A dollhouse is a miniature house, usually made for playing with small dolls. Most dollhouses are built to a scale where one inch equals one foot of a real house, so a six-foot-tall person would be represented by a six-inch doll. These tiny homes often include multiple rooms, furniture, and detailed decorations: beds with real fabric quilts, kitchens with tiny pots and pans, and living rooms with sofas you could balance on your fingertip.

Children have played with dollhouses for centuries, arranging furniture, moving dolls from room to room, and creating stories about the families who live there. Some people collect and build elaborate dollhouses as a hobby, spending years adding realistic details like working lights, wallpaper, and miniature paintings on the walls.

Building or playing with a dollhouse teaches spatial thinking and design. You learn to imagine how rooms connect, where furniture should go, and how people move through spaces. Architects sometimes use dollhouse-like models to plan real buildings. Whether you're seven years old setting up a tea party in the dining room or an adult crafting a miniature Victorian mansion, a dollhouse lets you create and shape an entire world at a scale that fits on a table.