Miniature Drawer, Shoe and Bedside Cabinets

A compact cabinet for the tight spots in a dollhouse rather than the middle of the floor. This covers the drawer chest, the shoe cabinet and the bedside cabinet, held to the same 1:12 dollhouse scale as the rest of the Mini Furniture range, and each of them narrow enough to stand against a wall without crowding the room. That scale runs through the range, so a piece like this works as well in a single room box as in the corner of a larger build.

You pay $21.99, and the compare-at price is $27.99. Three finishes are listed: natural wood, varnished; white; and unpainted. Three photographs come with this piece, and every one of them is labelled as an option photo rather than a main product photo, so there is a picture for each finish and no separate gallery shot to scroll past. The page also shows a 2 for $36.99 badge, which is the figure to work from if two small cabinets would finish a room better than one.

Pieces like this are usually a second purchase rather than a first, once the shape of the room has been settled. The seating, tables and beds that set the shape of a room come from the rest of the Mini Furniture range, while Display & Storage covers the cabinets that are meant to show pieces off, and Scene Parts covers doors and windows if you are building the wall this one stands against.

Set one beside a bed and it does the job of a bedside table with a drawer across the front; set one in a hallway and it gives the space between the front door and the first room something to be for. If you want the finish to match a scheme exactly, the unpainted option is the one to take, because a bare piece can be brought to the colour of the room rather than simply placed next to it.

Lift the cabinet by its body rather than by a drawer front or a thin side panel, and set it down on a flat surface so it does not rock. Dust it with a soft dry brush instead of a damp cloth, and keep any piece you have left unpainted away from damp and out of direct sun.