Meet Mai (and Mochi)!

That bed is a nice find!

Do you know whether the children's kitchens that are available at Ikea are small enough for 1/3-1/4 scale dolls, or are they oversized?

11 hours ago, Kemonomimicry said:

That bed is a nice find!

Do you know whether the children's kitchens that are available at Ikea are small enough for 1/3-1/4 scale dolls, or are they oversized?

I was looking at them, but they're unfortunately about 2/3 scale. It's a shame because they otherwise look great and are sturdy. The other doll toys they sell are 1/6 - 1/12 scale.

Pet furniture comes to mind as an alternative for non-DIY furniture, but the proportions are a little off. It's the right scale, but the legs on chairs and sofas tend to run short, which might be OK for MDD but would be a little odd for DD/DDS.

On 4/23/2025 at 5:32 AM, Kemonomimicry said:

Do you know whether the children's kitchens that are available at Ikea are small enough for 1/3-1/4 scale dolls, or are they oversized?

I've been looking around for 1/3 scale kitchens and furniture in general for the past few weeks. This is what I've found as someone looking for furniture you'd see in a reasonably modern home. 

For MDD, American Girl / Our Generation furniture fits really well and would be suitable for Obitsu 45/48. There's a kitchen set as well as many other sets. The issue is that the aesthetic is... generally pretty juvenile for lack of a better word. Older AG sets look somewhat classy but resell at sky-high prices for a mint condition copy.

For DD/DDS/SMD, these are a no-go and would look like adults trying to cook in a kids pretend kitchen. 

If you use purely off-the-shelf options and strictly keep it to MDD, you can get this kind of result.

 

You can find sellers on Etsy making AG-compatible furniture for 18" dolls, but as far as I can tell, nobody's selling ready-made parts for kitchens. The quality and aesthetic ranges vastly from laser-cut DIY kits to 3D-printed stuff to solid wood.

There's nobody on Etsy doing true 1/3 scale furniture except this one store selling 3D-printed stuff for SMD that's not very good esp for the price they're asking (sorry if they read this!). The largest you can find is 18". There are a lot more doing 1/6 (Barbie) and even more for 1/12 (popular for YouTube miniatures content). Because there's monetization potential, the quality and design are just worlds apart.

There are sellers in Asia that used to and probably still make 1/3 furniture, but with the tariff situation, this gets really dicey, and from what I've seen, it's largely focused on sofas, beds, chairs, tables, dressers, wardrobes and lamps. Nobody does kitchens. This Japanese maker on Booth does good work, but the furniture is Japanese-centric.

That brings me back to square one, and the answer is that there isn't anyone doing this unless you go the custom order route or are very handy.

I've been jazzing up Mai and Mochi's space for a few weeks now. The bedroom's starting to come together now that the floor and walls both have some color to them.

The bed now has a mattress... using a (baby) crib pillow that fits it perfectly. Also added doll-sized pillows.

My next and main project now is to come up with a kitchen for them since that's where this all started. Mai and Mochi are the main characters in my cooking comic, and part of why I got into dolls was to have them role play and act as drawing references in a kitchen.

I'm calculating dimensions out with someone I'll be working with and picked up a tiny 3.5" (9cm) cast iron pan that's used for camping. It seems to be about the right size!

I dreamed up a new look for Mochi!