Thread: Did you have a dolls house?

a dolls house is somewhere a child can play "mommy"...so it should reflect that in its features ...most layouts are two storey.....upstairs bedrooms and on-suites ...a wardrobe or two ....tiny beds with bed heads ....furniture makes a home , the lack of it ...makes a box ...and attention to detail ..mouldings for skirting , ...carpet, tiles ..etc .make a difference, I saw one auctioned for charity ...it raised over $1800 ....and the attention to detail was brilliant ....and often the most memorable

A nice paint job goes a long way. I mean a couple of different colours, eg white on ceiling, another colour on the walls.

Use of Carpet and Lino in some areas would be nice. The windows don't have to open and doors aren't totally necessary, from what I remember

A roof that lifts off can be very helpful. Even a split dollshouse with hinges so that there are two halves.

cheers
Wendy

A family of dolls that FIT the furniture and house. And of course a little dog.

Donna

I made one for my daughter who was teaching kindergarten. The front opened like double doors and the roof hinged at the ridge line using a piano hinge. Basically a two story house, cut out doors and windows, and painted each room with bright spray paint. Put mock flooreboards and carpet down. Bought furniture for it though. The whole thing was made of thin MDF. The kids loved it.

Pusser

If it's going to be played with, not too much detail - simpler = more scope for imagination!

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Cheers,
Andrew

Hi Ron

My 6yr old daughter and I are making one over Xmas. It is a barbie beach house I can post a picture if you like and email you the plans. I have a couple of others as well, fancier ones like in the 19 hundreds.

Let me know if you would like me to post some pictures.

Celeste

My other half and I made a doll house for her 3rd birthday, we bought a basis kit, opening front, 2 story, hinged pitch roof,in good qual mdf
then we modified it to look like our house ( vic workers cottage)

we traveled over seas a lot at the time and the house came too
we furnished the inside with carpets (place mats) and wall papered it( got an old sample book and cut it tofit.
shes 14 now, but my 10 yo son loves it ,as do his friends. Not to play mommies in but to house the dinosaurs, lego monsters and anything else.
its an imagination toy the link being that its a mimi "our house"
unless your daughter is a girl girl,
dont paint it pink!!

astrid

Some great advice/guidance here ... thank you very much.

Astrid, my daughter is a man-eating princess I asked her what she wanted for her third birthday present, and she replied - in a most definite and final voice - "Diamonds".

So unlike her mother ...

When I was a little girl, too many years ago to want to remember, I had a dolls house that REALLY got played with.
It was a rectangular, single story house. The front was hinged and, when it folded down, it was painted like a garden where I could put my mini plants and trees. I had some lovely garden furniture to put there and spent hours pretending I was Mummy having visitors etc.
Little Wolff

Here is one I prepared earlier.

I like the timber flooring in the living room. Is that Redgum?

i made this one for my daughter, a few years ago ,an easy thing to make.and so much pleasure had , bob

robyn 2839 that is very elegant a couple of questions please .
how did you do the tiles?
make the sashes?
and on the top door sash bars?
thanks
les

the tiles were simply 25 ml wide strips of mdf, tape about 20 together then run through table saw at 15 ml intervals halfway through,i bought the windows online ,there are many places that sell them,ie hobby stores.bob