Product Description

The signature piece of the Calico Critters collection, this 3-story home has nine rooms to design and decorate. The real-life attention to detail includes spiral staircase, front porch railing and steps, second story balcony and attachable front porch lanterns. Bay windows, upstairs French doors and front door open and close. It measures 17" x 17.5" x 17". It comes already assembled except for detailed accessories.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4873 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Calico Critters
• Model: CC1997
• Released on: 2007-02-01
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 19.50" h x 19.50" w x 18.25" l, 14.70 pounds

Features

• With 9 rooms to decorate and real-life details that include spiral staircase, front porch railing and second floor balcony.
• It also features bay windows, French doors, and front door that opens and closes.
• This Critter dream-house is packed with play value!
• Collect them all!
• Hours of creative, imaginative play time!

Editorial Review
This is where Calico Critter lawyers and doctors might choose to park the Calicadillac: a spacious three-story residence with dormer windows in the teal blue "tile" roof, a full porch, two bay windows that open and close, and other fancy features. The house is 18 inches high at the roof line, 18 inches wide, and 16 inches deep. Above the porch, French doors open on to a balcony. Turn the house around and you'll find that the back is open, revealing a spiral staircase and white balustrades, making it easy to arrange and furnish the eight distinct living spaces inside. --Richard Farr

From the Manufacturer
Cloverleaf Corners is a magical place of imagination, where animal families all live together, as well as play, laugh, learn and love. There are charming homes, playgrounds, toy shops, schools and more! Each parent is about 3" tall, child 2.25" tall, and baby 1.25" tall. The clothing is removable and everything is interchangeable. This is the Deluxe Village House.

Customer Reviews

So Glad We Bought This One!!
We were determined to give our daughter a dollhouse for her 3rd birthday. We considered FP Loving Family, Barbie, and half a dzoen chunky wooden dollhouses and accessories before settling on Calico Critters. She was enamored with the tiny animal families in the toy stores, which is what really helped us to decide.

I agree with a previous reviewer that the scale of the furniture is terribly tiny, but that is actually more appealing to our daughter, who is very petite and feminine and attracted to miniscule things. The house is not perfect... the rooms aren't sized appropriately for the furniture sets. However, my daughter likes to move furniture and rooms around from time to time anyway and isn't particular about such things. My biggest concerns are with sturdiness (4 out of 5) and play value (5 out of 5).

After 3 months, we are still very satisfied with this house. It is a winner with our young daughter, and even with our 5 yr. old son, as the house is NOT pink and purple and frilly, but somewhat realistic in color schemes, and he is fond of creating mouse adventures with his younger sister.

Best dollhouse on the market!
This is a gorgeous, well-built house, with windows and doors that open and close and other beautiful details like a spiral staircase and dormer windows. And the furniture and accessories sold separately are also adorable and well-made. I love the fact that the inhabitants of the house are animals --- they give it such a storybook quality.

My daughters (3 1/2 and 5) can't stop playing with their house and critter family. Sure, some of the accessories are tiny, but that's what seems to capture their attention and imaginations the most.

At first, I thought I'd buy a wooden house for them, but they hardly play with the one at their preschool -- it seems the boxy, generic furniture and accessories for those houses don't hold their interest for long. Not so with the Calico Critters house. They play for hours putting their critters to bed, giving them baths or setting up little picnics for them.

If you aren't sure which type of house your kids might like better, take them to a toy store where they have both houses set up. My daughters were drawn to the Calico Critters house in the toy store like magnets, so I could tell that was the one for us.

It's true, like another reviewer noted, that not all of the bathroom pieces will fit in one bathroom. Santa just took out the extra pieces that didn't fit! LOL! Also, Santa purchased some of the living room, bedroom and garden furniture from overseas because the Sylvanian Families line available there has more to choose from, including smaller room groups that seem to fit in the house better and are even cuter than what is available in the states. I hope Calico Critters expands their line in the U.S. to offer more of what is currently available under the Sylvanian Families' name.

The only complaint I have is the ladder included with the house to help the critters get to the third floor attic/nursery could have been designed better. It always falls down with even the slightest nudge because there is no way to secure it in place. Putting a lip on the ladder and a slit in the third floor where the ladder could "snap" in would be a nice touch.

Otherwise, the house is really perfect.

NOT FOR 3 YEAR OLDS
This set should really be for older kids and collectors. I purchased this for my 3 year olds birthday based on other reviews -Big Mistake. I also thought that becuase the accessories were realistic and colorful, it would capture my 3 year old interest better than the wooden sets.
The accessories for the rooms are really small (think of the smallest Barbie accessories-ie perfume bottles) that YOU have to put stickers on. I don't think any 3-4 year old has the dexterity to manipulate them. So I just put most of them away so we don't lose them. Some of them also have stickers on the back for permanent placement, which for a 3 year old is not a plus.
I also found it difficult to fit the furniture sets in the smaller rooms. I still haven't found a room that holds all of the bathroom furniture.
My daughter does like the critters themselves and the nursery/bedroom/living room sets. However she plays with this toy maybe once a month. Better to invest in one of the wooden doll houses ( she always plays with them in the stores).