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A boy's Doll house
My niece is about to give birth and it's my intention to make a
dollhouse for the new baby. Now I know pretty much what I am going to do if it's a girl, but if it's I boy I am stuck. I cannot seem to find a doll house kit appropriate for a boy. I saw a very nice castle, but it doens't open up. If anyone has any ideas, or can point me to a good source I'd appreciate it. |
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Fizbin wrote:
My niece is about to give birth and it's my intention to make a dollhouse for the new baby. Now I know pretty much what I am going to do if it's a girl, but if it's I boy I am stuck. I cannot seem to find a doll house kit appropriate for a boy. I saw a very nice castle, but it doens't open up. If anyone has any ideas, or can point me to a good source I'd appreciate it. I've seen a DH at Hobby Lobby that could easily be seen as a log type cabin, especially if one furnishes it as such. |
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HBS, www.miniatures.com, has a quick-build log cabin kit and firehouse kit
as well as log cabin kits by RGT & Dura-Craft and a barn by RGT. They also carried a kit for a general store which I thought with swinging doors instead of a regular shop door would make a really neat Western saloon, with an upstairs for a doctor's office or whatever (a bordello for the old & raunchy, perhaps). There are also shops. I have seen castles people "scratch" built. You might also check out www.maplestreet.co.uk. for Tudor style kits. Many years ago there was a book for building houses/ city out of things like 2-liter soda bottles and other "found" items to make a very futuristic setting for sci-fi toys such as the Star Wars figures. Your imagination & budget & skills are your only limits. Didn't mean to get so wordy 8~ ) |
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You don't mention whether you intend this to be played with or just
looked at. My granddaughter (age one and a half) just got her first dollhouse - it's one she can play with - finished wood with wood-block type furniture. Hardly elegant, but it can be played with! But why should it be so different whether it's a girl OR boy? This is gender stereotyping. I don't understand why a girl's dollhouse couldn't equally well be a garage, log cabin, or firehouse, while a boy's could as easily be normal living quarters. Whichever sex the baby is, a reproduction of the house they're currently living in, or your house, or some other REAL place, would be fun to play with and have some basis in family history. Either would also be interested in miniatures of stores - there's one (A Fisher-Price kind of toy) that's a miniature supermarket - eminently playable, if not a work of art. If you're thinking that a "girl's" dollhouse as dainty, and frilly, and Victorian, it doesn't have to be. Contemporary (even Ultra-modern) styling is available, and a hi-tech house might fit your definition of something "appropriate" to either a boy or a girl. Children (and adults too, particularly those in this group) are entranced by small models and miniatures of just about anything. My wife and I are both heavily involved, as hobbyists, in many different kinds of dollhouses. We have our expected specialty areas - honed by the last century's sexual stereotyping, but I also do some of the fabric and embroidery work while she often gets out the power tools to build a house or some furniture. - Herb Fizbin wrote: My niece is about to give birth and it's my intention to make a dollhouse for the new baby. Now I know pretty much what I am going to do if it's a girl, but if it's I boy I am stuck. I cannot seem to find a doll house kit appropriate for a boy. I saw a very nice castle, but it doens't open up. If anyone has any ideas, or can point me to a good source I'd appreciate it. |
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Thanks to all for the suggestions. Don't know why I didn't think of
the log cabin myself! I took a look at the firehouse and it's just beautiful, if a bit more money than I was thinking for this project, but who know I may go for broke and get it anyway. I've been refering to this kid to be as the "practice grandchild". My kids as so young it will be a long time before I see grandkids of my own. I am very much looking forward to spoiling this one. I want to start a tradition of giving each new baby a house, finished, but not furnished so that they can share that with their parents. Something fairly small, but not so delicate that it sits on a shelf and doens't get used. Free repair service included of course . Again thanks to all. Gave me a good excuse to visit favorite old web pages. Fizbin |
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How about a log cabin. I've seen these kits at Hobby Lobby.
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