The original v1.0 play house is still in the living room, but has been joined by this humongous house. This beauty was created out of two HUGE boxes. A friend of mine with a truck delivered them after her neighbor tossed them out. This is what you get when your sectional sofa comes in a box. I was in heaven with these.
I started to put it together with duct tape, but it was proving too fidly. I was rescued with the discovery of these handy little things called "Makedo" which I got at the gift shop of the local Children's Museum. They are basically little reuseable pins that hold cardboard together (see all the little blue dots). There are hinges too. They saved me hours of work and probably about four roles of duct tape. I think I might be in love.
The kiddo actually goes INTO this house to play. I think she dind't play in v1.0 because she didn't much care for ducking through the door. Now, no ducking needed. Not yet anyway. And all three of us can fit in there together!
I might have come up with some "instructions" but I figure that two humongous sofa boxes are a pretty rare thing to come by.
Sitting in her cardboard armchair next to her cardboard book bin reading her ... board book.
A better view of that book bin and the armchair. These I could give instructions on how to replicate. It's easy and just uses one small piece of cardboard and one cardboard box. Of course, it helps if you have a monstrous cardboard mansion to put them in.
Awesome!
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