Brown Striped Vintage Miniature Single Bed

A vintage-style single bed with striped bedding, made to the 1:12 dollhouse scale used across the Mini Furniture range. A single bed is the piece most dollhouse bedrooms are built around, and this one is aimed at a softer, older-looking room: the vintage styling and the stripes on the bedding point at a cottage bedroom or a child's room rather than a modern one. At 1:12 the bed reads as a full single bed rather than a cot, which is what lets it hold the middle of a bedroom scene.

Three colourways are listed: Brown, White and Mahogany. The bed is named after the striped bedding shown here. You pay $21.99, and the compare-at price is $27.99, with a price badge offering 2 for $36.99. Three photographs come with this piece and all three are labelled as option images, so you can match each image to its colourway before choosing.

A bed gives a bedroom its fixed point. Once it is against a wall the rest of the room can be arranged around it, with space at the foot for a chest or a chair and room on either side for a small table. In a small room box a bed against one wall leaves just enough floor for a bedside piece and a rug, which is often all a bedroom scene needs to look finished. If you are furnishing more than one bedroom in the same build, the colourways let you give the rooms different characters without changing the scale or the shape of the piece.

Elsewhere in Mini Furniture the other beds cover the same scale, from single beds to bunks for a child's room, and the cabinets and drawer pieces fill the walls beside them. Mini Plants and Stationery Props handle the small details once the furniture is in place, and Scene Parts covers doors and windows if a wall of your room has an opening in it.

Lift the bed by the frame rather than by an edge of the bedding, set it down on a flat surface, and keep it clear of anything that could catch on the striped surface as you reach past. Dust with a soft dry brush rather than a damp cloth, and keep it out of long spells of direct sun so the colour of the bedding stays even.