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One of my absolute favorite past times! I have purchased several of these DIY kits and I have enjoyed each and every one! I will definitely be purchasing more scenes to add to my growing collection! Definitely recommend for older teens and or adults, pieces are tiny, some, and very fragile. Well worth effort, time and money!

This is a great pandemic project if you have free time. I made this over a two month period. Each step took two to three times as long as I thought it would. This project gave me the feeling of accomplishing something for the day as I finished each piece. This kit is very clever and someone’s labor of love. Mine had all the pieces. There were a few very slightly warped wooden pieces but nothing that was a problem. I was concerned about whether there would be enough glue so I used my own Elmer’s Glue All to make all the paper, and paper and wood books. I was glad I did this. There are a lot of books! I think the Elmer’s Glue was easier to use anyway for paper. The project glue in my kit was very good with the wood and metal parts, as well as paper, and did not have a smell. I also was very glad I had a small desktop battery operated OttLite with a magnifier on it. Here are my recommendations.1. Read through the whole instruction book carefully before you begin.2. Make the wood and paper books first thing while you are enthusiastic. This would have been a drag at the end.3. Do not make the first large bookcase in the instructions first. It is the most complicated. Instead begin with an easy one like cabinet 5.4. Verify the parts for each piece with the part number illustration papers. Very important. Also, it may have guide marks you need to make on the wood.5. Fit the pieces together before gluing to figure out where to put the glue and to be sure you’ve got it right.6. This project takes a LOT of patience.7. If you are not patient, or if you are a perfectionist (this is not perfect), or if it bothers you it is made of wood, paper and cloth do not buy this.8. Do not buy this for a child. Even at 14 I think the child would get very frustrated and perhaps lose interest due to how much work is involved.9. The paint will not give you a solid white wall. It will look a bit rustic. I tried artists’ tube acrylic white paint and it did not work either. I finally used artists’ white gesso but I don’t recommend buying it if you don’t have any.10. The kit comes in a great box for storing the project parts.11. The lamp! It will work if you put it together right. I just didn’t have the skill. I would say it takes a person experienced with doing this kind of thing. I read the instructions many times and examined parts and tried very hard. I ended up cutting off the wires and just fabricating the lamp which was hard enough. I spend 9 hours over three days. I glued it in place. Once I had the bookcases filled, I thought it didn’t look good – too large for the scale and very busy. So I removed it.12. The end product is very cute.

The media could not be loaded. This was my second kit that I have completed. It was a fun project. Pack your patience when doing the books. There are a lot of books to make. You can customize it. The chair was difficult to make. I made a mess of it, but I customized the chair to cover my mess ups. I also bought a little fish tank to put on the table.

This is a Christmas gift for my daughter, an English teacher who loves books. Her gray was a librarian and loved visiting her school library and looking and reading many of the books. She will love this.

DiY Library. Very cute. A lot of different pieces. You don't have to build all the furniture. It's actually whatever you want to build. If you build all the furniture it is a packed room and you have to build more books to fill all of the shelves. There are several different ways to set this up. I wish I would have known this in the beginning. My husband helped build alot of these pieces for me. The books are basically little square pieces of wood various sizes and you cut and glue the paper templates on them. I actually had scrap pieces of material that I made some covers out of and used some extra jewelry and button pieces to make accent pieces on the books. I also used spray paint for the walls and the floor. You can completely customize this to however you like. This is a perfect rainy day project and I absolutely adore this piece. It is very time consuming and tedious, but once you finish, it's well worth it.

I stressed out when I opened the package, thought "Oh Jeeze, what I'd get myself into?" Never made one before. But it was very cathartic to work on it and I was very proud of the finished product.I made various changes to the room from the original design.* I painted the walls and floors the colors I wanted.* I laid down a different floor, basic peel and stick paper (Dollar Tree).* I put my own family pictures on the walls.* I glued "everything" down, even the floor, so whenever moving it, nothing would fall out.* I put the battery on the outside, in the back. Otherwise how are you expected to get to it and change the battery? You'd have to take apart the floor, and risk everything falling out. Hence the gluing.The hardest part to make was the Chandelier. That wiring was difficult!! One of the bulbs was not working, emailed the company and they sent me more at no cost.I want to make more!!! Love these!

I have built three miniature kits and this is by far the easiest of the three that I have made. Most pieces are made of pretty durable wood and the glue holds well. There are a lot of paper pieces to put together, though I suppose you don't have to make everything if you don't mind the shelves being a little more spaced out. The only thing that is a little wonky is the instructions, but once you understand how they do it, it becomes easy to build.

The details in this model are great, but the glue is not good to work with. The glue takes way too long to cure. I ended up buying a different modeling glue from my local store. It worked much better. I would recommend this model kit to those wanting a long term project that will take 30+ hours to build.