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Supplies needed: - 6mm thick plywood for the house, tree, snow drift piece   and rooftop - 4mm thick plywood for the windows - 18 mm thick pine wood for the base (11cm x 23cm) - 5 wood screws 3,5 mm in diameter and 35 mm long - paint in the colors of white, gold-yellow, brown, and gold - paint brushes - standard sawing and sanding supplies - drill with 3.2 mm bit - wood glue Wood Crafts - Christmas Crafts - Decorations - Wooden Winter Country Cottage This country cottage decoration is not only decorative by day, but also by night. Because the windows are sawed out, you can place a tea light or two on the base behind the house and the light will shine through the windows. This project makes a lovely gift idea and can also be used during the winter after the holidays are over. A nice idea would be to saw out more than just one house to create a small village. Look here >>> Swedish Cottage and find another example of this project. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions: 1. Print the patterns out to fully fit your printer paper and transfer the markings onto the appropriate thickness of wood (see above). 2. Saw the house out and saw out each of the 3 window holes. 3. Saw the rest of the pieces out. Drill 4 small holes in each of the window panes and saw these insides out. 4. Paint the house gold-yellow and the door brown. 5. Paint the tree, snow drift, base, windows and rooftop piece all white. Paint the tree trunk additionally brown. 6. Once dry, dry brush brown paint on all of the pieces. 7. Dot gold on the door as a knob. 8. Glue on the windows over the openings and glue on the rooftop piece.. 9. Drill 2 holes underneath the snow drift piece, 2 holes underneath the house and 1 hole underneath the tree. 10. Decide where the pieces will be placed on the base and drill holes in the base to match these pieces. 11. Sink the holes underneath the base so that the screws will comfortably fit into the holes. 12. Insert the screws from underneath the base. Add some glue to the bottoms of all of the pieces. Now screw the screws into the appropriate pieces. Free Template: Country Cottage Template How to Drybrush How to Use a Scrollsaw How to Make Templates and Patterns More wood craft projects for Valentine’s Day, spring and Easter Find more wood crafts for all occasions Find fall and Halloween wood crafts More wood craft projects for Christmas and winter Craft Patterns and Templates Craft Tutorials Drybrushing tutorial Basic wood cutting with a scroll saw tutorial Tips and tricks for paper crafts, card making, etc... Subscribe to Our Free Newsletter     Wooden Santa with his Sleigh and Reindeer     All patterns, pictures and text found on Craftideas.info are property of the owners of this website and may be only printed out and used for private or non-commercial purposes. It is not permitted to use them on the internet, on websites, in blogs or in any other publication without asking for permission.     Enter your search terms Submit search form Web www.craftideas.info