Craftsman Style Miniature Dollhouse Chandelier Tutorial

Supplies:

Scrap wood in various sizes (thin like craft sticks)
1/8" dowel
1/8" bass wood
Card Stock
Clothes pin or clamp
Glue
Scissors
Toothpicks
Sandpaper
Paint pen or marker in the color of your choice
Bell shaped earring back or some other "finding"
Razor saw
Clearcote High Shine Glaze or other spray-on gloss
Printable "Shade" ( link included)

Step One:

Assembling the shade - steps 1-7

Visit Jim's Printable Mini's, link provided below, choose the "shade" you want and print out on card stock. You need to print out 4, of what ever pattern you choose.

Click Here For Printable "Shade"

Step Two:

Cut out your shades making sure to cut off the lines on the pattern. See photos.

Step Three

Assemble the shade by folding along the lines to form a rectangle, glue the small tab inside and let dry.

Step Four:

Use a paint pen or marker to fill in any white showing.

Step Five:

Cut out a small piece of card stock, apply a small amount of glue to the edges of one end of your shade. Gently press the shade onto the card stock and wipe any excess glue. Let dry.

Step Five Continued:

Once dry, carefully cut around the edge of the shade. Repeat the steps above with the other three shades. I used my paint pen to fill in the white around the top edges and the tops of the shades. This step ended up being unnecessary because they end up being covered entirely.

Step Six:

Cut the following pieces of scrap wood, according to the photos below. Approx. 1/2" 3/8" and 1/8"

Some of these pieces will be used for your shades and the others will be used in the chandelier base.

The largest piece should be a bit bigger than your shade.

Cut Six

1/2" x 1/2"

Cut Seven

3/8 x 3/8

Cut Five

1/8 x 1/8

Step Seven:

Color your remaining pieces of cut wood with your paint pen or stain and allow to dry. Once dry, glue the pieces together using the photo below as a guide.

Step Seven Continued:

Glue the wood to the top of the shade and allow to dry. Repeat with remaining shades.

Step Eight:

I am not going to give measurements/accurate measurements, for the next several steps. My original chandelier had to be cut down to fit....I forgot to adjust my measurements for the chandelier to hang over a table, so it ended up being too long with my original measurements. You will need to adjust this to your own specifications to fit your room. I used a ruler in the photos only as a visual guide.

I cut a piece of Bass wood & a piece of round dowel, approximately 2 and 1/2 inches long each

Sand until smooth and color with paint pen or stain.

Step Nine:

Use your clothes pin or clamp to hold the round dowel and glue each piece on, letting dry between each addition. Use the photo as a guide for the order of placement.

This will be the "base" that holds the chandelier.

Step Nine Continued:

Cut three pieces of scrap wood in graduated sizes. Sand, stain and glue together.

Once dry this will be glued to the end of the round dowel on the chandelier base, see photo below.

Step Ten:

Cut four pieces of 1/8" bass wood, approx. 1 1/2" long. These will be the "arms" that will hold the shades onto the base.

Step Eleven:

This part is tricky and I don't have a good photo of the step so hang in there. At this point all of your wood should be painted/stained. Take the base and decide where to make small holes in the square piece of bass wood. I made my holes so the shades were even with the bottom part of the base when standing, view photo below.

The wood should be very soft and easy to just press one of the chandelier arms into to make your hole. Don't press too hard, just enough to insert the arm slightly. Do this on all four sides making sure to line up even all the way around. Do NOT glue them in yet.

Step Eleven Continued

Glue one of the arms to a shade and allow to dry. Repeat with remaining shades.

Step Twelve:

Lines up the arms with the holes you made earlier and glue arms in place and allow to dry.

Finished!

Once everything is dry, glue a bell shaped earring back to the base and allow to dry. Once glue has dried, spray entire chandelier with gloss sealer and let dry.

That's it, hang in your dollhouse and enjoy!