Should Your Family’s Wooden Playhouse Have A Porch?
August 19th, 2010
Before you purchase a wooden playhouse for your children, you should seriously consider one very important design aspect…whether or not you want the playhouse to have a porch. For some playhouse owners, this will be an open and shut case if the playhouse’s design is based on their current residence. But, believe it or not, a porch can be about more than design. Here’s how:
A wooden playhouse porch can serve as a gathering place for children. Prior to entering the playhouse, kids may want to take time and meet on the porch for really quick talks. If your neighborhood is full of children that visit from yard to yard, then, your child may not actually want everybody to be able to come directly into their wooden playhouse, which is their own private space. So, having a porch allows for them to socialize on their own terms.
There are many funky things that you can do on a wooden playhouse porch such as putting rocking chairs or a hanging swing. Children will be able to rock and swing their days away while being near some of their most precious and special things, which they may house in their playhouse. Imagine how cool it will be for a little girl to get her favorite doll and rock her in the rocking chair on her own porch. That would be absolutely sensational.
The porch of a wooden playhouse can also be a major welcoming space with loads of flowers, whether real or artificial, that makes the playhouse itself seem more inviting. Your child may want to start a container garden on his or her porch. The sky is the limit, but the more foliage, the more beautiful the entry could be for your child and his or her friends.
Your family’s wooden playhouse may be greatly enhanced by having a porch, which could serve as an extension of the playhouse. If a porch would make the structure too large for your space or would cause it not to blend into your yard as well as another style, then leave it off. But if there is any opportunity for you to add a porch, then go for it, sit back and smile as your child rocks and sways in comfort.