How do you start collecting dollhouse miniature collectibles? The easiest place to start is with things you like and enjoy. Many people find the joy of miniatures is in collecting the work of miniaturist artisans and putting them into dollhouse designs. This may be in full dollhouses, or it might be in room boxes or dioramas. A room box is a single room depicting a particular scene. The advantage of room boxes over a dolls house is because they are individual rooms, you can encompass many different styles and periods .
The first step to collecting for a dollhouse is first determining what you want to accomplish. Do you want a period home? Do you want a modern dollhouse? If you choose the former, then do you have a period in mind? If you already have any pieces, what are they and how can you increase your collection of pieces that compliment your existing ones? How many rooms are you going to have in your dollhouse? Are you having many floors? Are you going to make it authentic?
Your next concern is scale. If you are completely new to dollhouse miniature collectibles, you may not be aware that artisans work to representative scale. The likes of Barbie dolls are on 1:6 scale. In imperial measurements, one inch represents six inches in real life. The most common dollhouse scale is 1:12, which are also known as one inch miniatures as one inch represents one foot in real life. Scale becomes more complicated in decimal. There are more scales, 1:24 which is also known as half inch scale, and 1:48 which is quarter inch scale. There is also 1:144 which is common for railway enthusiasts and is also dollhouse scale for a dollhouse (1/12 of 1/12). By staying in scale, everything in your room will be in proportion.
As with any hobby, you can cover a huge range of value. You can spend as little or as much as you like; high quality miniatures command high prices, due to the time and intricate effort that goes into to producing something very tiny. Some collectors choose to purchase a few very good pieces and then compliment them, others choose to build their collection of high quality pieces, slowly over time . These are some of the main things to consider as you start finding your way into dollhouse collectible miniatures.
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