Space saver playset plans11/23/2023 ![]() ![]() By doing this, the floor would look consistent from the playset to the additional platform. It worked best to take those boards off the roof and use them for the floor of the slide platform. ![]() Originally, the roof consisted of composite deck boards. This was one of our best space saving ideas! Instead of a railing around the slide platform, we used some free fence pickets which made it look adorable. ![]() To do this, we needed to build a small platform off the back of the playset. In order to tuck the playset into the corner, we wanted the slide to come down parallel to the fence. We bought two more 4X4 posts to build a slide platform. It was a huge bonus to find free wood for the playset walls, however, for this next part we needed to buy wood. I wanted to add trim to the windows too, but we would do that after we painted. The main concern was to make sure the windows were high enough from inside the playset to be safe for the kids. During the process of putting the wood up on the walls…my husband and I talked through and figured out exactly where we wanted them. With my sketch, I wasn’t quite sure where we wanted the windows placed. Windows! I love little windows and couldn’t wait to get little flower boxes made too. We drove by several times to see if anything new was sitting out and after two or three trips, we had enough wood for all the sides of our playset. The fence company near us always has a huge scrap pile of free wood…they have deck boards to fence pickets and more. To rebuild the walls of the playset we found all the wood at a fence company. Our remedy was to remove the boards from all four sides (only leaving the posts that support the structure). The original playset design was not what we wanted at all. However, just because we didn’t want to spend a lot didn’t mean we couldn’t get creative. This decision is also why we moved the playset instead of building it from scratch in a new location. Our goal was to redo the playset without spending a lot of money, so we quickly decided to keep the base of the playset along with the general frame. My husband laughs at me because my drawings are never to scale…thankfully he handles all the details and makes sure everything is consistent and level. I went outside to measure all four sides, then began to sketch it out on graph paper. The slide also had too big of a gap at the opening (which the kids could fall through), all of these things needed to be fixed in the new design. On one side the railing was high, but on the next side it was low…it didn’t look consistent at all and the low railing was a little too low to be safe for the kids. The original playset had several design issues and safety concerns. I envisioned three key things fun colors, flowerboxes and cute windows. I looked on the internet for design inspiration, but didn’t find anything that inspired me. I had a few ideas of what I wanted, but needed to get it down on paper to show my husband what I was thinking. The playset is now moved over to the corner, the retaining wall completed and the grass seed down operation playset was in full effect. ![]()
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