The following section contains the doll’s houses in the Mid Century Toy Collection, housed within our own home, a 1950’s brick built bungalow with it’s original Crittall metal suntrap windows. The reason for mentioning this, is also the logic behind this section being necessarily smaller than we would ideally like; there simply isn’t really the space for more than those featured here. We debated whether they should have their own section with most of the houses slotting into already existing sections eg. Galt Toys, but decided that we would separate them off so that those looking for the houses didn’t need to trawl through the site to find them, and also, so they could have the space here to be fully explored. 

Like many other children of the 60’s, I had access to a doll’s house as a child. Ours was a very battered structure with some bits of furniture that had already seen plenty of action by the time it was in my hands, but I loved it. I think that there is something about having a miniature world that can be kept under some order when so many things in life are outside of ones control that may have something to do with the ongoing attraction, but there is also the charm of being able to choose and equip a miniature home that meets your architectural and aesthetic interior desire of what you’d choose if you could have anything.