The bunk bed lands on the rug already made up, two mattresses, two pillows and two quilts on a wheat metal frame. Mum takes the top bunk in her coral dotted nightgown with her eye mask pulled down. Dad is still up, standing beside the bed in his blue and cream striped pajamas with his mask pushed up on his forehead, held on his feet by the sand coloured stand. The cigar box the two of them arrived in sits open on the floor below.

What's in the box

• Mum & Dad Mice in Cigarbox: padded eye masks that push up on the forehead or pull down for the night, Mum and Dad size at 16 cm (6.3 in), Maileg item 17-5313-00.
• Mouse Bunk Bed, Wheat: a wheat metal bunk bed that arrives with two mattresses, two pillows and two quilts in ticking stripe and small floral prints, Mouse size, Maileg item 11-6101-00.
• Mouse Display Stand, Medium: a sand colored metal stand 5 cm (2.0 in) tall, an oval base with maileg pressed into it and a wire that opens at the top into a waist ring, so a mouse stands instead of lying face down. Medium is the size Maileg makes for Mum, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa mice. Maileg item 11-5123-00.

Mum and Dad are Mum and Dad size, 16 cm (6.3 in), the biggest mice in the family, so grown-up clothes and grown-up beds fit them. The bunk bed is Mouse size, the size that suits the whole family, so it takes the two of them now and the smaller mice later. The stand is the Medium, the one Maileg makes for Mum, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa size mice, and it is the piece that keeps a mouse standing on a shelf instead of lying face down.

This is the set for the child whose mouse house has children in it and no parents yet, and for the collector who wants the whole family accounted for. When the rest of the house needs filling, here is the rest of the Maileg mice and their furniture.