Dollhouses

📖 In short

A dollhouse is a small model of a real house, with little rooms and tiny furniture: beds, chairs, tables, plates and lamps. Children love playing with it and arranging it, and grown-ups also enjoy building and decorating one as a hobby.

🤩 Did you know?

One of the most famous old dollhouses was made in the Netherlands around 1670.
Dollhouses for children appeared in the nineteenth century.
Some old dollhouses had just one room about 30 centimeters high.
Some modern dollhouses have tiny lamps that really light up!

🔎 Find out more

🌟 A little world

In a dollhouse everything is shrunk to the same scale, so the rooms look like real rooms seen through a magic lens. And little dolls live in it.

🔍 Once houses for grown-ups

Hundreds of years ago in Europe, rich people had very precious dollhouses made in wooden cabinets to show their guests, and children didn't play with them.

💡 Make your own house

You can make a dollhouse from a cardboard box: divide it into rooms, stick colored paper on the walls, and make furniture from matchboxes, bottle caps and fabric.