Many young girls and boys dream of owning a huge wood doll house. Creative skills can be built by allowing a child to organize, decorate, and furnish a small-scale home. Then family-modeled play involving the doll house people and their lives can truly help inspire a child through decision making and story telling.

A doll house cannot be created unless it follows some model that already exists. So manufacturers look to real houses all around the world, for their ideas. Among the many styles of house construction that can be seen globally, a few have captured the imagination of these manufacturers and are more popular. These range from Colonial-type houses to Victorian and Georgian, from American Farm Houses to English Tudor.

Lets start with a Victorian house. As the name suggests, this style should have a regal look since it has been named after a royal personage like Queen Anne! The two-storey home looks quite elaborate. The so-called third floor is actually an attic and is unfinished. The trappings include all the things that the Queen adored—large windows, irregular rooflines, wrap-around porches that are curved and have a fancy look to them, and towers situated at the upper corners of the house. The exterior of the house exhibits skirting that has lattice work on it and exquisite millwork. Lattice work skirting is to be found even on the open areas below the porches. It is but natural that children enjoy the regal feel of such a doll house! They are able to entertain friends in the huge rooms, as well as accommodate stay-over families in the many bedrooms in the upper storey of the house.

Despite the popularity of Victorian-style homes, children in the Eastern sector love colonial houses. These are spacious, two-storied constructions with a large amount of living space. This is possible because of their rectangular shapes and the standard way of keeping bedrooms on the first floor and living rooms downstairs. So, the price paid for such a home is definitely worth it!

Georgian homes were similar to the Colonial homes, but on a grander scale. The rectangular shaped home was bordered on each side with huge brick or stone chimneys. Everything on the outside of the house seemed like a mirror image of the opposite side. Georgian homes provided plenty of living space; therefore, they make wonderful wood doll house models.

The simplest of them all is the American Farm House! They are in the form of an L or a T. This is so because the main portion of the house is constructed first and then it is extended at the back in the shape of an L or a T. The reason is to get more living space, that is all. Just like in other houses, the bedrooms are situated at the top. The downstairs portion consists of the living room, dining room, kitchen and bathroom. Manufacturers find these type of houses the easiest to construct.

Lastly, we come to English Tudor-style houses. They are really magnificent to look at, and remain a great favorite with children! True, this type of doll house is more expensive than the others, what with all the fancy settings! Again a two-storeyed construction, the living area and guest rooms remain on the main floor, while the bedrooms are upstairs. Why are these houses so special? Well, they have all these trappings to them–timber lines on the stone walls, parapets, cross-hatching near the roof line, huge stone chimneys and narrow windows.

Let your child help decide which wood doll house is right for them. Including them in every decision will allow them to feel as though their opinion matters and it also ensures that they’ll enjoy it for years to come.

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