Three "Take Along" Doll Houses

I created 3 different take along doll houses (see the handles?) The houses are similar, only the way they were made is different. The first, the pink house, is entirely made of covered plastic canvas.

The second, the grey house, is made of individual walls and floor that are covered foam core and a plastic canvas roof. The second and third house walls and base were constructed using foam core, which gave both more stability, and allowed the fabrics to lay smoother on the construction material, as you can see from the photo's below. 

The last, the beige house, is made of the same covered foam core, but not individual walls. Each has points in it's favor, and things that might be better. Here's the path I took.

I saw something somewhere that gave me the idea of creating these Christmas gifts. In my mind, plastic canvas seemed the perfect medium. Each sheet is 10.5x13, which I cut in half to make 10.5x6.5 sheets. Now, with a wall size, we can begin. 

First, the exterior and interior wall and carpet fabrics must be chosen, and any embellishments to those walls added before you can begin construction (flowers, windows, doors...) 

Once those are added to what will be the inside and outside, it's on to construction. For the first two houses I made, each wall is constructed individually, other than the base and 4th side, which are constructed together. 

This meant that there was a lot of hand stitching, especially to the first house. by the time I devised the plan for the third house, hand stitching was only needed for the roofing.  Each wall fabric was cut out at 11x7", the end two stood on end, and the foam core evenly cut from 6.5 to 10.5 into a triangle to make the top of the wall and the place that the roof would rest. The fabric was not cut, but left square, and sewed to the roof support (plastic canvas) to give extra support to the roof. I made a handle for the first, the second two I used button holes and cord or shoe strings to create a handing carrying handle to each of the houses.  

Carpet and walls built	Where I began	First house with flap up under roof
First with flap down, lots of work...	Putting the roof cover on. Lots of work	Roof and walls are all hand stitched.
Pink house, flap up, held up by the roof	Pink house with door and windows on it	Adding flowers to house fabric
Fabric from the other side	All the pieces ready for construction	first interior walls stitched then the exterior
Starting on the roof supports	One side roof support finished	Sewing on the other side ...
Roof cover in place, button holed	Added handle, hand finishing roof	Beige, one piece surrounding
Beige sewing walls to carpet	Beige adding walls on carpet	Beige base/wall to carpet
Biege, adding foam to structure	Beige form core in, to roof	Beige ready to start roof