My Wife has always loved dolls' houses and She loves the old Victorian ones we sometimes see in museums. Apparently dolls' houses for grown ups are a thing and I think She'd really like one, not for dolls, but to build & decorate with furniture. She's made a few of the small Booknook type kits and really enjoyed it and I was thinking perhaps I could get something for Christmas.
I can't afford too much & we don't have a lot of space & I'm completely clueless as to what to look for (although I gather that terraced houses are available that can be added to later).
Does anyone have any useful pointers or resources? Presumably if you're buying fixtures & fittings there must be a scale; is there a standard or beginners' scale (as with model railways) or any 'go to' starters kits?
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1:12 seems to be a thing.
>20 years ago now I worked with a guy whose wife was a dollhouse aficionado. From memory (he tried to indoctrinate me as my girls were v small at the time), it's a proper rabbit hole, with ridiculous levels of detail and some very expensive equipment if you go all in.
Loads of websites and some shops dotted around the country, think model railway level of commitment & passion.
Apparently theres a bit of money in these things, and especially the ones where the internal fixtures, furniture etc all being to scale.
So for furniture, those seem to be actually made by someone with craft skill, and i know you can get specialist router cutters to recreate architraves, dados, and all other mouldings etc.
Not to be confused with the cheap '£15 for a set of ten' mini router cutters. those are just mini cutters for dremel type machines. These cutters are correct for producing miniature period mouldings at the exact scale.
You can get a small table top router table for cheap.