Wire and Dollhouse Furniture
Do you want a design that is very intricate? Wire does what wood cannot. In any case, you will see wire designs of furniture that would be very fragile with wood perform magnificently with wire. Wire is most commonly found in wicker furniture, furniture accessories, or in outdoor dollhouse furniture.
Dollhouse Furniture: Wicker
Wicker furniture is the art of basket weaving and furniture making combined. Wicker gets its name from the interweaving of bamboo or vine around a furniture frame. In much of the same way that it is made traditionally, dollhouse wicker furniture is built with wire or very small wood strips. You will see wicker appear most commonly in the kitchen or outdoor sets.
Dollhouse Black Furniture
Instead of a natural wood finish, if you choose black dollhouse furniture, it will pop out more. Most black dollhouse pieces have colorful artistic work. This is a great color for a more nontraditional or cultural design for your dollhouse.
Picking Dollhouse Metal Furniture
Quality furniture does not always have to be made out of wood; there are many great pieces that would not be available if not for some great metal craftsmen. Dollhouse barbecues are an excellent demonstration of fun metalworking in this hobby; I mean what doll could resist getting the ol' burgers on the grill. You will find the biggest selection of metal dollhouse pieces in the outdoor category, but some feature collections like laundry room are ideal for this medium.
Dinning Room Dollhouse Furniture
Dining rooms will help to make your dollhouse look extremely elegantand/or extremely fun Though many dining room sets are meant to be rather classy, countrified and hand-painted dining room sets are also available to add some brightness and character to your dollhouse. This is a great area of your dollhouse to play make believewhether children are pretending to have company at dinner, or you are displaying a great tea set
Laundry and Sewing Rooms
Laundry and sewing rooms are really fun to add to your dollhouse because they get a lot of attention Laundry rooms usually imply a more current time; sewing rooms are a little more old-worldly picturesque. With either room, just a few accessories--like an ironing board or box of thread--bring a lot of charm to your dollhouse
Making Sense of Quarter Inch Dollhouse Scales
Dollhouse scales tell you that the you are buying the right sized furniture for your dollhouse. On this website, all furniture is built on a 1 inch scale unless you see inch or inch in the title of the item.
This furniture item has a quarter inch (1:48) scale. This means that one inch of dollhouse furniture is equivalent to four foot, or 48 inches, of furniture in real life. With the quarter inch (1:48) scale, of an inch of dollhouse furniture equates to a foot of real furniture; so a inch tall dollhouse coffee table would look like a 2 foot tall coffee table in reality. 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 your dollhouse uses a 1 inch scale, the height should be between 8 and 12 inches.
Heights between 4-6 inches use a half inch scale; heights between 2-3 inches are on a quarter inch scale.
Do you want a design that is very intricate? Wire does what wood cannot. In any case, you will see wire designs of furniture that would be very fragile with wood perform magnificently with wire. Wire is most commonly found in wicker furniture, furniture accessories, or in outdoor dollhouse furniture.
Dollhouse Furniture: Wicker
Wicker furniture is the art of basket weaving and furniture making combined. Wicker gets its name from the interweaving of bamboo or vine around a furniture frame. In much of the same way that it is made traditionally, dollhouse wicker furniture is built with wire or very small wood strips. You will see wicker appear most commonly in the kitchen or outdoor sets.
Dollhouse Black Furniture
Instead of a natural wood finish, if you choose black dollhouse furniture, it will pop out more. Most black dollhouse pieces have colorful artistic work. This is a great color for a more nontraditional or cultural design for your dollhouse.
Picking Dollhouse Metal Furniture
Quality furniture does not always have to be made out of wood; there are many great pieces that would not be available if not for some great metal craftsmen. Dollhouse barbecues are an excellent demonstration of fun metalworking in this hobby; I mean what doll could resist getting the ol' burgers on the grill. You will find the biggest selection of metal dollhouse pieces in the outdoor category, but some feature collections like laundry room are ideal for this medium.
Dinning Room Dollhouse Furniture
Dining rooms will help to make your dollhouse look extremely elegantand/or extremely fun Though many dining room sets are meant to be rather classy, countrified and hand-painted dining room sets are also available to add some brightness and character to your dollhouse. This is a great area of your dollhouse to play make believewhether children are pretending to have company at dinner, or you are displaying a great tea set
Laundry and Sewing Rooms
Laundry and sewing rooms are really fun to add to your dollhouse because they get a lot of attention Laundry rooms usually imply a more current time; sewing rooms are a little more old-worldly picturesque. With either room, just a few accessories--like an ironing board or box of thread--bring a lot of charm to your dollhouse
Making Sense of Quarter Inch Dollhouse Scales
Dollhouse scales tell you that the you are buying the right sized furniture for your dollhouse. On this website, all furniture is built on a 1 inch scale unless you see inch or inch in the title of the item.
This furniture item has a quarter inch (1:48) scale. This means that one inch of dollhouse furniture is equivalent to four foot, or 48 inches, of furniture in real life. With the quarter inch (1:48) scale, of an inch of dollhouse furniture equates to a foot of real furniture; so a inch tall dollhouse coffee table would look like a 2 foot tall coffee table in reality. 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 your dollhouse uses a 1 inch scale, the height should be between 8 and 12 inches.
Heights between 4-6 inches use a half inch scale; heights between 2-3 inches are on a quarter inch scale.