Playhouse Design

May 7, 2011

Playhouse Design

The date has been set to force me to finish the playhouse design. Construction of the new playhouse will begin in a couple of weeks. The ‘playhouse’ started out in the backyard of a friend’s house. He offered the old playhouse that he inherited and I took it apart with plans to put it back together at our house.

playhouse

Of course, I could not put it back the same way so I spent hours pulling nails and sorting wood pieces. Once I had an inventory of parts, I began the new design. I reused a lot of old wood, added some new wood, and some new accessories. The playhouse was designed.

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We constructed it a few weeks later only to run into an opportunity that we could not pass up. We put our house on the market and planned to move to Harrisonburg. The one requirement from those purchasing our old house was to remove the playhouse that I just built.

PlayhousePlayhousePlayhouseSo it begins again, I have all the parts from the removed playhouse and I need to start pulling nails and determining the available parts. I also have a different slope to build on so the design has to be modified. To be honest, I would have changed the design anyway, but that is what I do. So what features should be incorporated into the design? What have you seen that would be cool? The design work is set to begin and there are no limits. Here are some ideas…

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