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Why Choose Tudor Style Wooden Dollhouses

Every little girl lusts after their own wooden dollhouse. And for girls that grow up on a diet of fairy tales about princesses, Tudor style wooden dollhouses are just about the best thing that they could wish for. Not only this, but there are many different and cute ways that you can decorate a Tudor style dollhouse and it can easily become a family heirloom for future children and grandchildren.

Tudor style houses are one of the best known styles of medieval architecture and it was used from around the middle of the 15th century to to the turning of the 17th century. Tudor style homes and buildings were prevalent in England around the time of Shakespeare, a historical period that is today remembered with a great deal of romance.

You can spot Tudor style architecture as it is predominantly wooden framed, with dominant cross gables that are dark wooded. The walls of the home were generally white washed or plastered and they had large chimneys and and narrow door frames. Due to the large expense of glass at this time in history, a lot of the windows in a Tudor home were small.

Dollhouses that are made in Tudor style will reproduce the typical elements of the architectural style and are generally come in 1/12 or 1/24 scales. You can either buy the dollhouses already made and painted for you, or it is possible to buy Tudor dollhouse kits that you can construct yourself.

To give your child a sense that they are a fairy tale princess, there is no better design than Tudor style wooden dollhouses. There are an almost endless amount of furniture and things to decorate these quaint dollhouses with and the dolls that accompany the house can be dressed in period dress that matches exactly the fashions used by many of the Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Andersen characters.