DIY Miniature House Kit, CUTEROOM Wooden Dollhouse Kit Mini House Making Kit with Furnitures, DIY Dollhouse Kit Birthday Gift for Women and Girls (Warm Manor)

I love this house. It has so many cute details not found in others. There is a learning curve on how to work with the tiny pieces and the kind of glue. E7000 works great, but I use a combination depending on the material.

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 disappointed. Super tiny pieces on super thin wood that splintered apart when I tried to separate the pieces. I tried using an exacto knife to free the tiny pieces and they still split apart. Ended up trashing this one when it was done as it was a mess of glue in the end and so frustrating to work on, it just made me angry to look at it.

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

Took some time to build but very cute in the need just doesn't come with nails to hold the hinges in.

You will need lots of patience for this project. Lots of tiny parts that break easily. I have had to make many tedious adaptations.

The box arrived with all of the parts. I did need to go buy super glue, tweezers and an exacto knife. It was a nice craft to work on throughout the week as someone with PTSD and schizophrenia. Things were small and it was difficult to get it perfect but that just makes it look like a lived in and well loved home. I paired it with 1:24 size people from Hobby Lobby. I received several compliments. My favorite part to put together was the plant room.

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.

I had alot of fun putting together this little house. There were a few things that got a little frustring. You definitely need patience when putting something this small together. If you take your time and pay close attention to the instructions You will love the end result. It's most definitely not for beginners. Keep in mind there are so many tiny pieces and you have to assemble EVERYTHING yourself. I didn't have any problems understanding the instructions. You do need to buy you own glue it doesnt come with any. I didn't have any missing or broken part. I think the price was fair. I cant wait to buy the purple house next.

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.

Love the way it came out with all the details. However, it took a lot of time (multiple days), and lots of work. Definitely need a tool kit specific for miniature work (long tweezers, small pliers, exacto knife, etc) and various glues (super glue, tacky glue, model adhesive). I also used black electrical tape to control the wiring a little better as the adhesive tape that it comes with was not all that useful.