MIDCENTURY PLAYHOUSE
July 29, 2012
I’ve just finished up a fun filled weekend with friends. It was good to see them and have a bit of a break. We spent many hours in the Tiki Lounge, having cocktails, playing games and laughing.
As I was winding down my weekend, I took a minute to flip through some old photos that Mom sent, and I happened across this one:
That’s my Mom and Uncle standing in front of one of the coolest midcentury playhouses I’ve ever seen.
I just love the roof line complete with “beams.”
I think one of these days (kids or not) I’m going to have to build one for our yard. I suppose I could always build a smaller dog house version for Leo, though I wonder if he would appreciate the architecture…
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This would also scale up just a wee bit for a tool shed or potting shed. Then YOU could play in it.
That’s true Laura! Hmmmm…..
That is such a cool playhouse. I can’t stand the pink plastic ones that people pitch out in their backyards these days. Playhouses back in the day had style!
Amen Dana!
Great playhouse, great photo! Yes, you should definitely replicated for you, your dog and maybe an even smaller version for a…M-CM fairy or something.
Ooooh. I like the idea of a mid-century dog house! I might have to do that.
It would be cool, but I wonder if Leo would use it. He is an inside most of the time dog…which means when he is outside, he usually wants to be.
There are MCM Fairies? Ohhh!!!
I could build a few and make a mini neighborhood out back…
Love it- wish we could see the colors! I always liked this one http://mollied.blogspot.com/2012/05/remeber-whenmid-century-playhouse.html
Ohhh that one is cute too! So many possibilities!
Your grandfather built that for me and my brother when we lived on base in Barstow, CA in MOQ4 (Marine Officers Quarters #4) … so we dubbed it MOQ4-1/2. It was the same colors as our main house …. white with green trim. Your father built you and your brother a playhouse to resemble our main house in PA – 655 …. so we put up a mailbox by the playhouse and dubbed yours 655-1/2.
Funny how things get passed down through families. Guess we will have to work on building you some version in your backyard someday – painting studio? Oh … forgot about the first playhouse your dad built to resemble our house in PA just for you when you were two … it’s now being used as a doghouse by a family down the street. LOL
Yes, I remember the playhouses Dad built us when we were little. I think I’ll have to carry on the tradition.
Aw, that’s adorable!!
Isn’t it? Don’t you think you should build one too!?!