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Build a lifetime of Memories
Whether simple or architecturally fanciful, a playhouse can be a magical place for your child. David and Jeanie Stiles use their own experiences to guide the amateur carpenter through the steps necessary to build an imaginative playhouse -- for the backyard, basement or playroom.
Designed to be put together with easy-to-obtain materials and common handyman tools, with clear step-by-step diagrams, these playhouses can be constructed by anyone who has basic carpentry skills (or a willingness to learn) and a weekend or two of spare time.
Projects include: A cardboard-box playhouse, a gingerbread playhouse, a fiberglass whale, a barn bed playhouse, a spook playhouse, a U.F.O. playhouse, a tree house, a log playhouse, a garden trellis playhouse, a three-legged fort and a complete selection of accessories.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Looked for weeks for a playhouse to build for my daughter. The book was easy to follow for a beginner. Excellent ideas and drawings. Only wished my own house looked that nice. The Stiles know how to put out a great book. I have since bought another great Stiles book.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Despite so nice cover there are no photographs in the book (what I expected and needed most for inspiration). If you are serious about DIY you cannot find much new on how to build playhouses. If you were not serious then you would not dare to do it anyway (apart from few simplest projects). Although, to be fare, most of the projects shows that you can make kids very happy without spending much money and time and some of the houses can be built by anyone (e.g. cardboard playhouse). The drawings are really nice and instructions detailed (up to the point: “screw the leg screw all the way until you see that the washer is beginning to depress the wood”).
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71 of 71 people found the following review helpful
This book has everything!
14 Oct 1999
Format:Paperback
Someone gave this book to my daughter for her birthday and we decided to build the traditional playhouse that is on the cover. Although it took almost a month of weekends, it was well worth the time! She and her friends spend all their play dates in it and we always know where they are. This looks like the most advanced project in the book and I am a weekend carpenter, but didn't have any trouble following the plans. We are working on the "Spook House" for Halloween and the whole family is having fun adding their imput! Highly recommend this book for anyone with any building experience.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Clear, Well documented plans for building a treehouse
21 Aug 1997
Format:Paperback
All winter long I had promised my kids that I would build them a treehouse in the spring. So, when the flowers started popping up, and they hadn't forgotten, I had to do something. I had once seen a treehouse web page that mentioned David Stiles other out of print book, "Tree House Book". I couldn't track that down, so I bought this one instead.
This book only had one treehouse design, but it was just right for my situation. (A reasonably straight tree, with the fort built around it). What's very nice about the book is that David goes into detail on _ALL_ the tools and materials you will need, including a detailed shopping list. As I'm a woodworking novice, this helped tremendously. I was able to go to my local lumberyard with the book, and I got everything I needed in one trip.
The treehouse went up just as the book stated, with only a few minor customizations.
If you'ld like to see the finished product, I've put together a web page:
http://www.gusick.com/Treehouse
- Robert Gusic
44 of 51 people found the following review helpful
Fell short at a critical step
4 Oct 1999
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I hoped that this book would help me build a playhouse for my young daughter. Although it appears to be very detailed, it is not for the novice woodworker. There was no diagram to show how the walls were to be built and I was left to my own devices to figure out how to do it (which, being a novice, I was unable to do). I telephoned the author about this problem who admitted that the diagram was not in the book but he could not explain to me how to do what I wanted. I gave up and bought a Norm Abrams videotape and plans.
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