The Backyard Playground by Phil Schmidt
By combining building projects for children's play structures with tips and ideas for creative landscaping, this book goes much further than any other to helping readers create a fun, safe, and interactive outdoor play area for their children in an environment that is useful and appealing to adults. The projects in this book include a broad range of designs, for toddlers to teenagers. The play structure project is the classic, timber-style set found in many gardens and can accommodate several accessories and future modifications. Playing in either of the two tree house projects, kids will find adventure, privacy, and a connection to the outdoors. The climbing wall project provides kids-and parents-with a fun way to develop strength and concentration. There are also projects for playhouses and a fort that kids can help build and several plans for child size outdoor furniture. Where appropriate, projects are designed for adaptation to a different use after the child outgrows them. For example, the sandpit project is a decorative sandbox that can easily be adapted into a garden bed; the playhouse could become a garden shed in later years. In addition to the projects, there are dozensBuild Your Kids a Treehouse, The Complete Guide to Patios, and The Complete Guide to Modern Sheds are among the numerous successful DIY publications produced by Philip Schmidt, an amateur environmentalist and home repair specialist. He resides in Golden, Colorado.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781589230590 |
| ISBN 10 | 1589230590 |
| Title | The Backyard Playground |
| Author | Phil Schmidt |
| Series | Black And Decker Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc |
| Year published | 2003-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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