Cozy Cabin Playhouse finished

The Cozy Cabin is our smallest playhouse: perfectly sized for kids ages 1 to 5 years old. It will fit in a corner, on a deck, inside a play room or in the middle of a garden! Young children love to go inside, close the door, open the shutters, slide the "peek-a-boo", put mail in the mail slot, peek through the cut-outs and then invite you in. It is exactly right for their size.

While we are building the playhouse, Barbara works with the client on creating the color palette:











This beautiful color palette reflects the colors of the garden:


















Because this Cozy Cabin was installed on a slight slope, we secured it with 2 front footings, hidden by the extra skirting on the front.

No playhouse is complete without the sound of laughter coming from the adorable kids that really own it!

Painting on photos

Here's a new design I'm hoping to build. I use the caveman program PAINT to draw my ideas right on the photo. I like the restrictions of the Paint program - not very many choices, can only undo about 7 steps, makes me feel like a kid! 

Here's one where I got James to climb up in the tree and pose for me!

This one I got carried away and put James in twice...

Brighten up your redwood play set!

Every spring & summer, when there are "holes" in our build/install schedule, our crew goes out and refurbishes some older ones. It is amazing how resilient redwood is. Even if left for years to fade and dry out in the sun, it will spring back to life and look glorious again with one good cleaning, re-staining and tung-oiling.

Here's a "refurbish" job our crew tackled last week. It came out great!
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Definitely after!!!

Barbara's Tree Houses featured in Hamptons Magazine

Barbara's tree houses were featured in the Insight page of the July Real Estate & Design issue of Hamptons Magazine.

The article featured an image her East Hampton Treehouse, designed and built in 2007 and referenced her newest tree house, The Long Island Treehouse, just built and installed in Southampton two months ago.





















Barbara actually has 3 great tree houses in the Hamptons. To see images, click on the names below:
- East Hampton Treehouse
- Southampton Treehouse
- The Long Island Tree House