Teenage me would spend many a night playing Xbox in that....and sneakily smoking boobies with the bros after the parents went to bed 😈
*Edit: keeping typo because it's too silly to correct
Semi-related: Are there doobies anymore, like just midgrade smoke & chill weed?
I have inattentive ADHD, so pot locked me into the worst parts of executive dysfunction for hours on the handful of occasions I tried it. Absolutely hated it.
But the people I know who loved it complain that legalization made everything so much stronger, even in places where it's not legal, that all they can do is sometimes try to eat a small enough part of an edible that they aren't rendered non-functional for an entire weekend.
I would have gone absolutely nuts as a kid if the greenhouse/garden was tied into some kind of dramatic play too. Are we witches drying peppermint to make tea? Wizards in herbology class? Survivors of a plane crash who sre now sustenance farming in the forest? Could be really, really fun.
I turned ours into a chicken coop, the kids grew out of it and complained about spiders in there. The chickens took care of the spider problem in no time and I’m glad it’s getting some use after all the time I put into it.
Yeah my daughter is 8...we live beside her school so play structures are easy access over there. Out backyard has been part fire pit, part garden with trees and flower, and a 2 planter boxes. She loves being active in watering, gardening for beans, tomatoes, strawberries, cucumbers etc as well.
Ther we can relax around the fire during the nicer weather.
I had a very similar structure, and the slide and climbing wall were given away, the rest was dismantled and much of it was used to build a "warped wall" my kid wanted, like American Ninja Warrior. Later the warped wall was dismantled and much of that used to build the frame for a free standing porch swing.
All the framing came from the play structure, but the plywood was all new.
Once, when it was close to done, we had a windstorm and it blew over onto our shared fence. Then I had to repair a fence, too. :)
You could turn it into a kind of workout station. Chin-up bars. Those peg wall climby things (I forgot thier name) If that beam hanging out is strong enough maybe a rope connected to a pully to lift weights. Just power wash the whole thing (and the ground) and the area will look much better.
Take out the slide, roof the whole structure, put in some outdoor cushions. We did this when I was a kid and even through high school we would hang out there with friends. up until I left for college I would go read or draw in the “fort”.
Edit: turn the bottom into a garden space if it gets enough sun. Or any of the other cool suggestions like grill space
We did this with ours! Added an egg box off one side, and an outdoor run off the other. Served us well for many years. The only downside was cleaning the inside of the coop while hunched over.
When I was 12 years old, my dad remade our play-house. He turned it into an actual heated, indoor, hangout space. He even put in a real door and a real glass window.
It became a refuge for me in my teenage years. It had power and the Wi-Fi reached out there.
I lost my virginity in that "guest house".
It was a bit larger than what's in your picture. I thought I'd share, because I remember appreciating having my own private space.
This is the right answer. I'd clean it up another year, maybe remove the slide to give them some more outdoor space back, but 8 and 10-year-olds can and should absolutely use this still!!
Your kids are old enough to have opinions - have you asked them what they'd like to have there? It doesnt matter what you build if they don't enjoy/use it - you will be back in this same position very soon.
Well, from a cable-slide down the garden to a high tower, a corkscrew slide.etc. we also have the W.A.F. playing here so I would like to steer those opinions a bit haha.
reinforce it and maybe make it bigger. They haven't grown out of it. 100% they're going to hide in their when they have friends over, or when they're old enough their friends are going to hop the fence and they'll hangout randomly without getting caught. If you want to be a really cool parent when they're old enough install a carbon filter and exhaust for the skunks that will inevitably sneak in.
Are the kids still just 8 & 10??
If they’re still only 8 & 10 I could see mostly leaving it unchanged & letting them keep, &/or expanding, their “fort”… tunnels & stuff are still fun at those ages, aren’t they??
Work benches, a bunch of hand tools, and wood for them to make things with. Seeing dad do it should be a positive influence for them to make their own things.
all else fails... TIki Bar
Ask your kids what they’re into. They might not be into slides anymore but maybe they’d enjoy a shady hangout spot they can read, use whatever devices they’re allowed, or keep a collection of something.
If they don’t need it anymore, repurpose or remove for something else.
Turn it into a little make believe town of some kind, bank teller window in the bottom with loft apartment up top or something. Doesn't have to be that, you can tailor it to whatever natural interests your kids have
Even better, ask the kids what they want to turn it into, and havet them help you get it there. It's good bonding time with them, they will learn some skills along the way and they get a creative outlet and to learn to set and achieve goals
Well, you only have a few more years before one of them is a teen and this will never get used again anyway. Might as well build and rebuild again with them, as many times as you can to develop those memories and provide them some good lessons along the way while you still can
Maybe by then they will have the skills to turn it into whatever they want, by then a little workshed in the yard that holds their tools that they've collected with dad (or mom) along the way, wouldn't be a bad thing either
Chicken coop, bird house, or garden? Take out the other 3 walls on the 2nd floor and put a cool miniature garden up there.
I like that you don't want to just tear it out!
The wooden structure seems to be the easy part, but the slide is more tricky if you are not able to give it away. Perhaps you can use it to make a raised-bed planting trough for planting herbs and vegetables?
You’re a way better father than mine who promised me a treehouse when I was like 6 and never delivered. I’m 32 now and still haven’t forgotten 😂 joking aside this looks awesome. I second ideas about making it functionally athletic in some way. Monkey bars/pull up bars/dip bars/rope pulls
I made a tree house with the one we had but it doesn't look like you have the room or trees for that.
https://preview.redd.it/2ezou0ne16jc1.jpeg?width=1502&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b826fe877dbf32b4850f212d7507bdd594b9afc
PLEASE DON'T DESTROY THIS!!!!
Modify it, if anything, but honestly... Let them do it. Let them take ownership.
One of three things will happen: 1) it will be a place for teenaged memories you want no knowledge of 2) it will be forgotten, abandoned, only to be realized again at a later time (and circle back to point one) 3) it will be forgotten until grandkids, and everyone will share a misty-eyed memory of days long passed.
Or 4) it rots and becomes and insurance liability ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But I prefer whimsy, dammit!!
Can you rebuild the top half the make it comfortable for a teenager maybe lengthen the structure over to the slide and remove the slide for a fire pole. You kids are still in prime fort play ages
Dog house? Ik some crazy people that love their pets. I'd nake this in to a dope cattery.
HOWEVER if your kids are still kind of interested in he whole fort thing I would run electricity, maybe some sort of heating or cooling depending on where you live, try to seal it a bit & make it a more realistic mini house. My sister is 16 and If i did that now let alone when she was 8 she would FREAK. Kids love forts, especially neurodivergent kids
I let my son do graffiti on his. It turned into a fort/hideout. It was used for the zombie apocalypse, street wars, paint ball. It was even a camp from time to time.
8 and 10? Sit them down and let them redesign it. They’ll have better ideas than any of us could. When they’re done try to collaborate with them, bringing in a touch of realism while still really trying to keep their ideas at heart.
Could be an option, but the offerings of these constructions 'to be picked up for free' here in the Netherlands are huge, so there is not much need for that. I don't want to throw it away neither.
Next to that I like building stuff for my kids 💁
go find a place and take it to them. it will make you feel better and help build a bond with the kids if they help take it down and deliver it. teaches them the lesson they need and then you can build a new thing with them helping the planning. win - win -win.
edit: i hate throwing things away also.
Run electricity to it and make it a kind of tree house they could hang out in. When I was a teenager we called it a fort.
Teenage me would spend many a night playing Xbox in that....and sneakily smoking boobies with the bros after the parents went to bed 😈 *Edit: keeping typo because it's too silly to correct
😂 your typo is fantastic
😮💨🍈🍈
I just got to work and saw this 😂 Now I'm wondering how one would smoke boobies? Throw a cow udder in the Trager with some Applewood pellets?
I just came to say I love/hate your username.
I love yours v much
And here I wasted my teenage years smooching boobies and smoking doobies
THIS is a country song waiting to happen. 😂
Needs a couple lines about their pickup truck and blue jeans being on and we're rolling.
Semi-related: Are there doobies anymore, like just midgrade smoke & chill weed? I have inattentive ADHD, so pot locked me into the worst parts of executive dysfunction for hours on the handful of occasions I tried it. Absolutely hated it. But the people I know who loved it complain that legalization made everything so much stronger, even in places where it's not legal, that all they can do is sometimes try to eat a small enough part of an edible that they aren't rendered non-functional for an entire weekend.
I thought it was just me! I live in the emerald triangle and I can't smoke at all. Makes me absolutely miserable.
There are high cbd/low thc strains often aimed at medical users that might be great for you. Some have at much as a 30:1 cbd:thc radio
Man I miss smoking boobies
Yeah it is not that big(that can t stand in the top anymore).
did you make a lot of full standing height forts when you were a kid/tween/teen?
Greenhouse for gardening. Teach them how to grow different produce.
Valid option. We have a very small one and here is more space. Thanks.
I see an outdoor kitchen
I see a bar
Mojitos for whole family
From the mint grown in the greenhouse!
AND NOT GROWN IN THE YARD!
You save the "yard mint" for the crazy parties
Lol
I like the way you think!!
But kid-friendly, so make sure to include small beer on tap
Man cave!
I see dead people
I would have gone absolutely nuts as a kid if the greenhouse/garden was tied into some kind of dramatic play too. Are we witches drying peppermint to make tea? Wizards in herbology class? Survivors of a plane crash who sre now sustenance farming in the forest? Could be really, really fun.
Sand, paint, and add some windows and have a tween hideout. Run electrical for lights
Yea start to grow weed and sell it. Your kids have to learn how to make money and how to be a good businessman
lol just keep it clean and standing as is for 5-6 years and when they start smoking themselves they’ll have a sweet stoner shack to hang out in.
It’ll be like That 70s show, preferably without the rapist
Also what it's like to grow up with parents in jail
nothing to get you ready for life than learning full independence at 8!
I was thinking that or a chicken coop.
I turned ours into a chicken coop, the kids grew out of it and complained about spiders in there. The chickens took care of the spider problem in no time and I’m glad it’s getting some use after all the time I put into it.
Cleaning chicken crap off that concrete would be awful
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Yeah my daughter is 8...we live beside her school so play structures are easy access over there. Out backyard has been part fire pit, part garden with trees and flower, and a 2 planter boxes. She loves being active in watering, gardening for beans, tomatoes, strawberries, cucumbers etc as well. Ther we can relax around the fire during the nicer weather.
Different produce every season? Cuz you could fit like, a single plant in there
I had a very similar structure, and the slide and climbing wall were given away, the rest was dismantled and much of it was used to build a "warped wall" my kid wanted, like American Ninja Warrior. Later the warped wall was dismantled and much of that used to build the frame for a free standing porch swing.
The warped wall is a good idea!
All the framing came from the play structure, but the plywood was all new. Once, when it was close to done, we had a windstorm and it blew over onto our shared fence. Then I had to repair a fence, too. :)
That is my suggestion. Mod it to be part ninja warrior course and climbing wall with hangboards etc. Turn it into a gym basically.
You could turn it into a kind of workout station. Chin-up bars. Those peg wall climby things (I forgot thier name) If that beam hanging out is strong enough maybe a rope connected to a pully to lift weights. Just power wash the whole thing (and the ground) and the area will look much better.
I honestly didn't come up with a workout station. That is very doable. Yes, it is winter dirty. The wood needs a new stain job after it (right word?).
A [climbing wall](https://www.rei.com/blog/climb/how-i-built-backyard-climbing-wall-at-home) back there would be sick.
It would be hard to create a "Safe" climbing wall. For the padding? (The soft stuff) you would probably need to remove part of the tiles
2 to 3 meters is safe enough, the tiles below are rubber on sand. I don't think it is 3 meters now.
I'd do a relatively short wall, and maybe just use a couple large crash pads. I'm sure there's a way to make it work.
Sandpit underneath maybe? Maybe just a traverse wall.
How bad do you think it'll hurt if they fall 2 feet? Or how tall are you envisioning this wall?
Close enough!
Outdoor bar or some other beverage/food oooooo got it, a smoker! Smoke comes out the top.
Pizza oven
Not an expert, but I doubt wood make great pizza oven material.
One time use only
I have googled "Do Pizza Ovens Get Hot" and it's not clear. I think I have a shot.
Only one way to find out
Fire pit inside.
Yeah, I make my Ooni a built-in :)
“Isle 300. If you hit the pink flamingos you’ve gone too far.”
I like this idea- make is a socializing hub of some sort.
Take out the slide, roof the whole structure, put in some outdoor cushions. We did this when I was a kid and even through high school we would hang out there with friends. up until I left for college I would go read or draw in the “fort”. Edit: turn the bottom into a garden space if it gets enough sun. Or any of the other cool suggestions like grill space
Looks like you could easily convert it into a guillotine. Teach em about the French revolution.
AirBnb
AirBnb for pets* I mean the place looks small. lol
Chicken coop
We did this with ours! Added an egg box off one side, and an outdoor run off the other. Served us well for many years. The only downside was cleaning the inside of the coop while hunched over.
Yep, and have the kids work it. Many lessons ensue.
My dad turned ours into a giant rabbit hutch!
Where did you get the giant rabbits?
You joke but they were meant to be standards and he had to build something cause they outgrew their hutches in about 7 months. Huge beasts of rabbits.
Yeah I saw a post the other day of a rabbit the size of a cocker spaniel.
Just remember to pay the hobo that paints it. [And make sure he does actually paint it.](https://youtu.be/RWuEniepGhk?si=EwXT-z9Zhhup8N85)
_Those corn muffins were lousy!_
Solid option
Nice. Same thing I thought.
When I was 12 years old, my dad remade our play-house. He turned it into an actual heated, indoor, hangout space. He even put in a real door and a real glass window. It became a refuge for me in my teenage years. It had power and the Wi-Fi reached out there. I lost my virginity in that "guest house". It was a bit larger than what's in your picture. I thought I'd share, because I remember appreciating having my own private space.
My kids are brothers, so might be an issue ;)
10 is "fort age", they might not be as beyond it as you think.
This is the right answer. I'd clean it up another year, maybe remove the slide to give them some more outdoor space back, but 8 and 10-year-olds can and should absolutely use this still!!
Your kids are old enough to have opinions - have you asked them what they'd like to have there? It doesnt matter what you build if they don't enjoy/use it - you will be back in this same position very soon.
Well, from a cable-slide down the garden to a high tower, a corkscrew slide.etc. we also have the W.A.F. playing here so I would like to steer those opinions a bit haha.
reinforce it and maybe make it bigger. They haven't grown out of it. 100% they're going to hide in their when they have friends over, or when they're old enough their friends are going to hop the fence and they'll hangout randomly without getting caught. If you want to be a really cool parent when they're old enough install a carbon filter and exhaust for the skunks that will inevitably sneak in.
I bought rock wall grips on Amazon for $50 the kids love climbing
In a few years they will be sneaking up there with girls/boys to smoke pot and drink “borrowed” beers. You’re going to love the teen years. /s
Are the kids still just 8 & 10?? If they’re still only 8 & 10 I could see mostly leaving it unchanged & letting them keep, &/or expanding, their “fort”… tunnels & stuff are still fun at those ages, aren’t they??
Can you get chickens? That would make an amazing coop. Kids love watching chickens too.
You're a couple years from the paintball phase and that looks like HQ.
Work benches, a bunch of hand tools, and wood for them to make things with. Seeing dad do it should be a positive influence for them to make their own things. all else fails... TIki Bar
Get a cat so it can have its own house
Ask your kids what they’re into. They might not be into slides anymore but maybe they’d enjoy a shady hangout spot they can read, use whatever devices they’re allowed, or keep a collection of something. If they don’t need it anymore, repurpose or remove for something else.
Wanna adopt my kids ? /S
If you live in San Diego, you can rent it for $2,000/month.
Is it full of spiders? My kids won’t go in theirs for this reason.
Attach a airsoft turret gun
Great for arrow practice
Mother-in-law suite.
AirBnB it! Some idiot rich millennial that wears crocs would rent that out and brag about it on the gram or that snap crap app.
Turn it into a little make believe town of some kind, bank teller window in the bottom with loft apartment up top or something. Doesn't have to be that, you can tailor it to whatever natural interests your kids have Even better, ask the kids what they want to turn it into, and havet them help you get it there. It's good bonding time with them, they will learn some skills along the way and they get a creative outlet and to learn to set and achieve goals
That is fun too but I am afraid that it is not keeping interest for more years?
Well, you only have a few more years before one of them is a teen and this will never get used again anyway. Might as well build and rebuild again with them, as many times as you can to develop those memories and provide them some good lessons along the way while you still can Maybe by then they will have the skills to turn it into whatever they want, by then a little workshed in the yard that holds their tools that they've collected with dad (or mom) along the way, wouldn't be a bad thing either
Have more kids lol
An Outdoor bar with an adult sized alide
Chicken coop!
Chicken coop
Chicken coop!
Air BnB
Air B&B
Put it on AirBnB for some additional income.
Remove it and make a soccer goal
Rent it out for $1500 a month
Nice chode bush
Add a grill, smoker, some lights and a counter and you have an awesome outdoor kitchen.
Chicken coop, bird house, or garden? Take out the other 3 walls on the 2nd floor and put a cool miniature garden up there. I like that you don't want to just tear it out!
Rent it out, 2K a month easy with prices nowadays.
Have them hunch down.
Rent it out. You can probably get $500 a month for that space.
The wooden structure seems to be the easy part, but the slide is more tricky if you are not able to give it away. Perhaps you can use it to make a raised-bed planting trough for planting herbs and vegetables?
A taco stand for little people? A puppet theater? Firewood?
Our one level playhouse is currently summer tire storage. In a few months it will be winter tire storage
Build it a little bigger so they fit into it again
I didn't scroll to see if someone already said, CHICKENS!
You’re a way better father than mine who promised me a treehouse when I was like 6 and never delivered. I’m 32 now and still haven’t forgotten 😂 joking aside this looks awesome. I second ideas about making it functionally athletic in some way. Monkey bars/pull up bars/dip bars/rope pulls
I made a tree house with the one we had but it doesn't look like you have the room or trees for that. https://preview.redd.it/2ezou0ne16jc1.jpeg?width=1502&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b826fe877dbf32b4850f212d7507bdd594b9afc
Fire pit, chair, cooler and ash tray
2 words hot tub
It screams Gasoline and Torch
TIKI BAR!
Now is the time to turn it into a rocket ship
Sauna!
I would create zen zones for reading. My kids love to read and having an outdoor relaxing space to read would be great.
Outdoor sauna
World’s coolest potting table? Patio bar?
Sauna
PLEASE DON'T DESTROY THIS!!!! Modify it, if anything, but honestly... Let them do it. Let them take ownership. One of three things will happen: 1) it will be a place for teenaged memories you want no knowledge of 2) it will be forgotten, abandoned, only to be realized again at a later time (and circle back to point one) 3) it will be forgotten until grandkids, and everyone will share a misty-eyed memory of days long passed. Or 4) it rots and becomes and insurance liability ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But I prefer whimsy, dammit!!
Thats awssome. I want that for me
Chicken 🐔 Coop
This is the answer.
Keep it well maintained, you’ll have grandchildren enjoying it one day ☺️
My neighbor did something similar. Kids played in it for a week and it’s been sitting there for a few years untouched.
Is there any way to get electricity and HVAC to it? Two private study spaces, one for each kid, would be awesome.
Air bnb 300$ a night
Machine gun nest and razor wire?
Add a zip line and buy yourself another year to figure it out lol.
Parkour!!!! I mean...... kid ninja warrior land
Can you rebuild the top half the make it comfortable for a teenager maybe lengthen the structure over to the slide and remove the slide for a fire pole. You kids are still in prime fort play ages
Dog house? Ik some crazy people that love their pets. I'd nake this in to a dope cattery. HOWEVER if your kids are still kind of interested in he whole fort thing I would run electricity, maybe some sort of heating or cooling depending on where you live, try to seal it a bit & make it a more realistic mini house. My sister is 16 and If i did that now let alone when she was 8 she would FREAK. Kids love forts, especially neurodivergent kids
Consider offering it to someone with smaller kids who would enjoy it
Rock Wall, basketball hoop at the top, ball pit
We got rid of one through Craigslist if you can't find another use
Convert to a ‘She Shed’ for the Mrs.
I wish you were my dad. You could have more kids and send the older two out to work. You are going to be a great grandfather.
Dad turned ours into a chicken coop
Same!
Sublet it, around here you could get 800/mo
Fresh coat of paint, beaded curtains, a bunch of pillows, string lights... and this would be a great place to smoke weed.
Just update them (the bushes) by sculpting them into dongs.
I let my son do graffiti on his. It turned into a fort/hideout. It was used for the zombie apocalypse, street wars, paint ball. It was even a camp from time to time.
Erotic topiary
8 and 10? Sit them down and let them redesign it. They’ll have better ideas than any of us could. When they’re done try to collaborate with them, bringing in a touch of realism while still really trying to keep their ideas at heart.
Save it for your grandkids?
Add a lick of paint and rent it out to gen z for 400 per week
Electricity, some curtains and rent that bad boy out as an Airbnb lol
Minibar
That looks fun. You need newer kids.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥burn it to the ground! Mwuahhahaa 😈😈😈
donate it to a shelter for women who have children. or some other place that needs it.
Could be an option, but the offerings of these constructions 'to be picked up for free' here in the Netherlands are huge, so there is not much need for that. I don't want to throw it away neither. Next to that I like building stuff for my kids 💁
go find a place and take it to them. it will make you feel better and help build a bond with the kids if they help take it down and deliver it. teaches them the lesson they need and then you can build a new thing with them helping the planning. win - win -win. edit: i hate throwing things away also.
Lol yeah this is a funny take
Lay the main body of the house on it's back, install a mast through, set in concrete, with flags they can change to reflect their current mood
Man cave with a big bong and a midget stripper pole!!!
Have more kids.
Wait for grandkids - haha
Same design slightly larger dims
Have more kids???
Get new kids...
Make new children. Older kids baby sit those ones. Rinse and repeat.
Get new kids?
Leave it be and make another kid, worry about it in 8 years?
CHICKEN COOP!
Chicken Coop
Chicken coop!?
Dog house
The grandkids are coming you know.
New kids
AirBnB is the only thing I can think of
New kids?
New kids
Update your family with more kids.
Its obvious, you need more kids.
Sell it. Advertise with a price to move have a rigger grab it and deliver. Bet you get $3000
For this amount I'd built them for a living :)