The Dark Family DIY Book Nook Kit

A Perfectly Normal Family Home. Mostly.

There’s a warm fireplace plenty of books family portraits—and a severed hand displayed in a wooden casket. Upstairs isn’t much more reassuring. Dark Family turns the idea of a cozy family home wonderfully sideways creating a Gothic little household where nobody seems particularly concerned about the ghosts.

The Longer You Look the Worse It Gets

Start downstairs with the bookshelf fireplace mounted wolf head and suspiciously prominent guillotine. Then head upstairs, where spiderweb windows black bats white candles and caged ghosts are waiting. Every new detail raises another question. Very few of them have comforting answers.

Something Knows You’re There

Walk past and the motion sensor automatically illuminates the house. Candles windows and shadowy corners emerge from the darkness without you touching a switch—which is convenient although perhaps not especially reassuring in a house already occupied by ghosts.

Assemble the Evidence Against This Family

Follow the step-by-step instructions as you build the rooms furniture Gothic architecture and increasingly questionable decorations piece by piece. It’s an entertaining screen-free project with an unusual reward at the end: a tiny household you probably wouldn’t want as your actual neighbors.

For Someone Whose Favorite Color Is Probably Black

They like Gothic interiors strange antiques horror movies dark humor and objects that make other people ask “Why do you own that?” Give them a miniature family home that requires absolutely no explanation to the right person.