Wood Wins Every Time!
       Without a doubt, the wooden dollhouse far exceeds in the quality, the endurance of time, and the potential for detail, its styrofoam, cardboard and plastic competitors. Wood has the touch of the classic, lending itself to all sorts of architectural expression from log cabin to stately Georgian mansion.
       The dollhouse, in and of itself, is a thing to be treasured through the generations, to be appreciated for the love and care that went into its creation by the forebears who passed it down (or who will pass it down). Like a patina rich buffet or chest of drawers, the wooden dollhouse stands the test of time and the fads of fashion.
       Can you imagine a molded plastic dollhouse of such a stature as our Gibside, for example, lasting intact long enough for it to be appreciated by a great granddaughter? In the first place, we would defy any plastics engineer to accommodate such a design as the Gibside to be brought forth into the marketplace at any reasonable cost, let alone enduring intact for a century or more.
       Then take that concept one step further and think about the hours of joy and fulfillment lost to the owner in the already molded and painted brick exterior, or the stones about the foundation, the plastic balustrade and 'wrought iron' railings. The fun of painting the interior or wallpapering or making the lights work, all lost in the molded readiness of plastic. And, what grandparent collectors would pass along a piece that already in their time has buckled siding and warped windows from the ups and downs of the climate? Imagine a collector passing down to his heirs a plastic or cardboard coin collection. Ridiculous. No, the wooden dollhouse is like the tree it came from; there and sturdy and classically natural.
       The wooden dollhouse, lasting and detailed with love from its beginnings as a design on a piece of paper to its final interior touch of wallpaper and miniature furniture becomes the expression of all of those who appreciate it, who decorate it, who play with it, in it and about it, from the very young to the very old. The collector and the collection are forever enhanced by that 'touch of wood'.
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