Fundamental Dollhouse Materials

Pecan Material for Dollhouses

What most people don't know about pecans is that it is a great wood for furniture. In fact, Pecan wood is one of the most popular choices in dollhouse furniture today. The hue is a lighter color than that of oak and when you rate wood density it actually falls on the harder side than oak and most other woods. You will also see a growth in the use of pecan wood in modern furniture, flooring, and pretty much anything that needs to look beautiful under a lot of strain. Pecan pieces go very well with a traditional, modern, or colonial dollhouse kit.

Unfinished Dollhouse Furniture and Kits

If you want the same pleasures and choices from your furniture that you got by building your own dollhouse, you will want to consider unfinished furniture and furniture kits Furniture kits include items you put together yourself that will look like their picture once they are completed. Furniture kits are unassembled, but once you put them together they will appear as they do in the picture.

Making Sense of Quarter Inch Dollhouse Scales

When you buy a furniture item, you want to make sure it will fit correctly in your dollhouse. Dollhouse scales help you know you are getting the right size. If the scale is half inch or quarter inch, it will say so in the title; all other items are on a one inch scale.

This furniture piece has a quarter inch scale, otherwise known as 1:48. Every inch of dollhouse furniture is equivalent to 48 inches (four feet) of real furniture. For example, a dollhouse tub 1 inches long is built to represent a 5 foot real tub. If you do not know the scale of furniture you need for your dollhouse, use a ruler to determine the floor-to-ceiling height on the bottom floor of your dollhouse. Heights from 8-12 inches translate to a 1 inch scale.

Heights between 4-6 inches use a half inch scale; heights between 2-3 inches are on a quarter inch scale.

Dining Room Furniture

Dining rooms will help to make your dollhouse look extremely elegantand/or extremely fun Most dining rooms are quite formal, but hand-painted and rustic dining room sets have a flair and personality that's all their own. Dining rooms are one of the best areas of your dollhouse for playing pretendwhether children are pretending to serve a meal to visitors or you are showing off an adorable tea set

Dollhouse Furniture: Wicker

Wicker furniture is the art of basket weaving and furniture making combined. It is the result of interlacing branch, wire, vine, or bamboo around a furniture frame. Most wicker furniture is made with wire, but there are some very ornament pieces put together with fine strips of wood. It is a high quality design that you will find in outdoor sets or in some modern dollhouse sets.

Laundry and Sewing Rooms

One way to bring a lot of interest to your dollhouse is to add a laundry or sewing room. For old-fashioned dollhouses, a sewing room will fit right in; in more modern dollhouses, the laundry room is a perfect addition. Each room needs just a couple accessories, like a thread box or an ironing board, to draw the admiration of any onlookers

Oak Material with Dollhouses

Dollhouse furniture is all about making a miniature home and nothing looks as real as oak wood in miniatures. Its natural color is lighter and fits in well with a traditional or classical style dollhouse. Because of this lighter hue there are many bedroom sets, living room sets and other pieces that accent the fabric of the dollhouse furniture piece. Oak is a great pick for a traditional or modern dollhouse, but the material does lend itself to be used in most any style.