My father made a wooden one for my girls for last Christmas, so they were just 4 and nearly 2. DD2 has only started playing "properly" with it in the last few months, but they both love it Can't see either of them growing out of it for quite a few years. My mother-in-law does folk art and she did all the painting so it's just beautiful, I'll be sad when they do get too big!

If you do get one, get the Early Learning Centre furniture. It's really tough and you can leave out anything that's a bit too small (like books for the study set!) We had some other stuff from Ebay and it started breaking really quickly.