How I Made A Rustic House Lamp Using Cardboard Box

I want to show you how I made a Rustic House using Cardboard Box and a Paper Clay. It’s fun to make and you can use it as an awesome decoration.

All you need : Cardboard Box, Paper Clay, Cardboard, Transparent Plastic Film, Aluminium foil.

I began by tracing the doors and windows in all three sides of the house. After, I cut through the shapes drawn using a cutter. To build the glass, I used transparent plastic film: I cut the right shapes and stuck them in the inside of each window using hot glue.

To form the garden, I cut the cardboard into two oval pieces of diameters 40cm and 46cm. I stick them with the piece of cardboard already prepared to form the house. Then, still using cardboard, I build the roof of the house and roof over doors and windows. To make the rounded shape of roofs, I cut light parallel lines using the cutter to have the accordion shape. I glued there l using of hot glue.

Using mainly wooden pop-sticks, I built the various poles of the house. in total, we have 5 poles. Each pole is composed of 4 pop-stick. See the video tutorial attached for more details and construction steps.

After, I cover all the cardboard with paper clay.

To build the tree, I start by covering three steel wire with the aluminum foil. After, I braid these three pieces to form the trunk of the tree and these branches.

I cover the whole tree in paper clay and with the carving tool I form the grooves of the tree. Using the steel wool, I make the texture.

To build the garden fence, I use pop-stick pieces 5cm in length. I start by gluing the poles using hot glue.

After, I connect them with also pop-stick of suitable lengths. I made two rows, you can do only one row.

I used acrylic paint for painting. You can also use watercolors and watercolor crayons. It’s up to you. In the end you can seal the paint using some matte spray varnish. I placed some battery LED lights into the house. I recommend you use soft lights that will gently illuminate your windows so it looks like a real house.

In order to not miss any details and to follow all the real chain of the instructable, enjoy to watch the video tutorial attached.

I hope you like my craft. See you!

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