Wooden Pom-Pom Fairy House – Red & White Christmas Playset

Why Winter Houses Have Steep Roofs

In snowy places, the shape of a roof matters. In Alpine and Scandinavian villages, houses are often built with steep roofs so that heavy snow slides off instead of piling up and weighing down the walls.

This little house takes the idea to the extreme: its roof rises to a sharp peak, wrapped in a striped band and topped with a red pom-pom, like a winter hat pulled on against the cold.

The set includes:

• Pom-Pom Fairy House
• Removable wooden door

Build a winter scene with the Gingerbread House, the Santa Hat Fairy House and the Fairy Tale Houses collection.

Pom-Pom Fairy House

Height × Width × Depth: 20.0 × 14.0 × 4.2 cm (7.9 × 5.5 × 1.7 in)

Removable Door

Height × Width × Depth: 5.5 × 2.8 × 2.5 cm (2.2 × 1.1 × 1.0 in)

Solid ash wood. The house and its removable door are each shaped from solid ash and hand-sanded smooth. Hand-painted with water-based paints in multiple layers, olive oil finish. The back of the house is left in natural ash. No plastics, no solvent-based finishes, no MDF, no veneers. Made in conformity with the European toy safety standard EN 71. Small variations in colour and grain are a natural characteristic of handmade production — not defects. Each piece is unique.

A cheerful red-and-white house for Christmas.

A house dressed in a winter hat makes children smile and start telling stories straight away. Opening and closing the door, placing figures at the windows and building a Christmas village around it develops fine motor control, spatial thinking and storytelling.

Inspired by Montessori and Waldorf principles, the Pom-Pom Fairy House is an open-ended play piece in natural wood. It can be a toymaker's cottage, a sweet shop or a house for visiting carol singers, and its red and white colours brighten a shelf or mantel when play is over.

Shaped from solid ash and finished by hand, it is made to come out every December for years, sturdy enough for daily play and distinctive enough to become a family keepsake.