Cathy's Flower House By Robotime - An Expanded Personal Review. - (2024)

Today I will be creating a Robotime miniature kit review from the kit called ‘Cathy’s Flower House’, aka “DIY miniature model kit Gracie Greenhouse”. Simply because it’s one of the three kits from Robotime that I got for my birthday (what a surpriiiise it was, I was so happy !)

In a previous article, I was talking about all the different kinds of dollhouse kits that I found on Amazon and others.

By the way, have you seen all of my DIY miniature kits light up at night yet? 😉 Including Cathy’s Flower House!

Ok, let’s just dive right into things!

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Cathy’s Flower House- An Oversight and instruction manual.

Product name of this mini house: Robotime Miniature Kit DIY DG104-Cathy’s Flower House.

Place(s) to buy:

Amazon. Or straight from the manufacturer Robotime.

Owners:

Robotime, aka Rolife, a little more info:

Robotime was founded in 2007 and specializes in educational toys for children and adults.

They were the first to offer worldwide puzzles in 3D Assemblage Technologie and have more than 400 DIY Wooden model puzzle pieces.

This allows children to assemble their own music boxes and dollhouses, alone or with a parent. To make it even more fun, Robotime also has DIY wooden model kits with LED lights and music. Children ànd adults will have hours of fun with these great DIY kits!

I will dive deeper into the 3D puzzles in a later article, once I or a family member has assembled it 🙂

Overall rank of this DIY dollhouse:

Warranty:

30-day refund or replacement

Cathys Greenhouse kit: an Overview:

Unique Robotime miniature kit to make a miniature greenhouse.

Look out gardeners, put that trowel down, because it’s time to make your own miniature greenhouse, complete with LED lighting.

This do-it-yourself miniature room model will keep you busy for hours while you cut, fold, glue, and transform the supplied pieces into wonderful souvenirs. This is a great project for a grandparent to complete with a child or the perfect gift for people who love crafting.

Not suitable for children, unless accompanied by adults.

Robotimes Greenhouse: the content:

This Greenhouse DIY kit contains the following materials:

• Wood, paper, cloth, and metal parts
• Illustrated manual
• ( I now have the English manual uploaded on my website in a PDF-file )
• Brush
• Glue and 1 tweezer
• 2 batteries

Already painted. A total of 231 pieces. Average time to build: 20 hours.

The Scale is: 1/24

Measurements: – 195mm high x 175mm wide x 175mm deep.

4 Tips on Extra Materials that You Could Need to Assemble Cathy’s Flowerhouse

• Tip 1: If you run out of glue or the glue isn’t included in the kit, then you can buy the exact same one on Amazon so I’ve been told.

• TIP 2: In my experience, I have found that using a ‘Fingertip Crafting knife‘ from the brand Fiskars, is a very handy tool indeed!

• TIP 3: Have spareelectric wires(1mm) andheat shrinkable tubesavailable, because trust me: you will break a lot of them, especially in the beginning.
  

• TIP 4: Another tip that I recently found out is that for gluing wires together, and to have it happen more quickly, it is better to use “fast grab Tacky glue“, instead of the glue from the kits or using super glue. (trust me!)
  

A Robotime Review: Cathys Greenhouse Kit

The Good & the Bad :

The Good.

• Very decent material, although made in China haha
• You love to assemble miniatures, but you don’t want to saw them yourself or don’t have the right material or space to do so. Like the craft saw: material to use for crafting or craft table saw: another material to use for crafting.
• very colorful and a lot of fantasy came into this kit
• You don’t need anything else to start out, there are 2 different types of glue included + a brush + tweezers. You would just need some (fine) scissors and a ruler.
  UPDATE : I have seen people saying that this is not always the case!
• Most of it is very easy to do, you might get into some trouble with the plants, but I read on Facebook that I am not the only one struggling with them 🙂
• non-toxic and sustainable materials

The Bad.

• A missing piece! Not something crucial, cause there are so many pieces in this kit, but still..
  (See the link below to get a replacement for parts)
• sometimes the colors of the same piece of furniture are slightly different.
• the instruction manual could be more detailed and less confusing. The instructions for Miller’s Garden were a lot easier, for example.
• the pieces that should be together in 1 bag, so you could find them easier to put 1 piece of furniture together, are divided between several bags, thus it takes a long time to find all pieces.

  I am a fan of puzzles, so I don’t mind, but I’ve seen reviews of people giving the kit 1 star only because of this. I think that is a bit exaggerated honestly! But that’s just my opinion 🙂

Cathys Flower House: my personal walkthrough and issues.

• Picture number 1 :

The door wasn’t made of ‘transparent paper’ as it said in the manual, but transparent plastic. I could live with that, but it was the first thing I had to make, so that started out confusing.

• Picture numbers 2 and 3.

I had to cut these 2 pieces into 3 pieces each. Turned out I have to paint over 2 edges because of this. Luckily I still have brown acrylic paint, so not a big deal honestly.

• Picture numbers 4 and 5.

You need to unfold the red rope, cut it, and then make a flower out of it. Well, this was irritating to do, so I just used some of my own (red) crêpe paper and that was so much easier!

Look at the difference, the red one on the right is made with my own paper! I have no clue why they would make it that hard, just add another piece of the paper that’s red, like the yellow piece of paper!

• Picture number 6.

This picture is from someone else, the different colors for parts happened to me as well, I forgot to take a picture.

• Picture number 7

As you can see, the ‘floor’ was bent, which made it hard to glue all the side pieces together.

This brings us to picture number 8 as a result: I had to cut off a piece because the greenhouse wasn’t fitting at all to the floor anymore.

• Picture number 8.

I needed to put them away in a box so that my cats couldn’t get to them 🙂

But in the end, it was surely worth the hassle, look at the pictures of the progress and the small video I made off the result on Youtube, isn’t it pretty!?

Find support from Robotime for these DIY dollhouses!

You can find a lot of videos from Robotimes miniature kits on YouTube and pictures on Facebook. You could contact them through Facebook or email in case of problems.

• I am getting a lot of questions on how to contact them: this is their official email support: Jack.deng@robotime.com. (people seem to be getting the most help for missing pieces etc through this mail ).
  

• Missing or broken parts? Now Robotime replaces them for free!

  You just need to pay for the shipping costs and it doesn’t matter where you bought the miniature kit.

  Follow THIS LINK to get replacements.

Extras:

Dustcovers, are very handy if you want to make several kits!

My Final Opinion of Robotime Miniature Kit Cathy’s Flower House

Cathy’s flower house is overall a very nice dollhouse miniature kit. It has decent quality and hours and hours of fun. A few mistakes here and there, but nothing I can’t overcome.

Any questions? Then leave a comment below or you can now join my newest Facebook group or Youtube channel.

I wish you happy crafting!

Best regards,

Lizzy

Related article:

• 11 Greenhouse DIY dollhouse kits reviews

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