How To Build Your Own Kids Wooden Playhouses

A playhouse is something that most children would love, giving them a space that is completely their own to enjoy, and is strictly no parents allowed! Kids can have their own secret meetings, enjoy playing house in a much more realistic representation of a home, or just have somewhere to escape whenever day to day life gets stressful.

Plastic playhouses are great to be kept in the home, but kids will absolutely adore the idea of having their own wooden kids playhouse in the garden. As anyone with a shed knows, a wooden playhouse will last under any weather conditions and once it is built will pretty much last as long as you want it to, giving your children a place to go whenever they like, whatever the weather. You can, of course, buy wooden playhouses which come with instructions and are already designed gorgeously to appeal to adults and children alike. However, if you are looking for a more cost effective way to build your children their own playhouse you may want to build it yourself. You won’t need to have a great deal of skill when it comes to carpentry, but a good plan and some solid ground to build on.

Choose the area in which you want the playhouse and work out roughly what size you want it to be. Once you know what space you are working with, and anything you may need to work around (plants and trees, concrete areas) then you can start planning your playhouse. As this is for your children, it is a good idea to bring them into the planning process. Ask what they want from a playhouse (within reason!) and make this into a list of features. You can then start looking online for playhouse plans that will help you find the right materials and make sure everything is the right size and shape before you begin.

For the right materials, look online for cheap wood suppliers and you should be able to find some materials that are being sold off cheap. Just make sure everything is going to be big enough, or of the right quality to build a playhouse that is going to last. You don’t want to go for MDF or anything too flimsy as then the next windy day you may find you only have half a playhouse!

Once you have your materials you can start cutting everything down to the right size in advance so that you have all the pieces, all the nails, wood, or brackets you need and then you can follow the instructions on your plan to start putting the playhouse together. At this stage it will be just as easy to build your playhouse from scratch as it would be to buy one and put that together in the garden.