Dollhouse Miniatures: Take Refuge & Explore Life

If you think that collecting dollhouses is just a hobby of a kid, you are wrong. Many wealthy aristocrats have been building and designing dollhouses for centuries. It started when one of the dukes thought that it would be a great idea to have the designers creates a tiny replica of his house with all the furnishings. He placed it in his house and showed proudly to his guests. The elite citizens were extremely impressed with this idea and eventually many bankers, merchants and other business owners developed having their own miniatures created and hence a hobby was born. 

Initially dollhouse miniatures were designed to be mirror images of the standard of living of their owners. In some places, people also paid attention to the exterior of the houses and make it look just like that of their actual houses. Then came the trend of designing separate rooms for kitchen and even market stalls and clothing makers were also added to the design. Though the hobby had taken its shape many centuries before, it was only in twentieth entry that designers started paying attention to including electricity and plumbing in the basic design. 

Not only this, the older dollhouse miniatures were redesigned, repaired and renovated to match the latest trend going on in this field. The housing design paved way to garages, metal doors and windows took place of paper-made houses and the dollhouse miniatures started to be designed in modest flats and mansions as well. Although it is very costly to reproduce a dollhouse in a specific design, there are collectors who do not mind this. Above all, you have dollhouse furniture of different types and styles available in the market these days.

There are varieties of kits available to build dollhouses. You can choose one of them or design a blueprint for your own design, if you wish to. After building the basic structure you can decorate it in any style or era you want with the dollhouse furniture and other accessories available. Not only this, you have dolls of different types to choose and fit them in the dollhouse to make it look all the more real miniature. 

The designs and configurations are unlimited when you opt for building modern dollhouse miniatures. So, if your real life has become boring and unbearable, take refuge in decorating realistic miniatures and enjoy the miniaturized reality by collecting and decorating dollhouses. The dollhouse furniture would be a great addition to that.