We've had Kidkraft and Barbie houses in our household, and my youngest daughter had a Kidkraft dollhouse that I didn't take into account the sizing of her room as it took up a large portion of one wall. And as someone who likes to change their furniture around every couple of months, there was not much I could do with this massive, pink eye sore. Luckily Amazon has this dollhouse as a recommendation as I never knew there was one that you could move around! I ended up getting it for my daughter's birthday, and this is the best thing ever! I had one kid come up to me to let me know, there wasn't much she was jealous over that my daughter received as presents, except that doll house. LOL!!!! Packaging was amazing, and not one dent was on this set. I managed to put it together by myself in two hours. Probably because I put a few things on backwards, but that's ok. Basically when putting it together you build one room at a time. The first "room" was the full length bottom, then the secondary separate rooms on top of that one, and finally the two roof rooms. Super easy, everything looked great! To connect the dollhouse rooms together, included are these beige pins. You have two parts to it. The first part you stick in the holes in the floors that are on each four sides of the rooms. Once those are in place, you insert the pins, the smaller connectors, inside the hole, and they snap into place in the outer ring. To remove, you push up from the bottom on the inner pin, and it shoves it up, and then you can remove the outer ring. I had to really work on some of those pins to get them out, but otherwise, amazing concept! Also, kudos to the builders who LABELED the screws and parts on the back of the package! They truly made a parent's life easier! I didn't have to flip over all the screws to see what I was opening. The bed, and accessories went in perfectly, and the toilet makes a noise with a push of a button, and the lamp comes on. We've had this in two different configurations so far, and my kids love it! Yes, the Kidkraft has a little more pizazz than this one, and more items in the large one we had her such as a pool, but this is so streamlined, and aesthetically pleasing to my eyes, and tons of fun for my kids. I love that you can push this out and play on both sides (no more fighting that there isn't enough room), and that it's so interchangeable. While this says you only have three various configurations, technically, you can also take it apart and have each room next to each other in a line with the roof pieces on each end. The roof sections on the ground level won't attach to the middle piece as the attachments are on the floor of each room, but since it's on the floor it's fine. Truly this is an amazing piece of work, and while there isn't tons of bells and whistles, I personally feel this will last a long while, and perhaps I can preserve it when they're too old for it. A great piece, looks amazing, the configuration's truly won me over on this, and it's on par with the other Kidkraft wooden dollhouses. The floor does feel better on this one as is it doubled, so to speak, since you're putting a room with a floor on top of a room with a roof. I did get this on sale for $150, which I think is a little up on price considering you can get a Kidkraft for $100-120 during sales. But, at the same time, this is so unique in design. My daughter's love it, and I truly recommend it! **Year Later Update** So we've had this for nearly a year, and I had this at five stars. Sadly, I bumped it down to four stars due to the newness wearing off, and my daughter not playing with this like she did her old KidKraft one. Why you ask? Because it isn't a giant pink eyesore, that has all the bells and whistles. Truly, the main reason is the play area's in each room are smaller, and it's harder to navigate. While my pictures make it seem so open, the roof areas are small with a portion of a wall on one, making the play area narrow. Then the bottom pieces have a portion of a wall so it's hard to maneuver her Barbie's down there. And if we flip it with the doors facing outward, you still have limited play. In a year's time, my daughter played with this very little considering she was playing with the KidKraft almost every day. My other daughter has a Barbie house in her room, and my youngest will go in there and play with hers. Now that her birthday is looming again, she's asked for a new dollhouse like her old KidKraft one. So mama's, its cute for us, still pleasing to the eye, it is a hassle to pop out those beige clips to rearrange it, and it's not as open as the Barbie or KidKraft brands due to the narrowness of the rooms and the borders around some of the rooms. It's still freaking cute, but if she doesn't play with it, then it's not worth it.
