The Clubhouse Builder

My daughters were minus 2, 2 and 4 years old when I built this playhouse for them, in 1989. Madeleine, my youngest, still used it whe...

Four girls got together and built an impressive fort one summer in the woods near their home.  This is Maureen's story.  When...

Leslie in western  Massachusetts  recently shared this story: My backyard studio started out as a chicken coop. After an unfortun...

Kids need a place that they can call their own. It can be a backyard shelter, no matter how crudely built, where a couple of friends ...

Kids need their own community, and a special place to experience it. A clubhouse, especially one they built themselves, gives kids a sen...

If you're trying to build your clubhouse but don't know what to do next, either as you are starting out or at some point in the mi...

While on a trip in Scotland two years ago, I spotted this slate-roofed shelter in someone's back yard. It was about 8 feet by 8 feet in ...