Farmhouse with Barn

Lay the farmhouse front wall flat on the table, engraved side up. Each window: its sill into the wall, the vellum against the sill, the frame into the sill's notches, then the head over the frame's top tabs. The sill and the head are the same shape, so either one does either job. The doors go on the same way, on their step with a head over the top.

Lay the barn front wall flat, engraved side up. The step, the doors' vellum against it, then the doors into the step's notches. The sign shelf goes over the doors' top tabs. Stand the sign board in the shelf's other two notches and press the cornice on over its top tabs. Push the wreath peg through the doors and the wall from the front, then hang the wreath on it.

Lay the floor flat. It carries both buildings, with a tealight opening in the middle of each.

The farmhouse's left side wall, the one with the big opening, is shared with the barn. It goes on first: push its two tabs straight down into the two slots in the barn's part of the floor.

Slide the front wall in from the front: its bottom tabs drop into the floor's front notches and its corner tabs go into the shared wall.

The back wall slides in from the back the same way.

The right side wall slides in from its side and finishes the farmhouse. It meets two walls at once: seat one corner, then the other.

The right roof panel goes on first (the one with the chimney slots). Its slots drop over the tabs along the tops of the front and back walls.

Then the left panel. Its top edge runs on past the ridge and laps over the top of the right panel, so the ridge closes tight with no gap for the light.

Build the chimney off the house first. Start with the tall wall, then slide the two angled side walls in from the sides, brick faces out, sloped edges toward the bottom. Slide the short wall in to close the box. Then set the chimney on the roof: its tabs go into the roof slots and the sloped edges sit flat on the roof.

The porch is built as one piece in front of the house. Stand the two posts up, slide the porch deck up onto their bottoms and drop the porch roof onto their tops. Then push the whole porch into the front wall: the deck slides in under the door's step, and the deck's and the roof's tabs go into their slots at once.

The skirts slide in under the porch deck's edges, the front one from the front and each side one from its side, and tab up into it.

Push each icicle trim half's tabs up into the row of slots near the front edge of the roof. The two halves meet at the peak.

The barn's two end walls stand on the floor with no floor tabs. Push the barn front wall's corner tabs sideways into the front column of slots in the shared wall, then the barn back wall into the back column.

The barn's outer side wall slides in from the side: the pockets at its ends go over both barn walls' tabs and its bottom tabs drop into the floor's outer notches.

The barn roof panel with the short eave goes on first, on the farmhouse side: its edge just butts up to the farmhouse wall.

Then the outer panel. Its top edge laps over the top of the inner panel at the ridge.