I’m utterly fascinated with little paper houses, and I have adorned a series of Cottages with vintage maps. The first one is Venedig (1892):
I have a few of these map cottages currently displayed on a shelf in my office, and most every person that comes by my office is curious about them 🙂 They are very easy to make with a hot glue gun:
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Print on cardstock (I use Canon Matte Photo paper (160g)
- Cut out the cottage (all the solid lines)
- Score on the dotted lines
- Fold on the dotted lines
- Glue the bottom sides of the roof
- Glue the side walls together
- Glue the top of the roof together
- Tuck in the floor.
- I usually don’t glue the floor, meaning I can insert a small gift, or a LED tea light if I wish 🙂
Here is a low resolution preview of the Venedig 1892 Cottage:
The file is free for your personal use and enjoyment. Go to the download folder below to grab your high quality copy 🙂
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I have used elements from the following sources for todays design:
Little Paper Houses – Just Something I Made
Venedig in Brockhaus’ Konversations-Lexicon – archive.org
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Gunnvor, you must be a mind reader! Today I was looking for a small birthday gift and saw some lovely little house shaped boxes containing lip balm but they were so expensive, I was wondering if I could make the boxes myself and now here you are with your delightful freebie! The only difference was a string through the centre of the roof to make a hanging loop but I think I should be able to work that out. Thank you so much again for your generosity. Love, Margie x
YAY! I’m so happy to hear that you like it 🙂 And rest assured, there are more of these coming 😀 xoxoxo
How sweet it is Gunnvor, thank you. 🙂
Love it, love it. Thank you Gunnvor x