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Playhouses

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tortoiseSHELL · 04/05/2007 11:37

Has anyone any experience of playhouses? I'm looking for something for the children - would love a 2 storey one, but realistically I think it would be too expensive - don't really want to pay more than £250 or so tops.

What do you think of these ones?

Quite a plain one

A Waltons one

a more expensive one

a shires one

Thanks! Any others people have got, would love to see them.

There was of course this one (see AIBU), but I think not.

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tortoiseSHELL · 04/05/2007 11:50

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Muminfife · 04/05/2007 11:52

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casbie · 04/05/2007 12:01

wait for Rosepetal Cottage by Worlds Apart Ltd - coming out in May 07 in Toys R Us and Argos...

gorgeous - i worked on it!

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tortoiseSHELL · 04/05/2007 12:06

Is it wood or plastic? What sort of price? I've also been looking at this one - do you think it would be too small?

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MrsBoo · 04/05/2007 12:07

I ordered the Daisy Den one direct from Waltons last week, and it's being delivered today. We only have space for a little one unfortunately.
I can't wait to get it assembled and see my little DD's face

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tortoiseSHELL · 04/05/2007 12:24

MrsBoo - when it's come can you tell me what it's like quality wise? Specifically the quality of the wood. Thanks! I'm sure your dd will adore it!

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Enid · 04/05/2007 12:27

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Enid · 04/05/2007 12:27

this one

Kelly1978 · 04/05/2007 12:31

We got one for the dts birthday, I think there is still a pic of it on my profile. It's one of the waltons ones, from shedstore, but slightly bigger than your link. It isn't huge, we have a biggish kitchen in there, a drum kit and a workshop and it is full. It was easier to assemble than I expected, and looks great now it is up and the kids love it.

Weatherwax · 04/05/2007 12:40

I brought a walton playhouse which isn't online in the shop I got it from now. But I looked for one big enough for my tall dd now 9 and its big enough for my two and their slightly older friend. I'm sorry muminfife but the little tike one I got was too small too quickly and it has got very tacky and dirty. I have it behind the shed with the garden toys in it. It does not weather well at all around here. My wooden one has been painted with garden wood paint on the outside and white wood paint on the inside. Its weathered quite well this year although dd2 wand me to paint it pink outside now.

Boco · 04/05/2007 12:43

Have you got anyone in your family who is a bit handy? We built our own, it's huge, and took 2 days to assemble and build and cost under £150. I drew what i wanted (ripping off Enid's one really), my sd made a frame, hammedered the timber onto the frame, built the windows and door all himself.
I know it's not possible if not got someone good at carpentry to help, but it was such a huge saving!

look, here it is

casbie · 04/05/2007 12:58

wow! you made that yourself?!

the one i've made is a tent structure, which can be played with inside and outin the garden and the two parts tuck into one another for storage...

can't post piccies as product doesn't come out till May - even though i've been working on it for the past year!

my children love it (1), (3), (6).

Boco · 04/05/2007 13:07

What a fantastic job you have!
I want that job!

casbie · 04/05/2007 13:09

i love my job, but shucks - going to have to come back to this thread later...

got some drawing to do.

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tortoiseSHELL · 04/05/2007 13:24

Thanks everyone - boco, dh thought about making one and even got as far as making a model, but I think he is having cold feed about it, especially if we got quite a cheap one, we wouldn't save that much when you factor in cost of wood.

Looking at our not very big garden, I think 4x4 or possibly 5x5 is probably big enough. I wish we had a big garden!

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tortoiseSHELL · 04/05/2007 13:26

Enid, yours looks lovely - am of the upstairs! Kelly - what is the quality of yours like? Were you pleased with the quality of wood? (I was in John Lewis the other day and someone was complaining about the quality of their one). And searching the archives here there was a post saying their wood had all been split.

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filthymindedvixen · 04/05/2007 13:30

boco! Am stunned at the cleverness of you and your dp, that is beautiful...

I can design and can hammer things, but am rubbish at measuring accurately...

DelGirl · 04/05/2007 13:31

woops

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tortoiseSHELL · 04/05/2007 13:32

lol I put your previous one into B&Q and found this !

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DelGirl · 04/05/2007 13:49

pmsl lol

DelGirl · 04/05/2007 13:50

neighbour has just ojne up and am seriously tempted to, well more than tempted but hoping they may reduce the price sometime as I'll need to pay for someone to lay the base and put it up for me.

DelGirl · 04/05/2007 13:50

my typing is getting like cod's!

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tortoiseSHELL · 04/05/2007 14:05

lol

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tortoiseSHELL · 04/05/2007 16:32

I think we're veering towards this one - I only want a little one really, so it doesn't dominate the garden. Thanks for all the advice!

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