Flever Gibon Sushi — Dollhouse Miniature DIY House Kit

Gibon Sushi is the kit that has been on our bench longest and has been refined the most. Two storeys of Japanese restaurant with a cherry tree against the gable, lanterns over the door, a sushi counter downstairs and a tatami room above it reached by an outside stair.

The blossom is the step people remember. You build the tree from a wire armature and attach the flowers individually, so no two finished kits have quite the same canopy. It is a long build and the instructions take it one bay at a time; nothing in it requires a tool you do not already have.

It is one of the larger kits on this shelf of 10 dollhouse kits, builders have left it 4.3 out of five across 1,825 notes, and the current run is nearly through.

A dollhouse is a story told in rooms, so Gibon Sushi starts as a drawing of the building and ends as a dozen boxes of loose parts — flowers for the garden, crockery for the shelves, a lamp for every landing. We build this miniature house kit once on our own bench before the first DIY kit leaves the workshop.