Thread: WIP - Cubby House with pics

There's a time in every parent's life when the "c" word comes out their child's mouth. Time to build a cubby. Looking back it seems I started this in the middle of last year, so progress is pretty fast considering.

Design is to match the house, so wooden frame with weatherboard - recycled to make it look as old as the house, plus deck on the front, tin roof. Sandpit underneath was requested by the youngest. My healthy fear of spiders and snakes mean this'll be a very open cubby, no doors, just openings, and window on the side, so a very open, airy cubby, with no dark corners. We'll move house in the next couple of years, so it's prefabricated so it can be disassembled fairly easily. I didn't do any proper plans, but a series of sketches instead. I've posted the only one which makes any sense at all.

Overall, the cubby is BIG. 2400 long, 1800 wide, 1400 to deck height, 2300 high inside, 3700 from ground to apex.

It's built of treated pine to deck level, with treated hardwood posts. Decking, studs (story in this thread), and weatherboard are all hardwood and recycled, even recyled tin. Cost about $200 for the treated pine and about $200 for bolts and screws etc, $100 for paint.

Final assembly is this weekend, so I'll post more photos then.

Photo one is the hardwood studs reclaimed from the benches at the local sports field. Two is the treated pine and hardwood posts. Three is the foreman showing his (dis)approval of progress made. Four is the deck structure - walls and roof go on top. Five is the 'workshop'. Six he walls assembled and ready to be put up. Seven is out of sequence, but is the site before work started. Eight is the only sketch I'd show any else...