Melissa & Doug Hi-Rise Wooden Dollhouse With 15 pcs Furniture - Garage and Working Elevator

Easy to assemble.. needed to buy extra people and a car. My granddaughter loves it even her older sister(8) plays with it.

It was easy to put together and the quality of everything is great!

I had this dollhouse in my cart for several weeks before placing the order. The reviews talking about the difficulty in putting it together kept me looking for something better. Once the Christmas budget had been decimated on ipad minis, it became apparent that this would be the perfect dollhouse, because it fit what was left of my budget! I figured if I ordered early I would have time to send parts back that didn't fit right.Anyway, to make a long story short, I received the dollhouse yesterday and started putting it together as soon as my daughter went to bed last night. I kept going along in putting it together, waiting for the part where things got hard or didn't line up, but that never happened! I put this together in roughly 45 minutes (a little less if you take out the time it took me to install a flashlight ap on my phone, so that I could see the nut and make sure that it was lined up straight in the hole). Perhaps they have changed the instructions or addressed a quality control issue? Not sure. All I know is that it was super easy for me to put together.One tip is to have a flashlight handy. You drop these little nuts into the pre-drilled holes and you need to be sure that they are facing the right way so that when the other piece goes on and you put a bolt through, the bolt will fit into the nut properly. A flashlight helps with that - I also used the tool that was included to put through ahead of time and make sure that the nut opening was tilted just right. A couple of times it turned a little while I was putting on the piece that I needed to secure and I just had to use a screwdriver to tip it back up a bit.Anyway, just wanted to add this review because I don't want others to be scared off by the negative reviews regarding putting this together. It was a breeze and I couldn't be happier! My daughter is going to love this!****edited****Now that we've had this for a few weeks I do have a couple of small complaints...1) the elevator has come out once. Luckily it was easy to get back in, but I have had to fix it a couple more times since then because an edge was starting to come out again.2) the elevator does not stay put. It would be nice if the elevator channels had little notches in it - or something that would catch so that the elevator stays put. My daughter (3) plays with it with the roof off and she came up with her own little system - she put a rubber band around the roof pegs and "hangs" her elevator by that. Doesn't really fix it, but she likes the novelty of the elevator going up on it's own. I have a feeling that the elevator will be gone before too much longer. I think her dad can probably build some stairs and attach them easily enough3) and this is not necessarily the dollhouses fault, but I think this is a little difficult to play with at floor level. My daughter plays mainly with the higher up levels. When she is sitting she can't really reach the bottom level (kitchen?). When we get the chance I'd like to build a little, low shelf for it so that she can reach that room as well.Otherwise I am still very happy with this purchase!

The media could not be loaded. Overall this is a cute dollhouse and my 2 toddlers (1 &. 3 yo) love it. However, it is not the Melissa & Doug quality that I expected. The frame of the house came cracked, the bed headboard fell off, and the couch was glued together uneven. I was able to fix the broken pieces with superglue and my kids won’t notice the wobbly couch, but it bothers me. I probably would have sent it back if the dollhouse wasn’t from Santa because I expected better from this brand. Especially because I could have bought an almost identical house on Amazon with more furniture but I went with this one because I typically love Melissa & Doug. I do love the little dolls and might eventually buy more of them. Other reviews mentioned that the elevator doesn’t stay on each floor but ours does!

I was impressed with the packaging and the assembly of this! Very well made and easy to put together. They covered all their bases with this from furniture to the dolls themselves! Perfect size for our 2 year old and all the colors are beautiful! Highly recommend this doll house!

This was an easy build and is very durable. You can always count on Melissa & Doug products! So cute.

Bought this for 4 yo daughter (although my 7 yo son also likes playing with it). It is large enough for 2 kids to play with. You can "design" your own rooms (where do you want the bathroom? bedroom? kitchen? living room?) and the colors are gender neutral and bright. It is high quality and I'm not worried about my kids breaking it. It would NOT be good for Barbies (not that big, and honestly that's the wrong "audience"), but it is good for creative, imaginative, open play. Kids have used the dolls that we got with it (Hape and M&D pieces fit perfectly), but have also used Lego people, Paw Patrol figures, Little People, etc to live in there. Currently the "car" in the garage is Catboy's car. I took an idea from another review and added button LED light onto the ceiling in one room for a "room light"--my daughter was immediately smitten with the idea. Sturdy enough that I can move it from room to room (but I wouldn't want to do it all the time). Is it weird that they get everywhere by elevator? Sure, but honestly it frees up a ton of space in the house and the kids don't seem to notice how weird that is. So, I love it, they love it, and if you are looking for a "play house" then you and your kids might just love it too.

This dollhouse otherwise looks beautiful and high quality, but unfortunately it arrived missing a peg for the roof. We've tried every way we can think of to contact the seller to simply send a replacement peg, but either Amazon no longer offers this option, or the sequence/steps for how to contact a seller has changed and we can't figure out how to do it. They only seem to offer a full return of the item, which we really don't want to do since this is a Christmas gift and it's 99% built. This review is a last ditch effort to see if maybe Melissa & Doug will respond to us here and send a replacement peg.