DIY Miniature House Kit, CUTEROOM Wooden Dollhouse Kit Mini House Making Kit with Furnitures, DIY Dollhouse Kit Birthday Gift (Magic Store)

These are great little kits. I would recommend them for children and you need a steady hand and I would recommend some magnifying glasses to see some of the small parts. The instructions are pretty detailed but you have to pay close attention to some placements and assembly because they are easy to overlook. Eveything went together easy and all wood pieces are precut, painted and fit where they go. The finished model looks great and is really sturdy for such a small model. This gave me many hours of enjoyment. I used a combination of craft glue and CA glue depending on the parts needing to be joined.

This was my first DIY miniature house kit. Luckily, I've watched people make their own custom miniatures online and I had a feeling this might be too small to just do with my hands. I found I'm very wobbly with tweezers, so I modified/skipped some of the tiny details in the house I made. Here are some tips I have for people considering this line of kits: - YOU MAKE EVERYTHING! This isn't a little house that you just decorate like Barbie houses. You actually build the chairs by cutting and shaping wire, and make the flowers and plants by cutting beads and trimming/shaping leaves. You cut out, fold, and glue EVERY SINGLE BOOK in the bookshelves. This is a kit for someone interested in the hobby who really wants to spend hours working on it, but might be too difficult/detailed for someone who hasn't shown interest in actually making custom miniatures. - TWEEZERS! Your fingers might not be able to handle/shape every item in this kit. I found the tiny beads and decorations to be hard to build/place with my actual hands. There are tweezer sets you can get that have different angles on their tips so you can even reach around small corners if you forget something or add something later. They don't have to be very long, as this kit is small. The ones in my kit are about 5 or 6 inches long including the handles. Personally, I only had the skill to use the straight tweezers. I also realized that the kit I got has smooth tips rather than the ridged ones that can help grip the small, round beads. I made do, but if I get more into this hobby I may need to eventually upgrade my tweezers so I stop dropping the smoother pieces! Maybe eyebrow tweezers could work if you want to give those a try before buying anything, but keep in mind that those are short, their handles and tips are bulkier, and you're about to get glue on/near them. - CRAFT KNIVES! Craft/hobby knives or exacto blades are great. I happened to already have a kit with three different handles/grips and a selection of different blades. They are the best way to cut out bordered holes in the paper patterns and they are VERY IMPORTANT for releasing the tiny wooden pieces like the window frames. They're cut pretty well, but are still held in by half a millimeter on two sides. If you try to simply wiggle these free, you may snap/peel parts of the delicate pieces. They can be glued back together, but everything is so tiny that I found that hard to do. Instead, use an exacto to chop those bits holding them in. They blades are sharp and thin, so they won't crush pieces of the wood or make the paper jagged, especially if they are newer/well cared for. You may want to put something like a cutting pad under the things you cut or go to a table you don't care about. - TOOTHPICKS! I used toothpicks to help clean up extra glue or to prop tiny pieces while their glue dried. - EXTRA GLUE?! Personally, I am a glue monster and I wanted some parts to be extra sturdy, so I had some pointed tubes of superglue on hand for the walls/floors or tiny pieces that I needed to dry faster than the craft glue. (My superglue takes about 30 seconds to dry enough that I can stop holding the pieces together. The glue in the kit takes longer, although it does seem to adhere alright.) The kit warns that it might not include some of the liquid supplies. Mine arrived with three tubes inside, but their labels are mostly in Chinese. The orange-ish tube is glue and it works, but it makes little web strands like hot glue sometimes. I used the toothpick to remove most of those and try to scoot excess glue away. -NOTICE THE DIRECTIONS' GROUPING! I was really confused, because I expected to start with the exteriors/floors and work my way in like I've done when I've put together furniture. However, the book actually goes mostly room-by-room and has you assemble the decorations and such first. It also shows an easier order to assemble the house with. For example, it has you put the downstairs items in before you put the second floor floor in so you have more room to work.

So cute, but sooooo much effort. End product is amazing though. The instructions were clearly written by someone whose first language isn’t English, so it’s a little hard to understand, but they ARE very thorough. A kid probably wouldn’t be able to do this on their own since you need a lot of patience and everything is so tiny. Some of the pots are literally seed beads! I added my own bathtub and toilet (1:87 scale) and skipped some of the hanging plants and decorative vines. I docked a star because the roof doesn’t stay all the way down and there is a small gap when the front is closed. I read another review where the builder mentions he cuts out spaces for the hinges and plan to use that trick for my next little house, which I’ve already ordered!

Looks great! Went together will. The only thing I really had to finick with was the hinge sticking to the front facade. I always cut out slots for the hinges to lay so the panels are all flush when sandwiching the hinges between two pieces. This was my 3rd build of this set and I customized a ton of it, so the pics are not super representative of what the complete model would look like for you, but I love how it turn out. As usual, you will need tweezers and stuff will fly out of your hands lol. Also, acrylic paint markers with a brush tip will be your best friend if you decide to paint any furniture and raw edges.

Would give less than a star if able. The pieces didn't fit together. Cheap Chinese crap

This is no fault of the seller, but this was the worst kit. None of the build lined up properly. Bowed wood. Uneven build parts. Directions that hindered the outcome. Im so miffed. This is my 12th build on this size and I've a decent skill set.

It’s cute, but some of it is really hard to do. It’s tiny so it’s supposed to be a challenge, but some of the items were hard to put together. I used a tray to keep everything on, and found that it’s helpful to have quick dry super glue, toothpicks, a tape measure, and tweezers. It’s so fragile and I’ve worried about the opening and closing of the house, but so far it’s been okay.

These are very tiny minatures. It is sometimes difficult to tell the difference in the beads, but that's what will make the end result so precious. I think I'm going to get a magnify glass to make it easier for me. I would also advise emptying the bags into a bowl, being careful to not bounce the pieces, because if they fall on the floor, kiss them goodbye. I checked off each piece to familiarize myself with each piece. I'm not going to rush the build and I'm going to glue everything for stability. Since this is basically a box that opens, I don't want pieces falling off.

Purchased because my granddaughter wanted to craft with me, unfortunately the thin wire light did not function at all and I had to return the kit. This is not the first time that I have had this problem with cuteroom DIY house kits. Someone should take a look at their quality control protocols and not send out kits with faulty components. My granddaughter was so upset that we could not make this together. As an added insult the kit had gone up from £19.50 to £22.94. Through no fault of mine I would have to pay an additional £3.44 if I wanted to re order this item as understandably Amazon do no replace items from 3rd party sellers, absolutely disgusted will probably never buy from this seller again

This kit does not have a recommended age or difficulty level, however there are images that need to be cut with a sharp knife from sheets of paper so something to bear in mind. There are many parts, many of them very small, that have to be cut and assembled together. These make for a very detailed final model but can also be very frustrating at times. Maybe part of the overall satisfaction at the end? There are full instructions in a fairly small booklet and the initial challenge is in understanding the format of these, especially where one instruction references another on an earlier page. Still, this is a challenge with a rewarding number of hours required to complete. Including two tubes of glue is a nice touch, even if all the instructions on them is in Chinese. I would say this is not a set for a beginner but for the modeller looking for a more advanced challenge.

Lovely little dolls house kit, although it is very small and intricate to build, but will provide hours of entertainment putting it altogether. Includes a step by step instruction guide to follow with clear instructions. Recommended.