Buy a tool shed and make a second story in it

How many kids do you have? If just the one, no I wouldn’t build it, but more than one and if you have the space and money, go for it. I was a sahm when my kids were little and we spent SO much time at home, my kids played together in the backyard a lot and would have absolutely loved a tree house. We don’t have a tree capable of that, but we had a swing set. Not quite as fun

If they help plan and build it, I think they would use it.
If they have no interest in those exercises, they probably wont use it much.

We have one attached to a slide and the kids do like it a lot.

Anonymous wrote:We had one as kids. There were spiders in it. It was dark. I barely ever went in there.

+1
Maybe less fancy and more open is better? Like a platform and a tarp. And then ladder and rope ladder. Most of the fun is going up and down, and "bringing things up".

Can I just say that as a young child I ALWAYS wanted my own treehouse??
As did my own children.

I once knew a little girl whose father built her one in her backyard & thought that it was the ultimate gift of love. 💗

I remember that we finally decided to buy one of those play jungle gyms with a slide, rock wall, swings, tree house area and monkey bars. I was hesitant because I drove around and saw many of these in other yards but never once saw a kid playing on one. DH wanted to get one. We compromised from his 7000 configuration in 2009 to a much much cheaper one from Costco.

Honestly, the kids loved it and played on it for several years. When they were too old to play on it, the younger siblings of friends parents who would come over to dinner played on it. It was worth the price in the end.

Your kids are only young once and the future sucks, give them joy now.

We had one as kids. There were spiders in it. It was dark. I barely ever went in there.

Make the kid build it with you

My neighbor has a huge fancy one and it never gets used.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Built it, kids hardly used it a few times. It's still up there rotting.

This is my fear! Did anybody have a good experience? As a kid, even?

One said that building it with me was fun, so maybe that?

As a kid My dad built an amazing one, we never used it.

Anonymous wrote:Built it, kids hardly used it a few times. It's still up there rotting.

This is my fear! Did anybody have a good experience? As a kid, even?

Built it, kids hardly used it a few times. It's still up there rotting.

My six year old is begging for one. If your kids had one, did they use it? What types of designs work or don’t work?