When you are building your dollhouse it is important to have a great layout before starting to buy furniture, wall paper and flooring. One of the principle rooms is the kitchen. This article's intent is to describe some of the basic designs when it comes to your dollhouse kitchen. In this way you can avoid some of the bigger design mistakes that can happen. These points are as follows: First Design to Scale, Design to Style, and Design for coordination.
Design to Scale
Kitchen Sets
Most new dollhouse kitchen furniture shoppers don't realize that there are actually many different scales in dollhouse furniture today. The most common is a 1 inch scale, meaning that every inch equals a standard 12 inches or foot. Most dollhouse kits are 1 inch scale and if you have a 1 inch dollhouse this is the size that you will need to get.
There are also smaller and larger styles on the dollhouse scale. The smaller sizes are the ¼ inch and the ½ inch. These again reference to how many inches represent a real 12 inches or foot.
The most important thing to remember with dollhouse scales is keep consistent with your dollhouse and other furniture. The most common scale that you will find in stores and websites is the 1 inch scale, and we recommend working with this scale. If you are interested in a smaller scale perhaps for a smaller home décor display then make sure when you are shopping that you get the right scale for your dollhouse kitchen furniture.
Design to Style
Style is important when it comes to giving your dollhouse a certain feel to it. This is especially true if you are using your dollhouse more for display than for play. There are a couple of common styles that you will find for dollhouse kitchen furniture: Victorian, classical, traditional, modern, retro, and many more to count.
Our suggestion with styles is twofold: First, insure that when you are deciding on style that you are coordinating all of the furniture, wallpaper, and décor to match the specific era or style. Second, there is no reason why you need to keep one style of furniture for your kitchen as your bedroom or bathroom. Yes it will look more consistent if you keep within the same style, but we recommend that you get the furniture that is most appeasing to your desires. For instance I really enjoy dollhouse kitchen furniture sets with an island as opposed to just a cupboard. On the other hand there are some really cool Victorian dollhouse kitchen sets.
Design for coordination
Designing for coordination is more about picking a great color combination that works within the dollhouse kitchen room. There are a couple of hints in getting this right. First, look around your own kitchen and the colors that you have chosen. Have you coordinated the cabinets with the wallpaper or flooring for instance? Of course you have, and making sure that you have that type of detail come out in your dollhouse kitchen furniture will prove to have similar great reactions from visitors and friends.
Conclusion
A little planning can go a long way. We recommend that when you are looking for dollhouse kitchen furniture that you take some time to research the right scale, style, and color that will work for your dollhouse!