Village Inn

Lay the long front wall flat on the table, engraved side up. The doors go on first: the step, the vellum against it, the doors into the step's notches, then the hood over their top tabs. Then the two downstairs windows: sill, vellum, frame, hood, and a snow cap in each hood's front slots. Each window goes on the same way, as shown above.

The four upstairs windows go on the same way, with no snow caps: a cap would hit the roof's overhang.

Hold the left end wall engraved side out. From the outside, push the sign's tenon through the slot near the front edge, with the sign's engraved face toward the front. From the inside, slide the wedge through the hole in the tenon, thin end first and toward the front edge, until it stops about halfway. The wedge alone holds the sign.

Lay the floor flat, tealight opening in the middle. Stand the left end wall on its end of the floor, sign facing out, and slide it in so its bottom tabs drop into the floor's notches.

The long front wall slides in from its side and meets the left end wall at the corner. The corner tabs mesh like fingers: work them together a little at a time.

The right end wall slides in from its end and locks into the long front wall the same way.

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

The back roof panel goes on first (the one without the chimney slots). Its slots drop over the tabs along the tops of the two end walls.

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

Build each 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 it on the front roof panel: its tabs go into the roof slots and the sloped edges sit flat on the roof.