I like the dog house its cute, but the instructions are hopeless especially when it comes to where to place the hinges but overall pretty good its the top part doesn't line up exactly maybe if I was a builder I could have managed to make it work it was relatively quick and easy to put together excluding hinges. Also I dont know if I need to lacquer it as there were no instructions regarding that, over all its cute but dog wont have a bar of it I think he thinks he might get trapped in there maybe if it had a window he woild go in