🏖️ Build Your Dream Beach Bungalow, One Tiny Detail at a Time
The GuDoQi DIY Miniature Dollhouse Kit is a 1:24 scale beachside bungalow model designed for ages 14+. It features a multi-material build including wood, paper, metal, and plastic, requiring 20-30 hours of patient assembly. The kit comes with a detailed, illustrated manual but excludes glue, scissors, and hobby knives. Perfect for DIY lovers seeking a challenging, decorative craft project.
K**Y
One of the best little projects!!
Definitely a good price for the amount of work that I had to put in, and the quality wasn't too bad. It does come with a whole guide book on how to place and put everything together. It is a bit confusing at times but it helps to always take a double look before placing. Although I lacked only one piece I was able to improvise with some of the other materials given. Keep in mind this does not come with any glue but just a pair of flimsy tweezers. I would recommend investing in a good miniature build tool kit. I just bought one off here that came with 2 pairs of tweezers and clippers and an exacto knife. That exacto blade comes in really handy for this project, and considering some of the items are super tiny that you'll be making 2 tweezers make it easier. Overall once it was fully put together it looked so good!!! I was ecstatic to step back and see all the hard work I put into this project. It was well worth it! Happy crafting!!P. S. This craft in my opinion would work best with different types of glue. I used Elmer's glue all for a good majority of it like the paper and tiny pieces but when u get to the framing part with walls and stuff I'd use something that's very thick and tacky that dries quick. I used hot glue and it worked just fine, just gotta be quick.....
C**R
Very nice!!!!
Was very hard and time consuming. Make sure you check the lights. I did and one didn't work so I just bought one because there wasn't an option to just get that piece replaced. It is very relaxing and I had fun do it.
K**Y
Kid loves it
The media could not be loaded. This is the third miniature kit I’ve completed. I make them for my 5 year old to play with so it’s more of a functional dollhouse than a model. She wanted one with a toilet and this fit the bill. Kids have their priorities straight!I did things to make it easier to play with (didn’t do the full dinner table spread, put 2 pillows on the bed instead of 3, did a globe light instead of the chandelier so she could get her hand in the bedroom to move the furniture around, etc.). I don’t glue much down so she can take a things out to play with and rearrange rooms.I used two battery packs (one from a previously returned kit). I couldn’t get all the lights to run off one. When I connected the globe bathroom light it made all the other lights in the house not work so we just skipped wiring that one (husband helps with this part).I was missing the 12 white wood pieces for the steps in the first kit I ordered. Called Amazon and they sent a second kit. Stair pieces missing from that one too. We sent that one back. I’ll wait a couple weeks to order another. Hopefully that one will be from a new batch and will have the stairs. I’d really like to finish this thing.Walls floor and roof are pressed board so some of the pieces were warped. Not everything is flush. I just had to figure out how to make it work.Other than those issues I had a lot of fun putting it together and am very pleased with the outcome. You should know going into these projects the pieces are not going to be perfect and you’ll have to get creative and adjust at times to get it to come together. LOVE the ceiling fans, backlit headboard and blue LED lights in the pool.
M**G
Challenging but rewarding
The beach house is probably not for a beginner, which I am. It was frustrating at times but neat to see it come alive. Overall the directions were pretty good. With so many pieces, there were some problems (like the lighting) but overall I thought it was well constructed. For the price, it was a hobby that kept me occupied for a very long time. I just finished my second house. I'm getting better (if you don't look too closely!).
S**E
be prepared!
There were some missing pieces (one of them being KEY to the entire look) and missing steps in the instructions. Sometimes the instructions were great; but in crucial times (e.g. lighting), it would simply say "do as shown in pic" but the pic is so grainy and small that it was difficult to see. Also, some of the pieces didn't fit as expected; some would warp when glue was applied so it made for additional challenges.I worked around the missing pieces and left out the ones that didn't fit (like the pillars in front). I'm not going to mess with the dust cover bc I believe it'll be a nightmare with the fit and glue.Re: the light wiring, I don't mind doing this part as it's not my first kit but it's not for the faint of heart! First off, there's 6 lights; 4 white, 2 blue. They all look exactly alike so you have cut and expose the wire and test it with the battery to know which was which. I was "lucky" and got the blues in the first 3 tries. The provided tape doesn't hold AT ALL. The wires were so fragile and thin that when I cut the outer part to expose the copper, it broke...a lot. I tried my own electrical tape but because they are so thin, it also did not hold well. I ended up using some leftover rubber melts from another kit to hold them together but even that took 2-3 tries. It is worth doing this step well because the lighting makes the whole kit; otherwise, you lose the "water" effect in the basement.Note: I did reach out to the seller about the missing pieces, and they responded quickly... but it'll take about a month for them to arrive. Very frustrating, so I would not recommend this set.
D**.
Missing a key piece
It looks great… Everything in the box looks like decent quality. But it’s missing a major piece in step one.Kind of hard to build a model kit when it’s missing a piece for the first step
C**E
Very fun
I love doing these kits. And this one was so fun, my only issue was getting stuff to stick to the fake grass, but I think that's more of a skill thing then a product issue.
S**N
Very challenging but relaxing
It took me about two weeks to complete, few days a week for couple hours. This is my second mini house module, and this one is twice as small as previous. Very challenging to cut small such fish and labels. I used many kinds of glue: different kinds of super glue, hot gun, model glue, regular school glue. Parts not always aligned as I would like, but at the end, I was doing it for myself to relax. So, finally I can enjoy the fruits of my labor. A little bit messy, but worth it.
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