Four Part Expandable Bird House

Model of a scalable Birdcage constructed from four 3D printed parts and dollar store wood "Shish Kabob skewers". Door opens and swings.

This is a basic design that I used for a narrow shelf decoration,
but it can scaled up just by adding more cross beams.

You can line these up in different directions, add back rooms, make a maze, expand out or add floors...

The real fun of this project was to design the decorations. I haven't included any of mine since I like the look of the project plain and everyone has their own design taste.

Tips for assembly:

• Use acetone: ABS plastic from the left over support structures 2:1 mix to glue weld the parts.
• use an alignment tray to make sure all the angles 90 degrees.
  -use the full arch placed first to support the quarter arches against long place holder wood bars.

Suggestions for decorations that you might consider include the following:

• Front steps
• Finials for columns
• Ridged half columns for front center part
• Windows with frames
• Roof Peak decorations
• Roof Ridge with spacers for crossover wires
• Bell tower or widow's peak
• Use metal wires instead of wood for walls and roof
• Flag pole with pennants
• Mail box
• Lamp post
• Eve decorations for arches
• Ridge peaks

Ideas for "better" versions of this basic design:

• Open bottom tray for cleaning, if you keep anything alive in one of these.
• Roll arcs of copper wires to cross over roof instead of long way wood beams.
• Add a few LEDs to the inner roof beams

File Parts List:

• Quarter_arc (12)
• Half_arcs(6)
• Stanchion (12)
• Cross_beam (32)

File Parts List:

• Quarter_arc (12)
• Half_arcs(6)
• Stanchion (12)
• Cross_beam (32)

Print out the parts.

• Buy Bamboo wood staves from a "dollar store"
• Assemble then glue up.
• I used blue painter's tape instead of glue so I could change things around.

Have fun decorating the house!