The Creek Cabin

I first planned to design a forest hut next to a river. This forest hut would have things like beehives, gardens and way more food sources close by. But the idea subsided once I finished the 'river'. It was the size of a simple creek... Hence, The Creek Cabin was born.

I like to build official Lego sets and use the techniques and inspirations in my own projects. Combining my favorite aspects of several sets and mixing this with my own creativity, result in projects like The Creek Cabin :). The base structure (a diorama) is partially based of the Tranquil Garden set, featuring a black base with dark tan mud, green grass, and a body of water. I wanted to add elevation and decided the build in sections: The flower garden + treestump, the creek, the cabin, the other garden, and the pig pen. After covering every part of the build in 'grass', I added the structures and all decoration (plants and flowers). For the hut, I left a hole for the crawling space. I built the modular hut sections to fit perfectly on their respective places. After all base structures were done, I added a bunch of plants and flowers and a colorful stone patch.

I love to put small details in my designs, just to say a few: The sides of the build have a 1x4 brick dent to pick the set up easier (just like the eiffel tower). Also from the eiffel tower, I used a lot of red, white and blue parts for the inside structure (but this time the colors represent the dutch flag). I hid multiple frogs in the build (even one in the crawling space, this one is sipping from the suspicious barrel...), the bird on top of the roof has an egg, there are mushrooms in the crawling space, and only one of the pigs is eating oats (like in the 'brother, may I have some oats' meme).

The story:

The story actually formed after I had designed the entire build and got to the minifigure part. The cabin is owned by the older man and woman. Their son is visiting with his wife and their 3 kids. The grandfather likes to fish, the grandmother waters the plants, their son helps in the garden while his wife takes pictures of their children. There is enough to do around the cabin, from exploring to inspecting bugs or playing with the animals (cat/rabbit/feeding the pigs). The story does bring me back to the times I visited one of my grandparents with my family :).

The build has 3394 parts and 7 minifigures

The build has 0 stickers (I don't like stickers, I prefer printed parts or no stickers at all)