doll house

[mamababe]

Any ideas where i could find a wood doll house and dolls made of natural materials at a reasonable price?:hippie

[Ceili]

Rosie Hippo (www.rosiehippo.com) has several different wooden doll houses, including different theme ones (castles, farms, fairy tree house)

Whimsicality (http://www.whimsicality.com/) has some really neat felt and silk doll houses and some wood doll houses their prices seem to be slightly less than Rosie Hippo.

Seasons natural toys (http://www.waldorfshop.net/seasonsnaturaltoys/index.htm) has some really neat looking furniture.

Hope that helps
Ceili

[Sierra]

You can also make a dollhouse pretty easily. Put together a simple wooden box (or use a cardboard one), and leave the top open. Slide pieces of wood (or the box tops, if you are using a cardboard box) into the box to create room dividers. You can cut rectangles in these room dividers as well if you want doors on the room dividers.

Voila! You have a dollhouse.

The dollhouse is one that you access "through the roof" (the roof that doesn't exist) rather than through the side (the side that is sliced open), but it can be really neat.

To make dollhouse furniture, etc. use common household items (jewlery boxes for a bed, thread spool ends for coffee tables, thimbles for cups, etc.). You can make this as elaborate as you want and have time for. You can paint the walls or leave them as is. You can draw tiny pictures to go on the walls or have no pictures on the walls. You can use tiny pieces of fabric or small bits of carpet samples as rugs, or you can stick with "hardwood floors." You get the picture.

I've found some simple wooden dolls at even big, yucky corporate toy stores. Nicer items that probably weren't made by small children in sweatshops, though, will likely be in a smaller, less corporate toy store (or in the above mentioned catalogs...which are all great).

Dolls can really be made out of anything as well. We made clothespin dolls when we were kids. You can also find small doll patterns to sew at many craft and sewing stores, and often times craft stores carry items (such as wooden heads, sometimes heads you paint yourself) that serve as doll making supplies.

[daylily]

I once made a dollhouse for dd out of an old bookcase I bought at a yard sale. It was only 2 shelves high, so I put in room dividers made of scrap wood and papered the inside with dollhouse wallpaper. So it didn't have windows and didn't look like a house on the outside. It was still cool.

[sleepies]

not really, but my DH built me a dollhouse!
it is all wood
it cost us around $275
we got it at a store that sells electric trains, and doll houses.

http://www.victoriandollhouse.com/greenleaf_dollhouses.html

they are all wood as far as i know.
except a few little plexi glass windows.

very very nice

my dh put it together, but still needs to put the siding and roof on it.

[lilyka]

Tatget has thier wooden ones clearanced for 8.50 a room. Four would be plenty I think. Wooden furniture and doll houses are available at Learning express. Not so cheap.
The book case doll house is a cool idea. I saw one in a pottery barn catalouge for $250 :jaw Way cute though. They also had a doll house rug that was pretty much a floor plan. A creatve spin on the whole doll house idea and multi functional.

[momacat]

I got my dd a doll house by Plan Toys at estyle.com. I had a $50 off $100, plus free shipping when I got it. They no longer have the big doll house that I got, but I just looked and they have another nice one that is now on sale for $99 and they are offering free shipping on anything over $75. Plus they are offering a FREE Family Set right now.

http://www.estyle.com/common/dProductDetail.asp?PMId=9718&SIND=2&frm=1&cmCL=dollshouseskitchenstuff&cmPG=ktoys&cmDM=10