Today’s build is LEGO set 376, “Town House with Garden”, from 1978: (229 pieces)
This house in particularly interesting because it’s hinged, so it can be closed up like a real house, or open to play with the inside like a dollhouse. Aside from requiring 2 hinge bricks, the important parts can all be made from basic building bucket pieces.
PDF instructions (6 pages, requires 3 sheets if printed double sided)
And if you’re interested Cubiculus has an LDraw file for this model as well as renderings and ldraw created building instructions. But I think the official instructions are a little easier to follow.
Our Build
When we built this, we were, ahem, running quite short on roof tiles and I ended up having to substitute some plain bricks which really didn’t look as nice…but in the end it didn’t matter because this model got taken apart by a grumpy three year old before it was “finished” anyhow. But I really liked the hinges that let you open and close the house, makes it very playable if you want to put minifigs inside.
