Cafe Des Paris Puzzle

Overall Experience:  Great

Cut Quality: Great

Board Quality: Firm

Shape Cut: random

Image Quality: Good

Hardest Area: The bicycles, tables/chairs

Puzzle Dust? none

Finish Quality: Smooth matte

Box Quality: Good and solid

Sealed Pieces Inside Box: yes

Was this purchased new? no, picked for review

Price: n/a

Recommend Level: Highly recommended

Time: 4.5 hours

I did not do my usual sorting routine as this is 500 pieces. The red/pinks, greens and beiges should be easy to pick out.

However, since there were minimal shapes to this puzzle, I decided that it could be helpful if I sorted according to the shapes of the pieces. 

These puzzles come with a very nice quality poster as you can see in the image to the right and shown with the border image completed below.

When it came to the border, I lined up the pieces as best I could with the colours as shown on the image.  The border look longer than usual but the shapes of the pieces really helped in this case.

After I assembled the work-in-progress pieces in the above image from there, I continued to build on the red building, the windows in the background and the bicycles.

I usually start with the most prominent colours or large sections on an image so the best place to start was with the red stripes, the Cafe letters and small sections of blue colours.