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"A richly illustrated, comprehensive guide to creating a wide variety of outdoor play structure..." "PAPER CLIPS""August 2008"
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This title features 10 easy-to-build, and fun-filled playground projects - from tree houses to swing sets and monkey-bars. This superbly illustrated volume provides readers with a complete guide to building a huge range of outdoor play structures - from great-looking tree houses and kid-sized picnic tables to fun-filled swing-sets and slides that kids are sure to love. "Ultimate Guide to Kids' Play Structures and Tree Houses" features expert information and advice on everything you need to build these 10 fun projects. Chapters cover planning, getting the right tools and materials, constructing your chosen structure, and how to add those all important finishing touches.With its superb easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions, this is a must-have for anyone considering building their own playground equipment. This volume also includes: complete materials and parts list for each project; guides to making the projects safe & durable; and, complete glossary & index.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Kids' play structures and tree houses
31 Oct 2008
Format:Paperback
First, the book was shiped quickley and is in great shape.
The Book: The book has 10 great projects with easy to follow plan outlines. I am 65 years old and have been working with wood most of my life. If these plans are followed the structure will be cpmpletely safe for people to use and will last a lot of years with the only upkeep being a little weather proofing. I think the Teeter-Totter is a gteat unit most anyone can build with only few tools, can be moved anywhere in the yard, in the shade, out in the sun and kids love it. Thanks for a good book.
The Book: The book has 10 great projects with easy to follow plan outlines. I am 65 years old and have been working with wood most of my life. If these plans are followed the structure will be cpmpletely safe for people to use and will last a lot of years with the only upkeep being a little weather proofing. I think the Teeter-Totter is a gteat unit most anyone can build with only few tools, can be moved anywhere in the yard, in the shade, out in the sun and kids love it. Thanks for a good book.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A good reference book for outside wood structures
16 July 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is the first book I've owned by the Creative Homeowner series and I have to say I'm impressed with the quality of the work put into the book. The illustrations are very clear and plentiful. The book is split into 4 sections, part 1 (5 chapters) deals with planning, design, materials, wood types, finishes and general pointers to help first time builders. It's typical generic starter stuff you find in a lot of construction reference books, but there is some very useful info such as in the wood selection section. Part 2 deals with the swing set construction. Part 3 deals with the smaller easier projects like the sand box and picnic table. Part 4 deals with the harder tree house projects.
I didn't put 5 stars for two reasons, 1st reason is I found the book tittle is a little miss leading stating 10 easy to build fun projects. It's more like 5 out of the 10 are easy weekend builds, the bigger projects like the swing set and the tree houses are certainly not projects that a beginner builder would want to tackle alone. All the projects are very well detailed with respect to the wood cutting schedule to give a beginner the confidence in attempting to build these projects, but the harder or bigger projects will take a seasoned builder min of 2 weekends to put together if not more, so a beginner may take twice that.
2nd reason, it didn't cover any ideas about using reclaimed wood. The book does have a green edition badge on the cover but don't be fooled, this is simply for the book print itself which is more of a light green seeing how it only used 10% recycled paper. With more and more construction material reclaiming centers popping up, I thought it could have had a small section on covering something that could save people money and the environment. It's a 2008 printing, I can't believe there wasn't enough available info on such a subject to print a least a small page on how one could go about going green on their build.
As you can see my criticisms are fairly superficial and if I could I would have put 4 1/2 stars because of this.
I highly recommend this book to beginners and seasoned builders alike. It's a great reference to have on hand and for less than $12 dollars this book is a steal for what it offers you. Myself I will certainly give the other Creative Homeowner series a serious look at because of how well I found this one to be put together, easy to read, lots of illustrations, and tons of details.
I didn't put 5 stars for two reasons, 1st reason is I found the book tittle is a little miss leading stating 10 easy to build fun projects. It's more like 5 out of the 10 are easy weekend builds, the bigger projects like the swing set and the tree houses are certainly not projects that a beginner builder would want to tackle alone. All the projects are very well detailed with respect to the wood cutting schedule to give a beginner the confidence in attempting to build these projects, but the harder or bigger projects will take a seasoned builder min of 2 weekends to put together if not more, so a beginner may take twice that.
2nd reason, it didn't cover any ideas about using reclaimed wood. The book does have a green edition badge on the cover but don't be fooled, this is simply for the book print itself which is more of a light green seeing how it only used 10% recycled paper. With more and more construction material reclaiming centers popping up, I thought it could have had a small section on covering something that could save people money and the environment. It's a 2008 printing, I can't believe there wasn't enough available info on such a subject to print a least a small page on how one could go about going green on their build.
As you can see my criticisms are fairly superficial and if I could I would have put 4 1/2 stars because of this.
I highly recommend this book to beginners and seasoned builders alike. It's a great reference to have on hand and for less than $12 dollars this book is a steal for what it offers you. Myself I will certainly give the other Creative Homeowner series a serious look at because of how well I found this one to be put together, easy to read, lots of illustrations, and tons of details.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great book
7 Oct 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I bought this for my father, who is interested in building his own playhouses as a side business. When he received it, he told me he had spent some time in Barnes & Noble checking out the book previously and had decided not to get it because of the price. Apparently it's a good book and the price here makes it worth getting!
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