawers is one of those pieces that can find a home almost anywhere.
Use it as traditional bedroom furniture, place it in a hallway or dressing room, transform it into storage for a cottage or use it as the starting point for something far more unusual.
This digital miniature furniture project gives you the basic structure; how the finished piece looks is entirely up to you.
For a traditional interior, create a wood finish and add understated handles. For a vintage cottage, try layers of paint with gently distressed edges. Decorative papers can transform the drawer fronts, while hand-painted details, tiny labels or celestial motifs can turn an ordinary chest into something suitable for a magical miniature world.
And then there are the things that go on top.
A miniature mirror immediately creates a dressing area. Add perfume bottles and brushes for a bedroom, books and candles for a more atmospheric scene, flowers for a country cottage or jars, crystals and collected curiosities for something decidedly more Spellbound.
This is a digital design for making miniature furniture; no finished physical chest of drawers or decorative accessories are supplied.
The beauty of versatile furniture like this is that it doesn't dictate the story. You do.
The same basic design could appear in a neat traditional bedroom, an abandoned attic, a witch's cottage or a colourful home belonging to a particularly eccentric miniature resident.
It also gives you an opportunity to experiment with finishes on a manageable project before tackling larger pieces of miniature furniture.
However you decorate yours, don't feel obliged to make it perfect. Real furniture acquires marks, knocks, repainting and history — and those tiny imperfections can be exactly what makes handmade miniature furniture convincing.
Make the structure, add your own details and give your tiny chest of drawers a history.
This download includes both digital SVG files and printable PDF files, to make this gorgeous miniature Chest of Drawers, using your Cricut Maker machine, Laser Cutter or to cut by hand!
Click here to view the video tutorial on YouTube
This file is designed to be made in Mat Board at 1/12th scale, but can easily be scaled up or down for 1/24th, 1/48th or even 1/6th scale providing you use thinner or thicker materials to suit.
(Please note the accessories are not included in the download, it is for the digital files to create the Chest of Drawers only).
Every miniature house needs useful everyday furniture, and a classic Chest of Drawers is one of those pieces that can find a home almost anywhere.
Use it as traditional bedroom furniture, place it in a hallway or dressing room, transform it into storage for a cottage or use it as the starting point for something far more unusual.
This digital miniature furniture project gives you the basic structure; how the finished piece looks is entirely up to you.
For a traditional interior, create a wood finish and add understated handles. For a vintage cottage, try layers of paint with gently distressed edges. Decorative papers can transform the drawer fronts, while hand-painted details, tiny labels or celestial motifs can turn an ordinary chest into something suitable for a magical miniature world.
And then there are the things that go on top.
A miniature mirror immediately creates a dressing area. Add perfume bottles and brushes for a bedroom, books and candles for a more atmospheric scene, flowers for a country cottage or jars, crystals and collected curiosities for something decidedly more Spellbound.
This is a digital design for making miniature furniture; no finished physical chest of drawers or decorative accessories are supplied.
The beauty of versatile furniture like this is that it doesn't dictate the story. You do.
The same basic design could appear in a neat traditional bedroom, an abandoned attic, a witch's cottage or a colourful home belonging to a particularly eccentric miniature resident.
It also gives you an opportunity to experiment with finishes on a manageable project before tackling larger pieces of miniature furniture.
However you decorate yours, don't feel obliged to make it perfect. Real furniture acquires marks, knocks, repainting and history — and those tiny imperfections can be exactly what makes handmade miniature furniture convincing.
Make the structure, add your own details and give your tiny chest of drawers a history.
This download includes both digital SVG files and printable PDF files, to make this gorgeous miniature Chest of Drawers, using your Cricut Maker machine, Laser Cutter or to cut by hand!
Click here to view the video tutorial on YouTube
This file is designed to be made in Mat Board at 1/12th scale, but can easily be scaled up or down for 1/24th, 1/48th or even 1/6th scale providing you use thinner or thicker materials to suit.
(Please note the accessories are not included in the download, it is for the digital files to create the Chest of Drawers only).
