$ DOLLAR Store Dollhouse Furniture Makeover | DIY Miniature How-To Tutorial
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Watch me turn a cheap $1 dresser from the Dollar Tree into an antique apothecary cabinet. Entirely scratch built! I really love how this turned out. I will definitely be doing more Dollar Tree furniture flips. This is my favorite furniture makeover so far. I will likely build a room box around it (maybe with a Harry Potter theme...)
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I got me a couple of those dollar tree dressers. One for me and one for my husband. Each of us is doing a makeover.
That is awesome! How fun. My fiance has tried to make minis with me but he isn't into it 😭
I'm so happy you have someone to make minis with :) thats so awesome ❤
wish I could get my hubby to do that with me. He does help sometimes though, I'll give him that.
Stunning! Loved the nameplates. Loved the different drawer sizes just like a genuine apothecary cabinet. Beautiful.
Thanks so much! 😊
I love this. I can’t have an apothecary cabinet, but my mini me can.
That's exactly right! I love that
Absolutely adore this clever makeover. And speaking of clever, the nameplates are pure genius. Literally sitting here stunned at how a wonky dollar store piece can become something magical like that! You are a true artist!
Thank you so much! I'm proud of this makeover. It looks so different.
"it's because I forgot"... I LOVE IT!!! I am ALWAYS forgetting a step! It's sooo nice to know I'm not the only one having brain farts!
Happens to the best of us 😆
Once again l love what you have done but the 'open drawer' trick - wow! It makes such a difference! A lot of dolls houses /miniature diaromas look beautiful but staged whereas yours somehow give the impression that either someone just left the room or that the room has somehow become abandoned. I hope you do build some kind of room design around this amazing makeover. ❤❤❤
Thanks so much! 😊 I'd love to come up with an idea for this piece. It is really cool.
Apothecaries must just be my all time favourite pieces of furniture in the entire world, so Thank Y♥️U so much for this most inspiring tutorial!
You are so welcome!
This is amazing, I think the faux open drawers takes it to a new level!
I agree. That idea was an afterthought, but it adds so much.
This is the best adaptation of this dresser that I’ve ever seen!
Thank you! It's my favorite Dollar Tree makeover I've done
I just found you on TH-cam and I just love you. I am learning so much from watching your videos. I've always loved miniatures finding your channel has given me ideas.
I am a crafty person and I save things too.
Awesome! Thank you! I hope you have fun making some minis.
This is the best video I have ever watched. Your are such a detail person and you're so funny. Thanks for sharing. I Love It! Learning from you in Oklahoma, Barb
Yay! Thank you so much. I was so happy with how this came out. I'm glad I changed directions and added a variety of drawer sizes.
Your apothecary dresser is beautiful. I love it.
Thank you! 😊
You blew my mind. That cabinet is amazing and the tiny details are superb. I love it
This is my favorite Dollar Tree makeover I've done
I really am addicted to your videos Shyla…I get so many ideas from you and a lot of the time just enjoy watching and listening to you describe how you do it. Thank you.x
Thank you so much! I'm glad you're having fun 😊
This is one of my favorites. So many awesome nuggets of creativity & refined technique. My DreamBox arrives Monday & I can’t wait to get all of my supplies into it to start creating. Thank you for the inspiration and instruction!
Have fun! That sounds like a blast.
Oh my goodness! The attention to detail is amazing. So good.💜🙏🏽Thanks for sharing.
This is my favorite Dollar Tree furniture makeover so far. Such a fun one! Thank you
I really like this one. I always like the look of a apothecary furniture. Lovely 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼
Thank you! Me, too. I love the age and history of apothecary pieces. Even new pieces look cool.
This is amazing. I just found this furniture and I'm going to give it a try. Thank you so much for this tutorial. 💕
That's exciting! You can do it!
Thanks for this video. Ive been wanting to do an old Library Card catalog type of piece for my dollhouse library you gave me some great ideas!!
You're welcome :) That sounds amazing! I have a room box/book box and I've been trying to think of what to do with it. Now you have me thinking I should make it into a library. I could make some shelves and a little ladder. I have lots of books and I can make some more. Thanks!
@@queencityminis well somewhere down the road we should colab on a library video. :)
@@AllisAllAboutminis That sounds like a blast! I would do that.
You've given me so many ideas with your videos. Amazing work!! Thank you!!
You are so welcome! Have fun creating
Whoa!! I’m totally doing this!!.. well some of it. The tiny plates I might have to skip🤣 the open drawers was the icing on the cake, you are so brilliant!
Have fun!
Omg!!! I just love love this. My jaw dropped at the teeny lettering with the dimensional liquid and then the end with the pages sticking out! Wow i cant wait to try some of these techniques. How inspiring ❤
This was such a blast! Thank you
Fabulous transformation. I am just starting a Cornish cottage based loosely on the British T.V. series Doc Martin. One room will be his surgery and I think I will be attempting an apothecary dresser!
That sounds so cool! Have fun 😊
I've been interested in getting into miniatures for a little bit. I collect these figurines called Sylvanian Families, and I'd like to do something different to display them so I've been thinking about creating a little workship room scene? ( Not too familiar with the terminology yet lol. ) This would be perfect for it. Anyways, back to binging your videos for more inspiration. You're so talented!
I've been watching some Japanese creators on TH-cam who redo Sylvanian Families houses!
That turned out so great. One of the best remakes of the dollar tree dresser I've seen.
Thank you so much :) I still have more pieces to redo. I'll try to top this.
I love this so much. I just found you and subscribed because this is so amazing. Thank you
Yay! Welcome :) I started my channel a few months ago and I've been having such a blast.
💗 I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, THIS! Lol 😂 🤣😂😍🥰
thank you :)
Wow! That’s beautiful. I’m going to give it a try. Thanks!
That's great! Have fun 😊
The first drawer patter would have been a library card storage cabinet
Thanks! That's good to know
I love your videos! Thank you, now if we could get Dollar Tree to sell 1:6 scale furniture, love to do this for Barbie.
It would make more sense if they offered 1:6 scale. You'd think these items are geared toward kids and most kids don't have 1:12 scale dollhouses.
That turned out really cute. I like the way you add the pastel color over the paint to give it the depth of being old/antique. You were asking about where that piece can be used. You can use it in an old grocer store for spices or hard ware store for nails and such. I like this idea Have a great day
Those are great ideas! Thank you 😊
Wouldn't it have been easier to just use some balsa wood rather than putting in all the work of taking apart the dresser?😆
I've made furniture from scratch and it's much simpler to modify a piece that's already built and in scale. It only took a few minutes to make the changes I wanted. Building a dresser from scratch takes much longer and involves math 😵💫
I bought one of this dresser as well. Haven't decided what am going to do with it yet. Love what you did with it. Think it would be kool you did a shadow box with it.
I forgot about that idea. Now that I've made a cardboard room box, I should make another and make a shadow box for this. So many ideas, so little time.
This is really greta what you made of it ! You give inspiration 😊 thank you for the tips too. That's good to say that we need to be carrefull with the microwave and not forget to moove the piece. The reverse video is a good effect too, it seems you had fun editing it 😄
Thank you! Yes, definitely be careful when you microwave miniature furniture. Imagine how foolish you'd feel burning the kitchen down!
Thank you 😊
This is seriously awesome. I have a few dollar tree makeovers with this furniture, but this is totally the best one.
I'm taking a bow 😉 Thank you very much!
This is spectacular! I want one in real life! Such a creative way to improve this!!
Thank you so much :)
very good idea, here...I had never thought to fill the gaps, I just used it as some form of what it was, like cutting it in half to make a storage trunk, and a window seat with new tops and bottoms.
Thank you :) Those are very creative ideas! I like that, especially a window seat.
Do you have a micro lens it would be so cool to see this zoomed in especially to see the wings when I zoom in on the video it is too blurry but a micro lens or maybe they are called macro but one of those would be awesome to look at the bees
That's a good idea. I'll look into getting a magnifying glass so I can show things in higher detail.
Love it! I Love taking something this already exists and making it awesome. What kind of printer do you use?
Thank you! I have a regular laser printer and a 3d printer (Elegoo Mars 2 Pro). I didn't use either for this project though. This was all scratch made.
Great tip at 6:07. Even better tip at 7:18, that's so smart, and super effective.
Thank you! I had to go watch for myself!
Your work, as ever, is amazing and so inspirational!❤️
Thank you so much!
Wow! you make it look so easy. Thank you for sharing your skill
Thank you :) It's a lot of steps but it actually is quite easy. None of the steps are too difficult and it can be simplified.
This is brilliant! I am so in love. Please tell me you will be redoing the other pieces of dollar tree dollhouse furniture.
Thank you! I have made over the dollar tree desk and this dresser, so far. There's another dresser that will be next. It's shorter and has feet. I have no idea what to do with it but I'll surely come up with something...
What brand of liquid clay are you using? I really like the cabinet.
Thank you! I use Liquid Sculpey, but only because I got it on clearance at Michael's. Any liquid polymer clay would work. I got silver and gold. The color doesn't matter because I have to paint them anyway.
Ok, I need to know….did this end up somewhere? It’s gorgeous!
It ended up in a storage box 😬 I promise, I will build a book box around this piece someday.
brilliant! maybe a few herbs hanging off a knob or some mini bottles on the top? whatever you decide will be cool i am sure :)
That's such a cute idea. Thank you!
Love those apothecary cabinets. My chiropractor is Chinese, told me about how as a child his mother took him to an old wise man with row upon row of bottles and potions and drawers, the guy looked at his tongue, put together a concoction for his mother to administer. It's quite fascinating, their medicinal knowledge goes back centuries and is something we shouldn't lose or dismiss as witchcraft or unscientific. Other fascinating pieces of furniture to me anyway, are the desks that architects use with all those shallow drawers for writing and drawing implements. They may have tops that tilt up as well to create an angle.
I saw another miniaturist modify dollar store items multiple ways, might have been Real Life Dollhouse Miniatures, but I'm not sure. I think she used medicine capsules, either from meds from the Dollar store that were dumped out, or empty capsules you can buy. She cut off the rounded ends, sliced those in half to make half moon drawer pulls and painted them like metal . But they dissolve in water, right? So you'd need to be careful not to get them too wet. I think it's just ingenious how people use tiny bits for other purposes.
I think I remember seeing that video about a year ago. That's a good point about them being water soluble. I never thought of that.
I thought the clay cup pulls were easy to make and the extra steps could be excluded. Even just sharing one at the end of a Popsicle stick and painting it would look great. I just always have to add one more thing...
@@queencityminis yeah I didn't think about the Water dissolve thing until I wrote the comment to you. I was thinking they were plastic when I saw the video, but they'd never dissolve if they were plastic. Not sure what I was thinking... d'uh
@@recoveringsoul755 Very true. I have some medicine capsules in a miniature. They're wrapped in a label marked "lightbulbs" so they look like a little package of light bulbs. Super cute
This is such an awesome idea🤯 new subbie 👌🏾☺️👌🏾
Thank you! The idea evolved as I went and I really love the outcome. This will be a hard Dollar Tree furniture makeover for me to beat.
This is awesome!! Thank you for this video!
You are so welcome!
great ideas and nicely finished product!
Thank you :) This was a fun one. I am so happy with the outcome. It's my favorite Dollar Tree transformation so far.
Love your custom . And tanks for show me how to take off the pieces .
Thank you and you're very welcome! The heat gun method and microwave are my favorite ways to soften glue to take miniatures apart. I've tried the hair dryer and I don't think it gets hot enough. Acetone works but it takes longer and makes the mini wet.
The asymmetrical design was a great choice.
Thank you. I was trying to convince myself it wasn't necessary since I had already cut all my drawers but it really added a lot of interest and character to the piece. Plus I wouldn't have had space to add the cup pulls if I hadn't varied the size of the drawers.
I have learned so much from you! I wish you had an AMAZON shopping list in categories (tools, glues, paints, glaze finishes...) that would be a good reference for every project, but not have to scavenge through all the videos. I want to support your work, it's amazing! I laugh more than I thought I would ;)
Wow!! Thank you so much for such a generous Super Thanks ☺️
I'm not familiar with what you mean regarding the Amazon list, but I'd be open to it.
@@queencityminisI think what she is suggesting is that you post links to the materials that you use, and create a master list of those things, so people can know what to get if they want to recreate or imitate a project. You could maybe post it in the main information on your channel, so it’s easy to find.
If you have a business Amazon account, you can also create affiliate links to products that you use (or similar to what you use) that other folks can buy. And when they do that, you’ll get a tiny amount of their purchase price sent to you, at no extra cost to them.
Another way that you could leverage Amazon to support your work would be to create your own wishlist for your minis. Then people could buy you things that you’d like to have off the list. If I were you, I might start with some nice paint that’s not that one blue color. 😂 On a full size furniture restoring channel I watch (Mad City Modern), he will stick name labels (often first name only) on the products that people buy for him, so people can see their gifts being used. Your products are pretty small and the labels might be hard for us to see, but you could probably just say something like “thanks to Susie for getting me this paint” whenever you use it. It’s a nice way to feel a sense of community and connection to a creator.
You are great at repurposing or recycling things, so you may not actually need a lot, but sometimes there are things you’d love to have but you don’t feel you can afford. There are people who can afford it (not me! 😂) who would love to support your work this way. You might have a wishlist item of a 3D printer and supplies for it, for instance. Or a new heat gun, or a Cricut, or whatever.
Hope all of that helps to give you an idea of what the other poster might have meant, and ways that you can both help others out with information, and support your channel through affiliate links and indirect donations as well. 😊
Ok second video and now I’m addicted to your videos!
Hehehe, that wasn't my intention 😈
Just wow! I’m so impressed with the results! ❤
Thank you 😊
Dollar Store isn't typically the scale I like, But I will go back and revisit an out of the box idea. I saw on a blog using googly eyes for cup pull hardware, genius!
Can you give more information or a tutorial on baking small molds in a silicone cup with your heat gun?
I have Googly eyes! I love that idea. Thank you
Newt’s workroom would be awesome!
I have already been planning it in my mind. Such a fun space with so many great accessories.
I’m curious, would it at all have been easier to have just made the whole piece from scratch rather than using the dollar tree base? Or was it a challenge you decided for yourself? I loooooove the look but it looked so hard to take apart!!!
Also I just love your humor so much much it’s honestly perfect! 😂😂😂
Thank you!
For me, the hardest part can be deciding on a size and shape, so I like starting with something rather than building from scratch. I enjoyed reworking this piece.
I can't even....it is a terrific cabinet
Thank you :)
That is an amazing transformation!
An oldie but a goodie! Thank you
This tutorial is amazing thank you so much! I grabbed a bunch of these a year ago and have been sitting in them since! Question, the blob of yellow silicone what product is that ?
Thank you! That's Amazing Mold Putty. I got it on Amazon. It's a mold making product. Super easy to work with. I wish it was transparent so I could use it more easily for casting UV resin but it's great.
Awesome! Gonna give it a try ! Keep up the amazing work so glad to have found you
Oh I forgot to say, I always wondered how these tiny little things were baked. I thought they went into the oven. That process was always a mystery to me how they didn’t burn.
When I bake in the oven, I tent foil over the top just in case. For small items, I almost always bake them with my heat gun. For the Witch's Cottage, I did bake all those mushrooms and pots etc bc there were so many of them.
@@queencityminis thanks for the insider scoop! Lol
Beautiful and clever!
Thank you! 😊
I love this! Great job!
Thank you so much :)
Very cool. Great video.
Thank you 😊
Love your honesty,so funny
Thank you so much!
*I loved it! ♥ Jenny*
Thank you!
Love it! Thank you!
You're welcome :)
Your amazing at this stuff. I have a $ Tree China Cabinet I am new at minis. I am hoping you can help me. This like the dresser is non functional. Your right you get what you pay for. After a tedious amount of work I managed to get the doors off. I've sanded the rough spots smooth. My issue is I have NO idea how to make the doors functional. Somebody in my doll house mini group said it can be done with pins...
Do you know how to do this ? I'd be ever so grateful if you could help me.
What's the point of having a china cabinet that you can't put anything in. I honestly had no.idea when I purchased it that the doors would not open.. I look forward to any help you may lend me.
BTW I ♡ the ideas you come up with. Just wish you didn't make it look so darn easy..... teehee !
I will look so forward to & await patiently in hope of a response asa ur able.
Hagd & keep your videos coming 😂
th-cam.com/video/-lNujH90w54/w-d-xo.html This is a great video from Julie Warren explaining how to make working doors using pins. Her work is meticulous. This should help a lot.
@@queencityminis I'm looking at it now I ♡ Julie as well. That a really nice fancy cabinet with one door. My $ Tree cabinet has two doors & are so thin I think that method would end up cracking them to bits.
I know separating doors from cabinet had to have thinned them a bit more. I had no idea about the microwave thing until.I saw your video today.. I just kept running my craft knife blade lightly scoring each side & it felt like a lifetime. The edges I sanded with fine paper so wood won't cause slivers. Its $ tree wood its thin & cheap. I think there was more glue in weight than actual wood.
@@queencityminis I just got to the Painting part. She has a frame she'll add around the door. I'd need two plus her door isn't paper thin. I may have to just leave the china cabinet without doors. I had a recent freak accident it burned the retina out of my left eye & I cannot see out of it at all.. My other eye has about 30% vision at best. So it makes things a little bit more difficult not that it wasnt before my injury..... I really just want to finish some projects before I'm not able to see at all. I guess you could call it "My bucket list project must complete asap"
Fabulous - thank you.
My pleasure! Thank you for commenting
Wonderful furniture 😊
Thank you :)
I love what you said about looking for comments 😊🎉❤ so I'm a new sub and I've never done mini diorama / doll house type of crafting but I love crafting in miniature scale with other things like painting small rocks and making terrariums and this is going to be my next crafting project with the Apothecary especially in mind because I'm a wildcrafter 🤓🌿 you have such attention to detail that is incredible and I've been binging on your channel ever since I found it like a week or so ago🎉❤😂❤🎉🎉🎉
I also enjoy your sense of humor 😂🎉
Thank you so much 😊 Crafting with natural materials sounds like a blast..enjoy!
Thank you ;)
I will make one of these!
Have fun!
I love the idea of using a silicone cup and heat gun to cure small polymer clay pieces. Is your heat gun an embossing gun (craft store) or a paint stripper gun (hardware store)? I live in Texas and will only turn on the oven for about 3 months of the year. 😁🌞
Haha! I bet! I can't imagine living in Texas. I'm hoping to go to the Dallas Miniature Show so maybe I'll experience that heat firsthand.
I use a Milwaukee paint stripper heat gun. My fiance gave it to me and it is a game changer. I use it all the time. I dry paint with it, cure clay, loosen the glue on miniature furniture to take it apart etc.
@@queencityminis That’s where I live. End of June here? Oh yeah, you’ll get the full treatment. Doesn’t go much below the 80s at night, and runs 90-100 during the day. And SO very humid. I have craft heat guns. My guess is they don’t get as hot as a paint stripper. I’ll have to do some Googling. Thanks for the info!
@@tamara9186 Oh no! I didn't know it's humid in Dallas. I was hoping it would be dry heat like the West Coast.
My heat gun has two modes; 570° F & 1,000° F. Hair dryers get about 100°. I don't know about craft guns.
You seem to be much more comfortable each new video that comes out. I love working with miniatures, you have some great ideas! Keep up the good work 😊
Oh, absolutely. I like to think my videos keep getting better and better.
That’s fantastic. I want to thank you for sharing your techniques so clearly. I’ve been wanting to learn how to achieve effects such as this and your tutorial is so clear that I’m encouraged to have a go. Keep up the great work. ❤️
You can do it! I know not everyone can find this dresser but keep in mind that it has a very simple shape. You could make this dresser using cardboard and popsicle sticks. Bentley House Minis has great tutorials for using cardboard to make furniture. The key is filling the corrugated holes with wood filler to give yourself smooth edges.
GENIOUS 👍👍👩🏽🦱
Thank you 😊
I love this!! ❤️
Thank you 😁
Love your work!!!
Thank you!
This is the coolest
Thank you! This is probably my favorite Dollar Tree makeover.
It's awesome
Thank you 😊
Genius ❤️
Thank you 😊
Love it!
Thanks!! This is an oldie but a goodie
Great idea!
Thank you so much :)
VERY PRETTY!
Thank you so much 😀
Fabulous!
Thank you 😊
How extraordinary! Near the end, when you said you were beginning to think about making a shadow box around it, I don't know why, but the angle I saw with the "open" drawers made me think of a card catalog. I'm not saying to use that as one, but I actually AM wondering if there's a piece you could turn into a card catalog and have some books on shelves, a chair, lamp and plants, a desk....you know, something like that?
Thank you so much! I love all of that. Great ideas.
I think it would look really cool in a library type setting.
What is an easy cutter?
Wow
Thank you :)
what is an easy cutter?
I love any furniture with little drawers and cubby holes! This is amazing!
Thank you! I love how the idea for this piece evolved as I was making it.
I’m in LOVE with this piece! gahh! It’s terrific.
This was such a good one! I'm glad I changed my plans after spending all that time cutting tiny drawers and sanding them.
@@queencityminis Oh, yes. It was the right move! Use some of the other bits to make a small spice drawer cubbie for your kitchen.
I do still have all the squares. Little Gretchen's Workshop just released a video where she made a bunch of boxes for various things. Maybe I can use them for something related to that.
@@queencityminis They will not go to waste, I’m certain of it! Great job and thanks for sharing, Shyra.
I love furniture with a bunch of drawers and bookcases with lots of books etc.
Im glad you've shown us how it's done!
Glad you liked it!!
Your apothecary cabinet looks amazing! I have that exact same Dollar Tree dresser sitting in front of me. I'm going to try your technique on it!
How exciting! Good luck. I'm sure it'll look great.
Thank you! I like that you kept it moving but was always on track and not rambling! lol Very nice tutorial :)
Thank you for saying that! I spend a lot of time and thought editing to keep my content concise.
So cool! It's wild to think you created this from that poorly-made $1 dollhouse dresser
Thank you! I need to do another Dollar Tree makeover soon.
Absolutely love this Dollar store flip. I am definitely going to do this for my witches cottage however I think I'm going to do two of them together
That's a really great idea! Check out the videos for my Witch's Cottage. I built it in part 1 and created an easy paper roof and air dry clay trees. In part 2, I filled it with furniture and lots of handmade accessories. It was so much fun. I haven't counted but there have to be 20 or 30 tutorials in that video and they're all simple and easy. I made stacks of books, scrolls, candles, a crystal gazing ball, shelves, a hanging witch's robe, dried herbs, a little bird's nest tucked behind a shutter...so much fun
Absolutely spectacular! Now I need to go to dollar tree😅. Thanks for a really well done tutorial.
Thank you! You're my people.
Love how you made the drawers look open. So creative.
Thank you! 😊
How cute! Love it 💚
I wish I was more humble, but I love it too 😉