If you are new to miniatures it can be daunting.  On this page  I will try to help with the basic questions that I answer most often in the store.

The most common, I think is not exactly a question.  "I don't know what scale my house is."  Everything looks different when in a store.  Have you gone looking for furniture for your home?  My husband and I went out for a couple of small tables for our family room.  When we got them home they were HUGE. 

I ask these folks how big the door openings are.  If it is 6" you have a 1" scale house.  If it is 3" you have a 1/2" house.  If you still are not sure and get the 1/2" living room set home to discover they are way too small bring 'em back.

There are many ways to talk about miniatures.  There are train scales and doll scales.  The two rarely meet.

Here is a quick list of definitions of terms you will find on these pages. First there are many sizes of miniatures know as "scale".  (inches in our world = feet in the doll world).

I use ONE INCH SCALE to mean 1"=1', full scale, 1 to 12, 1/12 scale.  You will often see "1:12" 

HALF INCH 1"=2' is 1 to 24, 1/24 and 1:24 scale. 

QUARTER SCALE is 1"=4' or 1:48 I am not aware of another way to say this one.  It is very small, a quarter of an inch is 1 foot in the doll world.

The smallest I carry is 144 scale, 1:144.  This is the furniture to put in the doll house in your doll's house.