DIY Oversized (Miniature) Coffee Table Books for the Dollhouse

We’re restoring a family heirloom, the dollhouse made for my husband’s grandmother when she was a little girl. Click here to see all the posts about our Dollhouse Redux Project.

We may not have finished painting the dollhouse, but we’ve started restoring furniture and making dollhouse accessories. One project we’ve been working on is a small photo book featuring photos of our daughter and her friends.

At 1.5″ x 2″ it’s small by our standards, but that makes it oversized for the dollhouse. A cute coffee table book perhaps?

Here’s what we did:

We picked some favorite photos and resized them to 1.5″ x 2″ in Photoshop. We then placed two of them side by side in a new image template that was 3″ x 2″ inches. These two pictures would be placed next to each other in the book.

We then printed and cut out around both of the images (not separating them!) for each set of photos.

We folded each set of two photos in half (with the images towards each other, the blank white pages on the outside), then glued them back to back from one page to the next in order to make a book. We glued the cover on top (just one 1.5″ x 2″ photo) with the title of our little book, and pasted a back cover of the same size to the reverse side of the last book page.

Ta da! A small picture book that’s child sized for our daughter’s dollhouse.

She so enjoyed working on this project: selecting the photos for the book, gluing it together, and now reading it over and again.

Next up: a series of coffee table books? I think we need one featuring our family.

Our daughter thinks we need one featuring the dollhouse people’s family. But of course! Why didn’t I think of that?!