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Yesterday I finished this playhouse and sandbox, just in time for a bunch of kids to come use it at my son’s 1st birthday party last night. It’s from a plan in Workbench magazine, available from Rockler or PlansNow. The plan includes a swingset which I left off, and has it freestanding on 4×4 posts. I sank those 4×6 posts about 40” into cement, and used asphalt instead of cedar shingles, but otherwise followed the plan.
It’s been a big hit, and I think will get more use, for longer, than a comparably sized playground set or jungle gym would get.
The colors and style are to match the garage, which can be seen in the corner of the fifth picture.
On Rockler’s site, several people posted comments with pictures of theirs, which were very helpful in deciding to go ahead with it, and also in figuring out some of the details on which the plan was a bit sketchy.
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MonteCristo
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#1 posted 325 days ago
That is one good-looking play house ! I bet your place will be popular within your neighbourhood !
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#2 posted 325 days ago
Wonderful playhouse, like the window panes, very sturdy design for the long haul
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#3 posted 325 days ago
I dreamt of those as a kid (I guess we all did). Great one, the sandbox being protected from the rain by the house is a neat idea! Props to Rockler for that.
-- Thomas - There is no such thing as a problem, there only are solutions.
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#4 posted 325 days ago
I agree with Thomas – this is a play house that will get use on rainy days and days to hot to sit in the sun. This is a lovely design – nice and airy and well lit. I like your color scheme too. It is going to be fun to furnish it.
-- Kay - Just a girl who loves wood.
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#5 posted 325 days ago
Nice! Will it qualify for FHA or VA? :D Good idea for the sandbox under the house. Handy when you get those summer showers. Thanks for sharing. Just thought- my son is looking for some acreage out of town. Would be a good project for his three young’uns.
-- Regret- the feeling you get just after you do something really stupid.
exelectrician
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#6 posted 325 days ago
Woo – Hoo!!!! those kids are going to have fun fun fun ….... Wow simply wonderful.
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#7 posted 325 days ago
Lucky kids will have beautiful memories. I was going to build a tree house in our “Big Tree” in the yard. My dad had a nervous look in his eyes. “Thomas…If I build you a playhouse will you stay out of the tree?” I did and he did. Mine was a almost full sized room under our above ground porch in Chicago. Had a toy box, table and chairs, mag rack, and 3 windows that were full sized. And I remember all that went on as I grew older that happened there.
Nice work!
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ayryq
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#8 posted 233 days ago
Here are some bonus pictures now that I’ve installed lighting in, around, and under the playhouse.
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