✦ A FREE PAPER HOUSE
Make something small tonight
a little house, one sheet of paper, twenty minutes
Holding our card? The fold-along help is just below. Found us online? Download the free pattern and cut along.
✦ START HERE
Print the free house
One letter sheet is the whole project. You need scissors, a glue stick, and something to color with. Color it first, while the paper is still flat with crayons, colored pencils, or whatever is in the drawer.
No email needed for this one.
✦ FOLD ALONG
Every fold, in less than 2 minutes
- 1Cut around the outside. Where a roof edge meets a wall, cut straight down to the corner.
- 2Fold every dashed line towards the inside.
- 3Glue the shaded strips on the inside.
- 4Let it dry standing up.
Stuck anywhere? The video shows every fold.
Build the street
You’ve already made the first one!
Enter your email and we’ll instantly send three more, drawn to match the house you just finished: a townhouse, a cottage, and a corner shop, together on one printable sheet. The shop sign is blank on purpose. Name it after yourself, your favorite coffee shop, or the friend you are giving it to.
The houses arrive by email, then an occasional note when a new free pattern or tutorial goes up. Unsubscribe anytime.
✦ HELLO
Who leaves paper houses around town?
Hi, we’re Greta and David. Darilyn Designs is our craft studio in Colorado, and a paper house on a shop counter is our favorite way to say hello.
Nice work today! You took a flat sheet and made it hold a shape. That’s the same thinking behind a sewing pattern, a paper flower, and the felt mushroom in our Pearl-Accented Mushroom Kit: everything cut and ready, printed instructions, and a video for every stitch. $23.