Customer Reviews

My Very Own House Cottage

5 star:		(48)
4 star:		(14)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

I think the people a couple reviews down are confusing this playouse with something else.

I gave this very same playhouse to my niece, Amanda, 2 years ago (she was 3) and she still plays with it! Am buying another one to keep at my house for when she comes over.

It has held up through tons of sleepovers, "tea parties" and decorating. It's still one of her favorite toys.

MyVeryOwnHouse is NOT the same playhouse sold at WalMart or Target! MyVeryOwnHouse (MVOH) is MADE in USA; others are made in CHINA. MVOH is single piece construction with FACTORY GLUED CORNERS, verses six separate panels and 17 tabs. MVOH is almost double the size! 14 square foot of floor space verses 7.65. Big enough for 1 adult and three children to comfortably play/ color inside! Heavier gauge cardboard, more coloring area and NO SHARP TABS or ROOF OVERHANG, (which stick out right at a child's face height). MVOH includes 8 JUMBO markers, verses 5. MVOH has been tested and certified as a safe toy for children as per the ASTM (US), CHPA (Canada) and CE (European Union) regulations. MVOH is 97% pre-assembled, simply expand it like an accordion, flip up the ATTACHED roof halves for play or do the reverse to fold flat for storage (and the directions are printed on the playhouse with pictures so they never get lost!) MyVeryOwnHouse is the Best! A High Quality cardboard playhouse at an exceptionally great value!!!

BEST PRESENT YOU CAN GIVE A KID.

Keeps them busy for hours!

Kids love it because they can take their sleeping bags, stuffed animals, small tables & chairs, toys and favorite adult inside.

It sets up in minutes (and I mean 5 minutes, not 95 minutes!).

DON'T CONFUSE THIS WITH THE OTHERS! It's nothing like the cheapo ones that are dangerous (lots of sharp corners and tabs that stick out), really small, assembly is a nightmare.

Plus selfishly, it's fun being the one that gives the "FAVORITE" gift. :)

First, the not so great:

LOL - okay, so I read in some of the reviews that this thing is big, but I thought, "It couldn't be that big."

Um...I was wrong. This house is huge! First and foremost, make sure you've got room for it. My daughter is a tall 2-year-old. It could fit six 2-year-olds with room leftover. It takes up a ton of space. And, since it's cardboard, it's not feasable to keep it outside.

In addition, like some of the other reviewers, I did need to use some packing tape on the roof to keep it closed and stable. Since I had to do that, the fact that you can collapse and store it becomes a moot point. I'd have to remove all the packing tape each time.

The markers that come with the box dry out really quick.

Finally, the shipping seems expensive until you note the size and the weight of the box.

Now, the great things about it:

The quality of the house is amazing. This is durable, cute and my daughter loves it. It seems like it will stand up to a lot of play.

The illustrations are adorable and begging to be colored. When my daughter realized she could color her house, her face lit up.

It's easy to put together. If you can put together a gift box, you can do this. It took me about 5 minutes flat to put it together and that was with my daughter insisting on helping!

All in all, a really nice play house. Just make sure you've got the room for it!

Love it, easy to assemble. This is a great toy - it keeps my two daughters busy for hours! They color on it & love it, they play house with their dolls in it & have picnics with it. I have just purchased my third one, my friends kids come over to play & rave about it. Now it's one of my standard gifts to give!

As a parent, the thing I like most about this house is the ease of assembly and disassembly, and the small amount of space that it takes up when it is folded down. A frequent problem with large toys like this is that they are great fun at first, but eventually the child loses interest and you then have a lot of floorspace devoted to something that is not being played with. My 5 year old daughter got this house for Christmas and loved it, but sure enough after a week she was not quite so excited with it. I found it very easy to fold it down and put it away, and it occupies very little space when folded. (I measured the dimensions when folded to be 35 inches by 20 inches by 4 inches). Now that we have been having 1 or 2 snow days every week, I have been bringing the house back out for snow days and then putting it away again. Of course when the house has been away for a few days my daughter gets excited with it when I bring it out again and it has been very helpful in occupying those interminable snow days.

A playhouse is always fun for children, but the really nice thing about this one is that it is meant to be colored and drawn on. Both my 5 year old and 10 year old daughters enjoy using the supplied markers (as well as crayons) to decorate the house (inside and outside). And there is so much space to decorate that they will probably never be finished. They also enjoy decorating the inside by taping up pictures that they have created themselves or printed out (my 10-year old wanted a fireplace so she found a picture of one on the internet, printed it out and taped it to the inside of the house).

I feel a little guilty about subtracting one star for durability, as this house is cardboard, after all. Overall it holds up very well to the repeated assembly and disassembly, but is prone to some minor rips and frays. This is not really a problem as packaging tape can easily be used when necessary to fix these issues.

One thing I strongly recommend is to follow the suggestion in the instructions to apply packaging tape around the entire base of the house before using it for the first time. This really does improve the durability of the most vulnerable part of the structure.

All in all, highly recommended.

We got this for our daughter and it's cute but for the price, you can make your own! The wings that keep the roof connected wore down very quickly so the roof doesn't stay in place. They say it's easy to store and break down, which it is, but the wings and base of the house got frayed quickly by trying to store it. We also didn't take into consideration how big it is - I would definitely look at the dimensions of this to figure out where to place in in your home.

I recommended this to my mother-in-law to give to my 7 year old (who can't get enough to color) and she loves it.

It's big, easy to put together and the price is reasonable.

But it is made of cardboard, and therefore not meant to be durable. I secured the roofjoint with clear packing tape.

After coloring it for a while, my daughter said to her sister "Let's play pioneers!"
She turned off the lights, grabbed a flashlight (in lieu of a candle), put on a little bonnet and they went inside to "churn butter."

So no need to be concerned about taking away any imagination from your child--go ahead and put the plain brown refrigerator box out to the curb for recycling and get this instead--it's much nicer looking as well.

We bought this item for my 3 year old daughter for Christmas. It turned out to be her favorite thing that day, and is still her favorite thing by far. She loves being able to color it and really loves having "her own house." I love it's low price for the amount of fun we've already gotten out of it, and I like how compact it folds up for storage, though we do mostly just let her keep it out. It's surprisingly durable and LARGE! You really can't go wrong with this. I'm sure we'll even end up buying more of these when my second daughter gets a bit older and wants one of her own to color. Oh, and the markers that it comes with work very well to color large spaces; perfect for the job.

Unlike many reviewers, I actually bought THIS house *at* Amazon and I want to say that this product is fantastic. Is it very durable? It is cardboard! Is it prettier than an appliance box? Yes! We spent the last week as a family painting and markering all over this house for our two year old niece for Christmas. We used watercolor paints to put soft washes of color all over and used the markers that come with the house to fill in. The markers are FABULOUS. They lasted for the entire project, they colored upside down (unlike Sharpies)and the color was BRILLIANT. They look cheap but they are the best markers I have ever seen. The house looks stunning and quite professional. It will be be given with much more love and care than any plastic house will ever have. It is a wonderful size with 20 sqft footprint. Just big enough for a kitchen and table and chairs- or a whole nursery of babies. The cardboard is bright white without a glossy finish so paints soak in nicely. We thought the addition of contact paper to the inside would be lovely. The tabs on the roof are a bit frustrating and that is my only complaint. This would last a nice long while if placed somewhere and left and NOT repeatedly folded and put away. With a reinforcement of clear packing tape along the roof line- there is no reason it could not last a nice long while (unless your kid is destructive- again, it is a cardboard box). The biggest bonus? When the child gets tired of it, it can be burned to ash and/or composted. It is not a big plastic house that ends up in a landfill!!!!!!!!!!! If it does get torn up- it was not a $250 plastic house but very cheap and can be purchased again for very little money!!!!!!!!!