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Home on the Go Portable Dollhouse

For the mini designer in your life, check out this Home on the Go portable dollhouse. It's a little dollhouse that is easy to clean-up and portable....

Dollhouse Bag

Restaurants with crayons and coloring paper for the kiddies are aces in our book, but not every restaurant is so thoughtful. In those cases, we find being prepared with our own bag of goodies is key....

Packaging As Toys

By now we're all familiar with the popularity of recycled and recyclable cardboard toys and kids furniture. Before the recent cardboard trend, we used to hoard shoe boxes to create a stacked apartmen...

Inspiration: Drool Worthy Modern Dollhouses

We have modern dollhouses on the brain today, they're easy to love since their small size makes them feel more accessible than the real thing. We have two more for you to feast your eyes upon, one's...

My Modern Mini Dollhouse

You know our weakness for modern dollhouses. This one shot to the top of our list right away. The My Modern Mini dollhouse is designed and built by architects Design-Comm....

Found: Hand Painted Wooden Families

We're having trouble deciding if these little wooden families are too cute to play with! You can purchase one that matches your family or individual people as well as blanks to paint your own. You ...

A Glass Dollhouse From IKEA

While we like the look of a proper dollhouse, especially the modern offerings available these days, we still hold a torch for the homemade variety. Growing up, we had a makeshift 4 room, two story do...

Look! Doll Apartment

This darling doll apartment is just about the only thing we would consider sacrificing valuable storage space for in our own apartment. It's a joint production between Jenny Rosenstrach of Cookie M...

Liliane Doll Villa

Lots of parents are looking for a dollhouse this holiday season - something modern, gender-neutral and built to last. If money is no issue, we've found the perfect specimen - the Doll Villa by Dutch ...

Play Pad by 10 Grain Kids

Those folks at 10 Grain Kids sure know how to cogitate outside the crate. When designer Eric Pfeiffer contemplated his daughter's former dollhouse, which, having been retired from active use, now serv...

AT New York Dollhouse Tours
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AT New York took "small is cool" to a new level recently when they featured two unusual House Tours - of dollhouses! Both homes - one retro, one modern - are the creation of Brooklyn dollhouse enth...

Mobile Home by Kids on Roof

It's Escapes Month here at AT. Getting away is great, but you know that trying to escape with your kids means bringing along the minimum number of toys with the maximum amount of playability. We think...

Look! Life-Size Dollhouse by Heather Benning

Anyone planning a summer vacation in Saskatchewan? As you know, we have a slight dollhouse fetish so even though this art installation is a few years old, we thought you'd get a kick out of it. Ca...

Green Ideas: The Green Dollhouse Project

We were having fun looking at some of the entrants in The Green Dollhouse Project. The project took place in San Mateo County and included an exhibit and later an auction of the incredible works of ...

Cardboard Dollhouses - A Brownstone and a Fire Station

Kids growing up in an urban environment might be more familiar with brownstones and fire stations than some of the more traditional dollhouse structures available for purchase. Our Children's Gorilla...

Look! Modern Classics for a Dollhouse

If a vintage classic is not in your budget currently, consider one of these dollhouse-sized replicas. ...

Look! Two Recycled Cardboard Dollhouses

We used to make simple dollhouses with fold-out album covers. They were sturdy and could be configured in many ways, but, inevitably it meant that the dollhouse walls were adorned with the lyrics t...

Reader Tip: Adler-Inspired Barbie Dioramas

Michael Williams sent us a link to his fabulous Barbie diorama, "I did an homage to TOP DESIGN guru Jonathan Adler in 1:6 scale for my collection of Barbie dolls and have posted it online." Can we j...

Good Question: Local Places to Shop for a Doll House

Last week when we posted on Re-ment, Ohdeedoh reader Sleek asked, "Where can i buy a really nice dollhouse? There used to be a store here called the dollhouse store. But they closed down. They had th...

Re-Ment Miniatures

We've been privy to a few Blythe doll houses here at Ohdeedoh, and whenever we see one, we're always left wondering, "Where do people buy the cool teeny accessories?" Mystery solved! For the serio...

Flickr Finds: Bookcase Dollhouse

When we were kids a neighbor down the street had the Barbie Dream House (and the Corvette - don't get us started!). As much fun as it was to use (come on, the elevator was pretty cool), we had just...

Green Idea: Carton Chic

The name says it all. Armelle Vetillard created the Carton Chic collection of cardboard toys - all made of recycled or recyclable cardboard. ...

Quiet Hour Toys' Little House

If faeries needed a place to stay we think that Quiet Hours Toys' Little House would be the perfect getaway....

Anthropologie Finds for Kids

Is it just us, or did Anthropologie devote a few more pages to kids stuff in their latest catalog. Must be the holidays. There's even a whole 7 pages online. Cute stuff like this Lyngby Dollhouse ...

Frida Kahlo's Studio Dollhouse

What makes us here at AT: Nursery such fans of dollhouses? They provided us our first chance to appreciate architecture and design of our "homes." Take a look at this homemade beauty - it's Frida Ka...