Determining the Size of Your House
The size of a baby house is determined by the size of the roombox collection it will house. This baby house is based on a collection of two sizes of roomboxes, three full sized rooms and three small rooms. It will make a case suitable for a three storey townhouse style dolls house collection. If you want to make a larger or deeper case to fit six large rooms and three small ones for a traditional three storey dolls house collection, adjust the measurements to suit.
The size of this house was based on the simple roomboxes made from Baltic birch plywood. The large boxes are 9 inches tall, by 12 inches wide, by 10 1/4 inches deep. The smaller boxes are 9 inches tall, by 7 1/2 inches wide, by 10 1/4 inches deep.
The overall interior dimensions of my baby house, taking into account a bit of wiggle room to fit in boxes and some wiring, will be 20 inches wide by 10 1/2 inches deep by 28 1/2 inches high, allowing for two 1/2 inch shelves for the boxes to sit on.
A PDF (acrobat reader) copy of the case layout and measurements can be downloaded if you wish to use the same measurements.
