RogerChicken
Songster
First, an inventory:
I picked this up locally for $40, plus $30 delivery:
This is a 'Backyard Discovery' playhouse, made of cedar and some plastic bits. This not-mine picture below shows one that's a little less-loved:
The main difference being that the quasi-fake portico over the door has fallen off -- which is just as well, really.
This diagram shows most of the major measurements, but is also misleading in several important ways:
You'll notice that the actual roof I have is rotated 90 degrees from the one in the diagram above -- but I plan to remove the roof and rotate it so the door is under the ridge, so that I can make the door just a bit higher -- at 3'6" or so, it's really impractical, and I think an extra foot or so would really help.
The other thing is that the walls are arranged differently than either the diagram or the as-new photo -- facing the front door from the outside, the very-wide window wall is on the left, with window-in-the-middle walls at the rear and also the right. That arrangement doesn't really work for me either, so I'll be detaching all the wall panels from each other to re-arrange them, which will also make painting and other modifications easier, probably.
There's no floor at all, but of course I'll be adding one. Mostly likely as part of a platform that brings the whole thing about 24" to 36" up off the ground, is my current thinking.
Next up: more planning.
I picked this up locally for $40, plus $30 delivery:
This is a 'Backyard Discovery' playhouse, made of cedar and some plastic bits. This not-mine picture below shows one that's a little less-loved:
The main difference being that the quasi-fake portico over the door has fallen off -- which is just as well, really.
This diagram shows most of the major measurements, but is also misleading in several important ways:
You'll notice that the actual roof I have is rotated 90 degrees from the one in the diagram above -- but I plan to remove the roof and rotate it so the door is under the ridge, so that I can make the door just a bit higher -- at 3'6" or so, it's really impractical, and I think an extra foot or so would really help.
The other thing is that the walls are arranged differently than either the diagram or the as-new photo -- facing the front door from the outside, the very-wide window wall is on the left, with window-in-the-middle walls at the rear and also the right. That arrangement doesn't really work for me either, so I'll be detaching all the wall panels from each other to re-arrange them, which will also make painting and other modifications easier, probably.
There's no floor at all, but of course I'll be adding one. Mostly likely as part of a platform that brings the whole thing about 24" to 36" up off the ground, is my current thinking.
Next up: more planning.
