Game and Music Dollhouse Furniture

There is no more fun way to make your dollhouse more exciting and chic than by adding a music or game room. Your music room can display a myriad of instruments (including instruments that actually play music, and will lend a gracious, distinguished feel to your home. Adding a game room will not only be lots of fun to look at, talk about, and play with, it will also let your dollhouse seem inviting and realistic.

Dollhouse Furniture: Hand Painted

Attention to detail is one of the main characteristics of dollhouse furniture. That is why hand painted furniture is so desired, it adds class, uniqueness, and style. If you enjoy artwork and detail make sure to invest in some hand painted dollhouse furniture.

Dollhouse One Inch Furniture

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 ½ inch or ¼ inch in the title of the item.

The most frequently used scale for dollhouses and dollhouse furniture is the 1 inch (1:12) scale. Each inch of dollhouse furniture represents a foot of real furniture. So a 2 inch tall dollhouse coffee table would look like a 2 foot tall coffee table in reality. There are other scales, but they are less popular and common

So a 2 inch tall dollhouse coffee table would look like a 2 foot tall coffee table in reality. In other scales, such as half inch and quarter inch, less than an inch represents a foot of real furniture.

Metal in Dollhouse Furniture

Most furniture is made out of wood, however there are many nontraditional or quirky fun pieces that need a metal material. One fine example is out door barbecues, not only are they a wonderful addition that just makes you dollhouse fun, but they would not be possible without some great metal work. Other places that you will find metal material is in washers and dryers, outdoor kits, and electrical workings.

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. All items at Dollhouse City are on this 1 inch scale unless the title of the item tells you it is on a ½ or ¼ inch scale.

This item is built on a quarter inch, or 1:48 inch, scale. This means that an inch of dollhouse furniture represents 4 feet of dollhouse furniture. With the quarter inch (1:48) scale, ¼ of an inch of dollhouse furniture equates to a foot of real furniture; so a ½ inch tall dollhouse coffee table would look like a 2 foot tall coffee table in reality. To figure out which scale your dollhouse uses, figure out the height from floor to ceiling of one level of your dollhouse. Heights from 8-12 inches translate to a 1 inch scale.

Half inch scales will have heights between 4-6 inches; for a quarter inch scale, there should be 2-3 inches between floor and ceiling.

Using Pecan in your Dollhouse Furniture Coordination

Pecans anyone? Seriously the wood is fit for dollhouse furniture. In fact, Pecan wood is one of the most popular choices in dollhouse furniture today. It has a soft look similar to walnut or oak, yet it is a hardier material. 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. We recommend putting this furniture in any style home including modern or Victorian.

Dollhouse Bathrooms

Typical dollhouse bathroom furniture consists of a few basic items; namely, a toilet, a sink, and a tub. There is actually an extensive variety of colors, patterns, and materials for these items, so there are just as many choices for you in the bathroom as in any other room in the dollhouse. You can further this by adding accessories to your heart's content-everything from bathroom scales to perfume containers to bottles of Tylenol