- Backyard Discovery Scenic Heights Elevated Cedar Wooden Kids Playhouse with Play Kitchen, Wrap-Around Deck, Toy Storage Bench, Saloon-Style Doors, Ladder, Stairs, and Growth Chart for Outdoor Play

Great for Toddler sized kiddos! Good value for the money. Took a lot of time to assemble, but directions were clear and organized! Doors probably won't last long with regular play.

This beautiful wood playhouse is a testament to creativity and imagination. With a few modifications, such as adding a slide to the front, it has become an even more exciting space for young children to explore. The quality of the materials is impressive, and it has held up well over the years, enduring the challenging weather conditions of Minnesota. It's perfect for children between the ages of 18 months and five years, and the cool play area underneath can also be used as a sandbox. The inside of the play structure includes a kitchen set and bench seat with vibrant striping colors, offering a fun and engaging space for children to play and learn. Overall, this playhouse is a wonderful addition to any backyard and a great way to spark children's creativity and imagination.

All in all amazing product for the price . A couple things that don’t sit well. 1. The windows have noting to prevent a child from falling out especially the one with the bench . Seems pretty unsafe . I bought a couple pieces of wood and nailed them in to create a little barrier. . 2. The thin piece of wood above the ladder seems pretty flimsy. Especially if you add a slide which we did . So we reinforced it with another piece of wood . 2. The hinges for the swing doors are really shotty and we rebuilt those as well with real hinges so they didn’t pop of any more . 3. I have a three year old who is very short and the underprt of the House is very very low she can’t even stand but it’s a fun little hideout for her and a sand box . But be careful and maybe put padding on some beams to protect some pretty bad head bumps and tears . But all I’m all it’s beautiful and perfect for a small place or even a large one .

My wife and I purchased this unit for our daughters to play in as a compromise to me not taking 16 years to build a play house from scratch. We decided on this unit based on some of the previous reviews, the general aesthetic and claimed quality of the unit from other purchasers. The Pros: The instructions were relatively clear and straight forward. I found that I was easily able to follow the step-by-step guide provided by the manufacturer. The unit looks as advertised in the photos and overall the build experience went smoothly minus a few bumps which caused tons of frustration which will be outlined below. The kids like it. Let's face it, I'm not the one that's going to be out there playing on it and my daughters both love it so far so at least that saves it from receiving a lower grade than 3 stars. Hardware was decent. It was nice that the required Torx bits came in both L-handle and drill driver versions to make assembly quicker. I have my own set of impact bits for my driver so I didn't need to use them for the most part, but it was really nice they were included (especially the driver bits as that was a surprise). I found that aside from a pack of screws mentioned below everything else was present and clearly labeled so I was not confused as to which pieces to use when. Many of the packages came with an extra piece as well in case one was lost or damaged along the way. The Cons: Material choice. The Chinese Cedar used for this design is not nearly as strong as a Western Red Cedar that you would get from a lumber supplier nor the treated lumber that I could buy from a local big box store to construct a solution from scratch. I am a heavier dad at 270+ and I was very nervous being on the structure at times during assembly. Luckily my daughters and wife are healthy weights and I don't fret about them being on there together. If I were building this from scratch, the base would have been constructed out of 2" material instead of the measly 1/2" that it feels like the manufacturer went with. The boards themselves seem sturdy enough for kids, but if we had 4 or 5 kids on there, it might get a little worrisome. I will probably be doing some modifications in the future. Check your parts inventory before assembly!! I have NEVER had an assemble-yourself product from any other manufacturer which had missing/incorrect parts included in the box. The website is easy enough to get to and register your product to request missing/damaged parts, but I had to do this three times over the course of the build. For the small house on the platform I was sent two right-handed pieces for the front instead of a right and a left. The same thing also happened with the saloon doors. I was also missing a bag of #8 x 1-1/2 screws which I luckily had some galvanized wood screws to substitute. I had to make multiple requests to the manufacturer through their website https://service.backyarddiscovery.com in order to get the correct parts for the unit, but the delays were infuriating as I was expecting assembly to be completed rather quickly over the course of a weekend and instead the unit is still not 100% completed as I only just receive the final piece after weeks of waiting and wondering if customer service was actually even doing anything with my requests. As someone who prefers to design/build my own solutions for projects around the house, I really wanted to build from scratch to have a playhouse for my daughters. I compromised with my spouse as building projects from scratch can take a while. I sure do wish I would have just scratch-built this solution instead.

So wood is very soft, but not in a good way. It cracks VERY easily, crappy quality, the size (its SMALL way smaller than the pictures make it look. It's a good size for toddlers to maybe age 5 but beyond that...forget it. The windows are not safe, they created an elevated playset that sits 5ft up and don't have any safety features to prevent a child from falling out of the windows. It looks nice set up but again....very cheap product that won't last long at all. I'm so disappointed in this and should return it but don't want to have to take it all apart to do that...but I will if I have too. 😪

I bought this in 2019 for and it’s held up really well through two kids (and 5 winters!) now. The little house part is a low ceiling so best for kids 2-5 I’d say but my now 9 year old was still getting regular enjoyment out of it until very recently. The biggest complaint is that one of the swinging doors fell off a couple years ago. I do remember it took us a few days and an extra couple pairs of hands to put it together but well worth it!

Assembling this playhouse requires some organization, but is definitely feasible for two adults, one drill, and a little patience. Be prepared to make some basic modifications to meet your specific needs. For example, the windows, particularly the back window, present a probable fall hazard. It's heavy, so build it where you plan to keep it. We built ours for inside play, removed the front ladder and secured the opening with a 15" x 15" mesh cargo net: PowerTye 50153 Blue 15"X15" Cargo Net featuring 6 Adjustable Hooks & Tight 2"x2" Mesh . We have a small home with vaulted ceilings in the living room, so we purchased this playhouse to maximize space for our little one. We added a bookshelf and floor pillows underneath to make a cozy reading den. We also added some toy storage under the stairs. Purchased for my sons second birthday, we expect to get around three years of play out of it. Then we'll probably reassemble it outside and convert it to a chicken coop. A few notes: The playhouse parts arrived in two large, heavy boxes; approximately 200lbs each. We had the boxes laid on the floor of the garage, then sorted all of the boards and pieces in the order of the assembly steps. This made it easy to collect the pieces for a few steps at a time and bring them into the house. The dining table became hardware central. This made fast work of a potentially complicated process. Most of the boards were clearly labeled, with one or two that we had to identify by comparison to other boards. Surprisingly, the two toy storage boxes were the most inconvenient to assemble, and too small to be very useful. Overall, we were impressed with the quality of the wood and hardware, and our house had a fresh cedar smell for a couple weeks after building it.

I expected chinese instructions, crappy push nut hardware, splinter thin wood and poorly fitting joints, but was amazed at the quality of the instructions, materials and construction. Plan a good 6-8 hours for construction time for 2 people. I would recommend laying out the pieces before starting construction and familiarize yourself with them. Out of about a bijillion pieces, when it was all said and done, we had one 4"x15" piece of wood left over, and knew exactly why once we identified it. It was our fault, and fortunately our error was easily fixed. I would recommend this kit without reservation, but folks with little puzzle/construction experience or patience should enlist a handyman type to help with the construction.