TRIXIE Natura Lodge Dog House, 39.5" L X 35.5" W X 32.5" H

For the price I think this is a very good deal. You'd want to insulate it if you were using it for a dog outdoors, and the size is really only suitable for small-medium dogs. I agree with people who mention that the floor could use a chunk of wood to support the center brace. If you live somewhere very cold and want something extremely sturdy you should be planning to spend more money. However, it's cute & easy to put together. We actually got it for our pair of ducks, and the fact that the roof opens up is ideal. Assembled in a couple of hours. The box was battered to s#!% when it arrived but the house was fine.

Ordered this dog house and the package arrived today but after unpacking I realized that not all the parts had arrived. Upon closer inspection the manufacturer's label says in big bold letters "Package 2 of 2". UPS tracking only indicates one box was shipped. So call Amazon customer service and tell them about the missing box. They tell me that only one box comes with particular item. I offer to send them a photo of the box showing otherwise but they say they have no way to find the missing box. They offer to send me another one in hopes that two boxes will arrive on the next shipment and I can send the one incomplete box back. If you order this product and only one box arrives please don't unpack it. Otherwise repacking it and returning it will be quite difficult. I'll let everyone know what happens with the second shipment.

It’s a good product… when it’s made right. Mine came broken and snow was on its way so I just decided to fix it. I glued everything in place and re-enforced with a nail gun on places that wiggled too much for my liking.I couldn’t figure out how to get ahold of the company on Amazon. It would be nice to have a partial refund since the dog house came damaged.I’m keeping it because it is a good quality dog house especially after I fixed the damage.

Alright so the only good thing I have to say about this buy is that after an hour of searching and finding the company that actually sells this, they were really good about sending the parts that IT DIDNT EVEN COME WITH and the manual free of charge which was nice.Ok so this is for a REALLY small dog. The picture where it shows a rather large lab in it, is a lie -_- my dog practically army crawls to get in there. The floor boards broke within the first week.We actually went to our local hardware store and got a 2x4 along with our circular saw and my husbands handy man techniques, and we reinforced the entire bottom, since then we've had no issues with the floorboard-but now they're not removable. Also the parts that you attach to the hatch broke off when we had a strong gust of wind blew the top off. I mean it does its job after my dog actually gets in it, and after some extra work it's alright. It's definitely not for a large dog AT ALL, and not a long term dog house.

We just received the second box on this. They shipped together, both of them were supposedly out for delivery by UPS 4 days ago. The first box was delivered, but the second was not. The tracking showed it had arrived in town the same time as the first box, and then nothing else. Finally it showed up as having arrived in town again last night and was finally delivered today.The packaging is a bit marginal for such heavy items and the second box was a bit torn up. There was a tiny bit of damage to the contents, but a couple of extra screws and a bit of epoxy took care of it.One nice thing..all the screws and bolts are attached to cards identifying the part numbers. And there is one extra of each type of screw.Second, the design has been updated since the photos here. There are now 2 more legs, right in the middle, under the peak of the roof. Its pretty solid now. I was able to get inside for part of the assembly. You need to be a bit careful where you step (I am 200 lbs), but if you keep your weight near the edges of the floor panels while standing, its fine. You just don't want to concentrate all your weight on one of the floor boards. Sitting down is just fine.Overall, assembly is pretty easy. It helps to have 2 people for getting the nuts on some of the bolts, but I managed most of it on my own.The instructions are OK, but not very detailed. For tools, you need a #2 Phillips screwdriver, preferably powered, and with a somewhat long bit or extension. An inch is OK, 2" is better. You also need a 10mm socket wrench, and it should be pretty small in outside diameter.There are a few things to watch out for. First the parts list shows two "battens" which are part of the central wall. They are NOT the same. Almost, but the bolt holes are different. Check the bolt hole match with the front and rear walls to see which way is up, and then look VERY carefully at the "not very big" assembly drawing to see which side goes to the "porch". Yes, I got it wrong and had to redo it. Second, there are 4 floor panels listed, they are ALL different. They only fit one way, but its pretty obvious when you look at the dimensions and corner cut outs.When bolting all the walls together, I found it useful to loosely tighten all the nuts then get the floor panels in and everything squared up, then do final tightening.The one place its really helpful to have 2 people is when installing the hinged roof. The roof panel is pre-hinged to a wooden frame member that becomes the top of the side wall. But its short and hard to hold in alignment while getting the screws started. If you have help, get someone to hold the roof vertically while you put in the 3 screws that go in from the inside. Then close the roof and put in the two screws from the outside. (this is where you need that longer Phillips screwdriver bit, since the screws are up under the roof)The trickiest part of all is the folding braces that latch the roof panel fully open. They give you some predrilled holes in the roof panel, but nothing on the front and rear walls. The problem is that the position of the brackets on the walls is very critical. If you get it wrong the roof will not close, and you might damage the hinges or the wood frame member they are attached to when you close the roof the first time.The easy way to take care of this is to just get inside, close the roof and put the screws in. The brackets need to be at the very bottom of the upper rails of the walls, and at the right distance from the hinge. It is pretty obvious once you are inside and can see how things want to fit. But its impossible to tell from the outside. You could do some very careful measurements about the distance of the brace pivots from the hinge line (should be the same within about .1", with the bottom pivot being the same or .1" longer distance from the hinge line as the upper pivot point.) Anyway, with the large size dog house, it was reasonable to just climb inside and do the brackets.The final thing is that the box says the wood is finished, but it really seems bare to me. It does have a nice fresh smell, and the quality of the wood is pretty nice.The legs have screw in adjustments for the height so its easy to get it to sit solidly on an slightly uneven surface. The plastic legs also slide pretty easily on our state patio, which is nice because the doghouse is nearly 90 lbs.Anyway, we really like the dog house. I would give it 5 stars on design and value and quality for the price. The issue is the assembly. Labeling the parts that can be confused would help, as would some templates or predrilled holes for the roof braces. So, overall, I will give it a 4 out of 5. And, they obviously fixed some of the problems that previous reviewers commented about. So, if you like the looks of this one, and you are reasonably competent about assembling things, then yes, this is a good doghouse to get.One final thing.. Our dog is named Trixi, and its nice that they have a little plate with her name on the front wall.. even if they did spell her name wrong (Trixie). ;-)

I loved this dog house from the moment I saw it! Of course, it was sold out everywhere I looked. It finally came back in stock and I scooped one up. A few days later (it hadn't even close me in yet) and I found it for $70 cheaper! Despite that, my dog loved it until a pine 🐍 decided to crawl into it. Now I can't get him to go back in it...

This product is absolute garbage. Very poorly made. I'm going to spend most of my day trying to glue it back together because it'll all fallen apart right out of the box. And I mean pieces that are supposed to be pre-made are simply falling apart into pieces. A huge mess. Wood is light, cheap, brittle. Screws don't hold and strip out immediately. There's just no way to make a functional structure out of these construction methods and materials. Avoid at all costs. I expect mine to be in the trash heap by the end of the week.