Barbie Dream House advice!

[34thStreet]

Can anyone tell me from experience roughly how long it takes to assemble one of these bad boys?! I’m trying to plot how many hours I need to set aside in case it may need to be done in advance..! 🥴

I didn’t think it was too bad at all. Less than an hour. It is well made and fits together pretty easily. You have to stick some stickers on which is probably the fiddliest bit.

I had heard it was awful, but agree, no more than an hour

I have no idea but I'm just popping by to say that I got a Sindy house one Christmas (WITH A LIFT) and at age 46 it is still hands down the best present I ever got.

Lucky DC 🤩

Good luck with the build, OP.

@Parmavi0lets Did it have a rooftop terrace too? I had one with a lift.

Yes it did! 😁

I did it in a an hour on Christmas Eve it wasn't that bad

About an hour.

But it is noisy (lots of clicking bits into place) so consider building it when kids are out the house.

I built it using a YouTube tutorial rather than the manual.

We did it Christmas Eve, took about an hour, I found the stickers were the trickiest bit!

Oh thanks for these lovely replies, especially you @Parmavi0lets 😁

An hour would be great - I’d be well happy with that! 🤞🏻😅 I’m usually okay with fiddly stickers, the build itself was worrying me, so this is very encouraging..!

Yeah, we were a bit worried when we opened the box, but it did go together very well & quite easily.
made a brilliant present!

We did it last Xmas eve- an hour to build and then another hour for the bloody stickers 😂
it was easier than the year before when we were outside at 1am trying to build a bloody trampoline 😆

Ooh OP I’m glad you posted this. I have a dreamhouse sat in my garage for my 5 year old and was imagining Dh spending hours building it on Christmas Day!

You've reminded me of the year I took the Playmobil Victorian house next door and sat on their lounge floor all afternoon building the bloody thing so I could take it home & wrap it up pre-built..😂

The actual build - about an hour. Dead easy.

The next 5 years of avoiding the great big pink bloody monstrosity or finding somewhere it can go, or dusting the stupid dust attracting thing - never ending.

My dd however adores it. Hope yours does too.

We have one for dd- can't decide whether to pre-assemble or give it to her in the box and build on Christmas Day?

Pre assemble definitely, makes it much more impressive!