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A lot of young girls and boys dream of owning a huge wood doll house. One can build up creative skills can be built by allowing a child to arrange, decorate, and furnish a small-scale home. Then family-modeled play involving the doll house people and their lives can truly help inspire a child through decision making and story telling.

Normally, a wood doll house is created after real homes in the world. House styles differ from area to area, but a majority wood doll house manufacturers use plans from the more popular home styles - Colonial, Victorian, Georgian, American farm house, or English Tudor.

A Victorian home is a detailed two-story home that regularly came with an attic on the unfinished third floor. Named after Queen Anne who loved things to look regal, Queen Anne Victorian homes had a number of large windows, fancy curved wrap-around porches, uneven rooflines, and towers on the upper corner of the house. From the outside, these homes showcased fine millwork and latticework skirting. The open areas under the porches were also completed with the latticework skirting. Children love wood doll house models that are created to look like Victorian homes. It also consisted of large rooms that allowed for entertaining and the upstairs contain many bedrooms to fit larger families.

Colonial homes are still tremendously popular homes in the east. These two-story rectangle homes offer plenty of living space for the money. Their typical floor plans with the bedrooms upstairs and the living areas downstairs make them a much preferred wood doll house.

Alike to the Colonial homes, were the Georgian homes, but on a grander scale. The rectangular shaped home was bounded on all side with huge brick or stone chimneys. Everything on the outside of the house seemed like a reflected image of the opposite side. Georgian homes provided ample of living space; therefore, they make fantastic wooddoll house models.

On the other hand an American farm house is perhaps the most simplistic wood doll house. This form of house is often T or L shaped and contains the major portion of the house and then an extension of living space branches off the back of the house forming an L or T shape. In a farm house, the bedrooms were generally upstairs while the kitchen, dining room, bathroom and living room remained downstairs. These are the most easy wood doll house to build.

English Tudors are possibly my favorite house style. Huge stone chimneys, timber lines on the stone walls, narrow windows, cross-hatching near the roof line, and parapets set these homes apart from the typical. While these wood doll house kits can be more costly, they are also elegant. Normally, in an English Tudor, the bedrooms were upstairs, while guest quarters and living space remained on the main floor.

Allow your child help decide which wood doll house is right for them. Including them in every decision will let them to feel as though their opinion matters and it also makes sure that they will enjoy it for years to come.