McLannahan
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| posted on 15/6/12 at 07:15 PM |
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Playhouse for my daughter
I'd like to build a playhouse for my daughter for her birthday. She'll be two in mid August.
I'd like to build it to a smaller budget and our garden is only small so a palace would dwarf the house!
I've seen a few free plans online but nothing that takes my fancy yet!
Has anyone any top tips, advice or links?
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tegwin
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| posted on 15/6/12 at 09:32 PM |
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Have you asked her what she would like?! As she is the client I would pay very great attention to what she has to say! :-p
If I were building a playhouse it would have to have the sensible stuff like a table and chairs, but also an escape hatch with slide and swing :p
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D Beddows
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| posted on 15/6/12 at 11:05 PM |
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As Tegwin says 'ask the client' - although a 2 that can be a problem  I know what I'd build for my 2 year old but I know what HE
enjoys doing, your daughter may well be completely different!
Jake likes a bit of danger so it would be a playhouse with a swinging door and windows/hatches on the side but with a mezzanine deck with various
ladders, steps, climbing holds to get up to it and various slides, poles, ropes etc to get down.......lol I should do it really 
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blakep82
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| posted on 15/6/12 at 11:15 PM |
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little girls love princesses and pink castles! might be a start lol
i don't know, best place to start is with her, not us blokes 
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richmars
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| posted on 16/6/12 at 08:11 AM |
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A few years ago I build one for my son, just out of 1"x1" frame and covered it in cheap tongue and groove, painted in cheap outdoor paint.
The base was a bit stronger, but he's out grown it, and it's now with it's second owner. The t+g distorted a bit, but nothing that
couldn't be fixed.
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McLannahan
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| posted on 16/6/12 at 09:14 AM |
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Thanks chaps!
God you lot would be rubbish in a surprise party! What sort of surprise party would you like daughter?
She is too young to ask really and as I said, it's a surprise! 
I'll take a trip down to the timber yard this morning and see what they hold!
Thanks all
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Peteff
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| posted on 16/6/12 at 04:48 PM |
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Just buy a new washing machine and save her the box, she'll play in it for hours and when she's fed up of it you recycle it
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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perksy
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| posted on 16/6/12 at 05:46 PM |
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How about a castle ? or a Log cabin type design ? or house that looks like its covered in sweets ?
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D Beddows
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| posted on 16/6/12 at 05:52 PM |
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2 year olds have no terms of reference to know what a 'castle'/ 'Princess Palace' or anything else is really...they just want
to explore the world so I would say include lots of things to do and explore not just build something that looks like anything you recognise as a
'playhouse'
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jacko
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| posted on 16/6/12 at 06:41 PM |
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Buy a shed and fill it with soft toys like they have in garden centers and a ball pool that kind of thing
paint it bright colours and when She getts to old you have a shed to use your self
[Edited on 16/6/12 by jacko]
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 16/6/12 at 08:58 PM |
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I'm gonna build something along the lines of this for Josef, Pants...
http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/280743546907?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&adtype=pla
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McLannahan
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| posted on 16/6/12 at 09:04 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve Hignett
I'm gonna build something along the lines of this for Josef, Pants...
http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/280743546907?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&adtype=pla
I'd like this sort of thing I think Pants?
http://www.shedstore.co.uk/garden-playhouses/walton-wooden-playhouses/snug/walton-snug-playhouse-4-by-4
Local timber place ( across the road local)sadly has a poor selection of cladding. Went to BQ this afternoon and they have better, slightly cheaper
too!
I'm thinking of something similar to what RichMars suggested earlier? Basic frame and then T&G cladding.
One you listed looks great but I think a bit too complex for me and Gwendy! You going to start that soon?
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 16/6/12 at 09:31 PM |
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You could try this American site (although some of the links don't work, many do)
Absolutely Free Plans
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 16/6/12 at 10:59 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by McLannahan
I'd like this sort of thing I think Pants?
http://www.shedstore.co.uk/garden-playhouses/walton-wooden-playhouses/snug/walton-snug-playhouse-4-by-4
Local timber place ( across the road local)sadly has a poor selection of cladding. Went to BQ this afternoon and they have better, slightly cheaper
too!
I'm thinking of something similar to what RichMars suggested earlier? Basic frame and then T&G cladding.
One you listed looks great but I think a bit too complex for me and Gwendy! You going to start that soon?
To be honest, I wasn't going to bother using Plans, Pants.
Well, only ones that I'd draw up for myself to do cutting lists from etc...
It's just a shed on stilts, with a stronger, strucural floor, ladders and a slide. But still just a shed really...
The only reason I haven't done it is because of room - it'll be for Mum n Dad's house, but they don't want one...
I think it would be an absolute piece of pee to build to be fair, and one of the kits would be a 2 second job - (ie it'd take about 3 hours
total).
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owelly
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| posted on 16/6/12 at 11:35 PM |
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I built a playhouse for my son. It cost about £200 in materials but that was 5 years ago and he's now upgraded to a tree house. His sister has
inherited the play house. Its a simple pent roof thing with perspex windows, t&g boards. Sterling board floor and roof, topped with felt. She
spends hours in there selling stuff over the stable-door, having picnics in it and hiding from her brother.
The next plan for the playhouse will be to put it on stilts with a ladder and slide.
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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