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We love talking shop here at The Dolls House Emporium, so as well as seeing all the product spec in print and online, web users can now sit back and enjoy our brand new product videos. (more…)

You can now get the inside track on Dolls House Emporium houses and accessories with a range of product videos being launched this week. (more…)

There are so many interesting sites out there dolls’ house enthusiasts and people making wonderful miniature creations … everything from a miniature patisserie chef  to a champion of modern miniature design who goes by the name of ‘Modern MC’.

‘Modern MC’ is a Californian lady who posts her creations on a website called Mini Modern.

She includes lots of links to other sites on her blog and kindly features The Dolls House Emporium among others, so we are returning the compliment.

If you’ve placed an order online with The Dolls House Emporium recently, you will have been contacted by our new customer service partner, Feefo. We’ve joined forces with them because it is the most straightforward way for us to gain that all-important feedback on how your transaction went – and it’s more convenient for you as you need only answer two questions and being completely anonymous, you can be as brutal as you like!

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Some people are in love with all things modern and dolls’ house enthusiasts now include a growing number of people who are avid collectors and creators of mini-modernism.  Not for them Georgian dining tables or Victorian table lamps.  Their houses are full of streamlined sofas, plastic chairs, glass tables and steel lamps.

To see some examples of where modern thinking can take you, there is a group on the Flickr photo sharing website called Modern Miniatures, whose members come from the United States, the UK, Australia, Germany and Japan and who post photos of their creations.

There is also an increase in blog sites such as ‘Call of the Small’ which was a finalist in the about.com 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards for Best Miniature Blog.  The creator of this site is a 40 year old public affairs director in the US who in her own words uses her dolls’ houses “to be creative and take risks” – to do things she wouldn’t do in her regular house. You could also check out Mini Modern, another collector based in the US who even has an Ocean Drive in her collection.

We still love our Victorian and Georgian dolls’ houses but there is something wonderful about seeing people creating interiors that reflect the way we live now with evocative little details like wellington boots left by the door and post-it notes stuck on the mirror.