Dolls house/Barbie house, are they worth the money, do they get played with?

[Marne]

Dd2 has asked for moxie girlz for Christmas and I was thinking of getting the ELC large dolls ( Barbie sized ) house but it is huge and will take up most of her bedroom and I'm not sure how much she will play with it. Has anyone else bought one ( maybe last Christmas ), does it get played with or is it sat taking up space?

My DD's ends up with piles of her clothes on each story waiting to be put away! She does go through phases of playing with it, but seems to prefer the smaller wooden dolls house she was given second hand, which is about 2ft high. She doesn't like the people that came with it (those weird string and bead creations!) but she uses other figures/animals/moshi monsters etc in there.

Thank you, maybe we should just stick to her sylvanian farm house which she uses for moshi monsters .

DD has this one which is played with more or less daily by DD and DS. They use all sorts of characters/dolls/figures in it. We bought it for her 4th birthday - she is now nearly 7 and it is still going strong. Very popular too with friends who come to play. I have been guilty of some rubbish toy purchases over the year but not this one!