A doll house is called a replica of an flat or a house in miniature. This house is set up specifically for small dolls and equipped with small furniture. In the 17th and 18th centuries were doll houses only for the presentation of richness of adults or illustrative material for children. Only in the Biedermeier period arose the first doll houses for girls. These small households should prepare the girls playfully on her role as a housewife. Often apartments of upscale middle-class families were recreated as detailed as possible. Doll house accessories such as dolls and furniture were traditionally made of wood.
Mostly distinction is made between dolls houses for two sizes of dolls. The classic doll house is slightly smaller and suitable for flexible dolls with a size of about 8-12 cm. The bigger dolls houses are suitable for example for Barbie dolls and therefore very spacious.
Depending on the space and the own ideas you can choose between a doll house for flexible dolls with one, two or three floors. The manufacturers Hape, Rülke, Fröhr Plaho, Nemmer but also KidKraft or Janod have many different models of these houses for Dolls in the range.
Very classic wooden doll houses can be found for example at Rülke or Fröhr Plaho. Hape provides for example with the Bamboo Villa a fairly modern variant of doll houses, because this one has a working solar panel on the roof, which can bring the lamps inside to shine. From Janod there is the doll house “Mademoiselle”, a model that can be mounted without screws and tools and its design in white and pink little and appeals certainly to small girls.
So little hands can play well with a doll house, houses are well suited which one has good access to individual rooms or where the roof is removable.
Larger doll houses are there for dolls up to 30 cm (e.g. Barbie dolls). Especially KidKraft offers many different of this large and spacious wooden doll houses.
So there are huge models like the doll house “So Chic”, which can be well played by several children as it is very large and open on all sides.
The white doll house “Savannah” in Southern-style is one of the most elegant doll houses from KidKraft, with its 6 rooms it offers plenty of space to play for small doll's mamas and dad.
Particularly convenient is that most of the KidKraft doll houses are already equipped with a furniture set, so that the residents can move straight in.
Nowadays, dolls houses are not only for girls, as apart from the classic doll house new variants such as the fire station "everyday heroes" by Kidkraft or a small doll house in the form of a trailer from Goki. The creative dream house of Hape is modern designed quite similar to a shelf. The highlight is the partial magnetic walls and furniture pieces that help to make the rooms again and again anew.
You can put the furniture for a doll house together yourself at most manufacturers. So you can select the furniture for kitchen, toilet, living room, bedroom, nursery or garden entirely to your taste. Also, related accessories for the doll house kitchen or nursery are available. Hape offers even a small gym, a family car with which the dolls can go for a trip or even a pet set with kennel, rabbit hutch and cat basket and the corresponding pets.
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