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A Garden Playhouse

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Practicality and whimsy are perfect playmates in this outside-in room.

Materials
  • Plywood
  • Wallpaper sample
  • Hot glue gun
  • Wooden birdhouses
  • Fabric
  • Cedar shake
  • Masonite
  • Molding
  • Fake plants
  • Craft board
  • Rope
  • Screws
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Instructions
  1. A Garden Playhouse - Step 1 To create a robin, cut out from wallpaper samples and hot-glue a craft-store nest and eggs next to it.

  2. A Garden Playhouse - Step 2 For curtain holders, paint two wooden craft-store birdhouses. Drill holes for the fabric, then screw them to the window frame. A craft-store bird perches in the entry hole.

  3. A Garden Playhouse - Step 3 Use a third birdhouse into a floor lamp by drilling a hole through the bottom and mounting it on a hollow post made from narrow boards.

  4. The plywood playhouse is topped with cedar shakes and faced with Masonite. Thin strips of molding staple-gunned together create the illusion of windowpanes , while a wooden window box filled with fake flowers, moss, and ivy adds a welcoming touch.

  5. The swing is made from a craft board purchased at Home Depot, strung on rope, and attached to lag screws drilled through the ceiling into the joists.

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