Using Wire with Dollhouse Furniture
Looking for a nontraditional design for your dollhouse furniture? Choosing a wire material means that the craftsman has greater flexibility to do what normal wood could not. 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 the Outdoors
Displaying a few outdoor furniture pieces makes your dollhouse even more appealing. Porch swings and patio furniture can help you go a step up from the run-of-the-mill furniture and enhance the quality of they details around your dollhouse. Plus, these items give you one more reason to admire the outside of your dollhouse as much as the inside
Using Oak and Dollhouse Furniture
Dollhouse furniture is all about making a miniature home and nothing looks as real as oak wood in miniatures. It has a lighter hue and would fit fine in any traditional dollhouse. Oak is a great choice for living room furniture as the wood beautifully accents the fabric pieces. Oak is a great pick for a traditional or modern dollhouse, but the material does lend itself to be used in most any style.
Children's Room and Nursery
Few rooms are as adorable and whimsical as a nursery or children's room. Children's rooms can be playful or peaceful, and the accessories you can add (toy blocks, children's books, and even a doll's dollhouse) are charming as can be. A baby's nursery, with its delightful furniture items and styles, will make your dollhouse as homey as can be.
Hand Painted Dollhouse Furniture
Attention to detail is one of the main characteristics of dollhouse furniture. Hand painted furniture can add class to a Victorian style, or some craziness to a traditional or modern dollhouse (especially in the children's rooms). This popular choice is not likely to fad with time and many generations will enjoy the quality and craftsmanship that when into a hand painted piece of dollhouse furniture.
Dollhouse Unfinished Furniture
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. If you want to assemble the furniture yourself, buy a furniture kit; completed items will appear as they do in the picture.
Dollhouse Scales: Quarter Inch
Dollhouse scales tell you that the you are buying the right sized furniture for your dollhouse. All items at Dollhouse City are on this 1 inch scale unless the title of the item tells you it is on a or 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 are not sure which scale your dollhouse corresponds to, simply measure the height from floor to ceiling on the 1st floor of your dollhouse. If it is between 8-12 inches, it is most likely a 1 inch scale.
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.
Looking for a nontraditional design for your dollhouse furniture? Choosing a wire material means that the craftsman has greater flexibility to do what normal wood could not. 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 the Outdoors
Displaying a few outdoor furniture pieces makes your dollhouse even more appealing. Porch swings and patio furniture can help you go a step up from the run-of-the-mill furniture and enhance the quality of they details around your dollhouse. Plus, these items give you one more reason to admire the outside of your dollhouse as much as the inside
Using Oak and Dollhouse Furniture
Dollhouse furniture is all about making a miniature home and nothing looks as real as oak wood in miniatures. It has a lighter hue and would fit fine in any traditional dollhouse. Oak is a great choice for living room furniture as the wood beautifully accents the fabric pieces. Oak is a great pick for a traditional or modern dollhouse, but the material does lend itself to be used in most any style.
Children's Room and Nursery
Few rooms are as adorable and whimsical as a nursery or children's room. Children's rooms can be playful or peaceful, and the accessories you can add (toy blocks, children's books, and even a doll's dollhouse) are charming as can be. A baby's nursery, with its delightful furniture items and styles, will make your dollhouse as homey as can be.
Hand Painted Dollhouse Furniture
Attention to detail is one of the main characteristics of dollhouse furniture. Hand painted furniture can add class to a Victorian style, or some craziness to a traditional or modern dollhouse (especially in the children's rooms). This popular choice is not likely to fad with time and many generations will enjoy the quality and craftsmanship that when into a hand painted piece of dollhouse furniture.
Dollhouse Unfinished Furniture
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. If you want to assemble the furniture yourself, buy a furniture kit; completed items will appear as they do in the picture.
Dollhouse Scales: Quarter Inch
Dollhouse scales tell you that the you are buying the right sized furniture for your dollhouse. All items at Dollhouse City are on this 1 inch scale unless the title of the item tells you it is on a or 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 are not sure which scale your dollhouse corresponds to, simply measure the height from floor to ceiling on the 1st floor of your dollhouse. If it is between 8-12 inches, it is most likely a 1 inch scale.
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.