The Cozy Cabin is our smallest playhouse: perfectly sized for kids ages 1 to 5 years old. It will fit in a corner, on a deck, inside a play room or in the middle of a garden! Young children love to go inside, close the door, open the shutters, slide…
Here’s a new design I’m hoping to build. I use the caveman program PAINT to draw my ideas right on the photo. I like the restrictions of the Paint program – not very many choices, can only undo about 7 steps, makes me feel like a kid! Here’s one where…
We’ve done tons of ziplines and I never get tired of them! Each one presents a different challenge because the trees, the distance and the slope are always different. My ideal backyard zip line ride goes between two trees and involves jumping off of a tree perch to start the…
Castle Play Structure: Everything is built and the site is ready!Barbara does a quick layout inside the newly graded space to verify that the play structure, with appropriate Use Zone, will still fit. Installation Day1: Monday is a hot, sunny day. Things heat up quickly when carrying all the play…
Remember Castle Play Structure? While Barbara and crew were in Southampton last week installing the Long Island Treehouse, the guys were back at the shop in South San Francisco building this large, intricate Castle Play Structure. The Clubhouse with Big Deck and 9′ long Bridge (left side) were almost finished…
Monday, June 14th Colors are finalized! Here is Barbara’s Artist Sketch with the final color palette. The only change requested is to make the pink more of a “Princess Pink” if at all possible. Rudi starts off by staining the interior walls of the Clubhouse (Frog) followed by the Clubhouse…
New Castle Play Structure design: Barbara’s latest design started with traipsing through the woods to find the perfect spot for the play structure. Her goal is to find a spot close enough to the house to keep an eye on young kids (from the kitchen window or a porch) but…
In February, Barbara started the design process for this Long Island treehouse: Her first step was to visit the site, meet with her client, brainstorm ideas and help select the tree. Then take lots of photos. Back at the shop, Barbara “painted” the treehouse design directly onto the digital image.…
Half-way through installation, the Rocket Ship is starting to look exactly like Barbara’s artist sketch!
Washington DC 3/1 to 3/4: Jeff and I visit his folks, go to museums and I meet with a new client in Bethesda who wants a tree perch. They have a great big oak tree. We meet in the yard with the clients and their landscape architects for a great…
