CAN YOU BUILD A BUNGALOW?

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 26

CAN YOU BUILD A BUNGALOW?

You can make a fine dolls’ bungalow, with four rooms, out of three square pieces of cardboard—two the same size, and one a little bigger. Keep the biggest piece for the roof and put one of the other pieces down for the floor. Then cut the one left exactly in half, so that it makes two Jong-shaped pieces, and draw a pencil line across the middle so that each one is marked off into two squares. Cut with a knife exactly half-way along each line. Now you can stand the two pieces, one with the cut edge, up, the other with the cut edge down, on the “floor” so that they fit into one another like the divisions in an egg box, and make the walls of your bungalow. On one of the wall pieces measure an inch down from the top on each side. Then draw a line up to the middle, where it has met the other wall-piece, and cut up that line. Now your roof will fit properly. Bend the square of cardboard neatly down the middle —if you mark the line with a knife instead of a pencil It will be better —and put It on so that it rests on the sloping walls. You can paste the walls and floors with coloured paper for wallpaper and carpets, and paint the roof red, like tiles. There are no outside walls.