Annoying room placements in PM doll houses

[bonniebeth]

(and did I even wash my hands?)

No, i don't think you did. Some people! 

















 

[basilsdad]

Oh, and Atto, why would you care about people passing through to get to the patio?  We've all seen this picture of you having a little personal time with a tree, right? 

  Good one, BB.

If we were all 5 or 6 years old a lot of this wouldn't even matter.  I would just be happy that the doors and windows actually open and close and there was neat furniture to put here and there.  It sure beats the shoebox that I cut doors and windows in and drug around behind my model car as a trailer, but I think I had just as much fun with it. 
I think the extra floor makes a lot of sense, as it gives you a little more room to fit everything in. 
Joe

[tonguello]

I agree....first,  it is a toy, meant for children, not a real house meant for grown up asking too much of a toy 
Second, the extra floor gives you exactly what you need to make an entrance hall and not having to go straight into the kitchen. The other problems are not problems really if you have imagination. I don't think kids make their clickies take poops.... 

[bonniebeth]

And the klickies bathe fully dressed, so that's not a problem either. 

[Rasputin]

I agree....first,  it is a toy, meant for children, not a real house meant for grown up asking too much of a toy 
Second, the extra floor gives you exactly what you need to make an entrance hall and not having to go straight into the kitchen. The other problems are not problems really if you have imagination. I don't think kids make their clickies take poops.... 

Hi

I would agree that a child's imagination easily solves all of these issues and Playmobil did a great job in giving just enough of reality to capture the essence of what a house has. Too many details is not always a good thing. Let the child in us fill in the blanks


Rasputin "The Mad Monk"

[basilsdad]

Hi

I would agree that a child's imagination easily solves all of these issues and Playmobil did a great job in giving just enough of reality to capture the essence of what a house has. Too many details is not always a good thing. Let the child in us fill in the blanks

Rasputin "The Mad Monk"

I could not have said it better! 
Joe

[playmofire]

That, of course, is always where Playmobil has excelled - enough detail to make items lifelike but not so much as to remove the need for imagination.

[rufusxavier1977]

I see all your points about it being a toy (and I agree with them all). I was never really suggesting it should be a "real" house architecturally. I was really just wondering WHY they chose it that way with the kitchen. Not so much for the first to Victorian houses, but for the later ones and the system x houses. I wondered why they kept setting it up that way for pictures. I thought maybe it was a common German design or something for houses to enter into the kitchen.

I love the Victorian houses. They are far more detailed and realistic than any other company's I have seen. If it was some sort of Fisher Price disaster, then there wouldn't even be enough realism to start a conversation like this. 

[BlackPearl2006]

I agree....first,  it is a toy, meant for children, not a real house meant for grown up asking too much of a toy 
Second, the extra floor gives you exactly what you need to make an entrance hall and not having to go straight into the kitchen. The other problems are not problems really if you have imagination. I don't think kids make their clickies take poops.... 

I dunno about kids or even other adults, but my klickies happen to value their privacy!  And it also bugs me that they take baths with full clothes on (which is why I want the beach clickies so they can at least bathe with bathing attire on).  And yes, for the record, my victorian bathroom gets used by its residents, not just for decoration.

Below you'll see my meager bathroom setup being used by a klicky who values her privacy.

Also, you can see how my kitchen is set up (still meager, as they just moved in).  I modded the stairs to be on the right side so that we can take full advantage of the left wall for appliances, but still have stairs leading up to the 2nd floor.   You can not do this with the stock setup because the entire left wall is usually where the stairs is.  So you have to choose between full-wall display of appliances, OR stairs.  NOT both.  So I customized it to have both.  You can see the space under the stairs is used as the kitchen table area.

[BlackPearl2006]

And then the resulting layout that becomes the 2nd floor passing room (just above the kitchen).  The stairs now take up most of the room, one being on the left side, the other ascending from the right side.  I actually kind of like this setup.

But also note the fact that there is NO railing across the stairwell edge.  It's like that as well on the third floor.  A klicky can fall over the edge very easily!  (So I'm gonna add railing there)