How to make a tea house

How to make a tea house

A tea house is an excellent kitchen decoration element that performs the function of storing tea bags. This comfortable and beautiful item can be bought or do it yourself, considering the features and subtleties of the interior of your dwelling. In this article we will tell you how to make a tea house with your own hands. You can make sure that it is not too difficult and very exciting.

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Tea houses are most often made of cardboard or thin plywood. After assembly and decor, their difference will be only in weight and durability. If you know how to work with the jigsaw and other tools for cutting out parts from the tree, then you only need to make a decoupage or a housekeeping. You can also buy in a specialized store for the hobby blank for assembly. And you can make a house of cardboard. Externally, it is almost no distinction from the wooden.

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Prepare a dense cardboard and cut out 4 rectangular details of 9 cm in size for 20 cm. In one of these parts, make a slot with a semicircle. Three more details of the square shape with a length of 10 cm. The last part of dense cardboard should be 10 cm in size for 6 cm. From thin cardboard Cut four thin parts 20 cm long and 3 cm wide. Three more details are the same width, but in 2 In short. Bend each of the strips in half. These parts are needed to connect the details of the house of dense cardboard.

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The figure above shows how to glue the bottom to the cardboard house using a slim cardboard strips. The base should look around the perimeter at the same distance. From a small rectangular piece of cardboard of 10 for a size of 10 by 6 cm we add a triangular part. It will be the base of the roof to which the skates are attached. The lower part is fastened on the collapse of the edges of the 10-tisantimmeter square. The side parts of the roof are masked by cardboard triangles. Next, the cardboard workpiece decorate at your discretion.

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Having minimal artistic skills, you can draw a realistic facade with simple paints, which will decorate the cardboard. Having made a drawing in one color scheme with other interior items of your kitchen, you will create a stylish thing without much time and money. After the pattern is ready, cover the house outside the acrylic varnish or layer of PVA glue. After drying, it becomes completely transparent and protects the paints from external influences.

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If you decide to make a decoupage of a tea house, then cardboard or dvp must be primed. To do this, use white paint. Acrylic suitable for these purposes is best because it dries quickly, falls in a smooth thin layer and has an opaque texture, so the second layer does not have to cover.

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For decoupage, take the paper with a blank pattern (you can buy a napkin store or print the pattern on a simple printer). Separate elements for sticking with a reserve in centimeter-and-a half. To do this, it is better not to use scissors, but tear off the sheet with your fingers.

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Next, smear a drop of glue on decorative parts and glipe to the surface of the house. You can paint the wall of the house in the color you need, draw additional items. Make on the roof of the tile, and then rebound the surface of the house with matte acrylic varnish. After the lacquer dries, cover another layer and leave for a day finally dry.

The finished tea house can become an excellent interior subject of not only your kitchen. Such a gift is very pleasant to give and receive as a gift. Keep this in mind when you break your head, with what to go to visit the girlfriend.

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