How Do You Display Your Dolls?

Hello, I use dollmore doll stands for my Idealian boys. My Flickr has pictures of them using this doll stands. I recently just got another shipment from them for doll stands and the shipping cost got me crying but I asked them to combine shipping and later received refund for shipping cost. Good luck!

Edit: I just wanted to edited this so this could be helpful to someone. I use doll stands from Dollmore: the one around the waist and between legs. Doll stands are great tools if use it properly will produce great result. I also purchased couple of shoes benches from Amazon and they are about my knee height and display my boys on it (with the aid of doll stands). I have limited space and this work quite well. I put special costume on my boys all the time and wanted to be able to see them in glorious state. ***Moderators: if posting picture on here is not allow, I apologized***
Once Upon a Time in my (Reverse) Harem by Lucid Walker, on Flickr

 

I recently scored a sofa and two chairs a bit bigger than SD-sized for my 60 cm dolls. I plan to make some cushion to fill the space a bit and display my dolls on these chairs, with a wooden coffer I already owned to stand as a coffee table. i only have to find a tea set and my "display space" will be done!

 

I don’t trust my dolls to stay standing, even with a doll stand. So they’re displayed sitting on a doll bed or doll couch or on the chest of drawers that holds all the doll clothes and accessories.

 

Three out of my four dolls at home are fairly trustworthy to stand on their own, but I only take advantage of that for photos. Otherwise, they spend most of their time seated on an SD+ size sofa, for my peace of mind. This can be a very visually appealing option, especially if you find furniture that complements your dolls' styling. I do have one heavy-duty waist stand from Alice's Collections, but it's a bit cumbersome to use and is not very attractive. Eventually, my goal is to purchase a MILSBO glass display cabinet from IKEA and remove two of the shelves to allow adequate headroom for my large dolls. The cabinet is deep enough and wide enough that it can even accommodate some pieces of SD+ size doll furniture.

 

Same. I would never trust my dolls to be in any standing position unsupervised, regardless if they're aided or not. All of my girls are left sitting in a curio cabinet when I'm not using them, with the sole exception of Taylor who, being my companion of sorts, sits near wherever I am, or on my nightstand whenever I go to bed.

 

My 80cm (Dollmore Lusion) girl sits in a child-size chair, and my husband's two larger SD-sized boys sit in seats that are the right scale for them.

I do have a metal waist-stand for my Lusion girl but it's a fiddle to get it hidden under her clothes without disrupting the line of them, and I don't like that it shows if used over her clothes (plus it's a faff to pick her up to play with if I have to disentangle her from a stand and get her back onto it when I'm done), so I seldom bother with it.

Teddy

 

My dolls are all sitting when I'm not playing with them. The MSDs have a generation girl day-bed and the SDs have a couch for 70+cm dolls I bought flat-pack on etsy. I've got kitchen chairs for future SDs. I don't trust stands because of user error.

 

Currently sitting on a dresser. I am contemplating how best to display the pretty but haven't really considered where he would best work. I enjoy having him close enough to pick up and change up his aesthetic though. I definitely wouldn't trust him to stand.

 

I should perhaps also mention that the majority of my shorter SD size dolls (the ones around 60cm) are displayed standing without using stands... but they're in a shallow, glass-fronted cabinet and so they can be propped against the back of the cabinet for extra stability, and are so closely spaced that they're not really in much danger of falling sideways:


Before I got this cabinet, most of them were displayed sitting with a few stood (the back row, as it were) against the back of an open-fronted cabinet with others in chairs in front of them, so they also had very little opportunity to fall.

Teddy

 

@Teddy
Your dolls all look so nice and coordinated!! ♡♡

 

Thanks - this is my Victorian family

 

I keep mine in Ikea Detolf display cabinets. I also have saddle and thigh stands, I use when I have dolls on display outside the cabinets.

 

I have several Ikea Lack shelves, the ones that are basically just a board on the wall, in the square size staggered on my wall and have some dolls sitting on the shelf, and others standing, but leaning on a higher shelf. I also, have the Ikea Lack shelf that is a board with perpendicular pieces mounted horizontally with the perpendicular pieces pointing up and have dolls sitting or leaning on the upright bits.

 

Most of my SD's are sitting right now until I can find them proper stands - the only ones I really "trust" to stand on their own are my Dollfie Dreams, because they're lighter and less likely to randomly flop around.

(I would never trust the Joann's stands to hold an SD, but I've been using them for my MSD and Yo-SD sized dolls and they've worked just fine so far.)

 

I used to keep all my dolls in their boxes for their protection, but just a few days ago I placed them on a bookshelf because I wanted to be able to admire them more often. If the room gets too bright in the summer, I'll put them back into their boxes for the season. I'm hoping to get a display cabinet or similar with glass doors to avoid dust from gathering on the dolls.

 

Currently all my dolls are in a glass display case c: but I'd like to upgrade the display that they are in for something a little bigger especially since I have one on the way

 

If things go the way I hope, in a week or two, I'll be joining the "Billy Bookcase Club." I have 22 dolls, mostly SDs, so I may need more than one. And quite a few more stands too.

How I'm going to fit them in my tiny room along with everything else, I have no idea.

Ryu

 

Mine sit next to my computer desk on a tall "5 floor" display rack or shelving unit. I have my minifees on the top rack and the rest of my dolls on the bottom ones. I think it looks really nice next to my computer.

 

I've got more dolls on the way, but I am quickly running out of space on my desk for them . Any shelf or display recommendations for keeping my SD size dolls?

 

There are some good tips in this thread.