Today’s review will be fairly brief, as we take a look at another of Xingbao’s room furnishing sets. Last time, we built our Xingbao family a home gym. This time, we’re going to give our family a chance to relax in the living room, complete with a big screen TV, cushy armchair, and “plush” sofa.

This is XB-01401-E, part of a six-room set that also includes the aforementioned gym, a kitchen, a bedroom, a bathroom, and a den. They are all relatively small sets, about 300 pieces each, but each one packs a lot of fun little details into their relatively small 12×12 footprint. The entire set runs around $70 USD for all six rooms ($53.59 from our friends at BuildingToyStore.com). Like all Xingbao sets, these are original designs, not clones from any other brand.

The living room, like the gym, comes in several bags, with two building stages and a folded instruction sheet. Each step in the instructions contains a fair number of bricks to be added–no single piece steps here! Xingbao as a rule tends to do this. I actually prefer this to the sort of instructions that require a huge book full of adding one or two pieces at a time.

I really like the color scheme here, which includes some powder blue bricks for the walls and light yellow tiles for the center floor rug and light yellow bricks for the curtains. The top of the walls is lined with a floral trim, alternating between white and powder blue.

The windows feature some nice detail, with two rectangular windows topped by a semi-circle divided into four small wedge-shaped panes.

The green sofa and armchair seem a bold choice for the interior decorator, who must’ve been going for contrast and a modern look. The white coffee table is topped with glass and features just enough room for a giant bottle of sparkling water (I am assuming) and a similarly oversized remote control (probably because the TV has 500 channels, a built in DVR, and a massive Plex library). This is one remote that won’t get lost in the couch cracks!

The TV is mounted on an entertainment console that also includes shelves, drawers, a statue (employee of the month award maybe?) and a bowl of cherries (a backup for when the bowl of cherries on the corner end table is depleted). There’s also room on the natural hardwood flooring for a cute canine companion to watch the latest in reality TV with his human friend. Either a printed piece or a sticker showing something on the television would’ve been a nice touch to add.

All in all, I continue to be impressed with these rooms. I’ve got four more to build and review. Right now I’m displaying them as is, in a small diorama on my office shelf. After I’ve completed them all, I may try to fit them into some of my less-furnished Lepin modular buildings, such as the Green Grocer and the flats above and adjacent to the Pet Shop. These rooms can also give us some good ideas on how to build more furnishings for other building projects we may have in mind.

Whether on their own or incorporated into another project, I’m happy to recommend the addition of the Xingbao XB-01401 home furnishings to your collection. My main suggestions for improvement would be for some printed tiles: a picture on the TV screen, the newspaper, and the remote control could really benefit from some printing (or decals at least) and perhaps something different next to the TV rather than another bowl of cherries. I love the little statue by the TV. Maybe this is an actor’s home and it’s his Oscar award!? Like all my other Xingbao sets to date the bricks here are of a great quality, consistent colors, and with no problems noted as to clutch power or molding. Another solid release from Xingbao. I may have to try their Future Dreamers home furnishings sets next.

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