[Closed] DIY kids playhouse

Washing line, a big tarpaulin and some bricks.

T'were good enough for me when I were a lad.

All I would say i 'do it'. My grown up kids still talk about their playhouse from 15/ 20 years ago.

Inspiration? get on pinterest, brilliant for design ideas.

Did one two years ago. Probably massively overbuilt but holding up really well. It’s loosely based on the Rogue Engineer plans.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/CsxKFr38jAYUAxzf1

That's some top work simon.

I built this raised playhouse and slide about 15 years ago, long gone now but was well used, things to consider are making sure nowhere they can trap heads / arms, assume they are going to fall onto anything poking out or fragile etc. It did get a side window they couldn't lean out of.

here's one I made earlier..

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^^^ 😳 Wow, lucky kid 👌

Crikey @simon_g can you come build me a house?

Some great work there guys.

Here's my effort - not strictly homemade, but quite a bit of effort went into it...

First of all we had the old playhouse (which we originally received and refurbished as a Freecycled item) and I built a platform for it (as the garden sloped heavily).

Then I moved it onto the new platform and added a second playhouse (which had previously been at my girls' grand-parents house)...

I then cut a hole through...

The (almost) finished article - I added guttering between the two with a soakaway behind. It hasn't leaked in three years.

At the end of the year it is being removed and replaced with a greenhouse as the girls have now just about grown out of it.