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Summerhouse review - a house-building toy that contains genuine magic


Our review of the house-doodling toy Summerhouse.

An example, and one that is close to my heart, is that Summerhouse is absolutely golden when it comes to making strip-malls, the sad single-storey stucco wonderlands beloved of Southern California. Take the off-white wall, set it halfway into the earth, whack on the convenience store door and then a few of those gorgeous medium-format windows with the ironwork and you're done. And when it's all done, Summerhouse has one final trick: the replay button, which brings your creations back into focus by working through their constructions one piece, one pop, one click at a time.

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