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Flever Leisure Years — DIY Miniature Book Nook Kit
$19.98
Leisure Years is disguised as a leather-bound volume: a printed spine on the outside, and inside a reading room with shelves, a desk lamp and a window at the back. Closed on a shelf it genuinely does not announce itself.
It is the smallest nook we make and the quickest to finish — an evening rather than a weekend. The spine panel is a single printed piece, so the trompe-l'oeil is handed to you. The interior lighting is one warm strand tucked behind the shelf edge.
It sits at the lower end of this shelf of 5 book nooks, it is new enough that the 4.3 rating rests on a handful of notes, and the current run is nearly through.
We design our book nooks the way we design the dollhouse kits: a story first, then the rooms the story needs, then the boxes of loose parts — flowers, lanterns, crates — that make the little world of Leisure Years look lived in. Every piece of this DIY miniature house kit is cut and test-built in our own workshop.
- SectionBook Nooks
- What it isA lit alleyway that lives between your paperbacks
- Builder rating4.3 out of 5 · 6 notes
- On the shelfLow stock
- Shipping weight1.3
- Price when we looked$19.98
What arrives in your Flever miniature kit
- Numbered laser-cut layers that set up the forced perspective.
- An LED light wire and battery pack, with a sensor on two of the models.
- Printed brick, stone and ivy sheets, paper flowers and small signage.
- Glue, tweezers, tape and a sanding stick.
- A plexiglass pane where the design calls for a window.
- A photographed booklet, layer by layer.
How the DIY build goes
- Measure the height of your bookshelf gap — a nook has to clear the shelf above it, lamp and all.
- Choose by the light: the alley scenes glow warm and low, the library and castle models throw harder shadows.
- If it is going on an office shelf rather than at home, pick one of the quieter designs without a sign.
Every Flever book nook is designed and cut in our own workshop, and built once on our bench before the first one is packed.
Notes from people who built it
“I enjoyed the challenge of this kit. It is one that requires a lot of patience, but gives you an end result that is so satisfying. The only thing I didn't like about it is the electrical. The light is not nearly bright enough. I ended up adding a second light of my own to it so that you could actually see the details.”
Quoted as written by builders on the listings for these kits.
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