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Dolls' House Buyers Guide

Buyers' Guide

Getting Your Foot On The Property Ladder

Ready to Play houses assemble in minutes and are fully decorated inside and out. All other dolls' houses are available built, QuickStyle or kit form. All houses contain everything required to assemble the house, and all windows and doors are assembled for you.

No Experience Required!

Our precision-made, robust houses slot together and are easily assembled by collectors of all ages and capabilities, following our illustrated, easy-to-follow instructions.

Dolls' Houses and Contents

The dolls' houses are shown fully furnished inside and out. Houses are supplied without furniture, dolls or accessories. A full listing of everything shown in or on the dolls' houses photographed in the catalogue can be found here on our website. All windows and doors are beautifully detailed and handcrafted in wood, and pre-assembled for your convenience.

Doors and Windows

Our wooden doors and windows are made from precision-cut, handcrafted, individual components (not pressed out of MDF). All doors and windows are pre-assembled, as shown in the Builders' Merchants section, ready for you to slot into the openings. Our windows and doors have frames on the inside as well as the outside, ensuring a neat finish and securing the 'window panes'.

Lighting

Lighting is easily installed and is best done during construction. Lighting Sets include the lights shown in the photograph of the open dolls' house, the wiring and transformer and represent very good value. A listing of the lights is shown at the bottom of the dolls' house page. Guides to our simple lighting systems can be found in the 'Lighting is Easy' page of our Help Centre. Lighting Sets for additional properties, e.g. basements, The Barn, etc., usually include only the lights; there is enough wiring and transformer capacity with the house lighting set to also light the basement.

See the Lighting Masterclass video for further information.

Furniture and Accessories

The dolls' houses are shown fully furnished inside and out. Houses are supplied without furniture, dolls and accessories. A full listing of all the furniture and accessories shown in or on the dolls' houses can be found on our website.

Dolls' House Kits


Unpainted kits are available for the more adventurous who want to create a unique masterpiece of their own from start to finish. Including all the components, with windows and doors pre-assembled, you have everything you need to create the building as shown in our catalogue, but to your design and colour scheme!

Youngsters of all ages, even into their eighties, have made our kits very successfully and no experience is required. This is a great way to indulge your imagination and relax with a creative hobby.

Mimosa(Cottage / FernVilla) 'Kit'
Mimosa Cottage/Fern Villa 'Kit'

Easy-to-follow Instructions

Instructions
Six random steps taken from the Fern Villa instructions

Each of our dolls' houses comes with its own unique instruction guide to take you through the build step-by-step. No experience is necessary and every care has been taken in making this an easy and enjoyable process from start to finish, so that you are completely satisfied with your dolls' house and it brings you years of enjoyment.

If you experience any difficulties whilst assembling your dolls' house, please don't hesitate to contact us on the helpline number shown on the building instructions. We have all made a dolls' house ourselves so will be able to understand and talk you through your problem.

QuickStyle


The QuickStyle range offers externally-decorated houses with professionally painted and papered exterior walls and white painted ceilings, internal floor edges, stairs, windows and doors. The internal walls and floors are left unpainted, ready for you to decorate with your own artistic flair.

You won't need to mess about with paint and can go straight on to designing your rooms - a happy medium for the creative collector with less time or space! There are also ready-made grooves to help you fit your lighting, which are easily hidden with your flooring and wallpapers if you do not wish to use lights. Everything you need to build the house is included in the box, with windows and doors pre-assembled

The Classical Dolls House 'QuickStyle'
The Classical Dolls House 'QuickStyle'
Ready To Play


Ready-to-Play houses are professionally painted and decorated inside and out, and are easily assembled in minutes, offering the perfect gift or new-starter solution. Lollipop Lane, Lilac Cottage, Wisteria House, Orchard House, Bower House, Kenmare Manor and Amber House are available as Ready-to-Play houses which slot together.

Amber House 'Ready To Play'
Amber House 'Ready to Play'

Fully-Finished Ready To Furnish! Dolls' Houses


Wentworth Court is available as a fully-finished flat pack for you to screw together, ready to furnish. All the painting, external and internal decor have been done for you as show in the photographs (but without the furniture!). This is a great way to ensure a professional finish on your dolls' house.

It also has pre-drilled holes in the back of the dolls’ house to neatly fit your lights as shown in the picture, which are available as a money-saving set. Don't worry! These holes are papered over so if you don't want to fit any lights you won't see the holes inside the dolls’ house. This is the perfect option if time and space are limited and you're impatient to get going!

Wentworth Court 'Fully-Finished'
Wentworth Court 'Fully-Finished'

Fully Built Dolls' Houses


Built houses are carefully constructed by our skilled craftsmen to the highest standard, with all the interior and exterior decor, and lights if chosen, professionally fitted for you. Enjoy your hand-crafted house immediately knowing that you're creating an heirloom for the years to come.

(We regret we are unable to send built houses overseas.)

The Classical Dolls House 'Built'
The Classical Dolls House 'Built'

SAVE with a Half-Priced Option

Most of our houses are offered with a half-priced additional property when purchased at the same time, offering great value-for-money and several extra rooms to play with! Look out for the huge savings to be made on each of the house pages.

The Dolls House Emporium

Quality Assured

Our worst nightmare is for you to be disappointed, so we draw on almost 30 years’ experience in designing and supplying dolls’ houses, to ensure they are made to the highest specification, in smooth, splinter-free MDF, up to 18mm in some of the larger houses. Each house carries The Dolls House Emporium badge of authenticity, guaranteeing the highest quality.


We're Here To Help!

Please call us if you would like taking through the various dolls' house finishes so that you can be sure you have chosen the best option for your requirements. You may want a creative project to relax with when the nights draw in, or a lifelong hobby and heirloom you can share with your family. You'll see from the various customer comments in the catalogue and on the website that you can enjoy this hobby at any age with these easy-to-assemble houses, so please don't panic! Help is at hand in many different forms, day and night.

If you need more help or direction in choosing your dolls' house or need more detail than shown in the catalogue, our online features could help:

  • Videos to talk you through our most popular dolls' houses.
  • Customer comments and product reviews.
  • Blog and forum posts about most of the products - or you could join and start your own post to ask for advice!

Our customer service ladies and product design team are always only a phone call away, during office hours, to advise on the building, decorating and lighting of your dolls' house and we also have oodles of creative inspiration and practical help online as well including building, decorating and lighting 'Masterclass' videos.

If in doubt, please get in touch! We love sharing our knowledge and passion for the hobby.

Compare Dolls House Sizes
Compare the sizes of our Dolls' Houses