How are you going to play inside the hotel? If you look at the second picture of the hotel, you will see that it is the back of the box, and that each corner at the back of the box has been cut. When this is done, the back lets down. You can cut your hotel building this way. As you see, it may be closed up again, when you are not playing inside.
Partitions for downstairs rooms are made with two shoe-boxes—just their lower half is used. Cut the ends off each box. Place each lengthwise inside the hotel so that there is a space between them. This space forms the hotel hallway.
Cut a piece of cardboard to fit into your box and put it over the top of these two shoe-boxes. It forms the floor for the second-story rooms. Another shoe-box—or two, if you prefer—makes partitions for second-story rooms.
Doors may be cut in these partitions. (For cutting a single door space, see [Diagram Two, A], page 167.)
Samples of wall-paper make good carpet for the hotel. You may cut it into squares to make rugs.
Window curtains may be made from tissue-paper or lace-paper.
The furniture, itself, is cut from very small boxes. Tables are made with spools.
The lower half of a small oblong box may be cut to form a chair by removing its rim, half-way around—beginning to cut the rim at the center of one long side of the box. The part from which the rim is removed is the back of the chair. Press its cardboard upward. The part that has the rim left upon it is the seat of the chair, and legs are cut at its two front corners and in each side at the rear. (See [Diagram Six, C], page 177, for making a chair.)
Place a pill-box over an upright spool to make a table. Round pill-boxes make round tables. Square boxes make square tables. (See [Diagram Six, DD], page 178.)
An oblong pill-box rested on its side will form a doll’s bureau. Mark off the drawers upon its front, and glue a strip of cardboard, upright, at its rear. Paint a mirror frame on the strip of cardboard.