Customer Reviews

Deluxe Wood Barn with Cupola 

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The parents of two horsey girls, we have assembled five Breyer barns over the past few years. Without exception, each barn, however cute, has been poorly machined in one way or another, making assembly a ridiculous chore.

Breyer barns wouldn't be considered a fiscal bargain by any measure. For the money and being that assembly is required, we expected the pre-drilled holes to line up (at least most of the time), the number of screws to be adequate and the wood to be a little higher quality.

If you are fortunate enough to be a little handy, have the right drill bits, are able to get correctly sized additional screws and possess a lot of patience, in the end these are really neat cute barns. The aesthetic design is A+, the quality, as received (prior to assembly) is a C.

In the end, our horsey girls love their barns, they have provided a darling backdrop for countless hours of creative play.

I absolutely never write reviews for anything however, to keep others from making the same mistake that we made I am taking a moment to share our story. Christmas Eve had arrived and my husband and I spent almost 3 hours trying too make this barn work for our daughters big Santa gift. The quality of wood was not good, the pieces kept breaking and the holes were not even close to aligning the inside stalls correctly so that the outside walls could properly fit on the barn. After trying, so determinedly, to make this barn work for Christmas morning we had to throw in the towel and write a note on the box from Santa apologizing for the poor quality of the barn that his elves just couldn't put together for her. Although the design of this barn is quite lovely, we will never buy a Breyer barn again. Given the price, the lack of quality and the horrible preparation for assembly we were extremely disappointed. I will say, that Amazon has a wonderful return process which has made a nice ending to the Christmas Eve disaster.

Well, we started building this after my Birthday. VERY VERY VERY Hard to build. We had to get the "Handy Man" to build it and even he said it was hard. The holes are in the wrong places. I was missing one of the wood pieces to the feed trough. That was kinda sad. It was hard to build but after that building is over it is a very fun barn! Love it after it was built!!!!!