Cathy's Flower House

I've handmade dolls houses and miniatures for years and I thought I'd try this little kit as something different over the Christmas and New Year break. Honestly, I am blown away at the quality. I purchased the Rolife Cathy's Greenhouse. Easy instructions. Step by step guide. Pieces are excellent quality. Some of the plants are paper leaves. You cut the stems from wire, pop out the leaves from the precut papers and assemble them. Yes they are fiddly and require patience but they look amazing when made. Some plants are plastic but you still cut and assemble them yourself. The furniture is so cute, self assembly, wooden or plastic. No flimsy cardboard rubbish. I made everything up then followed the assembly step by step guide. Couple of bits were tricky and required very precise steps and patience, but the whole thing went together beautifully. Even assembling and wiring in the light was simple (you have to supply your own 2 x AAA batteries) Now it's completed it looks brilliant, and the little interior light really finishes it off. Everything is supplied - but when I was putting it together, I chose to use a tacky glue and tacky wax instead of the supplied double sided tape just because experience has taught me it's a better way to finish things off and then things don't fall over when you move it. I chose to add additional plants and flowers only because I already have a lot of homemade ones from previous projects, but really, there is so much stuff in the kit, you don't need to add anything else. 100% happy with this brand and am next going to try their bakey, and maybe the chocolatiers shop when I've saved up a bit more money. LOVE this kit. Highly recommended.

Brilliant, entertaining and pretty

This review relates to Cathy's Flower House. I've previously made some other Rolife kits: Sunshine Town, Time Travel and Sakura Densya but this kit is of a different order of magnitude in terms of difficulty and assembly time. Don't embark on assembling this kit unless you have good eyesight (and/or a strong pair of glasses), a steady hand and plenty of patience. Unlike the other Rolife kits that I mentioned above, in this one most of the pieces are glued together, rather than push-fit. The clear glue supplied is spirit based (similar to Uhu) so it's quick drying but not washable, so if you get it on the wrong places it's difficult to remove. I used my own PVA glue for a lot of the parts (that don't need quick drying glue) and some superglue. The pieces are very accurately cut and it all fits together well. The detail is incredible and it is excellent value for money considering the number of parts supplied. Some tips for assembly: 1. There are 2 part sheets at the bottom of the box that show the numbered pieces to scale - use this to correctly identify the parts (because some are quite similar). 2. The instructions show the bag number of the parts used in that step, like 2(2-1) for example. Always put unused parts back into the right numbered bag (you can't tip out all the parts into one tray) so that you can find the right parts quickly. 3. Wipe off any excess glue quickly (before it sets). 4. Use a steel ruler and a fine ballpoint pen or something similar to score the fold lines on the card pieces. 5. Double check that you've used all the parts in each step - if you miss something off it might be impossible to fit it later on. 6. You won't complete this kit in a weekend, or even two - allow yourself plenty of time. As an example, the paint brush in my photo is constructed from part of a cocktail stick, some aluminium foil and some cut paper for the bristles. It took me 3 attempts to make, I was only successful by cutting the Al foil strip 6mm wide instead of 4mm as instructed. 7. The main clear plastic sheet for the greenhouse and the panes for the door have a plastic film on that needs to be peeled off prior to assembly, I don't think that the instructions mention this. Assembling all of the plants is time consuming: plant 1 took me half a day and there are more than 20 plants to make, but overall it's a lovely model and the end result is stunning.

Easy to put together with clear instructions. Quality is good.

very easy to understand instructions quick easy assembly well made parts everything I needed was included in the box. I'm very pleased with the product

Having completed a few of the dream bottle series miniatures in glass jars I wanted something bigger! Instructions are easy to follow and everything comes in numbered bags along with a reference sheet for parts. Some areas require you to read ahead a little (especially the lighting!) to ensure you do things in the correct order. I did find I glued the floor paper the wrong way round (though I followed the instructions) and had to cut off some of the tab bits to fit it in the right way round but worked out fine! Glue is alright, sticks but takes a little longer to dry and you get those annoying glue webs that you have to pull off once dry. Always recommend a glue stick and some super glue which you can buy separately along with some needle nose pliers and needle nose tweezers, the ones that come in the set went straight in the bin. Outer 'glass' casing was difficult I won't lie. Pretty sure it's impossible to not get excess glue anywhere! All in all I loved it. The plants got a little bit tedious so my only complaint is I wish they mixed up the instructions a bit so you made different things but you don't necessarily have to follow the individual bits in order I suppose!

Blimey! Suggests 7.5 hours but we (as a duo) spent over 20 hours on this. That being said, it’s a 100% recommend to a friend kit, fantastic fun and quality!

This product is fun to build with lots of detail in the pieces. Some pieces are fiddly to put together and they only give you pieces of double sided tape which isn’t that strong so when putting all the final pieces in place they easily can move out of place which got a little annoying. Overall it was a fun build to do with my mum that lasted us a few days to make and once finished it looks great.

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Teşekkürler

Las piezas son de muy buena calidad y se disfruta mucho montándolo. El manual de instrucciones se sigue muy bien. Excelente.

Il prodotto è veramente bello , perfetto in ogni suo componente, prodotto di alta qualità. Seguendo passo passo e con pazienza le istruzioni, esce perfettamente come nella figura dell'illustrazione. Lo consiglio per chi vuole intraprendere il modellismo minuto.

Ein wunderschönes Häuschen, liebevoll verarbeitet, eine sehr gute Anleitung mit großen Bildern. Die Teile sind akkurat vorgestanzt, markiert und bruchsicher. Es sind sehr viele Teile, sodass man mindestens zwei Wochen gemütliches Arbeiten einplanen kann, eine Lupe wird nicht benötigt und die beidseitigen Klebestreifen erfüllen ihre Aufgabe sehr gut. Davon hätte noch etwas mehr beigelegt sein können, die Klebestreifen reichten gerade so, wenn man manches sicherer doppelt klebt. Die Plänzchen sind liebevoll gestaltet und mit Fingerspitzengefühl gut zusammenzusetzen. Schön ist, dass das Häuschen auch die durchsichtigen Wände im Lieferumfang hat. Damit ist das filigrane Werk weitgehend staubgeschützt. Etwas wackelig war der Aufbau dieser Außenwand aus weichem durchsichtigem Kunststoff. Die ihn haltende Dachgaube musste ich zusätzlich unterstützen, um ein festes Häuschen zu bekommen. Das Lichtlein gibt dem Häuschen einen ganz besonderen Glanz und bringt die Fülle der vielen Plänzchen, Regale und Planzutensilien besonders zur Geltung. Wirklich liebevoll designt. Ganz herzlichen Glückwunsch an dieses Team.