Cabinet for American Girl Doll

My daughters love their American Girl dolls. They love flipping through the catalog and admiring the many cool accessories for these dolls. Now my wife and I are not inclined to go overboard making sure that each of these dolls have their own carriage, stable, horse, etc. But Grandmas do ensure that each is adequately supplied for many hours of play.

Anyone who has young daughters this age realizes that this stuff is not cheap. Fortunately it is all really well made. When an investment like this is made (not for profit, but to make sure that these last for a number of years), proper care is required. My girls have been taking good care of their dolls, but the extra time to pull everything out and box them back up again cut into their pretend time which IMO is critical to their development.

I liken this to my recommendation to new guitar players: Buy a stand! It's amazing how much more practice time occurs when one does not need to get the guitar out of the case to play it.

Back to my girls. I decided that a little spoiling just because was in order. These cabinets were the outcome of that desire to provide for each girl and their doll. It's amazing how a couple extra items can transform a standard storage cabinet from Target into something as cool (from my daughters' point of view) as this. Since making three of these for my daughters, I have helped a couple of other friends of mine build these same cabinets for their daughters. I'm sure if I wanted to I could make a little side business building these things, but instead I posted the instructions for building them on instructables.com.