What is your dream doll display method?

Thanks. Yes they're Sasha dolls (much to my delight, they can share clothes with Luts Baby Delf and Volks Dear SD bodies)

Nice. I do like combining doll tuypes (which is good as the space restrictions mean I have no choice)

I think you might be stuck with displaying her seated unless you can find an antique photographer's stand (the ones they use din the 19th Century to keep people from moving while the long shutter exposure was happening).

@dbfalcao had a beautiful arrangement of 1/3 sized Victorian rooms like a massive dolls house that I got to see when I visited last year:



But she's currently got them dismantled to move and rebuild them in a different room.

Fingers crossed for that project then!

Teddy

 

Really just a closet with a large diorama inside

 

I'm quite happy with my current setup, which is just having my dolls on shelves and an old cedar chest. Easy access is always top priority to me. I like to be able to grab any doll I want whenever I want without hassle. That said, I would LOVE the space to set up dioramas to use for photostories....a kitchen, bathroom, living room...maybe a private study or a gym would be great. If I could do that I'd for sure keep dolls set up in those areas as well to just enjoy watching them live their little lives in a more realistically scaled environment. I love the look of the glass cabinet displays, but I don't think I'd have the heart to shut my babies away like that. I will deal with the dust problem of having them exposed. xD

 

If I owned my own house, I would love to have a craft/doll room where I could fit everything and have the dolls "free-range".
The area I live in has very high UV, corrosive salt air and road dust (the joys of regional Australia) so the reality of my situation is managing the dolls' exposure to these factors. The house I live in is also small and over a century old – back in the day, built-in storage and natural light weren't important considerations for the average homeowner.
Ideally, I'd like a sliding door cabinet/cupboard big enough for a diorama/roombox for my dolls, who are mostly 55-75cm, which could also store BJD clothes, props, option parts and maintenance supplies.

 

While all of them are either on doll furniture or on a shelf, and it's nice to see them all displayed, it's not my ideal.

I really wish that I had enough room to have have an entire wall dedicated to them, and that the shelves were tall enough to display them sitting on furniture rather then on a shelf with their feet sticking out. It would be nice to have them look like they are in display rooms interacting with each other. Most of my dolls are in the 60-75 range, I would need pretty tall shelves to do that.

I really wish I had a doll display room for all of my dolls not just the BJD's.

 

Also voting for a dioramaI'd loooove to have a 1/3 scale diorama in a gothic/circus style. Ideally I'd have a bedroom "upstairs" with a large bed surrounded by heavy curtains and pillows of all sorts of cloth and patterns. And dimly lit lanterns. Think kind of like Howls room. And then on the "lower" floor I'd want a study type room with a desk and cabinets to store various trinkets, books and magical items. I still have some items like tiny thread spools, knitting kneedles and so from when I had a 1/4 roombox. That was so much fun and will probably remain a main goal for me for quite some time. It was just a totally different kind of inspiring to have the dolls displayed in their real tiny world. It pulled you in and I wanted to spend time looking at each individual detail and think up stories. Also the crafting process was really cool!

The only downside was that there was no door and no sun protection... (as a newbie) so my poor girl slowly turned more and more buttery. But nevertheless, that would be my dream display. And of course there would have to be wooden floors. I still have the pieces of floor samples that I never got around to cutting to size

 

One day I'm hoping to get space big enough to do mini dioramas with my dolls! For now, my extra decorative space is taken up by my books.

 

Love everyone’s solutions here. I just bought an Ikea besta as a long term but temporary solution. Not sure how it will turn out yet but I’m hoping to make a cute diorama shelf.

 

Oh wow, all of the ideas for displaying dolls are so good. I think the most common idea is to have a big open room and many dioramas.

 

As with many previous, my goal is to build a shadowbox type display for some of my dolls. They are all currently sitting on a thin shelf, feet dangling off the edge style. Anybody with a tail has a nub presently, for space, and my 1/3 is holding her head in her lap!

I really want to do a mad scientist themed series of shadow box rooms, with, like, a Frankenstein’s lab, a stiff and sterile modern analytical lab (but something’s a bit off about it…), and an alchemy sort of magic room. I’d also like to do a fancy sitting room!

Other than that, I really like the idea of having some little stages sprinkled throughout the house that are thematic to the decor of the room. This isn’t even something I’d considered… You guys are giving me so many ideas!!!

 

Oh, those sound fun!

Teddy

 

I'd love to have enough shelves to display all my dolls, BJD and playline, at once. But that feels like a faraway dream...

 

I've pretty much decided on the Ikea Besta tall cabinet with glass doors for my MSD BJDs. I have the Ikea Billy/Oxburg cabinets for my other dolls but I wanted to go with something different this time. I like that I'll have slightly bigger display space with the Besta cabinets.

 

Assuming I set up an air purifier to slow down dust buildup, I'd love to set up some heavily-decorated shelves to have various dolls posing and sitting. Closed cabinets just don't appeal to me as someone who enjoys the hands-on aspects of owning dolls. I'd be smudging the daylights out of the glass with how many times I'd be taking them in and out of there

 

Even if the doors had a wood or metal frame so you didn't need to touch the glass to open it up....?

I only have one closed cabinet and it's, honestly enough to make me wish all my dolls could be behind glass to slow the build-up of dust (the dolls themselves get picked up too often for dust to settle much, but the shelves, doll furniture etc., seems to just attract the stuff!).

Teddy

 

Honestly, that slipped my mind with how late it is at night right now.. >__> I was envisioning those fully-glass cabinets for some reason, LOL.

 

Oh, yeah - that makes sense.

Teddy

 

Currently I'm making do with a shelf in my roommate's display case, but unfortunately it's not tall enough to let them do anything but sit on the "floor" I want to try to turn it into a lil diorama room at least, sticking some wallpaper in there and adding fake floorboards and maybe a carpet. In the future a fancier display case or cabinet (maybe a wooden/vintage one) would be nice to have, with enough room for the 1/3s to stand up or at least sit in chairs or on a doll sofa haha.