Customer Reviews

Dollhouse Miniature The Laurel Dollhouse by Corona

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Bought this dollhouse from BabyAge, who is absolutely wonderful to work with. This dollhouse kit was provided by Greenleaf, one of BabyAge's vendors. I cannot recommend Greenleaf. Quality of materials was extremely poor -- wood pieces fell apart easily, tabs and slots didn't match up, none of the wood matched. It was all different types and colors. The only option was to paint everything. My dad helped build the dollhouse, which is a very good thing. He had to make pieces to replace the ones that fell apart (very thin laminated wood was used) Thankfully, Dad is a wood-worker. I will never again purchase a product from Greenleaf. They seem to either have no Quality Control staff, or they simply don't care.

I built this dollhouse for my 7 yo stepdaughter for Christmas. It took me about 7 hours with painting and doing flooring and assembling (I haven't done wallpaper yet). The instructions were pretty straight forward and simple, but I'm also pretty good at this kind of stuff. I didn't use any glue in the main structure, but used hot glue for the porch, doors, and window boxes, and I used Modge podge for the windows, shutters, and shingles. It is very heavy to move, and seems fairly sturdy. She absolutely loves it, and we spent all day Christmas building beds, hanging pictures, and making rugs.

I received this dollhouse for Christmas a few days ago. It's almost done (I'm still working on the paint) and really cute. I just have a few complaints...1, the wood is very thin, and should really be thicker. 2, the directions are sometimes VERY hard to understand and may take a good 10-15 minutes before you actually understand what they are talking about. 3, there are no instructions about how to put on shingles, 4, the shingles are very poor quality (i had to buy different ones), and 5, some of the tabs don't match up evenly. Oh yeah, and I might mention, the picture really under-estimates the size. IT'S HUGE.