A dollhouse is always a delight for a little girl. I remember getting one for my 4th birthday, and it was one of the most memorable toys I've ever had. I loved marvelling at the miniature furniture, how the miniature toilet's got a real lid I could open and close, and it had a garden printed on a board on which the house is standing, complete with little swingsets and its own merry-go-round.
Of course, a doll house is not the most space-saving toy there is. Unless, if it's foldable and could easily be flat packed after each play and stored under the bed. In Holland, domestic spatial crisis is a very familiar problem, with 16 million people packed in to a very tiny country. The result is, a lot of Dutch designs incorporate answers to this problem in their products, like Poppen-HUIS, which is an eight-room cardboard dollhouse, which is totally collapsible, and comes with a handle to make it portable. It costs € 20, with endless redecoration possibilities; let the child paint it, draw on it, put stickers on, you're unlikely to be able to sell it used at eBay anyway, might as well let the child have it the way she wants it. When she's not using it anymore, simply recycle.
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