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English Wooden Dollhouses Are Beautiful Renditions Of The Real Thing


During the 17th and 18th century, women had a passion for dollhouse collecting. Some of the houses they collected are still on display today. While these kinds of dollhouses are nearly extinct today in the rooms of little girls, they are still a wonderful collector’s item.The English Wooden Dollhouses were exquisite in their design.

The English dollhouses sported dormer windows, painted shingles, and some had six stack chimneys. The intricate designing that went into these dollhouses is amazing artwork. Many of them had bay windows with fake leaded panes in them to appear like real glass. There was details of the kind of traditional life inside the dollhouse that was prevalent of that time period.

The tiny furniture in some of these collected dollhouses were exact and severely detailed replicas of the real thing. Many had armchairs, dining suites, and the four poster beds were exact. Some of the dollhouses had paintings hanging on its wall of real scenes of children playing or something from nature. These kinds of things all added to the authenticity of the play house.

Some houses were in the Tudor style while other were not. But all of them had detail in the flooring that was essential to how real the dollhouse appeared. Some had stenciling on the floors to appear as wood flooring. These dollhouses had even a mail slot in the front door. The stories were connected with tiny spiraling staircases as well.

One of the neatest part of English Wooden Dollhouses is the wall paper detail in the tiny rooms. Each and every detail was minded when these were painted and it shows in this wall paper and border designs. Every dollhouse is a work of art, especially those of the English. This shows in the way the front of the houses were decorated with flower boxes and the columns were so finely tuned.