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By: If I had time I’d be making this right now… « The Handmade Experiment

Sat, 01 May 2010 00:32:07 +0000

[...] Dollar Store Crafts‘ eight dollar playhouse would be just the thing for my girls this summer. I’m totally making one of these! [...]

By: heather

heather — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:20:50 +0000

Thanks for weighing in, urban! :)

By: urban craft

urban craft — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:37:57 +0000

Heather’s pretty much bang on with the construction. There’s really no format or directions for the building. Just imagine it as a larger version of a mini box house that you had to construct in grade school. If you had that project in school.

By: heather

heather — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:49:30 +0000

I don’t have measurements for the house, unfortunately. If I were making it, I would probably start with full sheets of foam board for the sides of the house (cut out doors & windows as desired before assembling), and attach them with duct tape or clear packing tape. You could use two sheets of foam board as the pitched roof and attach them together with tape first (tape them together side-by-side on only one side, then place them tape side down on top of the house. Because you tape it only on one side, you should be able to allow the roof to fold to make the pitched roof. Then tape it in place.) Urban Craft used poster board (I think) for the triangular areas at the top of the walls/under the roof. You would probably want to measure the triangular space and then cut out a piece of poster board in accordance with what you measured. Another option would be to leave the triangle space open.

I hope that helps a bit! Sorry there wasn’t a template or better instructions!

By: irina

irina — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:13:36 +0000

Would you please send me directions on how to make this playhouse?

By: Abigail

Abigail — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:17:51 +0000

Would it be spammy of me to mention my tutorial for milk-carton play furniture? It would be a cheap way to furnish this awesome house!
I teach kindergarten – we may just end up with one of these in our classroom :D

By: Becca

Becca — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:16:11 +0000

I made one of these when I was a nanny, saw the idea in the Land of Nodd catalogue. 30ish$ I think it was! :-O I went looking for cardboard, but noone had any. At one of the BULK stores they had cardboard sheets they GAVE me for free. Just 6 pieces, 4 walls and 2 for the roof and we had awesome house for FREE! The girls kept if for MONTHNS!

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By: urban craft

urban craft — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:27:41 +0000

Thanks you guys. I just hate spending more money than I have too. Plus, kids trash stuff so much. I couldn’t resist making one.