Owning a wood doll house offers young boys and girls more then just entertainment. Creative skills that are build by allowing a kid to decorate, organize, and furnish a miniature home are great.  Then the family-modeled play-time with the dolls living in the house and their lives can help children with decision making and story telling.

Most of the time a wood doll house is modeled after real life homes around the world. The house styles vary from area to area, how ever the majority of wood doll house manufacturers select plans from more popular home styles including- Colonial, English Tudor, and Victorian.

Victorian homes are elaborate two-story homes often with an attic that is unfinished as a third floor. This style of home is named after Queen Anne. She loved the regal look of these homes, they usually had a large number of windows, warp around porches, very irrefular rooflines, and often towers in the upper corners of the houses. The outside of these homes showed intricate millwork and lattice work. The areas open underneath the porches were also generally finished with latticework for skirting. Kinds tend to love wood doll house models crafted after Victorian homes. The large rooms allow for entertaining, and the multiple bedrooms upstairs are great for large familles.

To a more current design Colonial homes are still and extremely popular design in the east. These homes offer a lot of living space for the dollar, being two-store and generally rectangle in shape. The standard floor plan has bedrooms upstairs, and a living area downstairs, making it another wood doll house favorite.

Another wonderful wood doll house model is a Georgian home. Very similar to Colonial homes, but grander. The rectangle shaped homes usually bordered on each side with a stone or huge brick chimney. Each side of the home from the exterior appears as a mirror image of the other side. These homes provide lots of living space, and are another wonderful choice.

The most simplistic of the wood doll house models is likely the American farm house. Often T or L shaped, the main portion of the house is straight with an extension for living space off the back which finishes the T or L shape. Usually in a farm home the bedrooms were upstairs and the kitchen, bathroom, dining room, and living room were downstairs. These are more or less the easy wood doll house to build.

Large stone chimneys, narrow windows, timber lines, and a cross hatching roof line. This describes one of my favorite house styles, the English Tudor. While these wood doll house kits might be more expensive, they are gorgeous. Generally speaking in style of house the bedrooms where upstairs, with living space, and guest quarters on the main level.

It's best to allow your child to decide which wood doll house they like. Of course since they'll be spending most of the time playing with it. By including them in all of the decision, it helps them realize that their opinions do matter, and they'll be sure to get the doll house they want and enjoy it for years to come.