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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


If you have time to devote to creating your own miniature masterpiece, and the enthusiasm to design your own unique dolls' house décor, starting with a dolls' house kit gives you a blank canvass for your inspiration to take over. All of the components required to complete the build of your dolls' house are included in the kit, with the windows and doors pre-assembled for you to paint as you wish and just slot into place.

We have been designing dolls' house kits for over 30 years and pride ourselves on the precision manufacture and easy construction of all of our dolls' houses. All of our adult collectors' dolls' houses are available in kit form, as well as the small projects.

Dolls' House Kits - all houses (except children's houses) and small projects.



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


QuickStyle dolls' houses offer more convenience for a quick start with a fully-decorated exterior and professionally painted (including front edges, ceilings, doors, windows and stairs), while leaving the main interior walls and floors blank for your own choice of wallpapers and interior décor designs.

With build times of around 2-4 hours, QuickStyle dolls' houses are externally decorated as shown in the catalogue, allowing you to quickly move on to the styling and furnishing of the rooms. There are even pre-drilled holes and grooves to install your lighting so that the wiring can easily be concealed behind your flooring and wallpapers. (If you don't wish to add lighting, simply paper over the small holes.)

All of the components required to complete your QuickStyle dolls' house are included in the box.

QuickStyle option available for:

  • April Cottage and The Barn
  • The Classical Dolls House
  • Grosvenor Hall
  • Montgomery Hall
  • Wentworth Court
  • Magpies & Jenny Wren's
  • Holme Lodge
  • Mountfield
  • Springwood Cottage
  • Oak Hurst Gardens
  • Lake View
  • Le Château


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 dolls' houses are professionally painted and decorated inside and out, and are easily assembled in minutes offering the perfect present - a beautiful dolls' house, ready to enchant!

All Ready-to-Play dolls' houses are CE tested, meaning that they have been designed and manufactured to meet strict European toy safety standards and withstand being played with by children aged 3 and over.

Choose from the pink or rainbow furniture sets, with accessories and dolls to complete the collection - a wonderful way for the whole family to join together and add to the collection.

Ready-to-Play dolls' houses:

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

Fully-Finished Ready To Furnish! Dolls' Houses


A Fully-Finished option is the quickest, simplest way to complete your dolls' house, with all the decoration and paintwork fully-finished by our professionals, inside and out. For an instant present or a keen collector who is eager to start shopping for furniture and accessories, a fully-finished dolls' house which screws together in minutes offers the perfect solution.

Fully-finished dolls' houses also have pre-drilled holes on the back panel to allow you to light your house easily and at any time. (Don't worry! The clever design of these dolls' houses means that the pre-drilled holes can only be seen from the back of the house and can be ignored if you don't want to add lights.)

Amber House and Wentworth Court and Basement, are available as Fully-Finished dolls' houses, with full step-by-step instructions to help you build your dolls' house and get going on your collection within the hour.

Fully-Finished Dolls' Houses:

  • Amber House
  • Wentworth Court


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


For the utmost convenience and instant wow-factor our team of master craftsmen can build and decorate your dolls' house to the highest standard, with beautifully-smooth, spray painting, professionally-finished interior décor and all the lights and interior mouldings, such as skirting boards and cornices, fitted for a perfect finish.

Our team of highly-skilled craftsmen take great care and pride in creating what will become a family heirloom for you and your family to cherish. We have been building dolls' houses for over 30 years so there really isn't a better team to build, decorate and light your dolls' house for you.

All of our dolls' houses, (except Malibu Beach House) can be ordered to be built by our craftsmen to the design shown on the catalogue page.

When we receive your built house order, a member of our team will contact you to discuss the estimated delivery date (normally within 28 days). When your dolls' house is almost finished, we will contact you again to confirm the delivery date. Built houses are packed securely to ensure they arrive in perfect condition, hand-delivered by our experienced courier.

Built, Painted, Decorated and Lit Dolls' Houses:

  • All houses, except Malibu Beach House.


(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