Playhouses You Can Build: Indoor and Backyard Designs (Stiles, David R. Weekend Project Book Series.)

Playhouses You Can Build: Indoor and Backyard Designs (Stiles, David R. Weekend Project Book Series.)
by David Stiles, Jeanie Stiles

Playhouses You Can Build: Indoor and Backyard Designs (Stiles, David R. Weekend Project Book Series.)
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Author: David Stiles, Jeanie Stiles
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-03-01
ISBN: 1552093158
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Firefly Books

Book Reviews of Playhouses You Can Build: Indoor and Backyard Designs (Stiles, David R. Weekend Project Book Series.)

Book Review: What do you get for the money?
Summary: 4 Stars

This is a great book wide range of choices, from a bed made to look like a barn, a play cube with each side a different fantasy (fire dept, post office, general store and puppet theatre) and not just standard playhouses. A log house, treehouses, and a trellised house that begs to be covered in climbing flowering vines and outfitted for a tea party.

You also get swings, a hand-built trolley, a cargo net climber, table and chairs for the house, a slide, shelves, benches and a swan-shaped rocking chair.

Admittedly not all plans for a beginner woodworker. He assumes a level of comfort in building that not all may have. Each project contains a detailed parts list--something lacking in other children's playhouse-type books, and lists the ages of children that the project is geared towards. The diagrams are black-and-white exploded drawings (show a two-dimensional view with measurements, angles and supports such as cleats or support blocks). If you are accustomed to these common layouts, you'll be fine.

He does make his own doors and windows which you may want to skip doing and just buy.

Summary of Playhouses You Can Build: Indoor and Backyard Designs (Stiles, David R. Weekend Project Book Series.)

Build a lifetime of Memories

Whether simple or architecturally fanciful, a playhouse can be a magical place for your child. David and Jeanie Stiles use their own experiences to guide the amateur carpenter through the steps necessary to build an imaginative playhouse -- for the backyard, basement or playroom.

Designed to be put together with easy-to-obtain materials and common handyman tools, with clear step-by-step diagrams, these playhouses can be constructed by anyone who has basic carpentry skills (or a willingness to learn) and a weekend or two of spare time.

Projects include: A cardboard-box playhouse, a gingerbread playhouse, a fiberglass whale, a barn bed playhouse, a spook playhouse, a U.F.O. playhouse, a tree house, a log playhouse, a garden trellis playhouse, a three-legged fort and a complete selection of accessories.

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