Challenges that I overcame with this piece would be using the jigsaw to cut my lines straight & accurate, using wood glue to keep the wood glued together & finding something to cover the top of the birdhouse. I overcame these challenges by using tape to hold the pieces of wood together after gluing & finding & gluing sticks together to make a roof. The clay flower used as the hole was super successful & using blue as the color of the birdhouse worked with the color of the flower. My piece is a dwelling because birds could live there & is a very common thing.