It was not meant to be
May. 28th, 2005 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrI got all excited when I saw this lovely little playhouse in the newspaper.
Not in pink, probably, but they also carry it in white, cream, tan, clay, brown, grey and blue. Hey, Memorial Day sale. Maybe we can get a deal. So I called the store.
Um, no. 6' x 8' without the porch is $2,000.00.
6' x 8' with the porch is $2,600.00.
I am very glad I didn't show the pictures to the girls and get their hopes up. As it was, it was bad enough that I got my own heart broken.
(Oh, they would have loved it so . . .)
Anyone have any idea on where I could get a nice playhouse that a mere mortal could afford? One that doesn't cost as much as a used car?
Edited to add: Rob has been promising to build one for years. But I know my husband, and I know that Mr. Procrastinator will never never never do so. It makes me kinda mad that he has been stringing the girls along on promises, and I don't want him to do that anymore. I want to get something for them this year--they're getting old enough that they wouldn't enjoy it much longer. I certainly don't have time or energy to attempt something like this myself when I'm clueless as to how to do it.
Edited to add again:: My neighbor found this site, which has the house available as a ready to assemble kit. Cuts the cost, but not enough.
Not in pink, probably, but they also carry it in white, cream, tan, clay, brown, grey and blue. Hey, Memorial Day sale. Maybe we can get a deal. So I called the store.
Um, no. 6' x 8' without the porch is $2,000.00.
6' x 8' with the porch is $2,600.00.
I am very glad I didn't show the pictures to the girls and get their hopes up. As it was, it was bad enough that I got my own heart broken.
(Oh, they would have loved it so . . .)
Anyone have any idea on where I could get a nice playhouse that a mere mortal could afford? One that doesn't cost as much as a used car?
Edited to add: Rob has been promising to build one for years. But I know my husband, and I know that Mr. Procrastinator will never never never do so. It makes me kinda mad that he has been stringing the girls along on promises, and I don't want him to do that anymore. I want to get something for them this year--they're getting old enough that they wouldn't enjoy it much longer. I certainly don't have time or energy to attempt something like this myself when I'm clueless as to how to do it.
Edited to add again:: My neighbor found this site, which has the house available as a ready to assemble kit. Cuts the cost, but not enough.
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Date: 2005-05-31 07:20 pm (UTC)1. A sunflower house, if you have a sunny yard. You dig a circular trench, plant sunflowers in a circle, and morning glories between the sunflowers. The sunflowers provide the structure, the morning glories fill in the gaps. When the sunflowers hit a certain height, you can make a roof by providing string supports for the morning glories. I have a book that talks in more detail about how to do this, and I know someone who's done it. My sunflowers never grow much taller than about three feet and my morning glories are always a miserable failure, but you seem to be a better gardener than me (and I don't have a particularly sunny yard). Another way to make a natural playhouse is the bean teepee: you get a bunch of really tall poles, shove them in the ground on one end and tie them together at the top, and plant pole beans. As a bonus, you get a huge harvest of beans.
2. Something like this: http://www.growingtreetoys.com/product/5110 -- if you google for "play canopy" you'll find lots more. They're not sturdy enough to leave outside all the time but if you have a tree with a convenient overhanging branch, you can set them up to play in on sunny days. I always drool over the play canopies when I see them in catalogs -- Molly is only barely old enough to take an interest in them, but I have wanted one since first laying eyes on the things. They're expensive, but much, much, much less expensive than the beautiful wood playhouses that I also drool over. (They'd also be fairly easy to make.)