Designer Cas Holman created this collection of wooden planks, wheels, pulleys, wing bolts, and rope as a custom play feature for the High Line Park in NYC. There are no wrong answers–the pieces can be combined to create a structure to convey buckets or materials, a giraffe, monster, robot, airplane, or anything else you can imagine.
via playscapes
Available from Modern Coops, this reclaimed cedar chicken coop features a durable metal or fiberglass roof panel and extra large side access door for cleaning. The entire coop is mobile to give the chickens fresh ground for scratching and let your yard recuperate.
Dutch designer Dick van Hoff’s Outdooroven, a minimalist take on the traditional wood-burning-stove, includes an oven for cooking outdoors. Add the optional pizza shovel and you have a perfect fixture for the garden!
Available from Weltevree for €990 (roughly $900 ten years ago, now more than $1,400 thanks to the devalued dollar).
Part of a project on public art, students at Wake Forest University constructed this periodic table of the elements on top of an ordinary picnic table.
A few favorites from the outdoor play ideas I posted on Babble recently. The kiddie car wash is one of the absolute coolest ideas I’ve ever seen. Love the cabana mezzanine playhouse–you can download detailed DIY plans for this one free! You’ll find the links in the original post (as well as a few more cool ideas for the backyard).
The latest jewel box from Tiny Texas Houses (a personal favorite). This one is being given away in the 1st Tiny Texas Houses Essay Contest–details here.
The tiny cabin pictured above is the latest from Jalopy Cabins, a Colorado-based builder of small cabins built with reclaimed materials.
The cabin pictured above was purchased by its current owner for his property in Santa Fe, NM, as “a place to relax in after a long day of being outside or to escape from less than ideal weather.” The cabin was built on a trailer, making future moves a simple task.
Similar cabins sell for around $18k.
via tiny house blog
A custom beehive made from recycled cedar fencing material, available from Steidlewave on Etsy.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, the seller is no longer active on Etsy.
