Doll Houses

Doll Houses, Doll House Furniture and Accessories
Doll Houses Bring Out The Child In All Of Us
Maybe is has to do with the fact that I never had a doll house when I was growing up, that doll houses fascinate me. I did have a few dolls and a few pieces of furniture but my family could not afford a doll house (my Mom even made all of my doll clothes since she didn't have the money for store bought)so when ever I had a chance to play with someone who had a doll house you couldn't pull me away. When my son was about 2 years old we were living in Hawaii and I remember getting him Hawaiian...

Dollhouses to Grow Up With
A Toy For Stretching the Imagination
I finished constructing Chelsea's dollhouse this past spring, but the process of furnishing and finishing it may take years. I look forward to sharing this hobby with my small niece. There is something to be said for sharing a hobby -- almost any hobby -- across generations. There's an additional reason, though, that I think the dollhouse is worth the hours it took to build. I believe a dollhouse is an especially appropriate toy for stretching a child's imagination. Walking into a Toys R Us ...

Dollhouse Toys
Doll Houses Provide a World for Your Child's Pretend Play
When I was a child in the UK, my Dad built a dollhouse for my sister and me. It was a duplex, with two homes back to back, one section for each of us - and yes, I played with it too, though my half of the house was used more a starting point for my trolls, who went off exploring the Amazon, flying to the Moon, or climbing Everest! Later, Dad remade the dollhouse into two separate houses so that one of them could to come to my daughter in Canada - that's her in the picture with her dollho...

Dollhouses Make the Perfect Christmas Gifts For Kids
Dollhouses Make the Perfect Holiday Gift
As a father, some of my fondest memories of my daughter's childhood are from the Christmas holidays, and a very special memory is of a particular gift - her first dollhouse. There's something about the scale of a dollhouse that enables the fantasies of a young girl (or boy - there are dollhouses for all interests and genders) to blossom. I remember her peeking in through the windows and setting up furniture and other accessories, then introducing the inhabitants - the dolls. And the outside o...