Looking ofr ideas for wee play houses...

'Ello.

At my kid's primary school, we are looking to brighten up and add more play things to the lower school playground - kids around 5-7 years old.

The idea is to build a few small playhouses - basic design consisting of 4 sturdy corner posts, a storage area underneath to hold all the outdoor play things like footballs, etc, and then a seating area above. All with a roof mounted above to keep the worst of the rain off.

It's likely to be an 'open' type design, with the seating area just a deck with a surrounding timber frame and the roof sitting on the 4 corner posts which project up past the deck level - so all open on four sides.

As the school is in a maritime area, we thought to use canvas for the roof material (looks a bit sail-like...) kept taut on a wooden frame a bit like a brolly (probably pyramid-shaped).

Anyone done/seen/considered anything like this who can give their thoughts?

Probable size will be around 4 or 5' square, or perhaps rectangular - 6'x4' or similar.

Any thoughts would be welcome .

Ta muchly.

 

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Thanks Viv - at last a sensible reply

I don't think wind will be too much of a problem as the playground is reasonably sheltered. Night-time idiot visitors tend to restrict themselves to the 'wild' woody area the school has - a bit of a pain as they leave rubbish behind, but not a major hassle. They don't tend to come on to the immediate school grounds, tho'.

I like your idea - I've been trying to work out how to make it more 'sail'-like. The hoosies will likely have a post in each corner, tho', so I suspect we won't want on in t'middle as well. But it's a cracking idea if we do go for a central-post type of design.

Cheers