OT: Outdoor Play house

[user 64117]

anyone out there ever built a Playhouse for the outdoors? Looking to build a 2-3 child house for my daughters to play in. I am looking to put this up in the air about 4 feet with a small slide for an exit. Anyone ever setup something similar from scratch?



thanks in advance....sorry to bring a girlie request in such a macho setting but i am desparate to get this project going. I have been saying it for 2 years.

 

[Mike Wilson]

Are you kidding? If I was close enough, I'd help ya'! I'm hoping to get around

to building a "Play Garage" for my two grandsons this summer.



By the way, anyone know where I can get a Craftsman Garage Door Opener

in 1/3 scale?!?!

 

[Mike Wilson]

Or,



This may be the one you want...:

 

[Bill V]

I built a monster one from plans I bought from planitplay.com. Four swings, two-level fort (a 4'x6' section that is 5' high, and a 6'x6' section that is 7' high), rock wall, rope climb, huge slide, and lots more. It's great!



Before building, I did a lot of shopping around, particularly looking at the quality of the instructions you're purchasing. Plan-it-play's were by far the best out there--I've never seen instructions written so clearly and logically in my life, ANYWHERE. To the point I was seriously tempted to try to hire away their main instruction writer to come write manufacturing procedures for my employer.



Check them out! They have lots of sizes and styles! Ours is their "Frontier" set, but the plans are very easy to modify if you desire, and we did a ton of them!

 

[Bill V]

And by the way--There's lumber involved. There's power tools. There's hardware. How can you consider any of that to be "girlie"??? Arrrr-Arrr-Arrr!!!!!!

 

[Scott Doughtie]

We used to build some rather big insulated dog houses for our Airdales a few years back. The designs could be modified to be a playhouse too. We built everything off of a simple 4x8 plywood template.

 

[TracN Jack]

Scott! you have airedales?!!!! Cool check out my Two in my library,,

 

[shawn stonbraker 2]

Here are pics of the one my kids use.

 

[Bill V]

stonemiser--I can see the benefits of how that house appears to be lockable from the outside...

 

[shawn stonbraker 2]

Bill, I've never been accused of being stupid. Best money I ever spent.

 

[Darrel Chaney01]

You go from any price, from low to "you got to be kidding". Here is a picture if it works and if not here is a link to the company in CA.

http://www.danielswoodland.com/treehouses/standard/index.html



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