Playhouse Updated...

Remember this project:
http://tonyanddanalewis.blogspot.com/search/label/playhouse
It's finally cooled off enough that we are back at work. It's all finished now except for the inside dividing wall and the painting!! What? You don't believe me? -gasp- You wanna see pics?! :-)
Here ya go!!

Side view. The lattice is to allow for a breeze. It's pretty hot here, ya know!
Front View
Back
Putting lattice on the back
Elijah is a great helper!
See?!
Wrangling a 4x8 takes all of us!

Front
Luke
Sam
Caleb
typical ten year old... LUKE

Caleb framed out the window by himself.
right front side, the front door
All done except for the front door.
Working on the door
Voila!

Told ya! It's all ready for the dividing wall (the playhouse has two rooms) and paint. MaryVance, Elijah and Isaac got to pick the paint colors... red, blue and green!!!

Who knows when the painting will get done though? Hopefully we'll have a baby soon!!

Playhouse Day Three

Yesterday was a short 'working day'. We had a fellowship meal after morning church and then had an afternoon service. Then we had to go to Lowe's again... grin... so by the time we got home we only had an hour of daylight. Here's what we got done yesterday.


Now we are all ready to work on the roof! Woohoo!!!

Playhouse Day Two

Whew. Another long day. I'm glad we had nice weather! Today our plan was to get the walls up. Here's what the littles did...

Framing up the first wall
What is it with little boys and water?...
Almost there... three sides done...
Woohoo!! The last side is UP! This shot is from the right side.



This is a shot of the back.

Ta da!!!

By way of explanation... I'm sure you are wondering "why in the world is this taking so long?!" Well, any *normal* people would have found a neat set of plans and followed them to build a playhouse. Fortunately (or not... as the case may be...) we are not normal!! :-) We drafted these plans ourselves... that should explain a lot... LOL. And we are constantly changing them as we go. See, originally the roof was going to slant front to back... I was going for Quick, Easy, and Cheap. But after we got the floor done and saw how small 6'x8' really is... we decided to do what any reasonable people would do and shift the roof line so it slants left to right.... in theory we are building Half of a Playhouse :-). Then in time (hopefully *soon*) we can build the other half and it will look like a Normal Little Playhouse! Can you envision that?

So, *No* we aren't normal... LOL. But we are having fun!! And it's gonna be SO CUTE!!!

Playhouse Pics... Day One

Day One:
We got the floor completed! You wouldn't think it would take so long... but it was hard getting the floor level and square...

Here's Isaac at our building site. He's so excited!!!

Elijah was cutting these big leaves for us to use as umbrellas!

Nailing the floor down.


The front porch!


(above) Elijah and Sam... using Sam's new driver! (below) Isaac is helping too!THE FINISHED FLOOR!!!

We are building a play house for the littles today...

Stay tuned for pics as we work!!