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Hi all. This is my first post to this forum and my first time building a dollhouse. I have read many topics and tips here and want to thank you all for the helpful information! I am attaching a couple photos of the Garfield kit that I am building: the bathroom (with a mahogany washstand I made); the kitchen, the almost finished living room and one of the entryway before I added the stairs.

Hi from CT! The Garfield is my first dollhouse build. Very excited! Has anyone primed the sheets before punching out the pieces or would it be best to prime piece by piece as I go along so it's not even more difficult getting the pieces out?

Hi from the Houston area of Texas, I just purchased the Garfield and patiently waiting for it arrive. I've read many many comments about the building of the Garfield and a lot of people have complained about the directions. All of the complaints were from years ago (2008/2009) and was curious if Greenfield has updated the directions at all. Most of the complaints were that the directions were hard to follow/understand but everyone has their ways of learning.

I haven't posted much lately; the girls are finally back in school (with its own dramas and 3 different school runs daily) and I'm studying part-time as well (psychology - I guess I may venture into the "dollhouse addiction" field hehehehe. How does Dr Dollhouse sound?). After much soul-searching, I gave away my half-built puzzle house to my DH friend Mary, as it was irritating me beyond belief and the quality was very poor. Yay for me for de-cluttering! My roombox shopping mall idea is morphing into a full-scale mall.... I found all these amazing miniature wire garden furniture pieces, gazebos, swings, trellis fences, round benches around trees.... sigh. The ladies at the craft store thought I was nuts: first I bought about $150 worth (which Mary promptly bought from me), so I had to go back to buy the rest - literally, there is almost nothing left! I am now considering placing the 9 Ikea boxes all facing outward, in a large rectangle shape. The inner empty section will become a courtyard. So each box needs a door cut out of the back wall to reach the courtyard area. That will give me some more scope to decorate those outer walls too. I guess I'll need a large wooden base to build everything on. I want to glue velcro strips underneath each box to keep them in position. Then I can decorate the courtyard garden with grass, trees and all the furniture. I also found a children's modular playground (just about 1:12 scale) - 3 different styles/colours (naturally, I just HAD to buy them all). This can also go in the courtyard section. And I found some really cute 1:12 scale plastic prams (in the cheap supermarket toy section of all places). They are horrible neon colours, I may paint them silver for the pipe sections. These can go in the baby accessory shop. The box with the most goodies so far, is the nightclub: I have a bunch of little pink square speakers (for iPods), black and pink checkerboard felt for the floor and pink giftwrap (handmade paper) with silver glitter circles and a little disco ball. I just don't know how I'm going to get any people made with all the crazy stuff happening. At least if I get the mall in a workable shape, it may tell me what kind of people it wants: the detailed resin figures on Amazon or more relaxed figures with real clothing. And then I was innocently browsing on Amazon the other night, looking over the 500+ items on my "saved for later" list and .... BAM! There was a HUGE discount on a Lily dollhouse..... I just couldn't resist unfortunately! The Dubai couriers delivered her this morning. My bemused husband had to accept it, as I was at the girls' piano lessons. Luckily I had sold some of my stock of artist canvases and that paid for the shipping - no way I could sneak THIS one into the house hehehehehe. Cue Pinterest and all the gorgeous paint jobs in New Orleans - I'm very excited about this one. Decor-wise: Interview with a Vampire style or more French Quarter in the 1800's? Have any of you built a Lily? There isn't much out there in Google-land. Now I have my beady eye on Amazon in case a Brimbles Mercantile shows up with a mark-down hahahahaha! I will have to start uploading some pictures of my crazy finds in the supermarket toy sections - all plastic, but so cheap and irresistible!