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This article discusses the most common methods of lighting a dollhouse and teaches you how to install lights to light your own dollhouse using one of the various methods.

Also included is how to light a front opening dollhouse!  [Continued]

    

When you hear “dollhouse” your first thought may be a child’s toy, a “play” house where a child sits and plays “make-believe” for hours at a time. Maybe you think of a dollhouse as something you had as a child that you long since outgrew. Perhaps you even have a dollhouse sitting in an attic, basement, or garage collecting dust no longer being used. A dollhouse is all of those things, and much, much more. [Continued]

  
 
   
 

Dollhouses and miniatures have been around for hundreds of years. While it is not known exactly when miniatures and dollhouses first came into existence, history tells us that the Egyptians placed miniature models of their favorite things, boats, pets, furnishings, etc., in their tombs as part of their religious beliefs. As time passed, the continued existence of miniature models, created after their real life counterparts, flourished and grew. [Continued]

  
 
       
 

Are you wondering what 1/12, 1/24 or 1/144 scale means? Curious to know what “dollhouse” scale is and what “micro” scale is? Confused about what size furniture to get for your dollhouse? This article will explain everything you need to know about miniature scales (the sizes, not the items used for weighing things) and what the differences are. [Continued]

    

Have you ever seen a dollhouse either in a picture, or already built and suddenly a flood of ideas start coming to you?  Perhaps you are hit with inspiration and creative ideas as you are building your own dollhouse.  If you have multiple dollhouses like we do, it can be difficult to keep the information, decorating ideas and details about each house organized. [Continued]

  

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