Playing with a Doll’s House

Doll’s houses have always held a certain fascination for me. I’m sure I repeatedly wrote to Santa to have one of my very own but the Good Man always deemed something else was more important on my long wishlist, hence I never had my own, how sad.

Did you know toy doll’s houses can be traced back 400 years? I didn’t know that, I knew they go a long way back and I still have to visit Queen Mary’s dolls house at Windsor Castle, I’m just waiting till the girls are old enough to fully appreciate such a visit. There are passionate dolls’ house collectors and houses that have been made to represent every period in history including the finest details such as pictures on the wall and china on the tables there are even catalogues listing any items you require till your heart is content.

Can you imagine my joy when Helen from John Crane emailed me to tell me my very own dollshouse a doll’s house for the girls was on it’s way for us to review. Of course it arrived just before our holiday and there was no time to set to and construct it I had to make do with imagining. So needless to say one of my first To Do Tasks on my list was the assembly of the Pintoy Marlborough Doll’s House I was so excited!

It was a tough job and in some places it would have been so much easier if there had been two people but I managed because I am clever like that. Job done in about an hour roughly including a tea break much to the displeasure of the girls who wanted to play with the staircase; I had to set up all the colourful furniture along with a wooden family of four on a small table to keep them distracted.


Currently it lives in our front room as we still spend most of our time there but as they get more used to playing in their bedrooms it too will go upstairs. There is a basement section that can be added and I think this will give the house the height the girls need to get into the bottom layer with more ease. We were sent 6 rooms to play with lounge, kitchen, dining room, bathroom (fabulous shower!) and a study complete with a computer, telephone and printer bit I think I may also invest in the bedroom for the girls as they currently re-play their daily routine a lot I don’t want them to forget about bedtime do I now??


A fabulous child friendly masterpiece which will keep me sorry the girls happy for years to come

Marianne from http://www.marisworld.co.uk