Wooden Playhouses

Outdoor Wooden Playhouse

Playhouses have been around for a long time. Playschool and Fisher-Price have been making pint-sized homes for children to play in for years. But where as they started off as simple plastic structures with empty frames for windows, and perhaps a working door; they’ve grown both bigger and more elaborate. While plastic playhouses are still manufactured (and bought) at a decent price of a couple hundred dollars, in higher demand are wooden playhouses which range in many thousands of dollars.

Wood Playhouse Designs

Playhouses made of wood can be built to order. You can have anything from a small wooden cottage, to a storybook gingerbread house. Let your kids have a tea party in a tiny Victorian, or be the king of their court with a mini castle. As long as you’re paying in upwards of $10,000 you might as well get exactly what you want.

You might even want something a little different for your kids to play in than a style of home. Many companies making these elaborate miniature homes will also make other custom buildings. You can have a small market, or even a tiny working movie theater. The possibilities are endless as are the price tags.

Building Plans For Wooden Playhouses

Maybe you think that you could build your kids a wooden playhouse to have fun in. It might be cheaper to do it yourself than to have someone manufacture it. You’ll want some plans and blueprints for your structure. If you visit the coolforts web site, you’ll find several free plans on building… well… cool forts. They give you a cartoonish drawing of what each one will look like when completed, as well as a PDF file containing all the steps.

To get free catalogues for kits to build different styles of playhouses, go to the kit guy web site. Whether you chose to buy your children a wooden playhouse, or take the time to build one yourself, expect to spend a lot of money. The manufactured ones will run about $10,000 or more. Building it yourself might be cheaper, but not by much. It also won’t look as good or be as detailed. And before you get this for your kid, make sure it’s something they want and will get plenty of use out of it. It’d be a shame to spend a small fortune for your child to have their own miniature house if they’re going to spend all their time in your big house.