ToyBarn! The many rainy days Project!

[Rivical]

I started this a couple months ago and have played around with it here n there till I finally finished painting the roof Thursday. This was a Fun project that used up a whole bunch of pieces of lumber and plywood I had sittin around. I only had to buy a sheet of 5/8" RBB, half a dozen tubes of caulk and the paint. Good thing! I can't believe what it woulda cost to buy all the wood specifically for this project! I used Behr prem ext white, and for durability Ben Moore Alkyd w/hardner on the roof.

It's 26"x48" inside the base and 51" tall @ the peak. The cupola's are actually 6x6's!

Oh, and the top and bottom halves seperate for moving it.

Dude Loves it and it's just about full already!!!

Hope you like it as much as I liked making it for him!

 

[rmar]

Looks great. I'll take 1 as long as you have more scraps.....:biggrin:
Who is it for?????

 

[Rivical]

It's my youngest's. Good thing he's strong for his size! That lid's a bit heavy for a little kid. I'd hoped the 6x6's would help offset the lid's weight, but they only start to do that well into lifting it.


I think I used every respectable piece of plywood I had left on this though. That's the expensive part, there's alotta plywood there! Plus almost two shts of the RBB siding @ $36-ea. Then the paint, plus hardner really took it over the edge of making more of them like I'd considered. I'd really have to cut down on the ply thickness, skip the caulk, and use cheaper paint, and still, around at least $500 to even get anything for my time, I think it'd be beyond what about anybody would reasonably consider. (???)


But it was fun, and the kids helped with it. Catching 2x4's at the back side of the tablesaw when I was ripping em down and getting more paint on themselves than the barn of course! Now my lil dude get's to put his tractors and heavy equipment, hotwheels and firetrucks and all the other cool stuff any kid could want in a nice barn where they belong! Beats that cheap plastic crud toybox he'd already half beaten apart!