LEGO FRIENDS OLIVIA'S HOUSE 3315

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The butterflies, ladybugs and rosebuds are all about the same size and shape and are identical bright red so they can sometimes seem to be just red blobs scattered about, so I didn't really care for them. The lamps outside the front door are a quaint detail, as is the further pink awning over the window. The swing is imaginatively constructed from the technic pieces and I’m so glad TLG haven’t shied away from including them. The front of the bedroom has a lovely balustrade outside the window, and the dark pink 1x1 flower edged plates are put to good use to decorate this.

Here’s a better view of the actual-size picture, and with this you can also better see the slight patterning with butterflies, stars, paw-prints and flowers, which are actually pleasantly subtle. Bag one also contains a high number of mini-bags, mainly because the legs and torsos of the figures are individually wrapped. From this side you can see that there’s a refrigerator, complete with shelves and salt and pepper pots on top. She has had no issues looking at the picture and just understanding how the pieces go together to build the day's item (some more complicated than others). The trans blue pieces to the far left are most intriguing, but if you draw your eyes away you can see a good number of medium blue 2x2 tiles, a few pink pieces, including working drawers (yay!

The walls are made up of mostly panels rather than a bunch of smaller bricks, I guess to make the large decals fit and probably also to make it a simpler build.

One of the delights of 8403 Family Home (City House) was that there was a modicum of furniture provided. The doorways between the bedroom and bathroom line up, and the bases for the kitchen and sitting room extend out beyond the main body of the house. The build follows the same colour scheme as before, and the pink awning over the front door is all that’s needed to give the impression of a lot of pink.While this set isn't very girly per say, it's great, and I'm sure it will be popular amongst the little girls. I'm going to say this set is worth an Average; there are some very cool techniques involved (such as the use of garage doors for the shower) and the final build looks okay too. It should also be remembered that this set is SYSTEM, and thus completely compatible with minifigs, who can be swapped in to replace the Friends figures if they don’t appeal.