My Take on the Lowe's Playhouse Coop

I have been checking out this forum for months getting a lot of great information. This is my first post! Our kids are doing 4-H and we have gotten 6 baby chicks. Here are some pictures of our newly built coop which is our take on the popular playhouse from Lowe's. It's dimensions are 4 feet by 10 feet, and it's cost, including the playhouse (which we got for $80 on clearance) is around $450 dollars to build.

The panels all laid out getting painted (this is a time consuming playhouse!)



Here is the box we built to put the house on- it is 2 feet high.



My husband putting together the panels, using 2 x 4's.



Our poor dog has no idea what is in store for her!



You might as well put in a cute floor! We got these vinyl squares at Lowe's.



Aside from a nest box and ladder, the coop is complete! We are very proud of how it turned out.

 

All right, believe it or not, I actually wrote out my costs as we were building- which I never do. Here is a basic breakdown:

Playhouse: $72
Hardware cloth: $70
Paint: $62
Fence Brackets: $25
Paint brushes: $30
Wood (25 2x4's): $50 we had plywood already- that would be additional
Vinyl: $20
Hinges, latches: $40
Nails, screws, staples: $20
Tuftex roof: $50

$439 plus tax - roughly

I'm sure it could be done more economically, but we wanted to make it look nice. I thought it wasn't too bad for what we wound up with.