Tall Gingerbread House SVG

About this design

Not every gingerbread house is a little cottage. This one is tall and narrow, like a townhouse on a snowy village street. The roof is covered in rows of scalloped icing shingles, and a round window sits high in the gable. The front wall has two large paned windows, each in a frilly icing frame, and the side wall has small arched windows of its own. Lines of icing dots run down every corner, like a careful baker piped each one by hand.

The design is four pieces with forty-two cut-outs, the most detailed house in the collection. In the layered version, every shingle, window pane and dot shows the cream backing as icing. Even with all that detail, the shapes are cleanly spaced, so it passes our cut checks from about 5 inches tall.

Color layers

• Backing in cream, which becomes the shingles, windows and dots
• Design in gingerbread brown, the walls and roof

Projects

• Village sets on a mantel with other houses.
• Holiday cards in layered cardstock.
• Lantern wraps. Cut it from vellum-backed cardstock and light it from behind with an LED candle.
• Wood signs for a kitchen wall.
• Advent calendar pockets.
• Christmas village backdrops for a train set.

Size and cutting tips

It passes our cut checks from about 5 inches tall. With forty-two cut-outs, it takes a little longer to weed, so use a fine hook and good light. For cardstock, use a fresh blade. Avoid felt and glitter cardstock below 7 inches, where the shingles start to fray.

Step by step: glowing house lantern

1. Set the house to 6 inches tall and download the solid style.
2. Cut it from brown cardstock.
3. Glue a sheet of vellum or tracing paper behind it.
4. Fold a strip of cardstock into a stand behind the house so it stands up.
5. Place a battery tea light behind it; the windows and shingles glow like a lit house at night.

Color ideas

• Brown with cream icing, the classic
• Dark brown with white for a chocolate townhouse
• Pastel pink or mint for a candy-colored street
• Gray with white for a snowy stone house

Good to know

The house is much taller than it is wide, so it pairs nicely with wide cottages in a village row. Placing one tall house between two short ones gives a skyline that looks natural and fills a mantel or shelf without crowding it.

Variations to try

• Mirror it in the editor so the side wall faces the other way.
• Cut it twice and glue the copies back to back with a stick between them for a cake topper.

Pairs well with

The Gingerbread Cottage and the Gingerbread Village fill out the street.