Purchasing A Dollhouse Kit? Learn Some Great Tips And Tricks To The Market

Unfinished Dollhouse Furniture and Kits

If you found building your own dollhouse to be a fulfilling and liberating experience, consider purchasing furniture kits or unfinished furniture. 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.

Maple Material with Dollhouses

Maple is a lighter wood that often comes with a whiter hue, but can range even into a light brown. Maple is an extremely dense wood that is used on many indoor courts including professional basketball quarts. In fact maple wood in regards to dollhouse furniture kits is probably one of the most scratch resistant that you will find on the market. This wood type matches works well in coordinating design and would fit in with any dollhouse style.

Dollhouse Modern Furniture

Did you know that they make modern dollhouse furniture? Modern dollhouse furniture is molded after contemporary designs. Modern design has a unique feel to it, and we suggest that if you are interested in this route that you plan your entire dollhouse with modern furniture to keep a certain amount of consistency.
Dollhouse Colors: Black Furniture
Instead of a natural wood finish, if you choose black dollhouse furniture, it will pop out more. Making a piece pop works well for this color because in most cases accenting beautiful artwork or craftsmanship. Though design has more of an impact on style then color, most black designs lend themselves away from a colonial or a Victorian look, but rater into a more modern look.
Wire and Dollhouse Furniture
Looking for a nontraditional design for your dollhouse furniture? When traditional materials do not lend themselves to a particular piece of furniture wire is used. Wire lends itself so easily to miniature design that you will notice greater detail and miniature replication. You will see this material in most interlaced dollhouse furniture designs.
Dollhouse Furniture for Libraries and Office

One place in which the era of your dollhousefrom Colonial to Victorian to moderncan be clearly defined is in the library or office. This is also a room in which just a few accessories can go a long way: a sophisticated globe or a few revered books, for example. This room is an easy way to make your dollhouse look a little classier.

understanding Dollhouse Scales: Half Inch

Dollhouse scales tell you that you are buying the right sized furniture for your dollhouse. 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.

With the half inch (1:24) scale, half an inch of dollhouse furniture equates to a foot of real furniture; so a 1 inch tall dollhouse coffee table would look like a 2 foot tall coffee table in reality. In this scale, half an inch of dollhouse furniture corresponds to one foot of real furniture (i.e., a 4-inch long dollhouse table would be 8 feet in real life). 1 inch and quarter inch are examples of other dollhouse scales.

To figure out which scale your dollhouse uses, figure out the height from floor to ceiling of one level of your dollhouse. If your dollhouse uses a 1 inch scale, the height should be between 8 and 12 inches. If it uses a half inch scale, the height will be from 4 to 6 inches; quarter inch scale dollhouses have heights of 2-3 inches.