Right, I finally got around to assembling my own so-called "dollhouse in a dollhouse" - kit by "Cuteroom", a little French house on a scale of 1:144, called "Happy House"
And if you ask my opinion, well, it was quite hard to do, honestly! Mostly because of the tiny, tiny bits, my gosh!
Would I ever do this again? Who knows, but not for now hahaha! But then again, there are a lot of new versions of tiny dollhouses on this scale coming out, and they look so tempting, that I might just forget about the struggles lol!
Anyway, today I will review it and explain my process with pictures and videos!
But first, what is a dollhouse in a dollhouse again?
A dollhouse in a dollhouse, often referred to as a "nested dollhouse" or "dollhouse within a dollhouse," is a miniature replica of a dollhouse designed to fit inside a larger dollhouse.
The typical scale of a dollhouse for a dollhouse is 1:144 Scale, where one inch equals twelve feet in real life. This is mostly used as a miniature dollhouse placed inside a 1:12-scale dollhouse.
A 1:144 dollhouse kit by Cuteroom called Happy House, my Review and assembly process.
In the past, I have assembled lots of DIY dollhouse kits before, but all of them were on a scale of 1:24. Well, more or less, it looks like the kits by Cutebee are a little bit smaller than the ones from Robotime.
Anyway, it was the very first time that I had assembled one on such a tiny scale: a 1:144 dollhouse that looks like it has a French style, in my opinion. (I'm not sure which style you would consider this to be?)
Now, the one that I got has the brand called "Cuteroom", but this time it was very hard to find out for me if this is rebranded, as so many are,
But I'm quite sure it is, because other kits that look very similar, have totally different brand names, so that's suspicious to me haha!
Anyway, this is what it looked like at the start when I unpacked it, sorry for the bad lighting 🙁
As you can see, I was quite unsure about starting this one, it all looks so finicky and tiny!
But as usual, everything turned out well in the end, let's take a closer look at what I've been doing and my thoughts:
I should have started with the lights, but I am always waiting with them till the very end, as I'm afraid to do something wrong :-).
- So I started by painting the white parts. Here's where I had some issues with chipped and broken pieces when clicking them out of the frame.
My advice? First, use a crafting knife with a small blade before pushing them out!
- So, let's start to assemble all the little pieces first, according to the included manual.
On the contrary to the new generations of kits like the Sakura Densya book nook, you do need glue to glue pieces together, instead of just clicking them together.
Sometimes you still need clamps