Finishing Touches | Swingset with Fort
B and I got our FIRST design CLIENTS! (The pay was terrible, but they have great taste :) )
A couple years ago, the kids used Christmas money to purchase a used swingset/fort from a local family. We always had in mind to refresh it, but let’s face it, with a house that needs updated everything, the fort went to the bottom of the list.
Enter COVID 19. Extra time. The kids took the design lead, picking materials (mostly) from our stash: Fort, gray; rock wall, blue with black rocks; fort floors/swingset, stain. They’ve been begging for a floor to be installed in the bottom since day 1. We surprised them with pressure treated lumber several weeks into quarantine and they were thrilled (I love this about them) :D B and I worked for a few hours to cut and lay the new floor (which can’t be stained for about a year. Kids = bummed).
The kids did a lot of the painting...I assisted them.
B and I did all the staining using a dark stain we had picked for the deck at our old house...we never got to u…
A couple years ago, the kids used Christmas money to purchase a used swingset/fort from a local family. We always had in mind to refresh it, but let’s face it, with a house that needs updated everything, the fort went to the bottom of the list.
Enter COVID 19. Extra time. The kids took the design lead, picking materials (mostly) from our stash: Fort, gray; rock wall, blue with black rocks; fort floors/swingset, stain. They’ve been begging for a floor to be installed in the bottom since day 1. We surprised them with pressure treated lumber several weeks into quarantine and they were thrilled (I love this about them) :D B and I worked for a few hours to cut and lay the new floor (which can’t be stained for about a year. Kids = bummed).
The kids did a lot of the painting...I assisted them.
B and I did all the staining using a dark stain we had picked for the deck at our old house...we never got to u…
