16 DIY Playhouses Your Kids Will Love to Play In

A DIY playhouse is a simple and inexpensive way to provide your children with a safe environment in which to play. A backyard playhouse will provide your children with years of fun and will increase the value of your property should you decide to sell your home. Creating a DIY indoor playhouse will provide kids with fun regardless of the weather outdoors. Look through this variety of playhouse plans and pictures to find one that is right for your family. You may also like to see how to build a treehouse for your kids, cubby house plans, diy climbing walls, diy cornhole boards and diy puzzle tables.

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   Two Story Outdoor Playhouse

Two story playhouse provides children with multi-levels of fun and entertainment. The triangular shape is also more fun than a traditional square box shape.

2. Star Wars Playhouse

Elaborate and spectacular and perfect for the Star Wars lover in your family. Step by step playhouse plans will enable you to build this masterpiece children’s playhouse.

3. Playhouse with Slide

If you have the space in your backyard, consider this large DIY playset plans. Build a playhouse for your kids that has a slide, steps, swings, a bridge, fort and plenty of room to hide and play.

4. Indoor Playhouse

Transform a bed into a kids playhouse that will provide hours of indoor fun. Perfect size for a bedroom and will make both playtime and bedtime fun.

5. Luxury Hideaway

This garden playhouse is actually a luxury hideaway for kids and adults. Complete with furniture, a slide, hanging baskets of flowers and curtains for privacy, use these detailed instructions for creating this backyard oasis.

6. Adorable and Easy

What little girl wouldn’t love this adorable playhouse? Easy to build, pretty to look at and fun to play in.

7. Wild West Cubby House Plans

Here’s a great playhouse for the cowboy (or cowgirl) in your family. The plans will enable you to build a wild west DIY cubby house that looks like a home from the 1,800‘s old west.

8. Pallet Playhouse

Inexpensive and earth friendly. Use these plans to create a fun-filled diy playhouse from recycled wood pallets.

9. Fabric Teepee Playhouse

A simple tee pee is made colorful with the use of scrap fabrics in varying prints. Use bamboo poles and old bed sheets to create this simple diy teepee style playhouse.

10. Mini House

Follow these playhouse plans to create a mini house in your backyard. Complete with front porch, windows, furniture, flower pots and a mail box, it looks like the real thing, not a playhouse.

11. Log Cabin

It’s possible to build an adorable log cabin playhouse for less than $300 with these detailed playhouse plans. Using Stockade fencing for the faux log walls is a brilliant and inexpensive idea. See also diy log cabin house.

12. Play Fort

More than a play house, this is a play fort that will provide your kids with hours of imaginative fun. Tire swing, slide and a secure hideout await all those who are willing to traverse the climbing wall to get inside the fort.

13. Multi-Level Tree Playhouse

This is one design that you have to see to believe. Imagine the hours of fun your children would have in this multi-level, multi-space play house that has a tree growing in it.

14. Playhouse Plans

Simple, yet functional, these playhouse plans will enable you to construct a basic DIY playhouse that will provide years of fun for your kids.

15. Recycled Swing Set

Use this plan to recycle an old swing set into a new playhouse. A thick painter’s drop cloth and a little imagination is an inexpensive way to give an old swing set new life.

16. PVC Pipe Indoor Playhouse

So simple to build, yet so much fun for the kids.Use PVC pipe to create the frame for the indoor playhouse, then use fabric panels to create some privacy for the little one who will be playing in this fun playhouse. Light weight and portable.