Five Below Dollhouse Makeover: Creating Stackable Room Boxes for Mini Brands

Dollhouse Transformation

• 🎯 The video details a makeover of a $25 dollhouse from Five Below, originally designed for glam squad dolls, to create display rooms for miniature collections.
• 💡 The goal is to cut the three-story dollhouse into three separate, stackable room boxes.
• 🛠️ The process involves cutting through composite wood walls, which can be done with a box cutter but is suggested to be easier with a Dremel.

Creating Individual Room Boxes

• 📏 Each floor is separated by cutting the side walls, resulting in rooms that are less than 9 inches deep.
• 🚪 A doorway is cut into one of the back walls, approximately 5 inches wide, to allow for inter-room access.
• 🎨 Contact paper is used to cover printed backgrounds on the back walls and printed images on the floors, with solid colors chosen for a customizable look.

Enhancing Room Details

• 🖼️ Crown molding from Michaels is used to cover seams and add decorative trim to the rooms, with 45° angle cuts for corners.
• 🚪 A door frame is constructed using balsa wood, glued in two layers for thickness and then painted white.
• 🏠 For the top floor, only one side wall and half of the roof are used to accommodate a slanted ceiling, creating a room with a small balcony area.

Decorating and Displaying Miniatures

• 🧩 The separate room boxes can be stacked or arranged individually, offering layout flexibility.
• 📚 The rooms are suitable for displaying miniature collections, such as Mini Brands, with ideas for creating custom furniture like bookcases from craft sticks.
• 🧲 Magnets are tested and found to work on the walls, allowing for hanging artwork and decorations.
• ✨ The makeover successfully transforms the printed dollhouse into customizable spaces, ready for further decoration with miniature items like statues and plants.