Children's Play Areas (Southern Living)

By: Sunset Books

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0376090685
• ISBN13: 9780376090683
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Oxmoor House
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

It gives ideas & resources, enough for a beginner

If you want blueprints and plans for treehouses, this is not the book for you. The treehouse chapter is ridiculously short, so I took off one star.HOWEVER, it does give dozens of ideas, basic plans,and measurements for projects. It covers the basics of woodworking, supplies additional resources, and has color photos of how things are supposed to look and work when completed. It proved to be a good way to get me started as I had never done any woodworking before and was previously unfamiliar with woods, tools, or finishes. The main chapters are: planning inside play areas, bedroom ideas, playrooms, planning outside play areas, swings slides and sandboxes, jungle gyms and gym equipment, tree forts and playhouses, and tools materials and techniques. Specific easy projects that any beginner could do after reading this book include a toy display cabinet, art desk with storage bins, delightful dollhouse, computer desk, backyard cottage and sandbox playtable. The section called "complete bedrooms for kids" helped me make a train bed with wheel pillows and wall-mounted "conductor's area" with built in storage.I found the redwood play structure project to be an amazing way to cut costs on the set we were going to buy through retail. It has a cutting and material list, dimenstions, and building plans. I just used the "tools, materials, and techniques" chapter at the end of the book to learn the details of how to do everything-this chapter would be a great cheat sheet for someone taking a woodworking class.Hope this helps you decide if this is what you are looking for!