I Want The Best Doll House On Earth!

Many young girls and boys dream of owning a huge wood doll house. Creative skills can be built by allowing a child to organize, decorate, and furnish a small-scale home. Then family-modeled play involving the doll house people and their lives can truly help inspire a child through decision making and story telling.

A doll house cannot be created unless it follows some model that already exists. So manufacturers look to real houses all around the world, for their ideas. Among the many styles of house construction that can be seen globally, a few have captured the imagination of these manufacturers and are more popular. These range from Colonial-type houses to Victorian and Georgian, from American Farm Houses to English Tudor.

The most regal of all doll houses is that based on the Victorian model. This was Queen Anne’s favorite style of construction. She felt that the exterior and interior should look royal, and this type of doll house is truly so. It consists of two storeys. The rooms are large; so it is easy to entertain guests. The upper storey has many bedrooms; so families can stay overnight if necessary. What makes the house have that special look to it? Well, there is an unfinished third storey which contains an attic. Towers can be seen at the upper corners of the house. Fancy and curved wrap-around porches where the open areas have latticed skirting, many large windows, irregular rooflines, exteriors with lattice work skirting and exquisite millwork–these characterize a typical Queen Anne Victorian home. Ask children which is their favorite doll house; the answer is Victorian!

The Eastern area favors colonial-style houses. The house is well worth the money that is paid for it, since the area is large. Two-storied in construction and rectangular in shape, the living space is more than enough for the entire family. While the bedrooms are housed on the upper floor, the downstairs is meant for entertaining. The construction is quite standard.

Just like Colonial homes, Georgian houses also have a large living space, making them convenient for entertaining. They are also rectangular in shape. The difference lies in the fact that a Georgian home exterior is like a mirror image–one side is exactly the same as the other. This is because on either side there are borders consisting of huge brick or stone chimneys. Thus, they are grander than colonial houses.

An American farm house is probably the most simplistic wood doll house. This form of house is often T or L shaped and contains the main portion of the house and then an extension of living space branches off the back of the house forming an L or T shape. In a farm house, the bedrooms were usually upstairs while the bathroom, kitchen, dining, room, and living room remained downstairs. These are the most simple wood doll house to build.

Lastly, we come to English Tudor-style houses. They are really magnificent to look at, and remain a great favorite with children! True, this type of doll house is more expensive than the others, what with all the fancy settings! Again a two-storeyed construction, the living area and guest rooms remain on the main floor, while the bedrooms are upstairs. Why are these houses so special? Well, they have all these trappings to them–timber lines on the stone walls, parapets, cross-hatching near the roof line, huge stone chimneys and narrow windows.

It is advisable to present the child with the list of doll houses and allow him/her to choose. They get the feeling of being important, and respect you for “respecting” their opinions! The doll house therefore becomes a very special part of their lives.