Understanding Dollhouse Scales: Inch Scale

Dollhouse scales are a way for you to know that the furniture you are buying will fit your dollhouse. At Dollhouse City, unless the title of the furniture item tells you it is ½ inch or ¼ inch, the item is built on a 1 inch scale.

Most dollhouse furniture, like most dollhouses, are built on a 1 inch scale (also known as 1:12 scale). This means that one inch of dollhouse furniture is equivalent to a foot, or 12 inches, of furniture in real life. So a 2 inch tall dollhouse coffee table would look like a 2 foot tall coffee table in reality. In other scales, such as half inch and quarter inch, less than an inch represents a foot of real furniture.

So a 2 inch tall dollhouse coffee table would look like a 2 foot tall coffee table in reality. In other scales, such as half inch and quarter inch, less than an inch represents a foot of real furniture.