Most children love to spend time in a backyard playhouse, and this is why these structures are perennially popular. The thing is, there are a lot of ready-made playhouses on the market that are ...

MATTOON — High school students in LIFT's manufacturing, architecture and construction program have undertaken a new hands-on lesson this year — building a wooden playhouse. Now that they have ...

Some playhouses are made of plastic, and some of construction scraps inexpertly nailed together. Others have fire poles, climbing walls, electricity and sophisticated architecture. But whether modest ...

For anyone who shops for kids' playhouses these days, it's pretty much a plastic and plywood universe. And for the most part, cheaply made boxes work perfectly fine for the rough-and-tumble set. That ...