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Cedar Wooden Kids Playhouse with Play Kitchen
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Cedar Wooden Kids Playhouse with Play Kitchen

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Three and a half feet wide by a little over three deep is eleven square feet of garden gone, which is less than a bench with its clearance and more than most people picture when they read the word playhouse. At 57.3 inches tall an adult cannot stand in it and a ten-year-old can, which is the right compromise. Cedar with water-based stains is the part that decides whether it is still standing in five years, because cedar resists weather without a yearly coat of anything.

Size
57.3 x 42 x 38.2 in
Material
Cedar, water-based stains
Kitchen
Sink, stove, cookware, chalkboard
Extras
Pet door, doorbell, flowerpot holders

How it lives in the room

Point the pet door at the lawn

The pet door is the detail that changes how this gets used, and it only works if the dog has somewhere sensible to arrive from. Set the small opening toward open grass rather than a fence line or a flower bed, and the animal becomes part of the game instead of a problem. It also doubles as a second exit for a toddler who has decided the front door is blocked.

Fill the flowerpot holders on day one

Empty brackets on the window sills read as unfinished and tend to stay that way. Something robust in them from the first afternoon, marigolds or strawberries or anything that survives being watered twice in a day and then forgotten, turns the house into a thing being looked after rather than a toy. The chalkboard works the same way: write on it before anyone else does.

Then listen for the doorbell

A working bell on a playhouse is a noise-making device fifteen feet from the kitchen window, and that is both the appeal and the catch. For the first week it will ring constantly. Siting the house where the bell is audible but not directly under a window is the compromise, and the ringing settles into a greeting rather than an experiment within a few days.

Before you order

Pre-cut and pre-drilled panels still mean a full afternoon with two people and a drill-driver. Cedar is soft enough to split if a screw is driven hard into an undrilled spot, so use the holes provided and stop short of crushing the grain.