CUTEBEE Dollhouse Miniature House Kit with Furniture, DIY Wooden Dollhouse Tiny House Building Set for Adults and Teens, Creative Room Decor Gift for Family and Friends (Japanese Garden House)

I built this for my sister for her birthday. It's the 4th miniature build I've done. It took me about 100 hours, altogether.And, it's a beautiful build.The instructions were clear. The pictures are very helpful.The number one tip I've found in miniature building is: be open to making modifications when necessary. Your build may not look exactly like the picture, but it can still look really great.I made several modifications for various reasons.Some thoughts:+ The triangular roof pieces were not big enough to attach to the other roof pieces. There was an open gap on the roof that was probably an inch wide. This was disappointing. To cover, I glued extra of the green vine over top of it.+ Be careful with the small wooden pieces for the pastry display cabinet. In the process of gluing the cabinet together, one of the pieces snapped into several smaller pieces. So, I improvised and created a pastry table.+ When making the pieces with shelving, it's probably better to glue the smaller pieces on to the shelves before gluing the shelves to the cabinets. I followed the measurements in the instructions, but still had to remove and reset shelving in both cases. Also, I ended up modifying where some things were placed due to insufficient shelf height.+ Due to a challenge gluing the fabric with the pink pillow on the rattan sofa, I used a leftover bunny from a Lego set.+ Some of the paper crafting is intricate. It requires patience, a steady hand, and focus. And even then, there's margin for error. One small mistake in the cutting or gluing can cost you the piece.+ The window film that I received was a bit scratched and smudged. So, I purchased transparency film to substitute.+ The transparent film collects dust. I used a can of compressed air to clean the windows off when done. Note: Be very careful (gentle) when doing this, and make sure your window film is glued well. I ended up using too much pressure and blowing out one of the triangle windows. It also blew some of the interior pieces around, too. Because everything is closed in when put together, it can be very difficult to reset the pieces on the inside.

This is the 8th miniature DIY project I’ve done and so far, the Tea House/Cake Shop by Cutebee has the best detailed instructions to date! It’s not only a very lovely model with flowers, lights and music box, I can tell they put a TON of work into making this project as user-friendly as they could!Sure, it’s still complicated to assemble this meticulously detailed and well designed kit, but that’s because it’s a meticulously detailed miniature, that’s what it’s supposed to be! 😂The instructions and packaging are the main reason for my 5 star rating. A lot of these DIY kits on Amazon come with instructions that show fuzzy pictures and not much explanation, with translations into English from Chinese that are confusing to a native English speaker.This one makes a big effort to add more tips and clarifications, translation is still a little odd (For example: they say “stick this” - they mean “glue this”; “use toothpick to get glue from stickup positions” - means “lift glue off the edges where objects were joined/glued together”; or lastly “manufacture this” - they just mean “make or form it”).But still, I can tell they worked so hard on making this as easy to understand as possible! They include a lot of tips in red ink for particularly challenging steps.All the pieces were there, lots of details and materials, I’m making it to give as a Mothers Day gift.

This review is for the Magic Coffee Shop. This was a fun and rewarding challenge. The build time was about 45 hours, which was in align with the described 36 to 48 hours. There were no missing pieces. The kit had no glue which the instructions indicated it did come with but other reviews also seem to indicate it is not included. I used a combination of paper/wood glue and a clear Gorilla glue for plastic pieces pieces. The level of detail is amazing. Some parts are very small. I suggest a free standing (hands free) magnifier, fine tweezers and some type of putty to embed small parts on and hold them for stability and while glue dries. The instructions were pretty clear and thorough but there was some lack of detail about certain things and plenty of detail about others. For some reason the instructions seemed a bit inconsistent with the level of details at times. After having completing one, I'm sure another in the same style would go much quicker. Having a dedicated work area would be preferred as opposed to sitting on the floor at a living room coffee table like I did. Overall this is a good quality kit with a very detailed and crisp looking finish. It will test your eyesight and manual dexterity, especially if you're getting older and starting to lose some of that, like me.